Lavender Sugar

Great for Meringues

As you know, I have an abudance of Lavender in my garden and have been busy making all sorts from this beautiful fragrant flower. I recently came across lavendar infused meringues and two different methods for making them.

First methid, infuse the sugar with lavender and make the meringues in the normal way; the second is to include the flowers directly in the meringues. Both delicious!

So, Lavender Infused Sugar


Ingredients:

• 350g/¾lb golden granulated or golden caster sugar
• 8-16tbsp chopped and dry flower petals
  

Directions:

• For the floral sugar, put the sugar and chopped flowers into a food processor or liquidiser and process well; use a Pestel and Morter if you want to work those biceps.
• Put the floral sugar into an airtight glass jar, cover well and let it stand for a week.
• After a week sift the sugar and flowers through a medium sieve and put into an airtight container until you are ready to use.

What could be easier. Follow on to make the meringues....