Rose Hip Tea
After frost has touched the hips and before they are balls of mush collect your hips bring them indoors and give them a quick rinse.
Take 10 or so nice ripe hips and place them in a pot (3 cups) of boiling water. Turn heat to simmer, mashing hips without breaking to release oils and leave for 30 minutes. (If hips are broken strain your tea before pouring into container for later use. Hairs on seeds are an irritant) Remove from heat and let tea sit covered overnight. Serve hot or cold storing unused tea in an airtight container in refridgerator. High source of vitamin C. I find this tea has a fruity flavour.

Did you know that this tea was made for sailors to prevent scurvy and that the fuzzy hairs found on the seeds is what they make itching powder from.

Rose hips contain 25 percent more iron, 20 to 40 percent more Vitamin C (depending upon variety), 25 times the Vitamin A, and 28 percent more calcium than an orange.

Rose hips are a rich source of bioflavanoids, pectin, Vitamin E, selenium, manganese, and the B-complex vitamins they are also known to contain trace amounts of magnesium, potassium, sulfur and silicon.

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