Melon with lavender syrup

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Sugar
½ cup ;Water
¼ cup Sweet dessert wine*
2 tablespoons Orange juice
¼ cup Fresh or dried lavender flowers
1 large Ripe melon, cubed
Fresh mint leaves

Directions

GARNISH

*Sauterne, Grenache or sweet Reisling.

Bring sugar, water, wine and orange juice to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring once or twice to dissolve sugar. Add lavender flowers. Cover and steep for 1 to 2 hours. Strain out lavender flowers, pressing on pulp.

To serve, pour syrup over melon; gently toss. Garnish with mint leaves.

Yield: 4 to 6 servings.

Recipe developed by Renee Shepherd and Fran Raboff. From 1992"Shepherd's Garden Seeds" catalog. Pg. 26. Posted by Cathy Harned.

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