Rose Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Gather roses when dry and full-blown.
Remove the leaves from the roses.
Distill
Combine the rose petals with 1 quart of water in a cold still.
Heat slowly to distill the mixture.
Bottle and store
Bottle the distilled rose water.
Cork the bottle after two or three days for use.
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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Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Rose petals
- Supplies the aromatic oils that the distillation carries into the water.
The step that matters
Heat slowly to distill the mixture.. Gentle heat vaporises the fragrant compounds without overheating the petals, which can scorch them and produce off-flavours. Slow heating lets the scent condense into the water cleanly.
“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.
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