Homemade Lavender Lemonade
Course:
Drinks
Time:
Prep. Time: 5-10 mins., Cook Time: 10-15 mins.
Ingredients
- 1¼ cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons lavender
- 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Lavender springs for extra decoration; optional
- Extra lemon slices for decoration; optional
DIRECTIONS:
- Place the sugar and water into a pan and stir together over medium heat until the sugar dissolves
- Place the lavender into the pan and stir together
- Once the mixture starts to lightly boil turn the heat down to a simmer
- Simmer the mixture together for about 10 minutes
- Allow it to cool
- Juice the lemons to get 1¼ cup of lemon juice
- Combine the lemon juice with 4 cups of water
- The lavender simple syrup will yield about 1 cup; add ¾ cup of it to the lemon juice/water mixture
- If you would like it sweeter you can add the other ¼ cup!
- Add ice and serve
- To make this a cocktail simply add as much vodka as you like...start with a shot and go from there
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