Make Rosehip Tea Yourself – That’s How It Works

Preparation for the rosehip tea: picking and washing

Before having a healthy cup of tea, the first thing to do is to pick the red fruits. Especially if you are a bit sensitive, you should put on light gardening gloves when harvesting rosehips.

• Of course, you can also use fresh rose hips for your tea, but rose hips do not keep very long. Therefore, dry the rose hips beforehand.
• Before drying the rose hips, wash them first.
• Then remove the stems and flowers of the rose hips.
• Then the rosehips go into the oven for a few hours. Distribute the fruit evenly on the trays so that they are not on top of each other.
• At a temperature of 50 degrees, the rose hips stay in the oven for about ten hours. Check from time to time whether the fruit has dried.
• Leave the oven ajar to allow moisture to escape.

Prepare rosehip tea – this is how it works

Place the dried rose hips in containers that you seal tightly.

• Chop up a week’s supply depending on how much tea you drink. A mortar works well for this. Do not remove the seeds from the rosehip as it contains many healthy ingredients.
• Store the crushed rose hips in an opaque tea caddy.
• If you want to make rosehip tea, use boiling water. Place the dried, crushed rose hips in a tea strainer or tea egg. Calculate about two to three teaspoons of rose hips per cup, depending on your taste.
• Pour the boiling water over them and let the rose hips steep for a good 15 to 20 minutes.
• You can also mix the rose hips with other fruits such as apples, cherries, or red hibiscus flowers. By the way, the hibiscus blossoms give your homemade rosehip tea a beautiful deep red color.
• A dash of lemon also tastes delicious in the finished rosehip tea.