Wild violets can be made into jelly, syrup, tea, violet vinegar, candied flowers, you can even freeze them in ice cubes to jazz up your drink.
What you will need:
Quart canning jar
Measuring cup
Lids
Fine strainer
Small Pan
Wisk
Lemon Juice
Wild Violets
Wild Violet Syrup:
1 cup of wild violets
2 cups of boiling water
1 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
How To Make Wild Violet Syrup:
Step 1: Preparing Wild Violets
Pick the violets, remove stems, leaves and as much of the greens as you can. Wash them gently and let them dry.
Step 2: Steeping Wild Violets
Fill canning jar with 1 cup of flowers, meanwhile, boil water. Pour water over flowers, you will begin to see the color bleed into the water.
Step 3:
Cover the jars and allow them to steep for 24 hours out of direct sunlight.
Step 4: Strain Jar Contents
Strain the contents through a fine strainer, into a bowl or large measuring cup. You can discard flowers, you can throw them away or simply compost them as we do.
Step 5: Getting The Purple Color
Add lemon juice to the strained liquid, a drop or to at a time until the blue turns to purple.
Step 6: Making Wild Violet Syrup
Place liquid in a pan and add sugar, bring to a boil, whisk until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and pour into a clean sterilized jar with a lid. Store in refrigerator.
Watch the video we made of the whole process:
Wild Violet Syrup
- 1 cup of wild violets
- 2 cups of boiling water
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Pick the violets, remove stems, leaves and as much of the greens as you can. Wash them gently and let them dry.
- Fill canning jar with 1 cup of flowers, meanwhile, boil water. Pour water over flowers, you will begin to see the color bleed into the water.
- Cover the jars and allow to steep for 24 hours.
- Strain the contents through a fine strainer, into a bowl or large measuring cup. You can discard flowers, you can throw them away or simply compost them like we do.
- Add lemon juice to the strained liquid, a drop or to at a time.
- Place liquid in a pan and add sugar, bring to a boil, whisk until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and pour into a clean sterilized jar with a lid. Store in refrigerator.
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This looks like a nice easy way to make some delicious syrup. As far as I know, wild violets don’t grow where I live, but I would love to give this a try someday. Perhaps I could make something similar with other edible flowers.