Comments on: Rose-coloured glass jar?

Question: Rose-coloured glass jar?

Schlimmbesserung — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:51:58 -0800

What the heck do I do with a jar of rose petal jam?

My girlfriend just got back from Paris and brought me a jar of rose petal jam. It's a bit unusual ("like eating perfume," we decided), and I have a feeling that the usual peanut-butter-toast thing isn't what I'm supposed to do with the stuff. Allrecipes.com and Google aren't too useful for recipes either (searching for "rose petal jam recipes" just gets recipes for the jam itself). Any suggestions from the flower-munching hive mind?

By: Eringatang

Eringatang — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:00:05 -0800

You can use it in salad dressing (like making a raspberry vinagrette). You can eat it with different cheeses and see how it changes the flavor. You can sweeten iced tea with it.

By: cobaltnine

cobaltnine — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:04:49 -0800

What about looking for recipes that just call for jam? I'd think sweet recipes might be better suited to it, such as jam tarts/cookies or other more light dessert items.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:10:55 -0800

Yeah, cheese and crackers FTW. Go buy some fancy cheese, feel free to tell the person at the counter what you're pairing it with.

By: aramaic

aramaic — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:11:21 -0800

It's popular in Turkey; perhaps there are turkish recipes that use it?

...I've just used it as a sweet spread on small toasty objects, for breakfast. That's the way I had it in Turkey, but perhaps they've got other ideas afoot...

(the iced tea idea is interesting!)

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:23:42 -0800

Spread it on toast, yo! Have it with a glass of milk! I know that's not tremendously glamorous, but my yiayia used to make rose jam when I was a wee lad, and I can attest from experience that it's perfectly delicious in a PB&J.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:23:46 -0800

I use jam as a sweetener on top of basic custard. Haven't tried it with rose petal, mind you, but if you like the floral jam, it should work fine.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:27:22 -0800

Absolutely with cheese.

You could make Danish. Mmm. That would be lovely.

Spread with good cultured butter on fresh-baked croissants.

Melted over ice cream.

By: desuetude

desuetude — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:40:06 -0800

A small spoonful in good yogurt. With chopped pistachios on top.

On toast with nutella.

With the herbs of your choice as a glaze for quail or duck or rabbit or any other small game meat.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:42:01 -0800

French toast. Pancakes. Crepes.

By: jferg

jferg — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:55:19 -0800

Cream Cheese and Rose Jam on Ritz Crackers?

By: monkeymadness

monkeymadness — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:10:38 -0800

Jam cookies, even hamantaschen.

By: cotterpin

cotterpin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:12:12 -0800

Use it instead of honey for sweetening tea.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:25:48 -0800

We bought a jar of that two weeks ago, and it's almost gone now. I don't like it, but, yeah, my wife puts it on toast. We got some raisin bread, and it's good on that, apparently.

By: JaredSeth

JaredSeth — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:50:38 -0800

According to this Ayurveda site, it's good for hyperacidity. You could wait til the next time you have an upset stomach and test that hypothesis.

By: nkknkk

nkknkk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:23:28 -0800

Melt it a little bit (slowly, in a small saucepan on the stove) until it liquifies slightly, then serve it as a topping for ice cream, pound cake, or french toast.

By: lonefrontranger

lonefrontranger — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:19:13 -0800

rosewater or rose jam is absolutely divine with iced tea. add a sprig or 2 of mint, too if you're feeling adventuresome.

By: junesix

junesix — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:27:24 -0800

sex.

What? It never crossed anyone else's mind?

By: Dormant Gorilla

Dormant Gorilla — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:40:00 -0800

Eat it with brie or brillat-severin or some other crazy-ass triple cream cheese, on plain water crackers.

Or yeah, sex.

By: Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:16:08 -0800

SCONES AND CLOTTED CREAM. Seriously. Here in London, if you have afternoon tea at Liberty, rose petal is one of the jams they give you with your scones and clotted cream and it is SO GOOD.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:37:55 -0800

I actually have rose syrup and not jam (better or worse for sex? Your call.) Poking around at places to buy it online one of the sites mentioned using it as a sweetener in squash dishes.

By: Foam Pants

Foam Pants — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:43:58 -0800

I second the cookie idea. You could just make some simple sugar cookie but make half of them with the center cut out. Spread some jam on the whole one and then top with the cutout cookie. Pretty and elegant.

By: dustsquid

dustsquid — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:08:07 -0800

I love things like that paired with grilled or roasted meats especially lamb

By: sushiwiththejury

sushiwiththejury — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:45:15 -0800

meetha paan