I’ve had this for about 6 months and can’t think of the perfect thing to do with it. I was leaning toward baked Brie in puff pastry with a generous layer of the preserves? All suggestions are welcome 🤗 (comments about my weird thumb are discouraged)
by Whitpeacock
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On a cracker with some nice cheese. Why would you do anything else?
Freshly baked scones is what you need! And maybe some clotted cream too, if you’re aiming for indulgence.
I read this as “leprechaun.”
The usual stuff you put jam or preserves on.
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If you want to make a chut-ta-ny, add fresh apricots to reinforce the flavor and add that fresh element. Mostly depends on how lavender it tastes. That can be tough to manipulate without turning into soap.
Top baked brie with it
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Warm it up and drizzle over premium vanilla ice cream.
Melt it, add brandy or cognac, glaze the top or middle of a cake or a fruit tart.
Couple of ideas come to mind: 1 – Swirl it into vanilla ice cream. 2 – Turn it into a sauce for a grilled chicken breast. 3 – Flavor overnight oats. 4 – Add to cream cheese for a new bagel topping. 5 – Stir into vanilla cake frosting. 6 – Add it to a bit of water, vinegar and oil for a new salad dressing.
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Make a battenberg cake?
First I would spread some on a nicely toasted piece of home baked and heavily buttered toast. Then I would mix some with some goat cheese and cram that under the skin of a chicken and roast it. Save some to make a nice vinaigrette for the salad. A side of potato gratin and maybe some roasted asparagus would make a nice meal. What time do I need to be there?
I would rock that on toast, bagel chips, ciabatta bread, bagels, and crackers. Just to start.
mmmm on a crumpet with butter 🥰
I would also suggest looking into an apricot-glazed meat recipe — to me, lavender is very reminiscent of rosemary
I’d heat it and use it as a syrup in a soaked sponge, or as is in a filled sponge cake, or with scones and cream.
Savoury – with chicken, in a similar way that cranberry is used. Hot sandwiches/panini/croissant, pizza, pastry pinwheels.
Part of a ham glaze?
All heavily depends on the strength of the lavender.
Eat with spoon
Mix with plain yogurt
This could be the jam in a battenberg cake.
Barbecue sauce. Put it on salmon
Eat
this would be lovely in a cocktail
Depending on how thick it is, I would spread it in between two thin shortbread cookies.
Make a danish-type pastry with cream cheese and puff pastry.
Swirl it into a homemade vanilla ice cream.
Baked Brie.
A sauce for venison…
Salad dressing. Mix it with oil and some good white wine vinegar and salt. Put on cherry tomatoes and feta cheese. It will be a blast.
Cheese, this begs for cheese. A nice chèvre or brie will do.
Make a glaze for some duck breast?
Freshly baked sourdough, ricotta or cream cheese and this jam. Yum