Rose milk

Rose milk is a chilled South Indian cooler made by stirring sweet rose syrup into cold milk until it turns a soft, opaque pink with a frankly floral, sugary perfume. It is a sweet-shop and street-stall staple of the Indian summer, often poured over a spoonful of soaked basil seeds (sabja or tukmaria) for a jelly-like crunch, and served thoroughly iced. Simple to the point of being just two ingredients — milk and rose syrup — it is creamy, gently fragrant and unmistakably pink, the everyday cousin of the more elaborate falooda. Despite the name it contains no alcohol; its character comes entirely from dairy and rose.