SCHÖNE HEIMAT – a culinary exploration of Berlin & Beyond
  • home
  • About
  • COOKING CLASSES
  • Culinary Team Building
  • Gallery
  • Reviews
  • home
  • About
  • COOKING CLASSES
  • Culinary Team Building
  • Gallery
  • Reviews
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

5/4/2020

Lilac is in full bloom - bring spring into your kitchen

Picture
Lilac, oh what wonderful fragrance. And Yes, that can be captured into a bottle. Make Lilac syrup or jelly and your table offerings will be special.

Lilac flower Syrup
This is like cooking spring into a bottle! Lilac syrup can be added to drinks like non-alcoholic cocktails, wine- schorles, Hugos (sparkling wine with spritzer), or as a topping over desserts.
__________________

for ca. 2 liters of syrup

about 12-14 umbels of lilac
2 liters of water
1.3 kilo of sugar
2 medium size lemons

Best stored in refrigerator and used within 2 - 3 weeks
__________________
  1.  wash your lilac umbels and remove from stems
  2. combine water and sugar in a large cooking pot, bring to heat, so that the sugar dissolves, let simmer for about 5 minutes.
  3. let cool
  4. slice the lemons
  5. add your lilac flower, the lemon juice and lemons slices and quickly and carefully stir
  6. let sit in a cool place for 5 days
  7. strain and fill into clean bottles

Comments are closed.
    Explore Germany’s rich culinary heritage of seasonal and regional vegetable, fish and meat dishes, fruit desserts, while learning about herbs, their healing powers, and the century-old tradition of organic gardening.

    If you love food and cooking and are tired of impersonal tours and tourist attractions, then this unique experience offers an authentic and private look into Berlin culinary lifestyle.
Subscribe to Newsletter
Contact:
Schöne Heimat –
a culinary exploration of Berlin & beyond
Kit Schulte, +49 171 1908312
IMPRINT, TERMS OF SERVICE AND DATA PROTECTION
© COPYRIGHT 2016-2020.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
kit@schoeneheimat.com
© Kit Schulte 2020
  • TripAdvisor