On 12/10/06 23:50, in article
ws.net, "Sue"
wrote:


"JennyC" wrote
"Janet Baraclough" wrote
I have made that, but not for many years! I've been thinking of
making rosehip syrup, though, using the wild rose hips on the
hedgerows (better for red colour than r glauca). Do you have a
recipe?

What does one do with the syrup ??

BBC Woman's Hour wartime recipe:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womansho...recipe93.shtml

OR http://homecooking.about.com/library...e/blfruit9.htm

My Mum tells me that during the war she used to earn a few pennies along
with other children by going out collecting bags of rosehips which were
then sent away for making syrup. I believe it was part of some national
scheme to give to children as a vitamin C supplement because of the
restricted diet.

I seem to remember we were still given Delrosa rose-hip syrup when I was
small.

I was given Parrish's Chemical Food and some malty tasting treacly dark goo.
I didn't mind the latter but the PCF was disgusting and you had to drink it
through a straw because it stained the teeth. I hate to think what it did
to the insides!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/