SC - Liqueurs

[Jane M Tremaine]

What do they mean by digested your rose leave by the space of three months.

Jana

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> [mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Terri Spencer
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 6:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: SC - Liqueurs
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> Jadwiga wrote:
> 
> > Could you list the references to rosewater made from fair water?
> 
> This is the one I was thinking of:
> 
> To draw both good Rosewater and oyle of Roses together
> 
> After you have digested your Rose leaves by the space of 3 moneths
> ...then distill them with fair water in a Limbeck: draw so long as you
> can find any excellent smell of the Rose, then divide the fattie oyle
> that fleeteth on the top of the Rosewater, and so you have both
> excellent oyle of Roses, and also good Rosewater together...
> 
> From Delightes for Ladies, Sir Hugh Plat, 1609.
> 
> Temair
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