rose hips

Make this tasty and festive rose hip whiskey smash for a fall foraged cocktail that is perfect for the holiday season! Recipe reprinted with permission from Wild Drinks and Cocktails by Emily Han.

Rose Hip Whiskey Smash Cocktail

rose hips (or 1/2 cup dried rose hips)

water

honey (or sugar)

orange wedges (preferably blood orange)

rose hip syrup

mint leaves

bourbon

ice cubes

mint

Lightly crush the rose hips using a potato masher or rolling pin.

Combine the rose hips and water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and mash the rose hips with a potato masher or another mashing tool.

Strain through a fine mesh sieve and discard the solids. Measure the liquid, you should have about 1/2 cup.

Return the liquid to the saucepan and add the honey. Simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Strain through a cloth or coffee filter to catch any little hairs which can irritate the digestive system.&nbsp;

Rose Hip Syrup

Muddle the orange wedges with the rose hip syrup in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the mint leaves and lightly bruise with the muddler.

Add the bourbon and ice and shake well. Strain into a glass and garnish with the mint sprig.

Rose Hip Whiskey Smash

Rose Hip Ketchup

Rose Hips

Water

Anaheim Pepper

Onion

Garlic Cloves

Red Bell Pepper

Apple Cider Vinegar

Brown Sugar

Salt

tsp Allspice

½ tsp Dry Mustard

tsp Celery Seed

There is no need to separate the ends from the rose hips since you’ll be using a fine sieve to strain away all the ends and seeds.

Cover 12 cups of rose hips with water and bring to a boil. Turn down to a slow simmer and cook for 30 minutes.

While the rose hips are boiling, chop the anaheim pepper (deseed and devein if you want to remove some of the spice), onion, and garlic.

Put a fine sieve over a bowl and pour the pot of rose hips into the sieve to separate the liquid from the rose hips. Reserve the liquid as a broth for another recipe (chili maybe?) or use it to thin out the ketchup later.

Pour the rose hips into a separate bowl from the fine sieve and place the strainer over another bowl to collect the rose hip puree.

A cup at a time, push the rose hips through the fine sieve. Scoop out the rose hip part that remains in the sieve and put it back in the cooking pot you originally cooked them in. Do this for the remaining rose hips. It takes a bit of time to get it pushed through, and I remind myself every year that I’m going to get a food mill, but here I am still doing it the hard way. Taste the puree, so you know what you’re working with - kind of like a tomato paste.

Cover the rose hips once again with water and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Strain them once again, as you did in the step above.

Heat olive oil and saute onion, garlic, and peppers for 8 minutes.

Add in the apple cider vinegar, stir, and then add in the rose hip puree. Stir to blend the ingredients.

Add in remaining ingredients and cook at a low simmer for 10 minutes.

Using an immersion blender, blend the ingredients in the pot until smooth. You can use a regular blender to do this too. If the pot you cooked the ketchup in is Teflon, transfer to a glass bowl before using the immersion blender. Then, like my chef, buddy said, “Throw out that Teflon pot and get something that doesn’t cause you cancer,” and then he threw my last Teflon pot away.

This recipe makes a little under three pints of ketchup, which is a lot to eat before it goes bad sitting in the fridge. I divide the recipe between two ball glasses that I can in a hot water bath for 15 minutes (adjust for altitude - my real-time at 7,000 feet elevation is 30 minutes). The remaining ketchup I put into a salad dressing jar to be used over the next few weeks.

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