Camelia Cordial
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Never heard of using camelias for this. Interested to hear how it goes though.
Cordial's pretty simple, it's just infused water added to a thin sugar syrup.
So, make strong tea and add sugar syrup......500g of sugar to 1lt of water/tea.
Heavy syrup is 500g of sugar to 250ml of water.
More sugar, the better the preservation, but it needs an awful lot of diluting down to be drinkable, and dilution works on the taste too, so it can end up too 'thin', iimmc ?
To be honest, if the flowers are flavourful and/or colourful, I think I'd just dry them and use them for tea.
M
Should of added, you can sugar flowers to preserve them too, usually ones like violets.
You can also steep the flowers directly in the sugar syrup, but sometimes that overcooks them and gives an odd taste. I was most disappointed in rose petals done that way.
Cordial's pretty simple, it's just infused water added to a thin sugar syrup.
So, make strong tea and add sugar syrup......500g of sugar to 1lt of water/tea.
Heavy syrup is 500g of sugar to 250ml of water.
More sugar, the better the preservation, but it needs an awful lot of diluting down to be drinkable, and dilution works on the taste too, so it can end up too 'thin', iimmc ?
To be honest, if the flowers are flavourful and/or colourful, I think I'd just dry them and use them for tea.
M
Should of added, you can sugar flowers to preserve them too, usually ones like violets.
You can also steep the flowers directly in the sugar syrup, but sometimes that overcooks them and gives an odd taste. I was most disappointed in rose petals done that way.
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Been thinking about this, since my neighbour's camellia is in flower too, and it's grown through into my hedge, and thus available 
Apparently the flowers taste as they smell, are good used just as is in salads, and that the buds can be pickled. Thing is though that much of that information comes from those who grow camellias as teaplants and don't really want the flower buds to develop.
So, not sure tbh.
Have fun playing with them I think
Apparently the flowers taste as they smell, are good used just as is in salads, and that the buds can be pickled. Thing is though that much of that information comes from those who grow camellias as teaplants and don't really want the flower buds to develop.
So, not sure tbh.
Have fun playing with them I think
Beautiful
Is it tasty ? They smell wonderful here.
It has a certain astringency to the back end. Its pretty and colourful but I don;t think its something that will need revisiting. Thing is you don't know if you don't try. Maybe enhanced/improved with some citrus peel.
