[Sca-cooks] Rose Vinegar?

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 30 Mar 2002, at 21:14, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> I was looking over some of the recipes of Ruperto de Nola translated
> by Lady Brighid ni Ciarain in Stefan's Florilegium. I can across the
> followingrecipe (i was searching for garlic recipes - or rather -
> recipes featuring garlic). Then i noticed one of the ingredients was
> ROSE VINEGAR. Anyone know how this was made?

I don't know of any period recipes, offhand.  If you do a search on
"rose vinegar" on Google, various modern recipes come up.  Most
of them involve steeping (or boiling) rose petals in vinegar.  I would
use a white wine vinegar.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net