Take one pound of Roses (you can use rose flower or wild rose buds as its more practical and make sure of course you have not use chemicals on these roses while growing them); three pound of Sugar, one pint of
Rose water or just a little more proportion of roses to sugar if you do not have rose water. Or if you do not have rose water you can create some from rose tea. From this you will make Rose Syrup. Sugar preserves roses, its the basic method of any countryside syrup or preserve.
From Polish rose syrup to Polish preserves
When your syrup is cold, then take your Rose leaves or rose fruit,put them into the cold Syrup, then cover them, and set them on a low heat, I use a gas stove but it does not really matter for about two or three hours, then while they are hot put them into pots or glasses for your use. You need to add enough fruit or rose flower to make it really thick just pack it in. In the Polish countryside people do it for a few days, but no one really has time now. You should do this until it is like gum almost, really think. If you have any more ideas on Polish rose preserve, write me.
Living in Poland and loving Polish rose preserve
I love Polish rose preserves. Right now they cost about 10 pln a jar, however, for me this is my favorate preserve. I am an American living in Poland and I am basically here just for the recipes. Not really, but when you find things like fresh Polish rose preserves in the market it is a great incentive. There are rose flower and rose bud preserves. I prefer the rose flower preserves but both are good. In Poland there are wild roses everwhere, even in the park behind my flat. The recipe for Polish rose preserves can really be used for any flower preserve.
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I was thinking of using green tea as the base for preserves. Opinion? I think that the recipe above is very interesting. I remember my Grandmother, who was reared in Alabama, making rose water. I may try to do this! Thanks. Cary
I think that is a very interesting idea. I am starting to experiment more and more.
I love rose preserve, and my daughter’s favorite Torte is with that very flavor of preserve. Here in the US it is not that readily available,so I use raspberry preserve, but occasionally I do find it. If you are interested in checking out the recipe, here it is:
suburbangrandma.com/recipes/raspberry-torte-recipe/
You will love it with the rose preserve.
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