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Originally Posted by Susie  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? |
So they had your Dad and his schoolchums doing it it Somerset too did they, and I thought Lord Shaftesbury brought out his Act banning children from slave labour a hundred years earlier!
Seriously, it does illustrate how desperate we were after WW2 nutrition wise. However, thinking back we enjoyed the picking expeditions!
I have never ever, ever, ever eaten rose hips (put them down girl's backs though
) or rose petals. In Lincolnshire we find growing lettuce and eating those far more productive!