Rose hips

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What's the best easiest (quickest!) method for removing the hairs from rose hips?

DD wants to make various things using our hips - there are tons of them - but scooping the hairs with a teaspoon isn't working, the entire thing turns to mush.

Any ideas welcome! Thank you

It doesn’t sound like an easy job. My DH said his aunt used to buy them ready prepared by women in the Alsace, who sold them at the local market. I would just use the whole hip and strain through a jelly bag for jelly or syrup or wine.
I’d be interested in better suggestions.

I top & tail then, then cook them up to mush and strain through an muslin. I never pick them until the first frost has passed though - I have no idea why! It's probably not a thing but at some point someone must have told me so this is what I do 😂. What is she making?

Mind you, I am a bit surprised they are so mushy so early. If she is really prepared for hours of tedious hard work perhaps another variety would be better.

Strain through a jelly bag. So start with enough water to generously cover the hips, boil to get as much goodness out of the hips as possible, then strain.

It’s why you hear of rose-hip syrup and rose-hip jelly but not rose-hip jam.

“It’s why you hear of rose-hip syrup and rose-hip jelly but not rose-hip jam.”

My husband’s Aunt made rose hip jam.

Top and tail, boil up and strain through a jelly bag. I'm gutted that the wild rose in my garden didn't produce flowers this year and the wild rose down the woods has disappeared so no rose hip syrup for me this year.

I’m sure you can find some if you really want to.

How did she get the hairs out?

She bought them ready prepared from Alsatian peasant women.

Thanks everyone! So no easy way of scooping the hairs out unless you know Alsatian women?

Top and tail and boil then. She's got them t&t'd now but not started on the boil.....

She said she shouldn't have picked them now as they haven't had a first frost, but one of the recipes she's actually unearthed said freezing them overnight replaced it. We shall see how this all goes.

TroysMammy a woman xame by a few years ago and asked if she could harvest my rosehips, and I was happy to oblige. Maybe take a wander round town and if you see rose just knock on the door.

This woman was also going to make rh jam. I imagine she's need almost a ton of the things. I had a massive basketful of damson once which made about a teaspoonful of jam!

A lot of internet recipes for rose hip jam are actually rose-hip jelly. Jam has the fruit in, jelly is made from the strained juice

I had a massive basketful of damson once which made about a teaspoonful of jam! Surprised at that. Usually a pound of fruit makes about a pound of jam. We used to make damson jam when we lived somewhere where the field hedges were full of damsons, can’t remember them boiling down to nothing

I suppose the volume of damsons reduces noticeably, but that does sound extreme. I made six jars of assorted sizes of jam from four pounds this year.
I made rose hip wine once. I really can’t remember what it tasted like. I hope I actually bottled it!
Jelly recipes seem to require two or three pounds of apples per pound of hips so maybe you don’t need a huge quantity.