SC - another - Rose water question
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 16 08:27:52 PDT 1999
When the
>> roses come out, should I just collect the petals and but them in a
jar of
>> rose water?
>> Anybody ever make their own rose water!
>
>Not REAL rose water of course, because it's distilled, and of course
here in
>the US that's a no no.
Why a no no to distill water, as opposed to distilling alcohol?
>Of course I would never do such a thing. Hypothetically of course...
you
>could, if the law allowed... put the water over very low heat, maybe
in say,
>a pressure cooker not locked down, and cool the vapors that come out
the vent
>with copper tubeing.
This sounds like too much work. All the recipes I've seen (near
medieval and modern) involve stuffing petals into water, boiling,
cooling, repeating, adding more petals as available, boiling, cooling,
repeating. Eventually, strain, boil and bottle it up. Alternative to
boiling are recipes which have the petals and water slurry kept gently
warm for long periods, adding petals and eventually straining,
boiling, bottling.
The Spurling book re: Fettiplace has a set of instructions or a
description, that's the only sure thing I can direct you to at the
moment. Oh, and the Florilegum has a large file on the topic of what
to do with flowers.
Bonne
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