Post #759244 by PalmtreePat on Wed, Feb 17, 2016 7:21 AM

On 2016-02-16 21:35, mikehooker wrote:
Anyone else have a hibiscus grenadine recipe they wanna share? Lei Low in Houston gave me a bottle of theirs and it was floral and delicious. Makes me never wanna make the typical Pom juice/sugar kind ever again. Curious what variations are out there.

I've started making mine with about 1/3 of the sugar substituted for brown sugar after spotting a product that touted it's use of brown sugar as a selling point. Makes it "heavier" for lack of a better word, which is good for drinks where you're doling it out in teaspoons or quarter ounces. I also always use 1 ounce of brandy per 10 ounces of syrup as the preservative and season it with 4 drops of orange flower water.

Also for those of us living near Sprout's markets, they sell whole dried hibiscus there at a much more reasonable price than other grocers, and mexican markets often sell teabags of crushed up flowers in the same section that they stock yerba buena and such.