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Lavender lemon cake!

Requirements: 100 g self-raising flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 100 grams soft margarine, 100g caster sugar, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons dried lavender flowers, 1 small tablespoon lemon juice, grated lemon peel Sift the flour and baking powder and add the margarine, sugar and eggs . Beat with a mixer. Add the dried lavender flowers, lemon juice and lemon zest and mix for a while. Grease two baking trays for sponge cakes of 18 cm. Lay greaseproof paper, pour the mixture and bake thirty minutes in a preheated oven (160 degrees Celsius). Remove the cake when it has cooled from the tins and spread one with jam and the other with fresh cream. Put these together and sprinkle over icing sugar. (bron: weleda.nl)

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The Unlikely Lavender Queen! Jeannie Ralston

In 1990, Jeannie Ralston was a successful magazine writer and bona fide city girl, the type of woman who

couldn't imagine living on soil not shaded by skyscrapers. By 1994, she had called off an engagement, married Robb, a National Geographic photographer, and was living in Blanco Texas, population 1600.

The Unlikely Lavender Queen is the intimate story of a woman who gives up a lot for the man she loves – her beloved blue state, bagels and all-night bodegas—only to have to wonder: Was it too much? Ralston offers a lively chronicle of her life as a wife, new mother and an urban settler in rural Texas. As she labors to convert a dilapidated barn into a livable home, deal with scorpions and unbearably hot summers, raise two young children while Robb is frequently away on assignment, she realizes her ultimate struggle is to reconcile her life plans and goals with her husband’s without coming out the proverbial loser. And just when it seems like she might be losing that fight—and herself— a little purple bloom changes her life.

For centuries lavender has been a mystical herb, so valuable to ancient Romansthat a bushel would cost nearly a month’s wages. But when Robb returns from a trip to Provence with a plan for growing lavender on their land, Ralston is not convinced—in fact the last thing she needed or wanted was to take up farming on top of everything else. Then, much to her surprise, she slowly but surely falls in love with lavender, and in the course of growing and selling blooms, hosting the public at the farm, and creating lavender products, she discovers a new side of herself. A few short years later, Ralston had built Hill Country Lavender, a thriving commercial enterprise that transforms both her little corner of Texas and her life. (bron: bookbrowse.com)