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Raspberry Lavender Coolers


1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers
2 cups raspberries, fresh or frozen, thawed
1 liter lime soda
raspberries, lavender wand garnish, optional.

Bring 2 cups of water to a boil and turn off heat.  Add 1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers.  Cover and allow to steep for about 10-15 minutes.  Mash raspberries and add strained lavender infusion.  Add 1 liter lime soda, mix well and chill.  Pour over ice and serve with a couple of raspberries skewered on a stem of lavender.

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Lavender Lemonade

7 cups water
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups frozen lemon juice from concentrate, thawed
4 mint sprigs
3 lavender sprigs, fresh or 2 tablespoons dried lavender buds
garnish-lemon slices, mint

Bring 7 cups water to a boil; stir in sugar and cook for 2 or 3 minutes until sugar dissolves.  Take off heat and add lemon juice, mint and lavender.  Let stand about 2 hours.

Pour lemonade mixture through a strainer into a pitcher, discarding herbs.  Serve over ice with garnish. 

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Lavender Infused Sangria


1 recipe Lavender Syrup*
1 orange, sliced
1 lime, sliced
1 lemon, sliced
2 ounces brandy
750 ml bottle red wine
12 ounces club soda
 

In a large glass pitcher, combine all of the fruit slices.  Add the brandy lavender syrup and wine.  Refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.  When ready to serve, fill wine glasses with ice and fill glasses 1/2 to 2/3 full of Sangria mixture.  Top with desired amount of club soda.  Add fruit slices to glasses.

 

*Lavender Syrup

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons dried culinary lavender buds

In a small saucepan, bring water sugar to a boil.  Stir until dissolved.  Remove from heat and add lavender buds.  Cover and allow lavender to infuse into the sugar syrup.  Strain into a glass container, cover and keep refrigerated for up a few weeks.

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