How I process some of my rose hips. It isn’t necessary to go to this much trouble but I do have a purpose as I explain.
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How I process some of my rose hips. It isn’t necessary to go to this much trouble but I do have a purpose as I explain.
Everybody makes such a fuss about seeded fruits with seeds and hairs. In Pacific NW, we process seeded fruits (cranberries, rose hips,, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, various wild berries) with a steam juicer unit. Put clean berries/pods into the steamer, put on stove, and steam cook the product. Steam softens and separates pod skin, pulp, seeds, hairs, and juice. Steaming fruits, like steamed foods, saves healthful vitamins etc. Drain the steamed juice/skins/pulp from the seeds/hairs. Filter through smooth cotton fabric separating seeds/hair/pod skin from clean filtered juice and expressed pulp. Press/squeeze out any remaining juice and pulp from the cotton. You have hips juice/pulp for canned rose juice, jelly, jam, or preserves. Take remaining seeds/hairs/pulp/skin, and totally dehydrate. Take dried product and (with leather gloves or two layers of rough sided leather) rub and scrub the dried seeds/hairs and pulp/skin apart. Using your sieve, toss the seeds and hairs. Hairs and tiny pulp/skin fall down, seeds/large pulp/skins in sieve. Discard hairs and tiny pulp/skin. Save whole seeds for oil pressing machine, or scatter-plant seeds back across oiutback landscape for further rose hip production sites. Use a blender and grind remaining seeds/large pulp/skins to powder. Use rose hip seed/pulp/skin powder as a tea, … or add back into canned rose products for total Vit C and E. Eazy squeezy. Hope this is helpful. Enjoy!
That was really interesting. I have never used them. Thanks for haring what you do with them.
I harvest my 'wild' rose hips after the first freeze. Wild rose hips are much smaller than what you have. I air dry them whole, seed and all for a couple of weeks in a dry DARK AREA. Some of them I store in a glass jar for later use. I also use them for making a rose hip infused oil. Which I use the oil on my skin.
thanks, I got a bunch of these I need to do this to now, this was right on time.
Thats interesting I have never had the tea. I must try it. I need your address again can you PM it 😉
You're right. I've never seen this process.
I did not realize this about the hairs…
I've only had rose once…in a syrup over ice cream and it was such an exotic flavor!
I look forward to doing this.
Thanks!
I found a MUCH EASIER way to extract the seeds, cut them in half while fresh and let them sit in cold water for 10min. Then just scrape out the seeds with your thumbnail! I posted a video with a demonstration(: I hope that helps!
Email me bwilson8681@gmail.com and I'll send you all the seeds
Oh my God, I think the hairs may have been giving me stomach problems! Throwing out currently 'procesed' rosehips now.
Nice, but why do people go thru the extra step of "processing". Throw them in the freezer.
I'm lazy… I take fresh hips cut in half, seeds and all, and boiled all of it for a few minutes. Let sit for 30 min. Pour thru washed paint strainer, squeezed all the juice out of stainer into quart jars, and the juice tastes amazing and flavorful. All fresh. If I didn't have time, I'd throw the hips in freezer and throw them in boiling water later. Or throw the juice in the freezer in containers to drink later.Thank you for sharing!