Orange flower water: Legend and tradition
It is said that the king of Spain received a plant of orange flowers, jealous never allowed anyone to touch it or approach it.
So one day an ambassador asked the gardener to give him a branch of this splednida plant, in exchange for gold coins.
The gardener uses the coins to marry the daughter who adores her hair with a twig of this plant.
Another legend even older tells that in a wonderful and secret island there was a garden where the three daughters of Atlas and Night cared and guarded a tree of orange with mysterious fruit and fragrant flowers.
Or even in a paradise there was a garden where three daughters of Atlas and Night kept a garden tree from the wonderful fruit.
From all these legends the spouses gave the flowers of orange to his bride as a wish for prosperity for this still today this flower is associated with the wedding.
Orange can be cultivated in any region of Italy does not fear cold even if it is a plant from Mediterranean tastes, if you have a tree of oranges in your garden you cannot fail to try in its preparation, the perfume will inebriate your house.
How do you prepare water for orange flowers?
If you have the chance to have a nice orange tree also called Sicilian orange, then you can prepare the scented water for orange flowers.
Original Sicilian Dosi and Recipe
200 gr orange flowers (fresh raisins)
100 g of sugar (wells with cane or semolate)
3 teaspoons of sodium bicarbonate
2 cups of water
Dip orange flowers in a bowl with cold water and bicarbonate (there is no recommended dose of water because it must cover the flowers completely).
Leave them in the air for 10 minutes.
Spend time draining flowers and putting them in a pot with 2 cups of water and sugar, it leads to boiling all.
When the mixture is cold, put the liquid obtained in a container and store it in the fridge.
The difference between water to orange flowers and orange blossoms Aroma?
Where can I buy water to orange flowers?
Theorange flowers water is much less concentrated than aroma, so if you want to prepare a very tasty dessert, that has an intense flavor of water to the flowers use our sweet Aromi.
Love is in practice dark bottle that preserves all the flavor.
You can choose from a lot of tastes, our aromas are of great quality, they are produced by Geinectar of Aromitalia.
What can I prepare with the aroma for desserts?
- Neapolitan Pastiera is definitely perfect with the addition of the essence to orange flowers.
- Stools, flavoured cakes, biscuits, creams.
- Broiled straws with cream and aroma orange flowers.
- Rice bowl
- Lenten Pasticciotti
- Cassata
- Recipe of hazelnut cookies and aroma
The recommended dose for adding water to orange blossoms in the preparations is 1: 400.
