ROSEHIPS
With this mounting fear in our communities... I have retreated to the (cold) garden, and have been picking ROSE HIPS because of their high Vitamin C content.. One of my students didn't know what a rose-hip was! which I found hard to believe. We had rose-hip syrup at home for coughs and cold when we were tiny tots. It is easy to make
I am also making ROSE-HIP POWDER to sprinkle on salads, breakfasts, anywhere really. It has a gentle lemony flavour. You can see both in the photo above. The syrup in the bottle, and the hunk of drying hips before crushing into powder - I will share when I have got to this step.
ROSE HIP SYRUP METHOD:
1. First, gather the rose hips growing in the wild if you don't have them at home. The wild dog rose is the best against a virus. The cultivated varieties less so.
2. Put them in a jug and cover with just enough water and then blitz to form a puree.
3. Then hang overnight in a jelly bag - you will then have juice and pulp.
4. Put the juice in a microwave safe jug, add half a cup of sugar to every cup of juice and gently microwave in small 1.5minute bursts (don't boil) until the sugar is dissolved, stirring well each time.
5. Then bottle and refrigerate.
Use with water or soda water, as you would a cordial (or add a jigger or two to champagne). You can also give a dessertspoon of the syrup to a child or put it over ice-cream to build their immune system.
THE POWDER
This starts as the left over pulp from making the syrup. It is very seedy.
Squeeze it out as much as you can into the syrup until it is as dry as you can make it.
The spread it on a round tart tray (or whatever you have), as thin as you can and put it in the oven on a dehydrate setting. As low as you can with the fan running.
When it is dryer, crumble it and put it on a sheet of baking paper directly onto the oven rack and dehydrate until it is crisp.
Then bash in a mortal and pestle until you have powder and seeds, then sieve to get the seeds out. Bottle the powder, and use it often.
This is simple. Think of it as Vit.C powder (which by the way - IT IS)
I am also making ROSE-HIP POWDER to sprinkle on salads, breakfasts, anywhere really. It has a gentle lemony flavour. You can see both in the photo above. The syrup in the bottle, and the hunk of drying hips before crushing into powder - I will share when I have got to this step.
ROSE HIP SYRUP METHOD:
1. First, gather the rose hips growing in the wild if you don't have them at home. The wild dog rose is the best against a virus. The cultivated varieties less so.
2. Put them in a jug and cover with just enough water and then blitz to form a puree.
3. Then hang overnight in a jelly bag - you will then have juice and pulp.
4. Put the juice in a microwave safe jug, add half a cup of sugar to every cup of juice and gently microwave in small 1.5minute bursts (don't boil) until the sugar is dissolved, stirring well each time.
5. Then bottle and refrigerate.
Use with water or soda water, as you would a cordial (or add a jigger or two to champagne). You can also give a dessertspoon of the syrup to a child or put it over ice-cream to build their immune system.
THE POWDER
This starts as the left over pulp from making the syrup. It is very seedy.
Squeeze it out as much as you can into the syrup until it is as dry as you can make it.
The spread it on a round tart tray (or whatever you have), as thin as you can and put it in the oven on a dehydrate setting. As low as you can with the fan running.
When it is dryer, crumble it and put it on a sheet of baking paper directly onto the oven rack and dehydrate until it is crisp.
Then bash in a mortal and pestle until you have powder and seeds, then sieve to get the seeds out. Bottle the powder, and use it often.
This is simple. Think of it as Vit.C powder (which by the way - IT IS)
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