Please do not use rose petals from any bunches of flowers you have received or bought from the supermarket/florist etc, it is highly likely that they have been sprayed with pesticides or other chemicals to keep them looking good and therefore are not the kind of thing you want to be consuming.
Use only rose petals that you know haven’t been sprayed, perhaps from your own garden. To make your own rose flavoured sugar you will need:
1 cup of white sugar
2 cups of fresh, fragrant rose petals
Shred or mince the petals. Add to the sugar in a mortar and pestle and pound together.
Place the mixture into a glass jar for 1 week. Sift out the petal pieces if you wish and store in an airtight container.
You can use the flavoured sugar in baking or drinks where you would like a subtle rose flavour, or sprinkle on fruit salad or pancakes.
Alternatively, you can buy Organic Fairtrade Rose flavoured Sugar from Steenbergs.
If you have any favourite ways of using roses, feel free to leave a comment below.
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Hi Maddie
I hadn’t thought of making rose sugar, I do make lavender sugar and rose geranium leaf sugar for cake making. I’ll give your rose water recipe a go to, I made rose petal vinegar last week (details on my blog) its turned ever such a pretty colour, if I can find enough wild rose petals I’ll be making some rose petal wine with them. So many uses for the rose, and we haven’t touched on the homemade cosmetics yet!
Debs
Hi Debs
Thanks for the the other ideas for using roses. Rose petal wine sounds lovely, does it taste good?
Madeleine
Great idea. I have used rose petals the same way in corn starch for a lightly rose scented body powder.
This is a neat idea! Thanks for sharing.
A wonderful idea — and thanks for sharing the “recipe”.
sounds yummy. I had rose flavored gelato in Italy years ago, and it was to die for! Now if I only had a good gelato recipe……. I think I”ll try the sugar, though!
I tried it, and the sugar and roses smelled bad, so I threw it out. Do you have any suggestions? Do you think it would work if I put it in the frig?
Thank you all for your comments.
Muum - Sorry to hear it didn’t work out, the above method works for me and is very quick and easy but it needs to be stored in a cool dark place and the jar must be absolutely dry inside but there is another method that is more reliable which is to place the petals and sugar into an electric grinder or use a mortar and pestle to grind them together then put the damp sugar onto greaseproof paper or foil on a baking tray and dry it in the oven on a very low temperature - keep checking it. Once the petals and sugar are dry and crumbly, crumble it up into a glass jar, label and seal. Hope that helps
ah! I ‘ll try that next time! thanks. We are zone 5 in the USA (w/ good snow cover and usual min. winter temps of -10 F or warmer, if that helps with your rose question, I think you would be alright, but I am guessing!