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Lilac Sugar

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This easy lilac sugar makes a lovely gift, and can be used to sweeten tea along with many other uses. If you love lilacs, this is one way to make them last a little longer!

  • Total Time: 168 hours 30 minutes
  • Yield: 2 Cups 1x

Ingredients

Units Scale
  • Lilac Blossoms (about 2 cups lightly packed)
  • 2 cups of Granulated White Sugar

Instructions

  1. Remove the lilac blossoms from the stems.
  2. Cut cheesecloth into four inch squares (if using), and place a handful of lilac blossoms in the middle of each one.
  3. Bring the edges and corners of the square together and tie off with twine or string.
  4. Place a sachet in the bottom of the jar, and top with about 1/3 cup of sugar. Make another sachet and place in the jar, then more sugar.
  5. Keep layering sachets of blossoms and sugar together until your jar is full. You should be able to use around two cups of sugar.
  6. Place the jar in a cool dark place such as your pantry, and give the jar a good shake a few times a day for about 7 days.
  7. Once the sugar has soaked up the moisture from the lilacs, remove the sachets from the jar and discard. Use the sugar within two weeks, and store in the refrigerator in a tightly sealed jar when not in use.

Notes

The method using the sachets is great because once it is ready to use you don't have to fish the blossoms out of your sugar. Now they are safely contained in the cheesecloth bundles to be discarded when ready, leaving nothing behind but the sugar!

If you do not want to make sachets from cheesecloth, you are more than welcome to layer the blossoms right in the jar with the sugar and skip the cheesecloth baggies. The flowers become preserved because they dry as the sugar pulls the moisture out of the blossoms. If you want to keep the blossoms intact in the sugar, you can bake them right into your baked goods if you want! They can stay in the jar of sugar because they are edible, unless you don’t want them in the finished product.

This sugar makes a wonderful hostess gift for someone who is a flower lover. It is great in tea, and many other uses. Be sure to check out the suggestions in the blog post for how to use it!

Make sure the lilac blossoms you are using have not been treated or sprayed with pesticides.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1
  • Calories: 48
  • Sugar: 12
  • Sodium: 0
  • Fat: 0
  • Saturated Fat: 0
  • Unsaturated Fat: 0
  • Trans Fat: 0
  • Carbohydrates: 13
  • Fiber: 0
  • Protein: 0
  • Cholesterol: 0

Find it online: https://thecoppertable.com/lilac-sugar/