Take one pound of  Roses (you can use rose flower or wild rose buds as its more practical and make sure of course you have not use chemicals on these roses while growing them); three pound of  Sugar, one pint of
Rose  water or just a little more proportion of roses to sugar if you do not have rose water.  Or if you do not have rose water you can create some from rose tea.  From this you will make Rose  Syrup.   Sugar preserves roses, its the basic method of any countryside syrup or preserve.

From Polish rose syrup to Polish preserves

When your syrup is cold, then take your  Rose  leaves or rose fruit,put them into the cold Syrup, then cover them, and set them on a low heat, I use a gas stove but it does not really matter for about  two or three hours, then while they are hot put them into pots or glasses for your use. You need to add enough fruit or rose flower to make it really thick just pack it in.  In the Polish countryside people do it for a few days, but no one really has time now.  You should do this until it is like gum almost, really think. If you have any more ideas on Polish rose preserve, write me.

Living in Poland and loving Polish rose preserve

I love Polish rose preserves.  Right now they cost about 10 pln a jar, however, for me this is my favorate preserve.  I am an American living in Poland and I am basically here just for the recipes. Not really, but when you find things like fresh Polish rose preserves in the market it is a great incentive.  There are rose flower and rose bud preserves. I prefer the rose flower preserves but both are good.  In Poland there are wild roses everwhere, even in the park behind my flat.  The recipe for Polish rose preserves can really be used for any flower preserve.

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