It has a beautiful smell, it repels moths and mosquitoes, and its use calms the mind, you know, but can you eat lavender? In the past, this beautiful flower was typical of the Mediterranean region, but it has been doing very well here for many years.
Lavender is used in cosmetics and food.
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Pestovatelia levandúľ offers samozbery tejto kvetiny, je častou ozdobou aj máchá zárad. It is used in the cosmetics industry, in the home and as a medicine. It contains silica, which has a calming and antibacterial effect, as well as vitamins A, C and minerals such as calcium, sodium and iron.
Our ancestors used to use lavender in cooking, for example for delicious koláčov, rubi sa and lavender milk, honey or pudding.
Recipes for lavender dishes are provided by teacher Silvia Bodláková on her website Dobré ídeos. The site always brings a lot of new styles in the home and kitchen with different areas and accessories.
As Silvia Bodláková revealed, the lavender recipe comes from her grandmother’s cookbook. You can find them all at this link, we offer two – Sushi recipe and pudding, nech sa prači.
Levanduľové sušienky
Mix 100 grams of soft butter with 50 grams of brown sugar and one egg. Mix 125 g of cold flour mixed with finely crushed lavender flowers (about 1 tablespoon, but you can add more) and half a teaspoon of soda. The bread will be prepared and allowed to dry. Potom vyvaľkáme a vyrobíme krúžky, resp. iné tvary kího požíme na plech vyložní papierom i pečenie. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 12-13 minutes, depending on the size.
Lavender pudding
We need half a liter of milk, lavender, cornstarch and sugar. Add 1 teaspoon of red lavender to 300 ml of whole milk. Let the milk heat up in the water bath. For the remaining milk, add three spoonfuls of corn and about two spoonfuls of sugar (according to taste). After that, mix all the ingredients and cook until the pudding is thick. We can serve this as dessert. If, however, we mix 200 g of soft butter, we get an excellent lavender cream, which we can use to spread cakes and tarts. “Or you can use it to connect two cakes and make delicious cakes,” adds Silvia Bodláková.