Conserve of Roses

Ingredients

• twelve pounds of the best lump or Kitchin Sugar
• thirty Ounces of your Red-Roses
• two Limons

Method

1. 1

   Clarify the sugar with egg whites using spring water.

2. 2

   Boil it to a syrup, then add the rose leaves after half boiled.

3. 3

   Beat the roses in a mortar, adding the juice of the lemons.

4. 4

   Combine the roses with the syrup, stirring well.

5. 5

   Boil gently, skimming off the scum.

6. 6

   After about a quarter of an hour, check the consistency and then pot it, leaving uncovered for 10-12 days in the sun to form a candy crust.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 149. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Conserve of Roses, besides being good for Colds and Coughs, and for the Lunges,is exceeding good for sharpness and heat of Urine, and soreness of the bladder, eaten much by it self, or drunk with Milk, or distilled water of Mallows,and Plantaine, or of Milk. ANOTHER CONSERVE OF ROSES Doctor Bacon related to me, that Mr. Minito the Roman Apothecary, made him some conserve of Roses, in this manner. He took twelve pounds (of sixteen Ounces to the pound) of the best lump or Kitchin Sugar,and clarified it very well with whites of Eggs, using Spring- water in doing this. He made his reckoning, that his twelve pound of Sugar, came to be but nine pound, when all the scum was taken away, and the Sugar perfectly clarified. Boil it then to a Syrup, and when it is about half boiled, go roundly about your Rose-leaves. They must be picked and the white nails cut off before-hand; but begin not to beat them before your Syrup is half boiled. Then put thirty Ounces (which is two 26o SIR KENELMS DIGBIS pound and an half of Roses to every pound of such Sugar) of your Red-Roses intothe Mortar, and beat them well, squeesing into them, as you beat them, some of the subtilest and best part (which comes out first) of about two Limons

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.