Mystery of the week: Whither the Rosette?

[polyfrog]

A few weeks ago I was at a thrift store, and found an interesting and unusually-shaped rosette iron. No handle, just the aluminium shape with the threaded hole for a handle

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[baratron]

Until I saw the "food" tag at the bottom, I thought you were making rosettes out of ribbons. Without Googling, I am still not sure what rosette as a food is :)

[polyfrog]

Rosettes are a type of fried cookie (biscuit, to you).
To make them, you dip the rosette iron in hot oil to grease it, then into a light egg-milk-flour batter, then back in the oil to cook the thing. Then the cookie is gently removed from the iron, drained of excess oil, and dusted with powdered sugar. The irons come in many shapes; commonly flowers (whence the name), snowflakes (the cookies are apparently a holiday tradition in many families/parts of the world), butterflies (no idea why), etc.

Rosette iron sets generally come with a single handle and a few different shapes that screw thereon.

I have found a place that will sell me a rosette set for pretty cheap; I'll buy it tomorrow. Then I'll have more than just this weird iron and can make some rosettes to see if it's a thing I'm likely to do regularly; if yes I have discovered that you can get many shapes piecemeal (just the one shape at a time, no handle) online. Many many.

[polyfrog]

Imagine sweet tempura batter, fried into decorative shapes and dusted with powdered sugar.