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Hi Guys,

http://homecooking.about.com/od/fruitrecipes/r/blfruit9.htm

I went to the lotty at the weekend and noticed that the hedge by my plot which i need to cut back has masses of large rosehips on and i was going to help myself to a few :)

I found this recipie for rosehip syrup and i was wondering how long it might last for??

I dont have the patients for making Jelly :(

oh, can you just use any rosehips??

Cam

I made some years ago and it lasted about two weeks because they kept pouring it on their porridge and wanting rice pudding to put it on.

However I am told that it 'keeps' for ages. A bit like jam with the high volume of sugar.

Not good for the teeth though.

Cam - on that link you gave it suggests that the tastiest for eating purposes come from the Rosa rugosa variety.
twinkletoes

I just watched Gardener's World which I recorded and hadn't watched and Alys makes rosehip syrup but she said to strain it twice after letting the liquid settle the second time to get the hairs out.

I belong to the generation that was sent out collecting rosehips, and some organisation, forget its name, gave us something like 1/2 penny per punnet. Seemed like riches in early fifties. We got free rosehip syrup to give us vitamin C, so I suppose someone had to collect the rosehips.

http://www.galensgarden.co.uk/herbs/rosehip.php

"Rosehip syrup was an important source of vitamin C for children during World War II.  English children were paid 3d per lb for rosehips harvested in the autumn to be made into rosehip syrup by the company Delrosa in Wallsend (near Newcastle)..  For many years after the war, Delrosa brand Rose Hip Syrup was supplied along with Delrosa Orange for babies, through baby clinics throughout the UK."

We were robbed! I was brought up in Scotland.....

Careful!  I made some when the children were little and it fermented!!!

Heard something on the radio yesterday saying rosehip has been shown to be good for arthritis.Can't find a link, but found this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1984024/Rosehip-better-than-painkillers-for-arthritis.html

tried a rosehip supplement, didn't work for me..litozan..before you use it, ask me, I've half a bottle left, cost a bomb  ;D

We used to have a spoon of Delrosa rosehip syrup every day when I was little.  Is this brand still about artichoke?
twinkletoes

Quote from: manicscousers on October 30, 2008, 18:01:04
tried a rosehip supplement, didn't work for me..litozan..before you use it, ask me, I've half a bottle left, cost a bomb  ;D

Yes after seeing the price of the Litozan I thought I'd grow some Rosa rugosa at my allotment. Everybody is different so that doesn't tell me whether it would work for me, a lot of people find Ibruprofen works, but for me the glass of water is more useful.

well, at least if you make your own rose hip syrup, you know what goes into it  :)
just been to look, ray's thrown them out  ???

I used to make this some years ago and found it  was best after the hips had had a good frost.. but it was a race to get them before the birds did, we used Rugosa roses XX Jeannine

I remember having it when I was little. Lovely stuff.