Orange Flowers, Jasmine and Linden Blossom

Appears in
The Scented Kitchen: Cooking with Flowers

By Frances Bissell

Published 2012

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‘The magical dishes she prepared filled the atmosphere around her with tantalising aromas: fragrant gum Arabic in rice pudding ...custards scented with orange blossom water.

Lian Badr, Stars of Jericho

All these blossoms bring with them hints of the warm south – a shaded patio in Andalusia, a scented Provençal garden, a village square in Sicily – and such is the depth of perfume that in each case you can transform it into creams, sorbets, jellies and numerous other dishes.