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“Mom?” my youngest daughter called out, “are roses edible?”
“The petals?” I asked.
“Yes, rose petals.”
I wasn’t sure. I knew rose hips are edible along with several other flowers like nasturtiums and maybe pansies. But I didn’t know about rose petals.
Apparently they are. Assuming they are free from man-made pesticides, that is.
This came up because my daughter, who loves reading the Redwall series, discovered some websites posting recipes of dishes mentioned in the books. Dishes like:
- Abbot’s Special Abbey Trifle
- Spiced Gatehouse Tea Bread
- Afternoon Tea Scones with Strawberry Jam and Cream
- Squirrelmum’s Blackberry and Apple Cake
- Savoury Nut Tea Bread Squares
- Guosim Shrew Shortbread
- Rose Pudding
- Candied Rose Petals
And there they were—recipes calling for rose petals.
Intrigued, she asked if she could try exploring some of the recipes at this website.
I’d like to support her interest.
To do so, it looks like I need to swing by Kroger to pick up both flour and flowers.
Have you ever cooked with flowers? I’d welcome your advice!
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You need to be certain to use pesticide free blossoms! Flowers at the store are not usually pesticide free. You would be safer using home-grown roses.
One thing you CAN do know is buy rose water (specialty shop or online, most likely) and make something with that.
There’s also rose-petal jam
Oh, and pansies ARE edible (as are johnny jump-ups). But neither is very tasty. I grow both, plus nasturiums, and roses.
I’ve eaten things made with rose petals, but have always been afraid to use them myself because of the difficulty of sourcing pesticide free roses. I do use rose water as mentioned by The Prudent Homemaker above. You don’t need much though a little goes a long way (yes, I learned that by mistake – you only do it once!). The nicest thing I ever ate made with roses is a Rose Religieux at a restaurant called Laduree in Paris. It’s a cream filled puff pastry flavoured with rose water (called a religieux because the pastry has a little top on it reminiscent of a cathedral spire) and decorated with rose petals. It was so delicious!
Roses are a big part of middle eastern cuisine — they give a romantic, mysteriously feminine air to the food! Rose petals, rose water…the fragrance is heavenly.
I liked this little article — it mentions damask roses. http://www.kurma.net/essays/e2.html
Something to add to the garden this year?
I’ve eaten pansies in a toss salad – tasted a wee bit bitter to me. Never had roses, except in tiny bits in a bar of organic dark chocolate. I can’t say I tasted the rose that much.
Currently the squrriels in my back yard are muching all of my johnny jump-ups so perhaps they are tasty. Let us know how your rose dish turns out!
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I love eating wild rose petals and shocking the people I’m with when I do. Giving them to my daughters to eat is kind of magical. It’s fun to pretend to be a fairy eating flowers in the garden.
mmm, interesting…now I will have to plant some roses as well…
Thank you so much for your advice, everyone, on eating pesticide-free roses from my own garden. I’m so curious now to experiment with edible flowers–it’ll be hard to wait until summer!
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We had dinner the other night at a Persian restaurant. For dessert, we were served ice cream made with rosewater and pistachios. It was heavenly!