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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 12:08:38 PM
I planted some Lemon Verbena specifically to make ice cream this summer...but what else? Can I infuse it in a linen water, or make butter cookies I wonder?
Does anyone else cook with it or do something wonderful with their Lemon Verbena?
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| Farmtopia |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 1:41:32 PM
I like Verbena, in doses. After awhile the "lemony-ness" is a bit much. I'll definitely ask her, and let you know :) Hey, I just emailed you about the KY gathering :)
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 1:38:56 PM
Gosh, Zan...she sounds like a wealth of information! Would you ask her about her creams? I've never made any, but it wouldn't hurt to start! I also like the idea of it infused in the sea salt.
It must have a lot of oil in the leaves, I suppose, to invoke such scent.
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Posted - May 05 2008 : 1:37:30 PM
Ooh, Jonni, my downstairs landlady is IN LOVE with it and grows it in our backyard garden all the time. Soaps, creams, you can add it to plain sea salt in a jar, let it sit and infuse the scent for a few weeks, then use it for scented bath salts. Or you can dry it, grind it down, and use it as an exfoliant when you wash your face. Tea is always good. I'm also with Annika--you can mix it in with lemons to make a lemony jelly/curd.
My landlady also uses it in sachets for the closet. My mama made her a little embroidered pillow--one of lavender, one of verbena to put in her drawers! :)
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 1:36:16 PM
Wonderful!!! Yay...so you just pick it fresh and toss it into a teapot? I wonder how it would go in a tea with mint....I think I'll try when I get home!!!
Annika, good ideas. I'm thinking that it would probably make a nice custard, too.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 1:24:57 PM
I love to make tea with it..it is so much nicer and fresh lemony tasting than say...Lemon balm (lemon balm has a lemon pledge sort of taste/smell to me) and is good iced too!
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| Annika |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 12:58:02 PM
I know it is used in creams and soaps if you are into making that kind of thing =) I have some lemon verbena body cream that smells wonderful, it has a coconut oil base and smells like summer. Yummy! I love lemon verbena. I don't have a recipe, but it might go well in lemon curd or mint jelly...just brain storming here
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| Alee |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 12:48:36 PM
Jonni- You might like this site- it has lots of lovely ideas. I think I will try to find some and plant it as an indoor plant for now. How lovely!
http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/lemonverbena.html
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| nubidane |
Posted - May 05 2008 : 12:47:52 PM
Infuse, pick & put in bowls around the house, make tea, but most of all just sniff & sniff & sniff! Yummy smell! |
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