[doganjo]

I have just picked about 3 lbs of rosehips from one of my old roses.  I made RH jelly and RH syrup last year - any ideas for a change?

[dizzy1pig]

i got wine on the go.....

[Rosemary]

Treats for poor starving horses. Smokey loves them.

[faith0504]

my big mare will do anything for rosehip they are her favorite treat

[doganjo]

Treats for poor starving horses. Smokey loves them.

OK tell him to pack his little saddle and come down here - he can help himself!

[Sylvia]

Rosehip soup? I have a recipe if you would like to try it. It's unusual but very good!

[faith0504]

i would also like to recipe for that please please pretty please

[doganjo]

No, don't fancy that - ah well, jelly and syrup it is then.

[Sylvia]

Faith, the recipe for rose-hip soup,
There are two recipes, one for a light first course one and one for a thick, rich, eat with a chunk of bread, lunch-time one.

For both recipes first make rose-hip juice as follows,
1ib rose hips, whole but with stalks removed
1pt. water

Simmer together for an hour mashing now and then with a wooden spoon. Drip through double muslin overnight.This juice is very concentrated and only 1/4 pt. is needed for each recipe. (can be frozen)

Light Soup
1/4 pt. juice
1/2 oz. butter
1 small onion
1tspn. tomato puree
1pt. chicken or veg. stock
1tspn. Worcester sauce
1/2 tspn. salt
black pepper

Melt butter in pan,add finely chopped onion,sweat in a covered pan over a low heat for 5 mins. Add tom. puree, srir, then add rose-hip juice, stock,Worc, sauce and seasoning. Cover pan and simmer gently for 20mins.  Blitz or put through mouli and serve hot with croutons.

Thick version
1/4 pt. juice
1/2 oz.butter
1 med. onion
1 med. carrot and 1 small spud.
1/2 oz. flour
1 pt. stock
2tspns. sugar
pinch of ground mace
salt and pepper
1 tspn. Worc. sauce

Melt butter in pan add thinly sliced onion, carrot and potato and fry very gently together for five mins. Shake in flour and stir to blend then stir in rose hip juice and stock and bring to a slow simmer. Add sugar , seasoning and Worc. sauce. Cover pan and simmer gently for 20 mins. Serve hot.
Now, Dogandgo, just try a little spoonful...go on, it's delicious!

[faith0504]

hi thanks for that it sounds great will def give that ago, i made my first ever nettle soup in spring that was a success, very tasty.
thanks again

[doganjo]

Thanks, peeps. but I'm not really a soup person.

[Sonia in Cornwall]

I've got a recipe at home for Rosehip Mead if you're interested?  I'm planning on giving that a go myself this year. 

[doganjo]

I've got a recipe at home for Rosehip Mead if you're interested?  I'm planning on giving that a go myself this year. 

Might give that a go, thanks, Sonia

[Big T]

Rosehip Mead recipe (sorry for delay - didn't co-ordinate computer with recipe for a while)

Use about 4lbs of hips.  Boil them in a gallon of water for 5 or 10 minutes, and when cool mash them with your hands or a piece of hardwood and strain through butter muslin. 

To this add 4lb honey, 15g citric acid and yeast nutrient, and stir until the honey is disolved.  When lukewarm add the yeast and ferment as usual.  It is an improvement for this mead to use a sherry yeast and ferment in the sherry manner (i.e. after hte 1st racking and not before have your fermenting container on 7/8ths rfull and use an empty air lock, the end of which can be lightly plugged with cotton wool.  This exposes the mead to air, but prevents the entry of vinegar flies allowing a degree of oxidisation)  However you can also use an ordinary wine yeast and ferment and mature in the usual way if you wish. 

 

[Blonde]

I have just picked about 3 lbs of rosehips from one of my old roses.  I made RH jelly and RH syrup last year - any ideas for a change?

pot pourie.....just an idea