

 
We posted about Backhousia on our Facebook page and got heaps of comments and recommendations for using it in the home.It was like My Kitchen Rules meets Better Homes & Gardens! We had so many good ideas, in fact, that there wasn't enough room for them all on the plant product page - we had to make this special post to fit them all on! Thank you to everyone who gave suggestions and tips!
Here's how you can use lemon myrtle - and if you have any ideas we haven't listed here, let us know!
 

For eating
- Kathleen likes to use it to replace lemon grass in recipes : it has a "nicer flavour, easier to use, always available in my back garden"
- Robyn adds it instead of bay leaf in casseroles
- Jeannie recommends adding a couple of leaves to pumpkin soup
- Maureen dries her leaves and uses it in breadcrumb coatings for chicken, fish, lamb & steak : "it's amazing with a lemon flavour"
- We have also seen it used in restaurants in tempura batter, and rubbed onto chicken skin to impart a citrussy flavour
- High end Melbourne bushtucker eatery Attica adds it in many dishes, including wrapping a whiting in paperbark and lemon myrtle; and combining it with foraged mushrooms

- Judy remembers the "best ice cream I have ever tasted was a lemon myrtle sorbet"
- Sue cuts young leaves very finely and adds them to her shortbread biscuits
- Keith tells us it "makes very nice yogurt"
- Ally makes lemon myrtle macadamia muffins, and
- Jamieanne makes lemon myrtle coconut cupcakes
- Robyn has a recipe for lemon myrtle cheesecake with a macadamia nut base "DELICIOUS"
- Maroochydore Market Bistro served Hayden a lemon myrtle white chocolate mascarpone gateau
- Maureen made lemon myrtle chocolate for Christmas pressies "& it had an amazing after taste kick!"
 
Images : coconut cupcake, top left ; white chocolate gateau, bottom left

For drinking
- Sheree uses lemon myrtle in her recipe to make gin, and Meredith adds it to gin cocktails
- Christine creates a syrup for toppings and in cocktails from it, and says it's "great in cookies"
- Noma's feted popup restaurant in Sydney served a green tomato-lemon myrtle cocktail
- and there is a commercial lemon myrtle weisbier and several brands of herbal tea available
- CR Strebor makes a tisane - that's a posh herbal tea - from lemon myrtle, calendula flower, and licorice root for sweetness
- Adrienne says she makes tea from her lemon myrtle tree - to drink, "but also to wash my floors with"
 
Images : weisbier, top left ; green tomato cocktail, bottom right ; tisane, bottom left

And for health & beauty :
- Susan makes soaps and face cream from her lemon myrtle trees
- Anon uses lemon myrtle as a hair rinse : "steep leaves in hot water let it cool when rinse through hair after shower" ; it's good for a dog rinse too!
- Brett advises crushing the leaves and rubbing them on your skin as "a great mozzie repellent that actually works"
- Meredith adds branches to the fire pit - "smells amazing and keeps the mozzies away"
- Robyn's husband David "enjoys mowing beneath the trees because of the beautiful aroma" - anything that makes mowing more enjoyable has to be a plus in our book!
- it's Catherine's "favourite essential oil plant"
- and Judy simply states "products from lemon myrtle are wonderful". We agree!