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Rose hip tea

After frost, from the fencerow you already hate. Vitamin C and a tart evening cup.

20 minutes · 1 pot

  1. Gather hips after a freeze. Trim ends. Dry or use fresh.
  2. Crush 1 Tbsp per cup. Simmer 10 minutes. Pour through cloth — the inner hairs are an itch you do not want to drink.
  3. Honey. A mint leaf if you have it.
Dose
A cup or two a day in winter.
Store
Dried whole hips, a year, dark and dry.

Strain the hairs. Do not plant more multiflora to get more hips.