Recipe: Lovage Spritzers [edit]

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We got the idea for these spritzers after a dinner at Monsoon. One of the salads featured candied lovage - and given how much lovage we have in our garden, we ...

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4 months, 1 week ago

Melissa Peterman

Oh WOW! This looks incredible! Thank you for sharing Jenny!

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Yield: 20 drinks

[edit] Ingredients

1	part sugar
1	part water
8	inch stems of lovage, sliced
	Lemon juice (optional)

[edit] Preparation

Step 1	Dissolve the sugar in the water and cook until clear.
Step 2	Add the fruit to the syrup mixture and cook for 1 - 2 minutes, and then remove from the heat.
Step 3	Steep the fruit in the syrup for an hour.
Step 4	Add a tablespoon of the syrup and fruit and a spritz of lemon juice to a glass of sparkling water and enjoy!

[edit] About Lovage Spritzers

We got the idea for these spritzers after a dinner at Monsoon. One of the salads featured candied lovage - and given how much lovage we have in our garden, we were curious what they were doing with it. We didn't order the salad that night - too much geoduck sashimi already - but I asked the waiter if he could snatch me a little taste so I could figure out what it was. He brought back a tiny bowl of lovage stems that had been soaked in simple syrup.

Our use of lovage has been limited to the leaves in things like stocks and roasted chickens - neither of us had ever thought to use the stems. We went home and made a simple syrup and soaked the stems in the syrup for about an hour (off the heat) and then added the syrup to a little sparkling water. It was cook and refreshing, and a nice change from Doc Brown's Cel-Ray soda!