Conserve of Roses boiled

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (5)
  1. Procure some red roses, take off all the whites at the bottom, or elsewhere.
  2. Take three times the weight of them in sugar.
  3. Put to a pint of rose water into a pan; skim it well, then your roses a little before you put them into water; cover them, and boil the leaves tender in the water.
  4. When they are tender, put in your sugar; keep them stirring, lest they burn when they are tender; and the syrup be consumed.
  5. Put them up, and so keep them for your use.
Original Text
Conserve of Roses boiled. Procure some red roses, take off all the whites at the bottom, or elsewhere, take three times the weight of them in sugar, put to a pint of rose water into a pan; skim it well, then your roses a little before you put them into water; cover them, and boil the leaves tender in the water; and when they are tender, put in your sugar; keep them stirring, lest they burn when they are tender; and the syrup be consumed. Put them up, and so keep them for your use.
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