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<\/a>A few weeks ago the whole town was perfumed with lilacs.\u00a0 The\u00a0purple and white\u00a0flowers were\u00a0blooming all around and I wondered if they were at all edible.\u00a0 It turns out they are!\u00a0 I found some recipes to make lilac jelly, lilac scones and bread.\u00a0 A few sites even suggested burying some flowers in sugar to get lilac scented sugar.\u00a0 I decided to make some jelly but there was just one little problem, I didn’t have any lilacs growing in my yard.\u00a0 I\u00a0thought about stealing\u00a0some flowers\u00a0when Ollie dog and I went out on a walk but I felt really really guilty.\u00a0 They were everywhere.\u00a0 People wouldn’t miss a few blooms I thought.\u00a0 Next I thought I should just ask my neighbor for some because their lilac bush was hanging over my fence but I could not remember their name!\u00a0 Then I\u00a0called a few\u00a0friends.\u00a0 It turned out that most of them\u00a0do not have lilacs except for C and B.\u00a0 B went a little crazy and brought me a huge bag of the stuff.\u00a0 I guess I\u00a0finally got what I wanted.\u00a0 So let me tell you how to make lilac jelly.<\/p>\n
First, you want to soak the blooms in water to clean.\u00a0 Pick out the flowers\u00a0then place them in jars.\u00a0 Add boiling water into the jars, cover, and let it sit overnight.\u00a0 Strain\u00a0and cook the liquid with sugar and pectin and place into sterilized jars.\u00a0 They jelly should be set by the next day.<\/p>\n I was excited to have my first taste of lilac jelly.\u00a0 I took a little spoonful then timidly\u00a0put it in my mouth.\u00a0 Blegh!!!\u00a0 It was so disgusting and I was\u00a0a bit upset because I had\u00a0made 8 jars of it.\u00a0 Would you like one?\u00a0 Lesson of the day, just because something is edible it doesn’t mean you should eat it!\u00a0 Apparently, Michael Ruhlman likes the stuff<\/a>.\u00a0 He’s no expert.\u00a0 The best thing to do with lilacs is to leave them alone or place them in a vase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago the whole town was perfumed with lilacs.\u00a0 The\u00a0purple and white\u00a0flowers were\u00a0blooming all around and I wondered if they were at all edible.\u00a0 It turns out they are!\u00a0 I found some recipes to make lilac jelly, lilac scones and bread.\u00a0 A few sites even suggested burying some flowers in sugar to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[390,389,388],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-flowers","tag-lilac-jelly","tag-lilacs","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lilacs.jpeg\" "\\"lilacs\\"")
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