Favors

stefpet22 · September 2012

We made our favors a few weeks ago and we think we may have a huge problem. We decide to do a DIY and infuse olive oil with rosemary added italian herbs. Well today my FI called me to tell me that there is cloudy film around some of the bottles. We both googled it and every site is giving different information. We didn't boil the olive oil and we bought rosemary from stop and shop and put them in the bottles. Does anybody know anything about this? We really don't know what to do. Should we use them, empty the bottles, clean them and retry without the rosemary or just forget the whole thing a get something else for our favors? Help!

cronin85 · September 2012

If its only a few bottles, I would try to empty them first and start over. If its alot possibly try it without the rosemary and see what happens.

maggieandrey · September 2012

Boiling the olive oil with the herbs is absolutely necessary if there is garlic involved (otherwise, you could be giving your guests botulism.) Did you use fresh or dried herbs? If you used fresh, that might be what's causing the cloudy film. Especially if the herbs were cold and you put them into room temperature olive oil.

I agree with PP if it's only a few re-try.

stefpet22 · September 2012

We used fresh rosemary that you can buy at stop and shop. We had no idea that you have to dry it out. So when we redo this, do we still have to boil the olive oil even if we don't put fresh herbs in it? We are putting a italian seasoning mix.