This month’s “Savor Cooks” recipe features lavender. Try our recipe for Lavender Simple Syrup and use it to sweeten beverages or yogurt.
Culinary lavender can be blended or ground with sugar or cooked and infused into simple syrup. Those are two easy ways to add a floral note to a sweet recipe. Start with a ratio of one tablespoon of lavender to one cup of sugar.
Lavender sugar is nice to have around for baking (think shortbread or butter cookies or scones) or sweetening hot beverages.
Lavender simple syrup can be used to sweeten cold or hot drinks, plain yogurt or whipped cream.
Don’t forget to check out our Food of the Month post on lavender.
Recipe
Once you have lavender simple syrup on-hand in the refrigerator, you can start by making lavender lattes, and then move onto lavender lemonade, lavender soda (seltzer water + lavender simple syrup), or add it to your favorite cocktail or mocktail.
If you like your latte less sweet, use just 1 teaspoon of lavender simple syrup. If you prefer a sweeter taste, use 3 teaspoons (which is the same as 1 tablespoon) of lavender simple syrup.
The latte recipe can also be made with tea (black or matcha teas work well), iced coffee or tea drinks, or decaffeinated coffee or espresso.
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