CONTENTS - Dried Rose pelargonium leaves - Pelargonium graveolens
FLAVOUR PROFILE - FLORAL - intense rose & spicy citrus notes
MAKE - syrups & cordials, cakes & bakes, digestifs & cocktails, culinary herbs, tea infusions, vinaigrettes and infused water
COCKTAIL INFUSIONS - add South African Fynbos® Leaves & Twigs to plain gin, vodka, brandy, rum or whiskey and infuse for five days. Remove the botanical and use as a base for truly South African cocktails.
VINEGAR INFUSION - add South African Fynbos® Leaves & Twigs to white wine vinegar and use for vinaigrettes, marinades and pickling three weeks later. Leave the botanical in the vinegar as the flavour keeps developing. Add a dash to a Fynbos cocktail to accentuate the flavours.
CAKES & BAKES - ideal with syrupy koeksisters, sticky malva pudding, strawberry ice-cream, scones and clotted cream. Blitz sugar and dried Rose pelargonium leaves together to infuse flavours and make icings, meringues and frostings. Infuse cream or milk to make puddings and tarts. Add crushed leaves to batter to infuse sponges. See GUIDE TO USING EDIBLE FYNBOS – South African Fynbos
SEASONING - irresistible Rose pelargonium is intensely fragrant and adds a distinctive spicy-citrus-rose flavour to Moroccan rice, nutty buckwheat salad and orange marmalade.
HERBAL TEA - intense floral and spicy citrus notes with a geranium undertone. Makes 60-80 small teapots/mugs (330ml).
BATHING APOTHECARY - crush three leaves in half a cup of mineral rich sea salt to make an aromatic soak or scrub.
REVITALIZERS - spray body with naturally astringent Rose pelargonium infusion to revitalize and tone the skin. Add 330ml of freshly boiled water to three leaves and bottle when cool.
SCENT SACHETS - this is the refill for our Scent Sachets - freshen linen drawers or slip under the pillow for a fragrant sleep experience Scent Sachet - Rose pelargonium – South African Fynbos
Packaging: Large A-frame Packet 19x13x7 cm