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.)

制作玫瑰水只需要两种原料: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，如果你自己种植玫瑰(或者有朋友可以送给你一些)，制作玫瑰水是免费的。(即使你买了一些玫瑰，也会便宜一些。)

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

选择玫瑰花瓣

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.

你可以使用新鲜或干燥的玫瑰花瓣，但选择花瓣时最重要的考虑是确保它们不使用农药。不贵的玫瑰从杂货店或折扣农产品市场不是你想要的。如果你能买到有机玫瑰，那就买吧。当然，如果你自己种植玫瑰，或者有朋友种植不使用杀虫剂的玫瑰，玫瑰的花瓣将是理想的选择。

Choosing your fragrance

选择你喜欢的香味

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.

如果玫瑰水的香味对你很重要，那么你选择的玫瑰花瓣的颜色就很重要了。

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.

佛蒙特大学植物与土壤科学系解释说，并不是所有的玫瑰都有玫瑰香。颜色较深、花瓣厚实或柔软的红色和粉色玫瑰具有传统的玫瑰香味。白玫瑰和黄玫瑰通常带有紫罗兰、旱金莲和柠檬的香味。橙色的玫瑰有更多的水果香气以及紫罗兰，旱金莲和丁香的气味。

Distilling rose water

蒸馏玫瑰水

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.

在家制作玫瑰水有两种方法。首先是蒸馏。蒸馏会产生更浓缩的玫瑰水，比灌输法持续时间更长。蒸馏产生的玫瑰水更少，但过程相当简单。

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.

你可以用厨房里已经有的工具来提取玫瑰水。你需要一个带盖的大锅，一个直径比锅小的玻璃碗，和装满冰的袋子。

Infusing rose water

将玫瑰加入水中

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，这样就会产生一种颜色的玫瑰水，它不会像蒸馏的玫瑰水那样浓缩。

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.

现在你已经有了玫瑰水，你打算用它做什么?下面是它的一些用途，尽管结果会有所不同。

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:当你喝玫瑰水的时候，维他命、矿物质和精油会由内而外的发挥作用。虽然对玫瑰水的科学测试并不多，但几个世纪以来，玫瑰水一直被用于治疗抑郁症、缓解喉咙痛和对抗炎症。

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.

制作鸡尾酒:玫瑰水的花香使其与杜松子酒等烈酒相辅相成。这款玫瑰水杜松子鸡尾酒将普通的玫瑰水变成简单的糖浆，然后加入杜松子酒、柠檬汁和苏打水，成为一款提神的饮料。

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.)

减少眼袋:在眼睛下面放两个泡过玫瑰水的棉球，水中的抗炎成分可以帮助减少眼袋(可能是由于喝太多玫瑰水鸡尾酒引起的)。

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

舒缓过敏皮肤:喷于湿疹或酒糟皮肤上即可。

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.

就像喷古龙水一样:玫瑰水带有玫瑰花瓣的香味，所以可以用作纯天然的古龙水。

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.

玫瑰水还具有杀菌和抗菌的特性，但治疗伤口——即使是小伤口——是一个严重的问题。使用抗生素软膏或医生开的抗生素来治疗感染，或者，如果你想尝试玫瑰水疗法，事先咨询医生。