Rosehip, hibiscus and currant pie or cake filling

1 Batch

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
cupWater
3ouncesRosehips
½cupBrown sugar
1Cinnamon stick
3Herbal tea bags (a brand
With hibiscus or rosehips
1cupCurrant jelly, red or black
Or a mixture
1tablespoonLemon juice
teaspoonButter or marg.
½teaspoonFlour

Directions

Boil the water, cinnamon, and herbal tea until the water is reduced to one cup. Remove the cinnamon and herbal tea and add the brown sugar, lemon juice, and rosehips, and simmer briskly (medium heat) until the water is just above the rosehips. Then, add the currant jelly, and stir till it is all dissolved; continue simmering for five minutes, stirring all the while and watching carefully for scorching. Blend butter and flour thoroughly, and stir into the currant jelly mixture until it is thickened. Take the mixture off the heat; it is ready to use.

Note#1 : If you want to avoid the extra butter, blend the flour with a tablespoon or more of water; you want to suspend the flour in the water, not have a batter. Take the currant mixture off the heat, stir in the flour mixture all at once and thoroughly, and then return it to the heat to thicken.

Note #2: omit the butter and flour, and perhaps add a chopped apple, some raisins, etc, for a healthful fruit stew.

Nyani-Iisha F. Martin nfmartin@... rec.food.cooking Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Rfm" <Robert-Miles@...> on May 03, 98