Lots of Jam

There were rose hips again, so we made lots and lots of jam with them!

Rose Hips

This weekend my owner's OtherHalf collected lots of rose hips!
First they were washed and cooked.


And then made into lots of yummy jam!

Rosehips

Yesterday the weather was nice, so we went out to gather rosehips so we could make rosehips jam.

A rose still in bloom.

I saw a bug on one of the rosehips!
We didn't pick that rosehip: bug jam isn't very tasty.

All in all we managed to get 3 and a half kilo of rosehips that we could use for making jam. That's lots of jam I can tell you!

Rosehips

Yesterday we gathered rosehips to make jam. There were lots of rosehips this year and they were beautiful.

There were still some blossoms left and those smelled really good.

This bee thought so too and tried to gather some nectar.

When we got home we cleaned the rosehips and cut them in half. All ready to cook them and then make jam out of them. Yum!

Return of the Rosehips

It was a nice dry and sunny day today so we went out to pick more rosehips. Wild rosehips this time to make wine with.

There were also lots of hawthorn berries, but we weren't after those today, although you can make very tasty wine with hawthorn berries too.

These are what we were after: wild rosehips. We brought a nice sharp garden scissor too, because you never know if you might need it when picking berries and such.

Random pic of me and one of our bikes.

Our harvest!
Almost can't wait for the wine to be ready.

Wild Rosehip

My owner has been too pre-occupied with other things to do anything fun with me the last two days, but we did take this picture of one of the wild rosehip varieties we have around here to show to Moira and Marie.

Rosehips

This post is for Moira as she wanted a post about tradional food. Maybe this is not tradional for most dutch people but it is for my owner and her OH.
So Moira: This is for you!

Today we went out to the park close to our home to gather rosehips to make jam.

Couldn't resist taking a few pictures of signs too.



Anyway, this is what we were after: Rosehips

Most rosehips were ripe, but there were even some flowers left.

When we had enough rosehips we went home and started cleaning them from leaves and we cut them in half.

Next we cooked them for awhile.

The seeds of rosehips aren't very tasty so we needed a way to seperate them from the fruity part of the rosehips: A fruit grinder thingie!

Checking out if the blade is good enough to do it's job.

And in they go!

The fruity part of the rosehips gets grinded to a pulp and pushed through the grate part of the grinder while the seeds stay in the grinder.

After all the seeds were seperated from the fruity part and the fruity part was all pulp we added a special sugar that is made to use for making jam and such and we cooked the sugar and rosehips mix for 4 minutes.

After it's cooked it's jam and it can be put into jars which then have to stand up side down for about 5 minutes so they seal themselves air tight.

After that it's time for a well deserved rest.