Rosa rubiginosa

Sweet Briar, Eglantine at Aranda Bushland

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	Rosa rubiginosa	9 Mar 2024	Csteele4
	Rosa rubiginosa	8 Mar 2024	KMcCue

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We bagged more than 500 fruit off the shrubs

7 comments

Csteele4 wrote:

9 Mar 2024

Are you planning to use them? Good to see them out of the environment.

KMcCue wrote:

9 Mar 2024

No we plan to put them in the green bin. Keeping them out of the environment was indeed our goal.

Csteele4 wrote:

10 Mar 2024

@KMcCue fair call! I only ask as I collect them for dual purposes: keeps them out of the environment, and they make a nice, vitamin-c rich jelly.

KMcCue wrote:

10 Mar 2024

What a good idea - is the jelly recipe available?

Mike wrote:

10 Mar 2024

There are plenty of recipes available, with varying degrees of complexity, so I will wait for a recommendation from @Csteele4. I remember rose hip syrup taken by the spoonful as medicine (or maybe when the jelly failed to set. There is a recipe that uses brandy as an extra preservative boost and that might be pretty good.
I cut and poisoned heaps of briar rose today but didn't remove the hips; maybe next time I will collect some seeing the blackberries are almost finished.
There are plenty of briar roses on Isaacs Ridge which anyone is welcome to take.

Csteele4 wrote:

10 Mar 2024

@kmccue message me your email address and I'll gladly send you a recipe!

Csteele4 wrote:

13 Mar 2024

@KMcCue I'll send the recipe now, sorry for the delay! Got caught up with work. :)

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