Homemade Candied Violets Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What do candied violets taste like? ›

Candied violets taste sweet with a mild floral taste. Sweet violets (Viola odorata) will have a stronger floral scent and taste.

Sunlight causes the beautiful color to fade so be sure to keep violet sugar in a cool dark spot. The color does dull down after about a year–just in time to make a new batch when violets are in season again!

Drying violets is super easy! Wash them using the method above, and then lay them on a towel over a drying rack and set them in a dry place for 4-7 days. Once they are fully dry, place them in an airtight container, like these cute jelly jars, and store in a dark cupboard.

The flowers, leaves and stems can all be eaten and used as medicine, the rhizomes (roots) have also been used, but very cautiously and only in small amounts. I choose to leave the roots alone for this reason and also to keep the life cycle of the plant intact.

Quality ingredients: Guittard chocolate, as a base, the best nuts (many peanut-based candies were out-of-stock this season, due to shortages of high-quality peanuts) and real butter/cream/cane sugar.

Indeed, you can! Violets, both the leaves and flowers, contain high amounts of vitamin C and vitamin A. The edible violet plant can be used to make syrups, brew teas, and in baked desserts. Flowers can be added to salads and soups as garnish.

The sweets are hard, biconcave disc-shaped sweets, similar to the Fizzers product from the same company but without their fizziness. Swizzels Matlow have also released a line of Giant Parma Violets. Ingredients include sugar, stearic acid, modified starch, glucose syrup, and anthocyanin.

If you've taken a long summer vacation from baking, you might be wondering if your sugar has gone bad while you've been off. The good news: Sugar doesn't really expire. (Unlike some other baking ingredients, like flours!)

Yes, Violets Are Edible

As with many of our spring herbs, she arrives right when needed. Violets are found all over North America. This perennial herb loves to grow in hedgerows, fields, gardens, and woodland edges.

What do violets symbolize? ›

The violet can signify "Modesty" and "Humility" and is often looked upon as a sign of innocence. Bunches of violets were hence used as gifts for newlyweds. Violets are symbolic of faith, mystical awareness, inspiration, spiritual passion, profuseness and sovereignty.

Early European recipes made syrup of the blossoms and traditionally it was used as a laxative for infants and children (Grieve, 1996). Sweet violet, also, has a long history of use as a cough remedy, especially bronchitis, and functions as an expectorant, as well as an anti-inflammatory (Hoffman, 2003).

Sweet Violet is native to Europe. It has edible flowers and also a sweet, perfumed flavor.

I'll save you a little reading here and tell you that while, sure, both violet leaves and flowers are edible, but the part of the plant you really want to get to know are the heart-shaped leaves, which you can cook like any other leafy green.

The most distinguishing feature of common and wild violets are the pretty, edible flowers. The nodding flowers are held up on a slender stem (a leafless stalk) and have five uneven petals.

Making Violet Vinegar

Infusing wild violets in vinegar is the best way to extract the medicinal properties. Using white vinegar will give the extraction a lovely purple color. For an added boost, use apple cider vinegar. Pinch off the violet stems and clean the leaves and flowers thoroughly.