How to Crystallise Flowers and Leaves

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Crystallised flowers and leaves make lovely decorations for deserts, cakes and summer drinks and punches. Making your own is very simple:

Pick leaves or flowers on a dry, sunny day.
Remove stalks.
Lightly beat an egg white, until it is foamy.
Dip each leaf or flower into the egg white to coat, then dip into caster sugar.
Place on a sheet of greaseproof paper and cover lightly with another sheet.
Place in a dry airing cupboard or very low oven with the door left ajar.
When completely dry store in an airtight container.

Leaves to crystallise

Bergamot, lemon balm, lemon verbena, mints

Flowers to crystallise

Borage, rose, rosemary, sage

[Jeni Treehugger]

This is such a great idea!!!
Thanks for posting that.
I'm gonna give this a try as the possibilities are endless.
I'll have to look into which Flowers are edible though, there's a lot of them I know.