Love potions often feature in old stories and myths usually, ones that don't end well.
In the medieval story of Tristan and Isolde, for example, the pair drink a love potion by mistake and fall in love, but Isolde is already engaged and has to go ahead with the marriage.She and Tristan can't help but love each other because of the potion: eventually they bother die of a broke heart.
If that doesn't put off, here's recipe for your own love potion -it really does work.
Well, even if it doesn't, I tastes nice....
Passion potion
#Ingredients (for two glasses)
- 2posh glasses (ask first!)
Small amounts of runny honey and sugar on suparata saucers
About 200ml of passion fruit juice
About 100ml of lemonade
Fresh mind
A lemonade
Minte level and or strawberries and or rasberris
To decorate
Cocktail sticks
Post ice cubes
*To make the potion
1 Dip the rim of each glasses intors theory l,then din it intors the sugar
Your glasses are now sugar -foster
2 Put half the passion fruit juice intors each glasses
3Finely chop some mint leaves -about half a teaspoonful and add it to the fruit juice in each glass
4 Finely chop some lemon rind about half and teaspoonful and add it to the fruit juice in each glass.Make sure your lemon isn't the waxed kind, and that its skin is clearer.
5 Squeeze the juice of half the lemon and divide it between the glasses
6 Top up with lemonade, being careful to leave room in the glass for decoration and ice cubes.
To decorate
Here are a few ideas
Float some nice looking mint leaves on Top of the potion
Cut a couple of strawberries or rasberries down the midlle and push them on to the rims of the glasses
Put some fruit on Cocktail sticks and arrange them across the top of each glass
Use a potato peeler to cut a spiral of lemon peel and arrange that over the size of the glass
To make posh ice cubes
1Half fill an ice cubes tray with water and float a slice of strawberry, a whole rasberry or a mint leaf in each compartment
2Put it in the freezer and wait until the ice is solid
3Fill the tray to the Top with water and return it to the freezer
4When the ice is ready, you'ill have really pretty ice cubes with strawbery or rasbery or mint leaf floating in the midlle.
You could also pink ice cubes:fill your ice cubes tray with a mixture of half mixture of half cranberry juice and half water.
