[Sca-cooks] herbs

[James Prescott]

There is rose water, and there is "please dilute by a factor of 50" rose 
water.  Rose Water Concentrate.

I once had a bite of a dish that someone had made using the number of 
teaspoons (or tablespoons) mentioned in a recipe which was clearly 
intended for use with rose water, except this person had a bottle of the 
concentrated stuff.  Yep, it most definitely tasted extremely soapy.


Thorvald


On 2013-01-11 17:46, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> I have read in many SCA messages from the past that a lot of people seemed to think rose water tasted "soapy".

As someone with a long exposure to rose water in food, beginning in the 
late 1960s (i didn't join the SCA until

1999), i have never found it to taste soapy... unless i was using rose 
water soap.