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Home-Made Lavender Sugar Recipe

lavender sugar

Lavender Sugar is one of those things I’ve always looked at and loved the idea of, but never really known what to do with. I’ve always liked crystallised lavender – it’s both pretty and tasty – but aside from medicinal or household use, I’ve never really known how to actually use lavender in food. Partly due to its strong flavour and partly due to its very floral flavour, it’s something you have to use with care, but should definitely use!lavender sugar Making lavender sugar couldn’t really be simpler – the two ingredients are in the name, after all. If you don’t have a food processor you can just mix the two and stir, but I like making the sugar just a little finer, so it’s not so crunchy. Be careful though – I don’t like making it icing sugar either! Just a finely granulated sugar is perfect.

Leave the lavender for a week or so, allowing the flavours to infuse thoroughly into the sugar.  You can make Lavender Sugar ahead as a hostess gift, Christmas gifts, wedding favours and other gifting opportunities, and even include a recipe card or two with the jar. It’s a cheap and beautiful gift to make!lavender sugar

Make the Lavender Sugar two weeks before you’re going to gift it, and make sure to leave instructions to use withing 9 -12 months, so aside from drying out, I can’t image the lavender would go bad!

Recipe for Lavender Sugar

Lavender Sugar Recipe
Recipe Type: Dessert, Sweet, Condiment
Cuisine: Foraged
Author: Keeper of the Kitchen
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Serves: 1kg
Ingredients
  • 2 tsp lavender flowers
  • 1kg white sugar
Instructions
  1. Use a fork or your hands to remove the flowers from the stalk
  2. Add them to the food processor
  3. Add the sugar and blend together – depending on your food processor, adjust your speed to make sure you don’t end up with icing sugar.
  4. In the Thermomix, hit the Turbo button 2 – 3 times quickly.
  5. Decant the sugar into jars, and seal tightly.

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Lavender And Rose Salt Scrub

Lavender and Rose Salt Scrub

Lavender And Rose salt ScrubI started a goods exchange group that runs every few months, where we all make something in bulk and swap what we’ve made with the rest of the group, so if ten people sign up, you walk away with nine different things. This month – Friday, in fact – our theme is ‘Love Your Body’ to fit in with Valentine’s day and I’ve made Lavender and Rose Salt Scrub.

While I’m putting amounts and instructions down, it’s really pretty impossible to get wrong. I found that even leaving the oil to infuse for a few days didn’t really take on any of the aroma from the lavender or rose petals, so I added an essential oil called “Love in Life” from a tiny shop in France. I cant find it online, sadly, as it is amazing, but it has beautiful rose undertones.

Lavender And Rose Salt Scrub
Recipe Type: Bath Products
Author: Luschka
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Serves: 500ml
A beautiful, pampering, exfoliating body scrub.
Ingredients
  • 1 cup/230g organic rock salt (not fine salt and definitely not table salt)
  • 1 cup/215g sweet almond oil
  • 2 tablespoons lavender leaves (dried)
  • 2 tablespoons rose petals (dried)
  • 6 – 12 drops rose/lavender essential oil
Instructions
  1. (If you are using rock salt,whiz it up in a food processor for a few seconds. You don’t want it to be fine salt, but not big crystals either.)
  2. Add all the ingredients to a bowl, and gently mix till it’s well incorporated.
  3. Pour into a jar (I use two 250ml jars)
  4. Use when bathing for glowing skin.