{CANDIED ROSE PETALS - Recipe for YOU}

Due to still dark weather and rain... I still cannot make my photos so here is a post with the recipe for the CANDIED ROSE PETALS below:

This is a page I did scan from the book: Christmas with Victoria 1997 and it is still available at Amazon, just click the hyperlink.

The text with this photo on page 137 reads: Petal Crown

To create a small masterpiece, garnish a cake with colorful flowers.

This photo with Candied Rose Petals is from Southern Living February 1998, page 122.

Another idea came from Atlanta Magazine, June 1997...

That's how I got my idea for garnishing the chocolate heart & rose shaped dessert with candied roses.

Took a photo (today, on a dark day...) from my candied roses, see below.

Presented on a Royal Albert Princess Anne handled bon-bon dish.

Now the recipe for you:

CANDIED ROSE PETALS

18 small rose petals (pesticide free from your own garden)

1 cup sifted powdered sugar

1½ teaspoons meringue powder

3 tablespoons water

½ cup superfine sugar

• Rinse rose petals, and let dry on paper towels.
• Beat powdered sugar, meringue powder, and 3 tablespoons water at low speed with an electric mixer until blended; beat at high speed 4 to 5 minutes until mixture is fluffy.
• Brush mixture on all sides of petals; sprinkle with superfine sugar. Let stand on wire racks 24 hours.

Yield: 18 petals

This is rather easy to make!

• If you don't have the meringue powder, try this recipe:

SUGARED ROSE PETALS:

3 large pesticide free roses

½ cup egg substitute, beaten lightly

½ cup superfine sugar

TO MAKE SUGARED ROSE PETALS:

1. Pull the petals free from 1 rose. Lightly coat each petal on both sides with the egg substitute, using a small paintbrush.

2. Sift a small amount of the sugar over the coated petals, turning them carefully to coat both sides. Set on waxed paper to dry at least 1 hour. Repeat the procedure with the remaining roses, egg substitute, and sugar.

Yield: 1½ cups.

Instead of ROSE PETALS you can also use edible flowers from your own garden such as; NASTURIUMS, SNAP DRAGONS, PANSIES, VIOLETS or DAYLILIES.

Good luck with your version...
Also interesting to try the STRAWBERRY & RED ROSE PETAL WHIPPED CREAM DESSERT; see link with recipe below.

Related link:
{INTRODUCING GUNNAR LLOYD; DAPHNA & RAYMOND'S LOVE-CHILD} | previous post by me with stawberry & red rose petal whipped cream dessert...
{Edible Flowers} | previous post by me about Edible flowers with recipes
{Lisa Boalt Richardson another Georgia Tea Aficionado!} | previous post by me with RECIPE for STRAWBERRY & RED ROSE PETAL WHIPPED CREAM DESSERT
{Violets from our Garden and on French Country Style Wooden Tableau} | previous post by me with candied violets
{FOND MEMORIES} | previous post by me showing candied violets

{Our Fragrant Cloud Roses + Update}

Wow; the painters left yesterday around noon after working for about 3 weeks on our exterior! Great quality job they did and you will soon get to see the results. First I need to show you the previous projects. Today I just have a little vase with 3 Fragrant Cloud Roses for you. Not even a great photo, as I took it with my iPhone... Yesterday I did serve candied rose petals (from our garden!) to our 10 dinner guests of the Monday Night Club that we hosted. I had made the evening before baked chocolate hearts and roses and decorated them with marzipan roses and my candied rose petals... A busy day, cleaning and arranging fresh gardenias for the dinner tables. Setting the tables and low and behold I even forgot to take photos. No time actually, as I was cooking and doing it all. My usual help for serving, started her vacation so I did it solo. Feeling satisfied but tired after I got done. One of the ladies, Sarah Jane Smith that came for dinner, did help me serve the main course; very sweet of her.

Hand crocheted doily is done by my sister-in-law Elly.

I just got in a hurry to take this photo before those perfect buds would open up completely...

Today I planned to take more photos inside the home but it is such a dark and HOT day with thunder in the far distance. Wish it would break and change to sunshine again!

LOOK: at 11:45 AM already RealFeel 40°C... It looks like this will not change the coming days.

Let's hope for the best so I can make my photos.

Related link:

{Our New Roses from Costco} | previous post showing the Fragrant Cloud Rose

{Our Acer Trees in the Spring}

On May 12, we had as usual a bright blue sky and it made our two Acer trees stand out even more so with their spring leaves. Have a look at our Acer Negundo Kelly's Gold Yellow Box Elder and Acer Rubrum or Red Maple:

To the left, Acer Negundo Kelly's Gold Yellow Box Elder and to the right Acer Rubrum or Red Maple.

That bright green and red does not stay all summer... but in the fall they both look striking again!

Acer Negundo Kelly's Gold - Yellow Box Elder with to the left Robinia pseudo acacia - Black Locust.

The tall one to the left is an oak tree an also the one to the right is another oak tree, the sawtooth oak.

In our climate, trees grow so fast and also very tall!

Don't you love this Acer Negundo Kelly's Gold?!

Related links:

{Cloudy Day versus Sunny Day} | previous post by me showing also Acer Negundo Kelly's Gold and Acer Rubrum

{Our Robinia pseudoacacia - Black Locust} | previous post by me showing the tree that is to the left of the Acer Negundo, while it is in bloom...
{Our Acer - Maple Trees} | previous post by me with fall color