Rofe Wafer
Ingredients
Directions
Gather dry, fully bloomed rose leaves.
Place the leaves in a cold still and add 1 quart of water.
Make a low fire under the still for gradual distillation.
Bottle the distilled liquid after a few days and cork it for 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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