Why have I never picked Rosehips before?

I realise, now, that it wouldn't have been fun! As a girl, it seemed a really happy communal time. I also envied everyone being picked up by tractor and trailer - a health and safety nightmare in retrospect.

We picked rosehips even in the mid 1960s when we were 9 or 10 - they were weighed and paid for in the school hall. And lots of my friends at primary school went potato picking, some to earn themselves pocket money, others had to do it to supplement the family income. I lasted one day - fun it most certainly was not!

That looks lovely - I haven't made any jelly/jam for a few years so maybe it's time to do some. I used to use my crab apples to make marrow and crab apple jam but I haven't had may crab apples for a while now. Or possibly the birds/squirrels have got to them first.

annsixty - yes we picked rosehips (the fifties in my case) 3d a pound. They were collected from school.

We 'foraged' for mushrooms and blackberries - the latter boiled up with crab apples to make jam which sweetened everything (any other jam was made in very small quantities for special occasions)

The gypsies picked potatoes, but we were all invited to the big bonfire at the end with sausages and baked potatoes (though I helped to cook those in the oven - the fire was too risky!)

Kittylester it was not fun! We picked into metal mesh baskets, a bit like supermarket baskets, and had to lift them up to fill a trailer. It was pretty hard work for twelve year old me who was a huge bookworm.

When I was young, we crushed rosehip and put them down each other's tops.

Re potatoes picking - it was common in our village for everyone to go potato picking. We didn't, of course, only the village people did that - according to my mum. It struck me as a fun thing to do.

25 Avalon not sure how to reply to you but here is the recipe: www.fabfood4all.co.uk/rosehip-apple-jelly/

I didn’t have time off school but my first job when I was about 13/14 was picking potatoes but I can’t for the life of me remember where we went I can remember clearly the friend I went with but she can’t remember even going but I honestly didn’t imagine it

annsixty

We also picked rose hips for syrup during the war, I am “quite “ old and remember very well were paid 3d per pound.
It was organised by the school.

Can you imagine that happening today but I guess the vitamin rich rose hips were important at the time. As was food, grandad used to tell children had time off school to harvest potatoes as well.

Our mum gave us all rose hip syrup when we were children. I have foraged ever since I was young and have made syrups jellies jams and chutneys. Making them is a pleasure and the end results are far better than anything you can buy.

We also picked rose hips for syrup during the war, I am “quite “ old and remember very well were paid 3d per pound.
It was organised by the school.

I made a few batches of rose hip syrup a year or two ago, but was put off as it went mouldy.

I didn’t seem to get the boiling up right.

When it was ok, it was nice on Greek yogurt.

We used to pick rose-hips as children and were paid -probably pennies per lb!
They went to make Delrosa Rosehip Syrup.

Rose hip syrup it should say. Having trouble posting tonight.

Rose hip jelly is good too. It’s great for sore throats and on porridge. I guess your jelly could be good on porridge too. It looks lovely in your photo. Any chance of the recipe?