Lois V. Harris
Children's Author

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.

The article, "Lavender's Blue", appears in Hopscotch Magazine's April/May 2007 issue. The piece covers the ways the pioneers used wild lavender, and contains activities for growing, drying, cooking, and making gifts with the fragrant purple plant.