SC - rosewater

[Christina van Tets]

Hello the list!

In response to Aoife and Balthazar's discussion on making Rosawater, Ly 
Diana wrote:

>     I've seen instructions for making a makeshift "still" for making
>rosewater out of a teakettle and rubber tubing, that condensed the steam
>coming from the teakettle into the tubing fitted over it's spout by running
>it through a pan of ice water.

My usual method (for lavender water, but I intend to try it for rosewater 
shortly) is to pile the flowers in a saucepan, with a small fireproof dish 
in the middle, and put a tight-fitting lid on upside down so the water drips 
into the dish inside the saucepan.  To aid the condensation, I usually 
defrost the fridge at the same time, and use the ice in the hollow of the 
upturned lid.  It's important to collect the melted icewater from the lid 
from time to time, so it doesn't overflow - oh, and as one gentle who tried 
this discovered, not to use a lid which has a pressure valve, because the 
ice water drips through and/or the steam escapes.

Cairistiona
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