Lavendar Flower Art

Cool Lavender Lemonade

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Prep: 5 min., Cook: 5 min., Stand: 2 hrs. The intensity of lavender and mint flavors can be easily adjusted by adding more or less herbs or by steeping for longer or shorter periods of time.

7  cups water
1  cup sugar
1 1/2  cups frozen lemon juice from concentrate, thawed
4  mint sprigs
3  lavender sprigs*
Garnishes: lemon slices, lavender and mint sprigs

Bring 7 cups water to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir in 1 cup sugar, and cook, stirring constantly, 1 to 2 minutes or until sugar dissolves; remove from heat. Stir in lemon juice, mint sprigs, and lavender sprigs; let stand at least 2 hours.

Pour lemonade mixture through a wire-mesh strainer into a large pitcher, discarding herbs. Serve over ice. Garnish, if desired.

*2 tablespoons dried lavender flowers may be substituted.
Yield: Makes about 2 quarts
John Fleer, Maryville, Tennessee
Southern Living, MARCH 2006
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The Lavendar Festival is this weekend in the outlaying town of Sequim Washington.  I can just smell the fragrances and enivision the fields of purple.  Here I've taken a couple of photos of some lavendar in my own backyard...amidst the ever popular dragonflies....there are a lot of them around this year.    Maria