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Rose Water Flavouring for Desserts: Where to Buy It

Rose water is commonly known as a cosmetic product with various benefits, but food-grade rose-water flavouring also exists and is widely used in Middle Eastern pastry. For obvious reasons, these are 2 different products and must not be used interchangeably […]

Food Rose aroma
From the recipe book Tutto Pasticceria
Reading3 min
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Published16/02/2018
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Therose water  It is commonly known as cosmetic and its great benefits, but there is also the essence of rose water for food use (aromatic aroma), which is widely used in the Middle Eastern pastry.

Of course, for obvious reasons, they are 2 different products among themselves that can not be used to perform functions other than those for which they were produced.

 

How to extract the essence of rose water for food use?Food Rose aroma

Take untreated roses, clean the petals for good and wash them with cold water.

Then dry them gently to prevent them from being burned and put them in a jar

Pour in the jar of distilled food water, the proportion will be about 1 litre of water every 200gr of petals.

At this point put the jar in the sun for 7 days stirring occasionally

Spending the days will be nothing but filtering water and your food rose water is ready

Rose water for sweets where you buy?

As you can see, it is a long and very expensive procedure, you can buy the aroma with rose water directly in our online shop.

The water of roses in pastry is used, it is possible to use in cookies, in cakes, in any preparation.

But it is also possible to use it to create creams, soaps, cosmetics and is to glycol base.

Recipe with rose water essence: sweet Persia Love Cake

Ingredients

For the cake:

  • 250ml of natural yogurt;
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
  • 6 eggs;
  • 220 gr raw sugar;
  • 150 gr almond flour;
  • 250 gr of semolina;
  • 6 cardamom berries;
  • 60 gr of chopped pistachios;
  • 1 pinch of saffron;
  • 2 tablespoons of rose water essence;
  • 100 ml of almond milk;
  • orange peel grated;

For syrup:

Proceedings

Take and crush the cardamom berries and place them in a pot with saffron and milk and heat a few minutes.

Apart from boiling eggs with sugar until you get a homogeneous dough, then add yogurt, almond flour, semolina, yeast and mix well.

Now we can add the previously heated compound of cardamom, the chopped orange peel, pistachios and finally the essence of rose water.

Then mix with an electric shocker until you get a homogeneous consistency.

Pour the mixture into a 24 cm tortier and bake in a preheated oven at 180° for about 45 minutes.

Now we prepare the syrup.

We prefer all ingredients and put them in a pot and bring to boiling, let it boil for about 5 minutes until the mixture is thickened.

When the cake is ready with the help of a brush of the kitchen brush the cake with syrup and the cake is ready.

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