How do you dry rosehips and make rosehip tea?

Question

I have some rosehips on my roses that are going red and I want to try some rosehip tea but I dont know how to dry them or how to make the tea? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I read you should slice them in half before steeping if you are using the fresh ones and you may want to remove the seeds before making the tea.
So if you wanted to dry them I think it would be a good idea to thinly slice them, deseed if you have the patience and then put them on a tray to air dry somewhere warm but not in the sun. Slicing will certainly speed up drying and when you come to make tea with the dried rosehips then steeping them should bring out more flavour. It would take an awful long time I think to dry whole hips and the flavour might not percolate when you come to make tea.

Have fun!

Answer 2

Check this out:

http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blfruit15.htm

You can buy empty teabags or a tea egg (a little metal ball with holes in it that unscrews)at the store to steep it with.

Hope this helps!