Scented Geranium lemonade

Sweet or Scented Geraniums are in my opinion one of the nicest plants to have in your garden.

The flowers they produced (although they only have a few) are edible and they make a pretty garnish for salads, desserts etc. The leaves are used for their fragrance and flavour. Different species of sweet geraniums differ in flavour.

Ingredients:

• 100g of sugar
• 250ml of water
• 6 Sweet Geranium leaves
• 1 Vanilla pod scraped
• Juice of 3 lemons & 2 limes/ Oranges/ grapefruit
• Bottle of fizzy water

Method:

• Put sugar & water in a pot and let it come to boil
• Turn down to a simmer until all sugar is dissolved
• Scrape in the vanilla pod and turn off the heat
• Add the geranium leaves and leave too steep until cool
• Juice the lemons, limes or oranges
• When the syrup* is cool strain it and mix with the juice
• Finally get a big jug full of ice pour in the lemonade followed by a bottle of fizzy water

Garnish your water with wedges of lemons/oranges and maybe a few geranium flowers or leaves

Note:

*You can use as much or as little sugar syrup as you like, depending on how sweet you like it.

The sweet geranium syrup keeps for ages in the fridge and it’s a really nice addition to a fruit salad or added into some overnight oats.