Useful ways to make the most of rosehips

When all fruit fails, welcome haw. Valerie O’Connor says rosehips are totally underestimated as a food source.

There are so many free foods out there, unsuspectingly hanging around in bushes and hedgerows, as we nonchalantly stroll about on our daily business. One pretty bud is the rosehip, red and curvaceous, prolific right now as the remnant of the wild or dog rose.

Rosehips, or haws used to be collected by children in Britain during the war and the government would encourage people by way of recipes in newspapers, to turn them into syrup, due to the shortage of citrus fruits because of the war.