You can peel it off the parchment paper in the morning. Since it is a gas oven, the pilot lights keep it ever so slightly warm, and the clay dries out. I like to put the sauce/clay on parchment paper and let it sit in my oven overnight. It is better to have it dry, like a dry jam, or even like a clay. If your rose petal sauce is as wet as applesauce, you will not be able to add much to the clay.This is an art-you will need to try several times until you get the feeling. You can add rose oil at this point if your original roses had no smell.

Repeat this procedure until much of the water has evaporated off and the mixture is drier than applesauce.

Put it back in the skillet, and bring to just under a boil, stirring constantly.

Make you're your final 'glop' looks glossy and a bit like pudding, and you do not see separate pieces of rose petal in it.You can see in the picture the difference between the petals before they were blended and after. It would be hard to blend it too much, but easy not to blend it enough. Take the rose petal mix and put it in a blender, adding enough water for the mixture to get thoroughly blended, like a smoothie.This is the first step to creating the dough. They should look a bit translucent, like a cooked vegetable. When the petals are very soft, turn the mixture off and let it cool.Keep watching the pot carefully and add water if necessary. Be careful not to let all the water evaporate.Add about 1/2 cup water (using distilled water guarantees a purer fragrance) and cook just under the boiling point until the petals get soft.Do not include the ball inside the flower that becomes the rose hip later, and try to knock out all the little round seed-like things from inside the bud before putting the petals in the pot. You can snip them into strips for easier cooking. Put the petals in a non-stick or cast iron frying pan.Blender (critical for smooth, good-looking beads).An old cast iron chicken fryer works as well. Frying pan, non-stick, or if you want the traditional black beads you should use a traditional black cast iron pan.For making the rose dough, you will need:

Bead tool 4 flower