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Is there any culinary use for rosemary water?

I bought a set of bottles of orange water, rose water and rosemary water. I have seen suggestions to use rosemary water as a hair rinse, but nothing about cooking with it. Does anyone know of any culinary use? Or any reason not to cook with it? Like it is poisonous, for instance.

Have a good look at the set of bottles Rinshin, it sounds to me as if they were all intended to be used as skin or hair care products, both rose and orange flower waters are used as mild skin tonics or in other toiletries. Check the label to see if they are intended for food use.

I use Rosemary quite a lot with red meat and pulses.

I took your suggestion, Sue! I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner, the bottles have just been sitting in the cupboard for 6 months since I got them. The rose and orange waters are for culinary use, according to the labels. The rosemary water label was more ambiguous, but it did have nutrient and calorie info. I found the product page on Amazon and it showed sparkling water with lemon slices and rosemary sprigs so presumably you can make a drink with it. Unfortunately, looking at the label, I saw that the rosemary water was past the “use by” date so I threw it away. 😢 But now I know in case I ever get another bottle.