[Sca-cooks] Flavored vinegar
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Fri Jun 17 22:41:35 PDT 2005
Brighid ni Chiarain reported:
> It says a pound of roses to an arroba of vinegar. The arroba is a
> liquid measure equivalent to about 16 -17 quarts. I don't know if the
> weight of roses should change if one is using dried rather than fresh.
> Incidently, red roses are preferred to white, as they are supposedly
> more aromatic.
Uh oh. Then folks might want to increase the amount of roses they use
if they are using modern hybrid roses. The scent is one of the things
that has reportedly been diminishing in the modern rose hybrids as
other characteristics such as color, appearance, symmetry are chosen
for.
In the Middle East this apparently not true and fragrant roses are
grown there. That is also why much of the rose oil and rose water comes
from there.
Stefan
(And yes, there are files in the Florilegium on roses, rose-oil,
rosewater etc)
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list