What to do with Rosehip harvest? tea? syrup?

[Startingagainandagain]

Could anyone share simple fresh rosehip tea and also syrup recipes?

I have a large rosehip bush in the garden of my new house and I just harvested the red buds today but now I am not to sure what to do with them now...

My mother used to make jam a syrup, I’m not convinced that the claimed health benefits and vitamin C survive the boiling or outweigh the massive amounts of sugar. But tea might be good, if the vitamin C survives the hot water. Whatever you do, beware the hairs inside, so sieve if cooking

Ooh, I've got lovely memories of rosehip syrup on semolina at primary school back in the 1970s. I've never, ever seen it anywhere else.

Make that.

And send me some. 😉

Currently have mine buried in sugar for syrup.

Simplest thing for me to add sugar, forget about on windowsill, remember when I run out of all other sweet stuff and eventually sieve in depths of winter to liven up my porridge. Job done.

It’s like the emergency mint at the bottom of a handbag or single wrapped biscoff in the glove box.

No nutritional value really matters for me it’s basically sugar fancied up by stuff I’d be growing anyway.

I boiled the berries in enough water to cover, mushing them up to extract maximum flavour, sieved and sieved again, added 1lb sugar to each 1pint of juice, and boiled to jam setting point. Good on yogurt or ice cream.

Itching powder?

If not, I second yhe thorough sieving.

I've used River Cottage rosehip syrup recipe in the past and used a jelly bag with an extra layer of muslin.

My niece loves it even though strange forces caused a jar to jump out of the fridge and smash on the floor. "It wasn't me Auntie, I think it was your cat". They cat who bypassed tuna and ham in the fridge for a jar of rosehip syrup, mmm yes ok.

I find it an awful faff so I've told her I will only make it every other year and this is the not making it year. It's such a pity because I have quite a lot of hips on the rose bush in the garden.