如何制作玫瑰水

如何制作玫瑰水

You only need two ingredients to make rose water: rose petals and water. Yet, a four-ounce bottle of rose water can cost $10 or more. Making your own rose water is easy to do, and if you grow your own roses (or have a friend who can give you some) it's free to make. (And even if you do buy some roses, it will still be less expensive.)

制作玫瑰水只需要兩種原料:玫瑰花瓣和水。然而，一瓶四盎司的玫瑰水可能要花10美元甚至更多。自己制作玫瑰水很容易，如果你自己種植玫瑰(或者有朋友可以送給你一些)，制作玫瑰水是免費(fèi)的。(即使你買(mǎi)了一些玫瑰，也會(huì)便宜一些。)

Why spend money when you can make your own rose water for next to nothing?. (Photo: Anna Ok/Shutterstock)

Here's all you need to know to make your own rose water.

以下是你制作自己的玫瑰水所需要知道的。

Choosing the rose petals

選擇玫瑰花瓣

Pesticide-free fresh or dried rose petals can be used for rose water. (Photo: Elena Itsenko/Shutterstock)

You can use either fresh or dried rose petals, but the most important consideration when choosing the petals is to make sure they are pesticide-free. Inexpensive roses from the grocery store or discount produce market aren't what you want. If you can get organic roses, do. Of course, if you grow your own roses or have friends who grow them pesticide-free, the petals from those roses would be ideal.

你可以使用新鮮或干燥的玫瑰花瓣，但選擇花瓣時(shí)最重要的考慮是確保它們不使用農(nóng)藥。不貴的玫瑰從雜貨店或折扣農(nóng)產(chǎn)品市場(chǎng)不是你想要的。如果你能買(mǎi)到有機(jī)玫瑰，那就買(mǎi)吧。當(dāng)然，如果你自己種植玫瑰，或者有朋友種植不使用殺蟲(chóng)劑的玫瑰，玫瑰的花瓣將是理想的選擇。

Choosing your fragrance

選擇你喜歡的香味

If you use orange roses for your rose water, don't be surprised if the end result has a bit of a clove fragrance to it. (Photo: Zarnell Photography/Shutterstock)

If the aroma of your rose water is important to you, the color of the rose petals you choose makes all the difference.

如果玫瑰水的香味對(duì)你很重要，那么你選擇的玫瑰花瓣的顏色就很重要了。

The University of Vermont Extension Department of Plant and Soil Science explains that not all roses smell rosey. Red and pink roses with deeper colors and thick or velvety petals are the ones that have the traditional rose smell. White and yellow roses frequently have the fragrance of violets, nasturtium and lemon. Roses that are orange have more a fruit aroma as well as scents of violets, nasturtium and clove.

佛蒙特大學(xué)植物與土壤科學(xué)系解釋說(shuō)，并不是所有的玫瑰都有玫瑰香。顏色較深、花瓣厚實(shí)或柔軟的紅色和粉色玫瑰具有傳統(tǒng)的玫瑰香味。白玫瑰和黃玫瑰通常帶有紫羅蘭、旱金蓮和檸檬的香味。橙色的玫瑰有更多的水果香氣以及紫羅蘭，旱金蓮和丁香的氣味。

Distilling rose water

蒸餾玫瑰水

Distilling rose water is more time-consuming that infusing, but it creates a longer-lasting product. (Photo: iva/Shutterstock)

There are two methods you can use when making rose water at home. The first is distillation. Distillation creates a more concentrated rose water that will last longer than the infusion method. Distilling yields less rose water, but it's a fairly easy process.

在家制作玫瑰水有兩種方法。首先是蒸餾。蒸餾會(huì)產(chǎn)生更濃縮的玫瑰水，比灌輸法持續(xù)時(shí)間更長(zhǎng)。蒸餾產(chǎn)生的玫瑰水更少，但過(guò)程相當(dāng)簡(jiǎn)單。

You can distill rose water using tools you probably already have in your kitchen. You'll need a large pot with a lid, a glass bowl that has a smaller diameter than the pot, and bags full of ice.

你可以用廚房里已經(jīng)有的工具來(lái)提取玫瑰水。你需要一個(gè)帶蓋的大鍋，一個(gè)直徑比鍋小的玻璃碗，和裝滿(mǎn)冰的袋子。

Infusing rose water

將玫瑰加入水中

Infusing water with roses results in colored rose water. (Photo: yul38885/Shutterstock)

You can also infuse water with roses, which will create a colored rose water that's not as concentrated as the distilled version.

你也可以在水里注入玫瑰，這樣就會(huì)產(chǎn)生一種顏色的玫瑰水，它不會(huì)像蒸餾的玫瑰水那樣濃縮。

Uses for rose water

玫瑰水的用途

You can drink rose water over ice or even add it to a cocktail. (Photo: apidach/Shutterstock)

Now that you have rose water, what are you going to do with it? Here are some of its uses, although results will vary.

現(xiàn)在你已經(jīng)有了玫瑰水，你打算用它做什么?下面是它的一些用途，盡管結(jié)果會(huì)有所不同。

Drink it: The vitamins, minerals and essential oils work from the inside out when you drink rose water. Although there have not been many scientific tests on rose water, it's been used for centuries to do everything from treating depression to soothing a sore throat to combating inflammation.

喝玫瑰水:當(dāng)你喝玫瑰水的時(shí)候，維他命、礦物質(zhì)和精油會(huì)由內(nèi)而外的發(fā)揮作用。雖然對(duì)玫瑰水的科學(xué)測(cè)試并不多，但幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái)，玫瑰水一直被用于治療抑郁癥、緩解喉嚨痛和對(duì)抗炎癥。

Make a cocktail: The floral flavors in rose water make it complementary with spirits like gin. This Rose Water Gin Cocktail turns plain rose water into simple syrup and then adds it to gin, lemon juice and club soda for a refreshing drink.

制作雞尾酒:玫瑰水的花香使其與杜松子酒等烈酒相輔相成。這款玫瑰水杜松子雞尾酒將普通的玫瑰水變成簡(jiǎn)單的糖漿，然后加入杜松子酒、檸檬汁和蘇打水，成為一款提神的飲料。

Reduce puffy eyes: Place two cotton balls soaked in rose water under your eyes and the anti-inflammatory properties in the water may help reduce puffiness (which may have been caused by too many rose water cocktails.)

減少眼袋:在眼睛下面放兩個(gè)泡過(guò)玫瑰水的棉球，水中的抗炎成分可以幫助減少眼袋(可能是由于喝太多玫瑰水雞尾酒引起的)。

Sooth irritated skin: Spritz right onto skin for eczema or rosacea flair ups.

舒緩過(guò)敏皮膚:噴于濕疹或酒糟皮膚上即可。

Spray it on like cologne: Rose water takes on the scent of the rose petals, so it can be used as an all-natural cologne.

就像噴古龍水一樣:玫瑰水帶有玫瑰花瓣的香味，所以可以用作純天然的古龍水。

Rose water also has antiseptic and anti-bacterial properties, but treating a wound — even a small one — is a serious issue. Reach for a product like Neosporin or a doctor-prescribed antibiotic to treat an infection, or, if you want to try the rose water method, consult a doctor beforehand.

玫瑰水還具有殺菌和抗菌的特性，但治療傷口——即使是小傷口——是一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題。使用抗生素軟膏或醫(yī)生開(kāi)的抗生素來(lái)治療感染，或者，如果你想嘗試玫瑰水療法，事先咨詢(xún)醫(yī)生。