I don't make many things to put on bread, but I think I should. That's why I got myself some rose petals and got going.

Wersja polska/Polish version

I didn't know how to prepare it really. Most recipes I found required some pectin that I wanted to avoid. I wanted at most four ingredients: sugar, water, lemon juice, rose petals.

I finally found a rose petal jam recipe by a Polish girl from Australia this was a spot on, but I had dried rose petals. Luckily I found very useful piece of advise:

you can use dried petals…. 1/3 c dried = 1 c fresh

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Planning

You will need to soak the petals for a bit (an hour or so). Crushing the petals will also take a long time. I initially used my kitchen robot's flexi beater, but I used granulated sugar and it would not easily crush so I gave up and eventually finished it off with a hand blender. If you like working by hand, you will need a stone mortar or a makitra.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (15 g) dried rose petals
• 50 g hot water
• 250 g caster sugar (granulated will work as well, but will take longer to reduce the crystals size)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Preparation

1. Sort your dried petals. Mines had quite a bit of twigs and leaves in the bag. If you get 13 g of petals - it's still enough
2. Put the petals in a bowl and pour hot water on them. Cover with cling film and leave for an hour or more
3. Add sugar and lemon juice
4. Start crushing until the petals break down into a sugary paste. If it is too dry, add some water with a teaspoon (to not add too much)
5. If it's taking too long, finish of with a blender

I ended up with a very aromatic pink sugar paste. It's very tasty.

I transferred the confiture into a jar. My kids really love it - I stopped eating out their favourite strawberry jam.

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