Rose Petal Jam Recipe

This delicious Rose Petal Jam Recipe can be made using garden roses and will brighten any meal.

Rose Petal Jam Recipe

Roses offer another bonus because besides being beautiful: You can eat them and there are few things more delightfully different — or easier to make — than Rose Petal Jam. Since you do not cook the petals you faithfully capture all the flavor, fragrance and color of the fresh roses . . . and serving this jam has added immeasurably to my reputation as a cook!

Here’s how: Simply take your freshly opened roses — any color — grasp as many petals as you can, hold them between your finger and thumb and snip the white bases (which are bitter) from all of them at once with a pair of scissors.

Blend one cup of petals in a blender with 3/4 cup water and the juice of one lemon. Blend until smooth, gradually adding 2 1/2 cups of sugar and keeping the blender running until all sugar is dissolved. Reserve.

Now stir one package of pectin (Pen-Jel or Sure-Jel) into 3/4 cup water. Bring to a boil and boil hard for one minute, stirring constantly.