Orange flower water

orange flower water = orange blossom water = zhaar Notes: This is distilled from bitter orange blossoms, and it's used to flavor drinks, salads, and desserts. Look for it in Middle Eastern markets and specialty shops.

1/2 teaspoon orange flower water; up to 1
1 dessertspoon currants
1 egg yolk ...

Ingredients: orange flower water, fresh gingerroot...
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Orange water or orange flower water is a fragrant distillation of orange blossoms and used in flavoring baked goods and other sweet and savory dishes and in drinks such as a Ramos Gin Fizz.

Orange Water / Orange Flower Water - a liquid essence of distilled orange blossoms, once used for flavoring.

The desserts have a certain Arab feeling to them, such as the baked maniclo, made of leavened dough, sugar, and orange flower water or the cacho-dènt, baked fingers of flour and sugar dough made with eggs, ground almond, and orange flower water.

A combination of butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and traditionally flavored with lemon or orange flower water, these small petit fours sec are often times dipped in tea or coffee.

orange flower water Liquid distilled during the extraction of essential oil from bitter orange blossoms and used as a flavoring; before vanilla was discovered it was the principal flavoring extract and remains so in the Middle East.

Kourabiedes: rich buttery shortbread-type of cookie baked in round halls then liberally sprinkled with rosewater or orange flower water and dusted with icing sugar. Piled in a mound, these are a Christmas specialty.

See also: Water, Orange, Flavor, Sauce, Juice