💦🌸How to Make Florida Water🌿💦 (Patreon)

In the previous article, we learned about what Florida Water is, the origins and a few ways to use it! Here you can learn how to customize your own with the ingredients you have. It’s quite simple to make, actually! How do you make your Florida Water? Here’s a few different ways to make it by Moody Moons.

Florida water is a traditional American cologne water recipe adopted by southern practitioners of the hoodoo and voodoo tradition to cleanse the home and use in ritual.

You can put it in a spray bottle as a spiritual “disinfectant,” anoint doors and windows with it, use it in place of holy water or pour it into a bowl and place it on the altar for offering.

There are dozens, maybe hundreds of recipes for Florida Water. Rather than give you a straight up recipe, I’ll show you how to customize it according to what you have on hand.

Despite the name, it is not a water-based potion. Most people use vodka to steep the herbs and flowers.

I recommend the cheap stuff. As cheap as you can get. Bottom shelf. I’ve tried top-shelf vodka to make this, and it’s just a waste of top-shelf vodka. In my opinion, it really doesn’t make much difference in the final result.

Choose at least two items from each group:

Aromatic greens:

4 parts fresh mint

4 parts fresh basil

4 parts fresh rosemary

Florals:

3 parts rose petals (fresh)

3 parts jasmine (dried or fresh)

3 parts lavender (dried)

Citrus:

2 parts lemon peel

2 parts orange peel

2 parts lime peel

Spice:

1 part allspice berries

1 part cinnamon sticks

1 part cloves

Put the vodka on low heat. Add the dry ingredients and allow them to simmer for 5-10 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients. Simmer on low for an addition 40 minutes.

And there you have it! Blessed be!

Source:

https://www.moodymoons.com/2016/07/19/how-to-make-florida-water/