Lavander recipes for well being and body, mind and soul harmony
1. Homemade lavender syrup for your body and soul
Ingredients for 0,5l:
1 organic cinnamon
0,5 l water
1 organic lemon
0,5kg organic sugar with Lavandula Bohemia
2 teaspoons of organic tea with Lavandula Bohemia
Directions:
Put all the ingredients in water and cook. After switching off, let macerate for 24 hours in a dark and cold place. Then take out all the ingredients, mix the liquid and pour in a glass bottle with a tight cap. Store in a cold place (10°C) and consume within a month.
2. Lavender starters and desserts
2.a Bars of M. D. Rettigová with Lavandula Bohemia in BIO quality – ideal as a beer and wine snack
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons boiled butter
- 20 g yeast
- 1 tablespoon icing sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 l milk
- 5 kg plain flour
- 1 egg
- 6 teaspoons of lavender bloom
Melt 4 tablespoons of boiled butter and pour it into lukewarm milk. Add 2 eggs, sugar, yeast and salt. Mix everything together and add 6 teaspoons of lavender bloom. Pour into the flour and work out firm dough. If needed, add little bit more flour. Divide the dough into smaller pieces and on the bord prepare about 20 cm long rod as thick as the thumb. Put on greased baking sheets, spread with egg, sprinkle with salt and bake (200-220 ° C) immediately until golden brown. The bars are plump, soft and are excellent both hot and cold with garlic butter, cheese spread and tasty Czech beer.
2.b lavender pancakes with apricot jam and cream-cheese (curd) puree.
Ingredients:
salt
300 g plain flour
2 eggs
vegetable oil
0.5 l milk
2 teaspoons Lavandula Bohemia
1 sachet vanilla sugar
For anointing: Apricot jam, cottage cheese (curd) or yogurt.
For garnish: A sprig of lavender and two mint leaves
Directions:
Fry the pancakes from the prepared dough. Apply jam and cottage cheese (curd), garnish.
2.d The mixture of cheeses with apricot-lavender jam
Neatly cut your favorite cheeses and pastry and put it on the plate. In a small bowl mix an apricot jam and Lavandula Bohemia.
2.e Cold apricot dessert with lavender
Ingredients for 4 persons:
0.5 kg of peeled and cooked apricots
200 ml of cream
1 pinch of salt
200 g yogurt
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon crushed lavender blooms.
For garnish: 4 mint leaves (optional)
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4 nice glasses for serving.
Directions:
Mix the cooked apricots with 220ml of cold water and crashed lavender blooms using a mixer. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook about 5-7 minutes. Then leave to cool. Whip the cream with a pinch of salt and then mix with the yogurt. Sweeten with honey and add a pinch of cinnamon. Break the biscuits and prepare the glasses. Layer the apricot mixture, cream and yoghurt and crumbly biscuits on the top. Put few grains of lavender (or a whole bloom) and mint leaf on the top.
3.a Lavender cake I (Gugelhupf)
Ingredients:
- 170 g of sugar
- 200 g softened butter
- 4 eggs at room temperature
- 250 g soft cottage cheese (curd) at room temperature
- 300 g of plain flour
- 1 sachet of baking powder
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 1 tablespoon lavender blossoms, dry or fresh
Directions:
Wipe the cake form with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Mix the butter with sugar, gradually add yolks one by one and slightly mix together. Finally add cottage cheese (curd) and mix again.
In the second bowl mix together flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar (cinnamon lovers can use cinnamon sugar as well) and lavender blossoms.
Slowly stir flour mixture into butter mixture.
Pour the dough into the cake form and bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for about 40-50 minutes. We check the baking with a skewer.
After baking, let the cake rest in the form for 10 minutes, then carefully dump. Sugar the cooled cake with icing sugar.
