Arton came over yesterday and was admiring our roses. He asked if we ever made a drink from them. This can be a dangerous question here because Shqiptars/ Albanians have a tendency to make "Raki", a sort of alcohol, out of just about everything. In fact he was referring to rose petal tea. We said no so he proceeded to show us the process.
First they plucked and cleaned about 2 dozen roses.
Kathi stuffed them in an empty bottle and added 3 teaspoons of sugar and a product they call "limontoz", as far as we can tell it is like lemon flavored sugar.
Fill the bottle with water, mix and let stand 3 days in the sun. Just like sun tea!
Day 2 starting to see the change.
Stay tuned for the final result.
