FlowerLady asked what my favorite recipe was using roses! I hate to admitted it, but we don't eat our roses as much as we should! I have a lot of one time blooming roses. My mistake. Although my Rosa rugosa 'Alba' has now started to bloom and it is a most delicious rose and a repeat bloomer, that I will use in my salads. Just the petals. The petals have a white tip that you should cut off before eating because it is bitter. I have never made rose petal jam or jelly. I think I just love the rose smell outdoors and if I cut too many, I won't have that rose fragrance any more! By the time I think I should be making it, they are gone for the season. I just found this recipe for
rose muffins on The Herb Companion website. I love muffins and I think FlowerLady does as well and maybe you do too! It's just not as easy as putting rose petals in the muffin mix, but maybe it is! It makes rose jam and that jam goes into the muffins. I'll get back to you on how this worked and with some other recipes soon. In the meantime, here is a great
edible flowers article from Cathy Wilkinson Barash who also wrote a book about edible flowers some years ago. Still hot, hot, hot in the 'Burgh. Talk to you later.
