Lucullian delights
How interesting that you can make rose sugar like that (making a syrup and then pulverising it). I would have thought you just mix the leaves with sugar, like you make vanilla sugar!
I'll make sure to have some pretty and aromatic rose bushes in my (future) garden, too!!
it's a lovely idea!
Oh I bet that smelled so good!
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I am so jealous that your roses are out ... here they are still a long way off - but that means I'm enjoying the tulips at the moment!
Joanna
Nicely rescued! I never would have thought to try and use the syrup in this way! I am utterly jealous of your rose sugar, unfortunately I don't have enough roses to give me a bounty of perfumed petals 
Oh my gosh! This is soooo sweet. And something I must try one day.
I have just finished writing a book about Lent which will be published this fall. One of the chapter is a lent calendar, following the rainbow. I have recipes for the colours, and for red I make rose water. I have never tried suger though.
.....but there are still months till my roses will bloom.
Oh, my heart be still. How incredible! That is really fantastic!
You have the only kind of garden worth having. A garden and a gardener need to have a reciprocating relationship...both are responsible parties! I think if the gardener does too much then the garden can't do what it needs to for itself. Rather like raising children don't you think.
Beautiful, Ilva! I bet it is such a sweet smelling treat!
It's so pretty! I just read Myriam's post too and am thinking that now I definitely have to make rose sugar.
that is really good! i have a lot of violet's blooming right now and was thinking of doing that...making violet sugar, but like pille said, layering the petals in sugar. i think i will try your way!
i can just smell the roses in this! the photos ( again) are incredible!
Hi Ilva,
You have just given me a wonderful idea for a dessert to serve for a dinner I am hosting on Friday night: rose sented panna cotta with promegranate beads.
I also left a response to your comment on my blog. Ciao.
Pille- I thought so to but the humidity of the fresh rose leaves just made it impossible. I suppose that's why you usually use dried rose petals but I'm too impatient ...
gattina-Thanks!
lisa-Oh yes, it did!
Joanna-they are just beginning to blossom although I have some bushes that have flowers all year round.
ellie-you just have to find someone with a rose garden then!
Britt-that sounds interesting, I'm not a believer but I like to read about symbols and symbolism, it explains so many things that you see around you!
Tanna-Thanks, but I'm not so sure that my garden fits into your vision, especially in the summer when the heat dries out everything...
gilly- Thanks! ask my daughter!
Brilynn-yes do! I have got a lot of ideas for sugars right now!
cindy-let me know how it goes...
Simon- (again) THANKS!
Paul-great, I just wish I could be there and taste it!
Hey hey - this looks fantastic. My mother always had a stock of rosewater and orangeblossom water, that she used when she made icing for cake toppings.
The flavours where always so delicate, and reading this post took me straight back to her baking days, thank you ;o)
Roo-Oh now I have to look into how you make rose water...hmm
What a beautiful use of the petals- I love the color almost a pink tinged ivory!
Callipygia-I think we all love rose petals, many in secret!
Wow. So decadent.
tammy -I think we need more of that, don't we?
I love roses and I like to use them in tea. Your rose sugar recipe is a definite "must do" as soon as they start to bloom here in the southeastern USA
Althea
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