This was a 10-mins effort on my part, and it resulted in 1 month's worth of rosehips. Due to the amount that I had, I wound up working them in three batches.
This is 1/3 of what I picked, ready to go in the oven to dry.
As I cut the rose hips in half, and remove the seeds prior to drying, above is the amount of waste from 1/3 of the rosehips.
Sadly, the first batch was overbaked due to an oversight on my part (the oven was too warm at one point as I had made pizza). What's amusing about this batch is that they puffed up in a strange way. They look more like nuts (hollow, puffy nuts), than like a dried fruit-like substance.
Here are batches 1 and 2 combined. Look at the difference in colors!
As I was too lazy and busy to complete the third batch in this manner, I wound up making rose hip syrup with the final third.
Here they are boiling -- add just enough water to cover the fresh rose hips (mine were a WEE bit dried). Boil for 10-15 mins, then strain the rose hips out and add honey in a 2:1 ratio, rose hip water to honey.
There's the small amount of syrup that I have. I have the suspicion that it will taste better with some warm spices, but we'll find out.
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