3.b Lavender cake II (Gugelhupf)
Ingredients:
- 200 g of butter
- 4 eggs
- 130 g of semolina sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavor
- 1 cottage cheese (curd)
- 150 g of plain flour
- 150 g of flour
- half a bag of baking powder
- 4 lavender stems
We mix the butter within whole eggs, sugar and vanilla flavor. Mix all of them with the flour, a baking powder and lavender.
Then all the dough put into a butter-crushed form for baking and arrange with the flour. Then bake it in an oven at 170 ° C for 45-50 minutes.
Lavender baking – pie for sweeter life
Ingredients:
6 eggs
140g powdered sugar
140g coarse flour
Apricot-lavender jam (or marmalade with sugar with Lavandula bohemia)
Directions:
Grease the baking plate with oil and dust it with the flour. Whisk the egg yolks with icing sugar until thickened and add flour. Whip the egg whites into the stiff snow. Stir the snow into the mixture and pour it on the prepared baking plate. Bake at 180 ° C for about 10 minutes. After a slight cooling, immediately roll into a roll and let it cool completely. Then sprinkle with jam, sugar with lavender sugar and roll. Also spread the lavender jam on the surface. Enjoy your meal!
4 Distilled lavender essential oil
If you have an option, use a steam distillation – ideal form for production of many essential oils. (In this method, the substance passes through a refrigerating process where the steam liquefies. The liquid that forms from the condensate on the walls of the cooled pipe consists of two components - water and oil. After stabilization, there is an oil on top and water stays at the bottom.)
Homemade option:
You will need:
- Large pot with lid
- Distilled water
- 4 kilograms of chopped or cut Lavender
- Colored glass with lid that can be closed easily
Directions:
Put the lavender into the pot and pour it with distilled water. The pot cannot be fuller than 3/4. Cover with a lid upside down (so that all the condensates can flow back to the pot). Bring to a boil, then cook at the low degree for 5 hours.
When you see lavender starting to settle in the pot below, you can turn it off. But keep the frequency for 5 hours. It gives strength and to produced essential oil. After cooling, put the pot into the fridge. Leave it in the fridge for 12 to 14 hours.
If you carefully open the pot after 12 hours, you will see a thin layer of oil on the surface - this is your essential oil, which solidifies when cooled. Carefully remove it from the water. Work fast, it can start to melt right away. Place by spoons in the prepared colored glass bottle with a cap.
Sometimes a little water remains in the oil. When you gently heat the bottle in a blanket or near a heater, the water evaporates, leaving only the essential oil. Do not heat the oil for too long.
5 Essential oil for aromatherapy with stimulation of libido and aphrodisiac effects
You can also use this essential oil in the bath to relieve fatigue. Drip 20 drops into the hot water in the bath or sink, where you will immerse your feet.
Ingredients:
- 30 drops Lavender essential oil
- 20 drops of orange essential oil
- 20 drops mandarin
If you like, you can add 10 drops of thyme oil.
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients with a wooden spatula in a ceramic or clay bowl. Drip into an aroma lamp with water in a ratio of 50/50. Enjoy.
6 Lavender essential oil – helps with anxiety and insomnia, stress, nervous tension, fear of changes in your life, traumatic experience
You will need:
- Fresh lavender - chopped herb (stems and blossoms)
- Fresh linden blossoms
- Fresh lemon balm - chopped herb (stems and blossoms)
- Oil (preferably jojoba)
- Double bottom pot
Directions:
Finely chop the herbs, put them into a pot and pour them with oil so that they are completely immersed.
Cook. Once the oil has boiled, carefully lower the temperature and let the oil cook slowly.
Cook for about 4 hours. Set the pot aside and let the mixture cool down. Strain, squeeze the herb with a spoon, pour into bottles of dark glass. Store in the cold and dark up to one year.
7 Tincture
Ingredients:
- 30g Organic tea from Lavandula Bohemia
- 5 l of pure alcohol
Plants soaked in alcohol provide stronger healing effect than decoctions and infusions. Alcohol is great preservator.
Lavender lowers blood pressure.
