Image – Ambulance Rose by June Perkins
This is a creative interpretation of the Rose Jam recipe for the purposes of meditation.
Ingredients
Gather some edible rose petals before the heat of the day. Go a little after the dew. Make sure your heart is pure.
Take your water from serenity’s spring.
Take the fragrance, and tanginess and joy of the Lemon.
Method
You need to make sure your rose petals are clean, and free from chemicals and bugs. Although we love bugs they are not tasty in this particular jam. Although you could of course make a bug jam for Speck and he would love you for it.
Soak the petals for a few days. Maybe you can sing songs and read sonnets about roses well using roses to be metaphors for love and the like. Think all about the peacefulness that will be within your jam.
Coat the rose petals with sugar and cover them completely and then put this all in your fridge or an icy place if you don’t have a fridge over night. Maybe you can sprinkle some sugar for the ants to stay away from your cupboards near little ornaments in your garden.
The next day pour in sugar, water and lemon juice and mix it all together. Simmer for 20 minutes on your stove, and then bring it to the boil 105 C for a further 5 minutes. Place in a nice warm jam jar (maybe painted with your favourite rose). Then offer it to the table
at the Charming of the Plough so the prayers and gathering will make the memory of the taste even sweeter.
(c) Words and images June Perkins
However for a technical link that reads more like a traditional recipe see….
Rose Jam Technical Link
This is just delightful June
Delicious idea, very pretty. Fran
Meditative cookery – there’s a recipe I don’t use often! Somehow I don’t think it will apply to the “Jamaican’ Me Crazy” chili I am preparing tomorrow – but you never know! I will keep it in mind…but if I get a big whiff of jerk seasoning (as I sometimes do), I’ll start sneezing & wheezing, and I don’t that will be very peaceful or serene…
Kezza, “alcolyte with issues”
this sounds delicious, and much like a wild violet jam I made when I had woods to wander in and gather wild violets.