Name: Otto of Roses
Ingredients: large glazed earthen or stone jar; clean wooden cask; leaves of roses (well picked, free from seeds and stalks); pure spring water

Otto of Roses

Ingredients

large glazed earthen or stone jar
clean wooden cask
leaves of roses (well picked, free from seeds and stalks)
pure spring water

Directions

Fill the jar or cask with the leaves of the roses.
Pour enough pure spring water to cover the leaves.
Set the vessel aside to allow the mixture to infuse.

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.