Cooking with Lavender
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Flavoring with Lavender
Known primarily for its beautiful fragrance, lavender can also be used in cooking. Used in small amounts, it can lend a wonderful flavor to tea, cookies and cakes, makes a delightful jelly, spices up a lamb deliciously and more. Don't use too much or the smell can be overwhelming!
The most important thing to remember when cooking with this herb is that you need to make sure you are using a culinary grade lavender. This means the plant has been raised and harvested in a manner that makes it safe for human consumption. You want organic plant material, something that has never been treated with pesticides or other unwanted chemicals.
At my house, we've got lavender growing organically in our yard so we pick and dry our own each year. The most-potent buds are picked right before the flowers form and open, when the plants are holding the most oils. They can be used fresh at that time or dried and used later. For all the recipes here, presume the use of dried buds unless stated.
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The Latest in Using Lavender in Cooking
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This exotic and gorgeously pretty jelly comes from John McGeever of Congham Hall in Norfolk and can be eaten both as a superb dessert with, perhaps, a little cream, or as an unusual accompaniment to roast game or rabbit.
Lavender Jelly
This is one of my favorite ways to eat lavender. The flavor can be very delicate and it's fantastic spread on biscuits or shortbread. Try this one for spring or sumertime brunch, for Mother's Day or Easter as a special treat. If you drink herbal tea, try it as a sweetener! Here's a very simple recipe for lavender jelly, but I've also included some variations you might like listed over to the right.
Ingredients:
3 C spring water
4 Tbsp lavender buds
1/4 C. freshly-squeezed lemon juice
4 C. baker's sugar
1 packet pectin (approx 3 oz)
sterile jars to hold finished jelly
Bring the water to a boil and add the lavender buds. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes to infuse the lavender oil into the water. Remove from heat and strain out the lavender. In another pot, combine 2 C of the lavender infustion with the lemon juice, sugar and pectin. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to dissolve the sugar and pectin. Once the water boils, allow to boil for two minutes (soft jelly) to four minutes (thicker jelly) and then remove from heat. Fill your jars and seal.
Please read up on canning before making this recipe so that you know how to can/jar properly.
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Lavender Recipes
- Blue Mountain Lavender Farm - Cooking with Lavender
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Breakfast rolls, pizza, risotto, biscotti and lemonade. - Sonoma Lavender: Lavender Recipes
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The Purple Haze collection includes: Herbed Chevre with Crostini from our friend Hope Borsato, the recipe for Lavender Honey Bunches from our RECIPE FOLDER, and our recipe for Lavender Honey Ice Cream. - Lavender Recipes from Jardin du Soleil, a Lavender Farm in Sequim Washington
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A great list of recipes for shortbread, scones, cookies, salmon, lemonade, breads, salad dressing and more.
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Lavender Cooking Questions & Comments - share your own tips and favorite recipes
Lavender ice cream is fantastic, too. Bi-Rite Creamery in SF has a delicious lavender and sea salt ice cream. But apparently men should beware of ingesting too much of it; apparently it has estrogenic effects:
livelonger, the article actually is cautioning about pre-pubescent boys age 10 or younger (whose bodies aren't yet pumping out adult male levels of testosterone) using lavender. I can see how that would be a concern for pre-puberty, but during or post-puberty, the amounts of testosterone in the male body would probably make it physically impossible for someone to eat enough lavender to have a physical effect.
The only time I would recommend ANYONE put pure lavender oil on themselves is when they have burns on the skin. Wearing undiluted essential oils can cause highly enhance the effects of sun exposure, leading to bad sunburns even in weak sunlight.
I hadn't considered cooking with lavender before. I'll have to give it a try. Is the flavour similar to rosemary?
I find the flavor very subtle and many people have a hard time identifying the taste, but the aroma is spectactular!
Good - I can continue to enjoy that lavender & sea salt ice cream, then, without having to consult any of those "get rid of man boobs" hubs. ;-)
I feel hungry now. Thanks for sharing.
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Zsuzsy Bee says:
4 months ago
I just love the flavor and the smell of lavender.
I've been experimented with culinary Lavender. Here is one of my favorites.
Lavender Honey!
2 tablespoons of fresh Lavender blossoms (buds)
4 tablespoons water
1 lbs Honey (the liquid kind)
Boil water, add lavendar and steep for 15-20 minutes, strain, heat up honey in microwave for 1-2 minutes on high (depending on size of microwave).Honey should be the consistency of water, add 'lavender water', stir once, let cool. Serve on warm home made bread to go with a cup of lavendar-Honey tea. Just add a teaspoon of lavendar honey to a cup of tea.
Tasty Hub regards Zsuzsy