Want to get creative with your lavender cooking herb? Here's one of the things you can do to spice up your kitchen - make your own lovely Lavender Sugar. Lavender Sugar has the light floral scent of lavender blended right into granulated sugar. It's fast and easy to make this flavored sugar, and it makes a wonderful culinary gift or addition to your stash of baking ingredients. Preparation - The simple way: add lavender cooking herb into a tub of sugar. Close tub and shake we

In aromatherapy, Lavender is well known for its calming and soothing effect; less known is its health-giving properties as a culinary herb. Because of its ability to slow down the nervous system, drinking lavender tea helps with anxiety and can be used to treat stress disorders. Many people with anxiety problems report that lavender tea has a very strong calming effect. So we’re delighted to be taking on this new range of teas and lavender herb from Lavender in Lavender Hill!

In Europe cooking with Lavender is not a new thing. South African, however, is not yet widely familiar with the use of the lavender herb in cooking. We have compiled some lavender tips for you to try out while making something sweet for the tooth. Lavender Sugar Lavender flowers can be used either fresh or dried. They can be used to flavor the sugar or milk in baked goods. Add a half dozen flower spikes to several cups of granulated sugar and seal for a week to make delicious