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Large glass measuring cup or large mason jar.3 cups heaping of lilac blossoms x 3 infusions (9 cups total).(Yields about 1.5 cups / 12 oz total liqueur) The result is a delicious, fresh and floral liqueur that works beautifully in a variety of cocktail recipes, adding a taste of spring to happy hour (or your morning pancakes!) Now you’ll add ½ cup of simple syrup to the vodka, stir well, and pour into a glass bottle or jar for storing. On day four, after your final strain, you will have about 1 cup of tea colored vodka (about a half cup is lost in the discarded blossoms). One final time, strain the vodka and fill the glass with flowers, allowing it to steep overnight.

Place the second infusion in the fridge and allow it to steep until the following morning.

Tip: use a mason jar and it will be even easier! The next day, carefully strain the mixture, discard the spent blossoms, and add another 3 cups of lilac flowers to the vodka.īy now, the vodka will have taken on a tea-like color. Pour about 1.5 cups of vodka over them and use a spoon to fully cover the flowers, squishing them down to keep them submerged.Ĭover the measuring cup and place it in the fridge to steep overnight. To begin, add about 3-4 heaping cups of lilac blossoms, stems removed, but clusters mostly intact, to a large glass measuring cup. I wanted a fairly strong lilac flavor, and I’m way too impatient to wait for weeks of infusing, so I decided to do three rounds of quick, overnight infusions rather than one or two longer infusions. This year, my lilac bushes developed buds early but took several weeks to begin to open, and another week for all of the buds to fully open.īut the wait was totally worth it, and I’m looking forward to adding this unique floral flavor to my cocktail recipes well into the summer. Lilacs only last a couple of weeks, so act quickly as soon as you see that all of the buds on your bushes have opened. It’s been a few years since I made a liqueur, so I decided this would be the perfect way to preserve the beautiful scent of my lilacs and re-familiarize myself with the process (more liqueurs to come!). The warm but not hot weather, the earthy scent of the thawing ground, new life springing up from every tiny crack, the world awash in that pale, vibrant green. Springtime is such a brief but wonderful time of year, and in New England I often feel like it comes and goes before I get a chance to really enjoy its beauty. Lilac is one of my very favorite flowers, and possibly my very favorite scent, so this year I decided I had to do something to preserve that beautiful, clean, but fleeting aroma.

#Teen suicide band flower tee windows#

There’s nothing quite like the scent of new lilac blossoms wafting through my kitchen windows on an early spring morning.