Fireweed Juice and Fireweed Syrup

I’ll keep this post short and sweet. These recipes can be used to make my Fireweed Lemonade recipe, or the syrup can be drizzled on some ice cream or however else you would use some really sugary floral syrup.

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Fireweed Juice and Fireweed Syrup

Ingredients

Fireweed Juice

• 1½ cups water
• 1 cup fireweed flowers tightly packed

Fireweed Syrup

• 1 cup fireweed juice
• 2 cups sugar

Instructions

Fireweed Juice

• 1. Rinse and drain the fireweed flowers. Add to a pot with the water and simmer this mixture until the color has been removed from the flowers.
• 2. Drain the flower and water mixture in cheesecloth in a strainer and bowl. I like to wait until this has cooled before wringing out the excess fluid. After this, there should be around 1 cup of this juice.

Fireweed Syrup

• 1. Place the fireweed juice and sugar into a pot. Bring this to a slow boil until the sugar has dissolved. Pour into desired container(s).