Directions:
It is best to pour the lavender with Czech Slivovitz, Meruňkovice (apricot liquor) or Hruškovice (pear liquor) - it is also possible to work with high-quality pure white rum. Close the tincture well in a glass bottle, store in the pantry in a dark and cool environment. After 14 days to three weeks, you can take them by the spoons. People with lower pressure prefer 5 drops a day at most.
8 Macerate
As we know, some herbs lose their healing properties when boiled and heated to high temperatures.
This is not the case for lavender, but it is good option to use a healthier maceration process.
Infuse the fresh organic herb, preferably overnight. Then remove the herb and strain. Heat the macerate to desired temperature and drink.
9 Lavandula Bohemia organic infusion
It is the purest processing of the herb while maintaining all the advantages of the herb as much as possible. Sprinkle two teaspoons of pure blossoms (optionally use also the stems – to help your stomach, intestines and gallbladder). Pour hot water (boiled to a maximum of 75 ° C) over the herb and let it infuse. Infuse for a maximum of 10 minutes and drink, if possible, warm or lukewarm.
10 Lavender wine
Take your favorite white or red wine. Pour it into a glass jar with cap. Stir 20 ml of lavender syrup per in 1.5 l of wine and add 2 teaspoons of ORGANIC tea from Lavandula Bohemia. Close and macerate at room temperature for 2 weeks. Then strain the wine and enjoy the delicate taste. This beverage is beneficial for blood cells and, nervous system and digestion.
11 Lavender essential oil
In case of this product, there is no need for Organic lavender. If you apply Lavender externally, you can also use it from the garden, moreover, in horticulture we usually find varieties of fragrant Lavender than the medicinal one. But do not use this Lavender in the gardens internally. It is conventionally chemically modified for fast growth, and you basically get poisons into your body, not health.
You will need:
- Fresh lavender - chopped herb (stems and blossoms)
- Oil (preferably olive, sunflower, argan almond or jojoba)
- Double bottom pot
Directions:
Cut the lavender finely (both blossoms and stems – stems contain a lot of substances for your health), pour into a pot and pour oil so that the herb is completely immersed. Cook. Once the oil has boiled, carefully lower the temperature and let the oil cook slowly. Cook for about 4 hours. Set the pot aside and allow the contents to cool. Strain the herb and squeeze with a spoon, Pour into dark glass bottles.
Lavender essential oil lasts up to a year in the cold and dark place.
12 Proper brew of organic Lavandula Bohemia tea
Tea can be used for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, for the production of light lemonades, cold teas and syrup or to revive a fresh drink and juice.
Directions:
A moment before the boiling point, turn off the boiling water and pour 0.5 l of this water over 2 teaspoons of Lavandula Bohemia.
Lavender Valley recommends:
ORGANIC Vitafruit fruit tea with Lavandula Bohemia is excellent and suitable for mother and childcare.
Earl Gray with Lavandula Bohemia is great for tea lovers and demanding users. The tea ceremony with BIO Earl Gray with Lavandula Bohemia is suitable both for morning times and for afternoon WELL BEING and the supply of energy to body and mind.
13 How to prepare versatile lavender base
We can use lavender base in sauces for red and white meat, fish, puddings, cheesecakes, cottage cheese, yoghurts, jams, honey and dressings. Lavender base is also excellent in desserts - buns, cakes, pies, creams and toppings.
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons of organic tea from pure organic Lavandula Bohemia
100g organic cane sugar with Lavandula Bohemia
1 organic lemon
Directions:
Enjoy a cup of Organic Lavender Tea (pour two teaspoons of lavender tea on half a liter of boiling water). Set aside 10 ml of tea and brew it with 100 g of cane sugar with Lavandula Bohemia. Stir over hot heat until lavender base is formed.
Lavender with its flavonoids, lynalyl acetate, nerol, citronella, borneol and gerancil, also terpene calms the nervous system, supports digestion and peaceful sleep, relieves tension and flatulence, harmonizes the digestive and nervous systems. It heals and is a natural antibiotic.