🪻This enchanting Provence-inspired lavender liqueur is sweet and fragrant. With lavender blooms (fresh from your garden and/or dried), vanilla bean, & lemon zest. It's summer in a bottle, & so easy!
You don’t say how alcoholic it is, I confess I haven’t checked the full recipe. I had Lavender ice cream once in Avignon, it’s an acquired taste I would think, nice but not as good as liquorice.
A friend in Chaumont, near Dijon used to make Mirabelle liqueur to a recipe his mother had taught him. It was roughly 70% proof, or the stuff the local government checked was. I have a feeling some of may have been more!
Thanks, Murray. I mention in the recipe that it’s 80 proof, 40% ABV. I have several botanical homemade liqueurs steeping at the moment. I haven’t done mirabelle, but I have done a cherry plum one and 6 variations of an umeshu (Japanese ume plum) one. And many others that are either ready or on their way. I have a few of them in the blog already. And I’m really looking forward to posting about more of them!
My husband is also from Burgundy, like your friend. His uncle has made given us several homemade versions of l’eau de vie over the years, including both mirabelle and pear. That stuff is really, really strong!
And Avignon is such a nice town. I once took a 23-hour (each way) train trip to have a long weekend there when I was working in Austria. It was worth it! It’s great to hear about your travels. Thanks for sharing. ❤️
You don’t say how alcoholic it is, I confess I haven’t checked the full recipe. I had Lavender ice cream once in Avignon, it’s an acquired taste I would think, nice but not as good as liquorice.
A friend in Chaumont, near Dijon used to make Mirabelle liqueur to a recipe his mother had taught him. It was roughly 70% proof, or the stuff the local government checked was. I have a feeling some of may have been more!
Thanks, Murray. I mention in the recipe that it’s 80 proof, 40% ABV. I have several botanical homemade liqueurs steeping at the moment. I haven’t done mirabelle, but I have done a cherry plum one and 6 variations of an umeshu (Japanese ume plum) one. And many others that are either ready or on their way. I have a few of them in the blog already. And I’m really looking forward to posting about more of them!
My husband is also from Burgundy, like your friend. His uncle has made given us several homemade versions of l’eau de vie over the years, including both mirabelle and pear. That stuff is really, really strong!
And Avignon is such a nice town. I once took a 23-hour (each way) train trip to have a long weekend there when I was working in Austria. It was worth it! It’s great to hear about your travels. Thanks for sharing. ❤️