Magic water “ROSE WATER”
Rose Water Magic water made with fresh organic roses An Age-Old Flavoring for Dinner and Dessert and Beauty Rose water has left an indelible mark on human history . This clear, sweet-tasting, aromatic liquid has been used in perfumery, cosmetics, and medicine for many centuries. In Middle Eastern and West Asian countries, it has long been used as a flavoring in cooking. Rose water is basically an aqueous solution of some of the odoriferous constituents of rose flowers. One low-tech way to make it is to soak rose petals in water for a couple of weeks, with some alcohol added as a preservative. A speedier technique, developed by the ancient Persians, is to distill the flowers with water or steam. One might call rose water poor man’s attar, the highly prized—and highly priced—essential oil of roses used in fine perfume. Indeed, commercial rose water is a byproduct of the steam-distillation process used to isolate attar. It’s what’s left of the distillate after the attar is skimmed