I have a number of rose hip bushes and wish to make use of the hips. How do
I produce a drink from these.
Blair

"Blair" wrote:

I have a number of rose hip bushes and wish to make use of the hips. How do
I produce a drink from these.

Dry the hips, break them up a bit, and brew like tea.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

You can make itching powder as well!

Just like us bumpkin kids used to - many moons ago...

Have fun,

Keith


"Gary Woods" wrote in message
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"Blair" wrote:

I have a number of rose hip bushes and wish to make use of the hips. How
do
I produce a drink from these.

Dry the hips, break them up a bit, and brew like tea.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at
home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

Gary Woods wrote:
"Blair" wrote:

I have a number of rose hip bushes and wish to make use of the hips. How do
I produce a drink from these.

Dry the hips, break them up a bit, and brew like tea.

I'd be a bit careful - they contain fine hairs that can be an irritant -
they must be well filtered.

However simply typing "Rosehip Syrup" into google and searching UK only
pages, gave me this recipe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womansho...recipe93.shtml

Which is the pretty standard recipe. I have made this and very nice it is.

Jim

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:47:58 GMT, Gary Woods
wrote:

I have a number of rose hip bushes and wish to make use of the hips. How do
I produce a drink from these.

If you can go back in the archive to a thread dated end Oct /
beginning Nov you will see a discussion about just this. I asked a
similar question and got some very useful answers.
Main points I learned were that freezing the hips helps them to break
down quicker. I had to boil mine for hours to get them soft enough to
strain. YOu need to rub them through a fine seive or better strain
through a jelly bag.
It's worth the effort.


Pam in Bristol