Quite unusual - www.enjoygoodies.com - Roses' petals in sugar syrup 200g

Peter Patajac, owner of an idyllic small restaurant called Ruj in Karst (Slovenia), awarded chef few years ago with a title Delo's cook of the year (Delo is a daily Slovenian newspaper with the second highest circulation) is not only a great cook but he also creates so to speak ingredients for cooking. Which you hardly compare to anything-so delicious they are.

It seemed like a destiny has brought him to us because he is well aware how important quality ingredients are for a good cooking and behind every product of his stands a great story with which food becomes alive and tempting.

Peter Patajac is making these delicious products mainly out of nostalgia and sentimentality. He has very nice memories from his youth of tastes, smells, which are nowadays unfortunately not present on the store shelves anymore. He misses homemade, genuine masterpieces from the past. So he decided to revive them for his own joy first and then later on he started to share them with others as well.

Peter Patajac tried many different processes in order to find an ideal one, whit which he can catch the scent and flavor of roses in the jar. A year and a half or two years thick roses' petals of velvety red roses ripen in sugar syrup and thus create poetry. He got inspiration for using roses in the kitchen from the legendary, unfortunately already deceased Jelena De Belder Kovacic, who was awarded from the Belgian king with a Baroness title for merits in the development of horticulture. She was also using roses in the kitchen herself.
Roses' petals in sugar syrup are very boutiques product, since it is made of a little quantity of roses, which they grove at home and at relatives and friends. They were thinking of having their own rose plantation but they have put this idea on the side for now.
Peter's favorite is butter with roses' petals. Leave butter at room temperature in order to soften and then mix roses in and put it in the fridge to cool down again. One of the great combinations for such rose butter is a slice of rose butter on a baked meat, but we leave it to your imagination for other combinations.

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