Here's how to do it right

Why dry lilac blossoms? Uses

First of all, an important note: lilacs smell wonderfully sweet, but they taste good very bitter. In addition, the flowers as well as the leaves are considered to be slightly poisonousWhich is why you don't use them for decorating dishes, teas, lilac sugar or the like. ä. should use. Lilacberry juice and lilac blossom tea consists of the fruits or Blossoms of the black elder, which is also known as "lilac", especially in northern Germany. For this reason, there is often confusion here, which leads to the typical lilac recipes on various websites. However, there are other wonderful uses for dried lilac flowers.

Fragrant potpourri

For example, you can use the dried flowers of lilacs, roses and other aromatic plants Put together a wonderful potpourri, which a room (for example the bathroom) or the linen cupboard scented. In addition to flowers, spices, bark, woods or aromatic leaves can also be used. Dried lilac blossoms go very well with these components:

• Rose petals
• Jasmine flowers
• Violet root
• Violet flowers
• Myrtle leaves
• cedar
• sandalwood

The individual components must be dried well and then crushed. Keep the fragrance mixture in a linen bag, which is tied with a string.

Make bath balls yourself

Homemade bath balls can also be scented with dried lilac blossoms.

Ingredients:

250 grams of baking soda (no baking powder!)
125 grams of citric acid
60 grams of cornstarch
60 grams of coconut oil or another vegetable fat
dried lilac blossoms, additional scented blossoms on request
possibly lilac essential oil

That's how it's done:

• Mix the baking soda, citric acid and cornstarch in a bowl
• Mix in the flowers
• Mix the melted fat with the lilac oil
• Slowly add the fat to the dry ingredients (teaspoon by teaspoon) and mix
• Shape balls and put them in the refrigerator for a few hours
• Dry the bath balls for a few days, pack them and give them away

Drying lilac blossoms - that's how it works

Lilac blossoms can be dried in a very simple way: on a dry day (it must not have rained!), Collect suitable flower panicles as early as possible in the morning. Then pluck the small flowers off and spread them out on a dry tea towel. Dry them in a dark and warm place for a few days. Then fill them into small jars with screw caps and they will last longer.