Well winter is well and truly here in Australia. I have been very busy but finally got around to pruning the roses (at the very end of the rose pruning season). As I was doing this I decided to keep all of the rosehips to try to make something edible.
For this you need 500 g rosehips, 500 g sugar and 2 litres of boiling water. I tried to crush the rosehips in my coffee grinder (but only succeeded in breaking the coffee grinder) so instead I roughly chopped them. They were then steeped in 1 litre of boiling water for 1/2 hour then strained through a colander lined with a piece of fine cloth. This process is repeated again with the rosehip pulp and the second litre of boiling water. The rosehip infused liquid is then placed into a small saucepan and boiled until it is reduced to about 1/2. Then add the sugar and cook for about 5 minutes. When it cooled, some of the syrup went into a bottle of vodka (which I will taste test in a few months time) and the rest I used to make rosehip syrup cupcakes.
Rosehip Syrup Cupcakes:
Beat 110 g butter with 110g castor sugar until light and fluffy. Add two eggs and 3 teaspoons rosehip syrup and mix well then fold in 110 g SR flour. Mix and spoon into patty pans and cook in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes or until cooked when tested. Ice with a pale pink icing and place a candy flower decoration on each one.
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