Name: Rose Water
Ingredients: 8 drops of oil of rose; 20 grains of carbonate of magnesium; water (to make 1 pint)

Rose Water

Ingredients

8 drops of oil of rose
20 grains of carbonate of magnesium
water (to make 1 pint)

Directions

In a mortar, rub the oil of rose with the carbonate of magnesium.
Slowly add water to the mixture until you reach a total of 1 pint.
Filter the mixture before use.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Oil of rose: Provides the rose aroma that flavors the water.
Carbonate of magnesium: Helps the oil disperse evenly into the water by rubbing it in.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.