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Originally Posted by Seajay  In the 1950's, as a schoolchild in Berwick-upon-Tweed, each year we would be paid a few old pennies a bag for rose-hips collected from the Tweed valley. A representative from where I can't remember, something to do with the Government after WW2 I think, used to call at the schools, weigh your collection and pay you! That was for rosehip syrup.
We used to go on nature walks then too, as part of the school curriculum, beach combing, bird watching along the river, the whole class. It was great and one of the things that got me interested in nature. A pity it was'nt done now though I suppose children have more to learn now. |
During the war my dad was evacuated to a boarding school in Somerset called Mooseheart and they had to go out and pick rose hips to be made into rosehip syrup too.
This will probably seem like a stupid question but what do rosehips taste like? Do they taste the same as rose petals - I am assuming they do?