[Sca-cooks] Recipes with roses?

[Elaine Koogler]

Here are a couple of recipes that are very late period, but contain
rosewater...and, I think, are very tasty:

Shellbread:

1/2 cup unbleached flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. ground anise seed
3 egg yolks
1 egg white
2 tbsp. whipping cream
2 tsp. rose water
1 tbsp. grated fresh lemon rind
1 drop essence of musk
2 tbsp. unsalted butter
The Icing:

3 tbsp. confectioners' sugar                                      1 1/2
tbsp. rose water

 Sift together flour, sugar and anise seed.  Beat the eggs, cream, rose
water, lemon rind and musk together, until blended.  Fold in the flour
mixture a tablespoon at a time.

 Butter a madelaine tin with the unsalted butter and dust lightly with
flour.  Fill each depression half-full with the batter and bake in a 350°
oven from 12 - 15 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges.  Gently
loosen the edges with the tip of a paring knife and turn them out, ridged
side up, on a wire cooling rack.

 An hour before serving, mix the sugar and rose water together for the icing
and brush the ridged sides of the cakes with it.  Return the cakes to a 350°
oven just long enough to glaze.