Lavender wine??

[the.fee.fairy]

I want a pattern for Claude!!

Here is the recipe for Lavender wine that i've got on the pooter. Might have some more in books somewhere.

It is very possible that these came from a thread here somewhere, so if its your recipe, yell!

Lavender Wine
Ingredients:

¼ to ½ cup dried lavender flowers (off the stems)
½ lemon
tin of white grape concentrate
2½ lbs sugar
yeast
yeast nutrient
water - to make 1 gallon of wine
Method:

Pour 2 pints of boiling water onto the dried flowers and the chopped up lemon.
Allow to sit, covered, for 3 days - removing the lemon a few hours after you start.
Dissolve the sugar in hot water and add to the strained of lavender liquor in a demijohn.
Add grape juice concentrate, yeast nutrient and activated yeast.
Fit fermenting lock and ferment until finished and clear topping up with water when initial phase has calmed down.

Note - this made a very unusual tasting wine that finished at 18%.
The Lavender taste came out more and more over time and became a zesty fresh flavour. It might not be to everyone's taste and I would treat it as an aperitif not a table wine.
Lovely if served slightly chilled as an appetiser on a hot summer day.

[Cligereen]

Thanks for all the suggestions and especially for the alcoholic recipes. The lavender will be another couple of weeks methinks, but I'm ready with the scissors poised over the honeysuckle which is out now, so guess what I'll be doing tomorrow

[Rosendula]

I know it's a year since you asked, but I only joined the board this month.

I have made lavender wine in the past. Taste-wise, it's not bad if you make it quite sweet. I only made the one batch and don't intend making any more, though, for the simple fact that it knocked me out. One glass and I was fast asleep. Great for insomniacs!

[the.fee.fairy]

I really need to make some...

[marshlander]

Looking for something else (doesn't it always happen that way?) I found this http://groups.msn.com/PaganHearthRecipes/lavender.msnw
lots of lovely lavender recipes!