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    Went on a sloe hunt today and came home instead with a bag full of rosehips and elderberries. Thought I'd make some syrups, anyone here had a go at syrups before?
    Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

  • #2
    Hi LL
    My dad used to make rosehip syrup when I was a kid. We used to go brambling at weekends - we'd go to a salmon leap in the morning then spend the afternoon picking brambles, haws and rosehips. I remember the rosehip syrup when I was a kid as we got a tablespoon of it immediately after we had taken our nightly dose of castor oil. If it was meant as a bribe it worked.
    I'll ask my mum to look through her old recipe book for the recipe he used.
    Rat

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    • #3
      I make blackcurrant most years, nicer than Ribena!

      I have a recipe for rosehip - 2lb/1kg hips
      6 pints water
      1lb/500kg sugar
      Mince hips and boil in 4 pints water (why not add them to the water and use a hand blender instead?) Stand 15 mins then strain through a jelly bag. Return pulp to pan with 2 pints of water, boil, leave 10 mins then strain through a clean jelly bag. Mix, boil till reduced by half. Add the sugar and boil for 5 mins. Pour into warm, clean bottles (use small bottles as it does not keep for long once opened) and sterilze (hot water bath)

      I think the pips inside the hips are an irritant so make sure none get into the finished syrup!

      Elderberry is 6lb/3kg elderberries
      1/2 pint water
      Boil together and mash berries for only 1 min (so as not to lose the flavour), strain through a jelly nag and add 3/4lb/375g sugar per pint of juice. Simmer for 10 mins adding6 cloves and 2oz ginger root. Pour into bottles and sterilze.

      When I make blackcurrant I keep it in the fridge as it doesn't seem to keep well!

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      • #4
        Sorry time for a dopey question!!!Can you use any rosehips?
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        • #5
          Sewer rat, what great memories, I remember going brambling too, and logging for fire wood!
          Thanks Vicky, my recipe is the same as yours, hopefully a good un!
          Di, you use wild or dog rose hips, the elongated ones as opposed to the rounder itching powder ones!
          Right my Rose hip syrup is on the go, will let you know how it tastes!
          Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

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