Chaotic Waters and Edible Flowers
Julie of Chaotic Waters is a very talented jewelry designer and botanical product supplier. Her cremes, shampoos, potpourris, oils and bath salts are just wonderful. next......
Lois owned a local B&B and had a beautiful display and talk on edible flowers.
Here is one of my favorite lavender cookie recipes:
Lavender Cookies
2 eggs
1/2 cups butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. lavender leaves
1-1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
confectioner's sugar
rosewater
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Put eggs, butter, sugar and lavender (in that order) into blender, and run on low until well mixed. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl. Add other ingredients and stir until well blended. Drop dough, a teaspoonful at a time, onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake until lightly browned.
Place cookies on racks to cool.
Blend enough rosewater into the confectioner's sugar to make a smooth frosting. Ice the cookies and let them set until the frosting is firm.
I made these for a pre-school class one time and this one little boy ate about 10. Little ones are so receptive at trying new things. They loved the thoughts of eating flowers. It is a very tasty cookie.
Comments
I don't know what variety it is but it's never the one photoed when I read a story about someone's herb farm or garden.
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It's lovely to see your garden blog. I've been looking in vain for one for several weeks.
My garden is in the LA area of SoCal and I'm just a beginner needing lots of info and feedback.
I am glad that you found me. What I do with my herbs and edibles for recipes is if I like the smell I will usually like the flavor. This then also applies to your choice of Lavender, which some have a more chemical taste where as others a wonderful full bodied soft flavor. I love this recipe! Will you let me know what you think, ;).....
My Daughter is on her 4rth year of French and just loves it. So cool that you are taking some courses. I love the culture.
enjoy,
~steph
www.stephaniedistler.blogspot.com
Just for your info, there was a discussion of eating lavender on Chocolate & Zucchini (do you know it?) just at the same time I read your recipe. Here's a relevant bit of it: "Sorry, but I shudder every time I think of lavender in food now. A friend heard about lavender beinused in cooking and so she trimmed some of her lavender from her garden and used it..... not knowing that only certain varieties of lavender should be consumed by humans. Needless to say we were all extremely sick. Turns out the lavender she used had a high camphor content and we consumed enough during the meal (a themed lavender dinner) to adversly affect us. "
Here's a link in case you want to read more. http://chocolateandzucchini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
As with the lavender, like anything, if you over indulge you could have a bad reaction. Those are really good points about the camphor content, that is where my only planting true edibles in my gardens are taken into consideration. I would never want to make a lavender salad with the stuff, lol ;). Thank you very much for bringing this topic up and perhaps I will see you on Chocolate and Zucchini.
enjoy......