Chamomile Cocktails + Flower Ice
TO MAKE THE CHAMOMILE SYRUP
1/2 cup of dried or fresh Chamomile flowers or two Chamomile teabags
½ cup of honey
1 cup of water
Place all the ingredients into a small pot over a low heat. Bring to the boil and then gently simmer for about 15 mins. Remove from heat and strain through a sieve, squeezing the syrup out of the plants/teabag with a spoon against the sieve and decant into a sterilized bottle.
TO MAKE THE COCKTAIL
3 tbs Chamomile syrup 1/3 cup of sparkling wine Good quality tonic water 1 x Lime
Pour the syrup and sparkling wine into a glass, top with tonic, add a squeeze of lime and pop in a few flower ice cubes.