I read through my blog to remind myself how I do it and then I wandered out with my big yellow bowl and started gathering roses. Definitely not rose buds but rather damp open flowers. My feet are soaking and so are a bowl full of perfumed petals. About 150 gms.
The sugar syrup, made with 500ml of water and half that volume of sugar , also contains two crushed cardomum pods, some lemon zest from half a bio lemon that was waiting to be used, a shake of sumac and a cup of earlgrey tea. The sumac was a suggestion from my blog that I had forgotten about; it will be interesting to see whether it is a good addition.
It is all in the fridge waiting for the next step.
I have put it in the machine for about 20mins and it has made a lovely pale pink sorbet but I am surprised the colour is so pale as the roses were a deep pink. Looking forward to testing it later when the sun is out .
