Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade

By Carleen Villasenor

First published in Villasenor’s Recipes from the Biblical Herb Garden. Used with author permission.

Lavender syrup:

1 cup water

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons fresh or dried lavender flowers

A small piece of lemon rind, all white removed

Lemonade:

½ lemon

2 tablespoons lavender syrup

Combine water and sugar and boil until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and add lavender flowers and lemon rind. Steep for 20 minutes and strain. Refrigerate. For each drink, squeeze ½ lemon into glass, dropping lemon into glass after squeezing. Add 2 tablespoons lavender syrup. This has a very pleasing aroma and is highly perfume-like when fresh. The flavor of lavender is bitter to the end, quite opposite of the aroma, and nothing like its cousin mint.

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Joliet woman wants to comfort pediatric cancer patients with gifts of jewelry

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