The Best Thing Aunt Lavinia Taught Me Was About Edible Flowers

February 18, 2010

Ever since my hoity toity Aunt Lavinia served us a salad with edible flowers back in the seventies, I have been captivated with them. The idea that should you select the wrong ones they could be so beautiful, yet prove fatal. In addition, the fact that they add so much colour to a dish, and provide minerals is not a bad bonus either.

What I did not know about those little delights is that they can be dried, frozen, or steeped in oil and used later. Some will lose their flavour during those processes, but others fare quite well. It is recommended that you do a test of the flowers you hope to preserve, by using only a small amount of them the first time.

Lists, and photos of those flowers that are safe for consumption can be easily located. As well as free recipes that involve the non poisonous types. It is just one more way to blend your two worlds, garden and abode.

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