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Lavender Sugar
Try making lavender sugar. Sprinkle it on cookie tops before baking, sweeten lemonade, or stir some into hot oatmeal. Needed: a blender or food processor, two fresh lavender flowers, sugar, a small glass jar and lid, or a covered plastic container 1. Grind flowers and three tablespoons of sugar in blender until fine. Smell. The sugar will absorb the oil from the broken lavender buds. 2. Store sugar in a sealed contained in the freezer for up to a year. |
"Lavender's Blue" Hopscotch Magazine The article, "Lavender's Blue", appeared in Hopscotch Magazine's April/May 2007 issue. The piece covered the ways the pioneers used wild lavender, and contained activities for growing, drying, cooking, and making gifts with the fragrant purple plant. |
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