Homemade Lemon Curd, shelf life?

[Firky]

My name is Firky and I am dumb.

 

[_pH_]

((((Firks)))))

 

[_pH_]

I dunno what the fuck youre on about firky!

Neither does he, apparently


*waves at Callie* I have been giggling at random moments all day about Hoppy. People at work think I've lost it totally now

 

[geminisnake]

Haws = rose hips

No, haws = fruit from hawthorn bush/tree

Rose hips are rosehips and totally different

 

[Firky]

No, haws = fruit from hawthorn bush/tree

Rose hips are rosehips and totally different

I thought so but I didn't want to argue. Rose hips are big large things stuffed with loads of hairy seeds and hawthorns come from those little trees that are covered in thorns and are all gnarly.

 

[jonH]

Haws n hips are winters sweetness, damsons and gin, good countryfare

 

[Callie]

I thought so but I didn't want to argue. Rose hips are big large things stuffed with loads of hairy seeds and hawthorns come from those little trees that are covered in thorns and are all gnarly.

I dont think all rose hips are that big

big ones from dog roses (ornamental) are also known as itchy coos iirc cos they have an irritant around the seeds and kids wipe them on each other

further investigation reveals it is infact Rosa rugosa that has the big fat rosehips, dogrose is just the common ones you see, probably

http://www.meconopsis.st/pic/Rosa rugosa2.jpg

 

[_pH_]

No, haws = fruit from hawthorn bush/tree

Rose hips are rosehips and totally different

Depends who you believe!

Bit like Americans calling what we call a plane tree a sycamore (or is it the other way round?) Hence we have the Linnaean Binomial system for plant nomenclature

 

[_pH_]

further investigation reveals it is infact Rosa rugosa that has the big fat rosehips, dogrose is just the common ones you see, probably

Yep.

 

[Firky]

They're rose hips ^^

Aren't they supposed to be good for babies?

 

[_pH_]

R. rugosa 'Frau Dagmar Hastrup':

Lovely

 

[_pH_]

They're rose hips ^^

Aren't they supposed to be good for babies?

Yep, loads of Vit. C

 

[Callie]

even more investigation shows all rose hips are irritant

i know things but theyre all WRONG!!!

 

[Callie]

During the war (not that i remember) people used to go out collecting rosehips for their vit c

there is as much vit c in 5 rosehips as you would get from a million oranges

 

[geminisnake]

They're rose hips ^^

Aren't they supposed to be good for babies?

Those look like itchy coos to me. Rosehips are more egg shape.

Never try and make rosehip syrup. It takes aaaaaages and it's a total pain.

_pH_, strangely enough I believe the hawthorn hedge that surrounds my front garden and has plenty HAWS on it
And the rosehips that grow about 2 miles away that I picked loads of to make afore mentiones syrup some years ago.

I KNOW what I'm doing with much native wild food.

 

[Firky]

When I was a kid I'd pick tatties for £15 a day and I thought I was rich.


I bet I would have been paid a shit load for picking those prickley bastards.

 

[Callie]

You would have been paid fuck all cos there was a war on


and youd have died of scurvy if you didnt pick them

 

[Firky]

Don't be silly, I'd put on my best doe eyes and be given some by kindly buxom damsels

 

[Callie]

You have a collection of lady deers eyes to wear??

thats a bit strange

*goes to look at pictures of tiny deers*

I want a pudu!!!

 

[_pH_]

Those look like itchy coos to me. Rosehips are more egg shape.

Never try and make rosehip syrup. It takes aaaaaages and it's a total pain.

_pH_, strangely enough I believe the hawthorn hedge that surrounds my front garden and has plenty HAWS on it
And the rosehips that grow about 2 miles away that I picked loads of to make afore mentiones syrup some years ago.

I KNOW what I'm doing with much native wild food.

I know what you mean, Hawthorn berries are known as Haws in some places, but Rose hips can be too. I think it depends on where you live. Same as Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) can be known as Hawthorn, Quickthorn (although I've always thought this referred more to Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa) or May.

Thank god for Linnaeus.

Rose hips (also called rose haws)

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_hip

e2a: Cow Parsley is known as 'kecksy' round here. Before I moved here, kecks were trousers. WTF?