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Lavender Lemonade
Floral, tart and pale purple. Restrained lavender is the difference between a drink and a bar of soap.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Serves
- 4
- Glass
- Highball
- Difficulty
- Easy
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice (about 5 lemons)
- 0.75 cup lavender syrup
- 3 cups cold water
- Lemon wheels and lavender sprigs, to garnish
- Ice
Method
- 1Make lavender syrup: warm 1 cup sugar with 1 cup water and 1 tbsp dried culinary lavender, stir until dissolved, then steep 20 minutes and strain.
- 2Combine the lemon juice, syrup and cold water in a pitcher.
- 3Taste and adjust — lemons vary a lot.
- 4Serve over ice with a lemon wheel and a small lavender sprig.
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Notes
- Steep the lavender for 20 minutes, not longer. Over-steeped lavender tastes like perfume and there's no fixing it.
- Use culinary lavender, not the ornamental kind from a garden centre.
- A splash of soda turns this into a spritz.
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