Spicey Rosehip Syrup

I am always on the look out for different or interesting recipes  and those made with foraged foods are always dear to my heart.  It is another Sarah Raven recipe from
Sarah Raven's Complete Christmas Food and Flowers ISBN: 978-0-7475-9510-6

To quote Sarah

"Rosehip syrup made with hedgerow rosehips is delicious particularly with the additional spicy flavours of cinnamon, cloves, and star anise.  It is also famously full of vitamin C and so excellent for drinking through the winter to keep colds and flu at bay.  It tastes good as a cold or hot drink diluted one part of cordial to five of water or drizzled over ice cream.  Make plenty for yourself and some extra bottles to give away.  Use small bottles as the syrup will not keep for more than a week or two once it has been opened".

Ingredients

1kg rosehips
2 cinnamon sticks broken up (optional)
6 cloves (optional)
3 star anise (optional)
450g granulated sugar.

Method

Crush the Rosehips.  Bring 1.7 litres of water to the boil in a large saucepan.  Tip the rosehips into it and bring back to the boil.  Then remove from the heat and allow to stand for 30 minutes or so to infuse before straining through a jelly bag or muslin bag.  Leave the liquid to stand.  Bring a further 800ml of water to the boil in another saucepan and add the pulp from the jelly bag.  Bring back to the boil and infuse and strain as before.  Mix the two extracts together in a clean pan.  Add the spices if using and boil over a brisk heat until the volume has reduced by half.

Add 450g sugar to this and stir over a gentle heat until the sugar has completely dissolved before boiling hard for 5 minutes.  Strain and pour into small warm bottles that have been sterilised in a pan of boiling water for 10 minutes or run through the dishwasher.

I will then water bath process the bottles for 15 minutes. Then will seal, label and date the bottles.

Once opened store in the fridge and drink within a couple of weeks.

Note:


I seem to remember that Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall made an apple and rosehip ice cream using a couple of bottles of rosehip syrup.  This spicy version would make a very unusual spicy ice cream.

I will have to have a play.  I am destined to go foraging for Rosehips and Rowan berries this weekend if the weather plays ball.  Its dreadful here today again it was wet n damp yesterday and I am a bit like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz a bit stiff to say the least.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

xx



Comments

  1. If you want some more recipes, take a look at my blog. Rosehip syrup on its own with no spices tastes of lemons. Rosehip and blackberry syrup is wonderful and I always add rosehips to my elderberry syrup or elixir. I add rosehips to most of my anti-viral syrups just because. The rosehips also make a really nice infused honey. You can either blitz them whole in the liquidiser and then strain out when you add them to a drink or painstakingly remove the stones and hairs before adding them to the honey - longer but very worthwhile. Don't forget to dry yourself a whole load of rosehips as well so you have a continuous supply throughout the year. I also add them to fire cider vinegar.

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  2. Sorry its been so long before a reply I have been having issues with Windows 10, the Internet providers and on top of that I have a new phone which has totally scuppered things. Hopefully we are now getting there.Thank you so much Sarah. I love your blog and your recipes and the uses. My Nan always used to dry the rosehips for making wine. I have not done as much as I normally do in a year but I am hoping to be more productive next year. I intend to go this weekend to see if I can find a few hips I don't want to take too many though because of the wildlife. Take care.

    Pattypan

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