I’ve written already something about chive flowers not long ago. Today I’d like to show you, what I have done with the rest of them, because they were just too beautiful to let them go to waste!

Did you know you can make chive flower scented vinegar? I love to add herbs and spices to the vinegar I use for my salad dressing. Fresh basil, oregano and rosemary, for example, make an exquisite addition to the white wine vinegar. All you have to do is wash the herbs thoroughly as well as dry them well, place them into the jar, pour vinegar over them and keep the jar on a sunny window or at least in a warm place (e.g. kitchen, close to the stove). I’ve seen some people even keep their jars on the window sill outside -in the warm part of the year, of course- which is a good idea, too.

So here’s how to make your own chive flower vinegar – in pictures:

Place the washed and dried chive flowers into a tall jar (mine was of 1l) and fill it up with good quality white wine vinegar

Place the jar on a sunny window sill for 2 weeks

After 2 weeks, the flowers will have "lent" most of their color to the vinegar

Filter the vinegar and decant into prepared cleaned bottle(s)

I think it would make a lovely home made present, wouldn’t it?