Borage

Only good fresh; its flavor vanishes as it dries.

Use the leaves wherever you want a cucumber flavor - fish sauces or white aspics.

It is traditional in some fruit punches and the choice blue star-like blooms are beautiful floated in punches and lemonades or used in food garnishes.

Young borage can be cooked like spinach.

Borago officinalis, which self-seeds, grows to 2-1/2 feet even in poor soil.

RECIPE:

Fruit Punch

Boil for 10 minutes:
1-1/4 Cups sugar
1-1/4 cups water

Add:
2-1/2 cups strong hot tea

Cool the mixture. Add:
1 cup crushed pineapple
2-1/2 cups strawberry juice (or other non-citrus fruit juice)
Juice of 6 lemons
Juice of 7 oranges

Chill for 1 hour. Add sufficient water to make 4 quarts.

Immediately before serving add:
1 quart carbonated water

Pour over ice in a punch bowl.

Add Borage flowers as a garnish.

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