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FieldsofThyme
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Rosemary
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 Posted - Oct 08 2012 : 07:32:50 AM
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For one thing, rose hips are packed with Vitamin C. You just dry the hips, crush them a bit to expose the insides, put them in a teapot and pour almost-boiling water over them. Let steep for 5 minutes or so and enjoy. I like mine with a little honey.
If you're wildcrafting, be careful about inadvertantly collecting poison ivy or other noxious weed that may be growing among the roses. Typically, rose hips are taken from rugosa roses and other heritage varieties. Most modern roses don't produce proper hips. Rugosa rose hips can be the size of crabapples! They make wonderful jelly, by the way. |
Edited by - Rosemary on Oct 08 2012 07:36:15 AM |
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kysheeplady
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Teri
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
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Virginia
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Posted - Oct 08 2012 : 8:02:28 PM
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| That's a nice site, Teri. I've bookmarked it to browse through later. |
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ramonaj
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rhonda
gibsons
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Posted - Oct 18 2012 : 6:36:51 PM
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great site, thanks for sharing it
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FieldsofThyme
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Katlady93
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Charlotte
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Posted - Nov 12 2012 : 5:45:38 PM
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Teri awesome site, thanks for sharing.
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countrymommy85
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Krystle
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Posted - Jan 02 2013 : 10:10:55 AM
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My Husbands' Grandparents make their own rose hip tea and all they do is harvest, dry and crush. Then they just store them in a dark cool place in a canning jar. I'm not sure if that is actually the best way to store something like that but that is what they do and they do use them up quickly so they are not sitting around for long. Also you can make rosehip jelly which is amazing!
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forgetmenot
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Judith
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Posted - Jan 02 2013 : 9:48:25 PM
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Very interesting site, Teri. Thanks for sharing. I bookmarked it also.
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Wildcrafter
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Suzanne
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Posted - Jan 05 2013 : 11:07:33 AM
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Below is a copy of some of the email I sent to my last year's autumn apprentices before we went out in the wild to harvest rosehips.
Rose hips – packed with Vitamin C complex, rich in bioflavonoids. What are bioflavonoids, you ask? They are antioxidants found in plants. Bioflavonoids are capable of increasing bodily health by supporting strong cell formation, contribute to cardiac health, and eye health to name just a few of it’s super powers. Bioflavonoids are called Vitamin P!
Vitamin C is destroyed with heat, drying and processing, so it’s a good idea to pay attention to the medicines you will make that help to preserve this immune system helper. Using fresh rose hips, you can make an elixir, straight up rose hip honey, and/or rose hip vinegar.
Take note…while you can dry rose hips to make a wonderfully flavored tea or decoction, the C complex will be destroyed. Same with making rose hip jelly, rose hip soup and pudding. Lovely on the tongue, your belly will be pleased. Your immune system will say, “uh, what?”
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Rosemary
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Posted - Jan 05 2013 : 3:59:01 PM
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| Suzanne, you're right about the death of vitamin C in many rose hip preparations. Any time you put sugar in something, you lose the value of any C. Boiling does the same thing. Hot water, not boiling, however, shouldn't be a problem. I was brought up to believe that if you let "tea water" reach boiling, it was no longer good, and you had to start over. That's why I wrote "almost-boiling water" in my post above. Had your study told you that steeping dried rose hips in very hot water (in a tea pot with lid, of course) destroys all the vitamin C content? |
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Wildcrafter
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Suzanne
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Posted - Jan 06 2013 : 08:40:55 AM
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It would depend on how hot the water is. If we consume fresh rose hips, they land in our 98.6 degree body. That temperature is not too hot to desproy the Vit C. I'm not sure how hot the water needs to be, but I would suspect that anything over much more than that would be damaging to the Vit C, including almost boiling. Drying also destroys the C complex. If someone starts out with dried rosehips, then they would be getting a good taste and many other vitamins and minerals, but not the C. It would be interesting to play around with fresh rosehips and varying degrees of hot water to find out at what temperature the C is destroyed. I would need a lab for that, though. Or access to one. That would be a fun experiment!
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