Floral Simple Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 cup flower blooms (see options below)
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1/2 cup maple syrup or honey
Instructions
- Collect flowers and separate blooms from stems, removing green sepal leaves from under bloom as well.
- Place blooms in pint jar
- Fill jar to top with boiling water and let jar sit, open, on counter overnight or until totally cool.
- Strain out flowers.
- Add sweetener to your desired taste, typically about 1/4 cup of sweetener for every 1 cup of infused water.
- Place lid on jar and store in fridge for 2-3 weeks.
Notes
Run your jar under very warm water for a minute before filling a glass jar with boiling water, to allow it to pre-heat and avoid any breakage.
Blooms that make delicious simple syrup:
- Lilac
- Lavender1
- Rose
- Honeysuckle
- Forsythia
- Dandelion
- Hibiscus