Ingredients

• petals from lemon tree flowers (if not available you could use petals from a bitter / Seville orange tree)
• lemon juice
• sugar (3 times the weight of the petals)
• water

Instructions

• Clean petals from any stamens (they would paint the petals yellow).
• Rinse the petals under running water.
• Boil some water and put the petals in the boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
• Rinse the petals and put them in a jar with lemon juice (can be slightly diluted with some water).
• Leave for 2 hours.
• Boil the sugar with a few spoonfuls of water for 10 minutes, until you get a light syrup.
• Rinse the petals from the lemon juice and put them in the syrup. Boil for 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat, squeeze some lemon juice, stir and leave aside to cool before placing in jar.