Lavender Soda - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup lavender flowers
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons chopped crystallized ginger
2 cups water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
soda water
1 lime

Preparation

Bring to a boil sugar, water, lavender and ginger. Lower to a simmer and cook down for 20 minutes to 30 minutes, or until it begins to get a bit syrupy.
Cool and strain, add vanilla.
You may add a bit of violet or blue dye if you wish.
Mix 1 to 3 lavender syrup to soda water over ice in highball glass.
Garnish with lime and a few lavender flowers.