It was given to babies in bottles, as a good source of vitamin 'C' when orange juice was unavailable in the war. It was diluted. I expect I was given it, but I can't ask my dear mum. :-(

Oh yes, now I remember Spritz, Thanks very much. I just couldn't remember....(Old Age!) lol.............

;-) I know the feeling well! Glad to be of help.

Now there's a memory! It looked so pretty, but tasted weird.

Was also used for coughs and just about anything was! Primarily for vitamin C and a horror as you had to remove all the awes from the hips.

I remember being given that by Mum and enjoyed it .... I also remember Syrup of Figs! Yeuk!

As a schoolchild in Scotland, we used to collect them at this time of year. The child who collected the greatest weight won a prize! Simple pleasures!

Ha! Ha! Who's showing their ages now LOL

Rosehips are much higher in Vitamin C than oranges, so a really good source - but I wouldn't want to have to prepare the hips myself.

It was a horrid job!

we used to get it on rice pudding . school rice pudding & rose hip syrup urghhhhhhh.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to read and answer my question about Rose Hips.I was trying to explain to Crissue what they were used for in my childhood. I vaguely remembered vitamins and I seemed to remember something about cough medicine, but wasn't sure.Its strange when you've got an idea about something , but not 100% sure. Funny when you think back years and start remembering things. Do you all remember the 'National Dried Baby Milk' that was collected from the clinic? and do you remember being given a spoonful of cod liver oil malt to build you up. It was a kind of a tonic, It was lovely, but a lot of people didn't like it. I've just remembered ladies, Rose Hips were broken apart and used by the boys as 'Itching Powder' and put down the girls backs. Grrrrrrrrrh....... All these memories ah!

Are you saying you don't remember any of this Ladyessex? haha (LOL) You're making me feel even OLDER!!!

Who remembers 'Virol' - the malt extract? My mum used to make us have a teaspoonful every day. My younger sister hated it and kicked up a huge fuss!

Cod live oil capsules gawd I almost vomited trying to get them down along with a glass of milk! Possibly what put me off milk!

I still take one per day, MG. If I don't, I get pain and stiffness in my thumb joints.

Yup! Me too, Spritz! Better in tablet form than the horrid spoonfuls that were thrust down my throat as a child - despite the glass of orange juice as a follow-up!

Ugh, Virol - I could never decide whether I vaguely liked it or vaguely hated it, I think actually it was the slimy texture I didn't like more than the taste. And I recall Halibut Oil capsules, which used to roll around my mouth till they burst, while I was entirely unable to swallow them whole. Horrid things, can't take fish oils now either, don't go with a drug I take all the time apparently, but they repeat on me something terrible anyway, as I recall from taking them ten years ago.

I manage to swallow the capsules before they burst now, but I do remember when they were 'squishy' and horrible to take! :-(

I loved Virol, do they still make it?

Yuk!

No idea, Oliveoil, certainly not something I gave my kids - but then they had a much better diet than I did as a child.

yes as we all do now, thank goodness.

I think in many ways my diet as a child was a good one. Home grown vegetables, not a lot of meat, none of the rubbish that is available today, a small bar of chocolate once a week, no fizzy drinks water or weak tea, everything home made including the bread... Much healthier than a lot of people now eat. I am shocked when I see what goes into many folks supermarket trollies.

Ah, well you were lucky then, Moon Grower - my mother was an absolutely neglectful parent and a dreadful cook. Anything she attempted to cook was usually inedible - I remember her bacon roll - she'd make the suet pastry and then put the rashers of bacon inside without removing the rinds, so as children, we'd spend our time choking to death and then refusing to eat it. And once, memorably, I was given a fried egg and a pile of watery, soggy spring greens for dinner... if it hadn't been for school dinners and my grandma, I suspect my sister and I would have been suffering from malnutrition. I didn't eat mashed potato for 20 years, believing it was lumpy stuff with black bits in it...

Mother was a good cook, she had been in service before the war and produced good food from very little. We might not always like what she cooked but it was done well. I know the reason for lots of offal, it wasn't rationed but it didn't make it any easy to get the liver and onions down! Oh and the funny bubbly bits in veal - wont eat to this day.
I only ate school dinners for a very short while when the school I was going to was to far away to walk home for dinner, can't say I enjoyed them! She also knew how to make a joint of meat last just about all week; roast Sunday, cold Monday (wash day), shepherd's or cottage pie on Tuesday, soup Wednesday, Thursday would be something like bubble a squeak, fish on Friday and sausages or similar on Saturday.

I can still take a chicken which states on the package it is enough to feed 3 - 4 and feed Bulba and myself for at least 5 days.

we used to have adexoline [?] a little red capsule of oil. we loved them and used to 'steal' them one a night. daily dose was 2. um gave us one in the morning saying oh no cant possibly have another at night!! sharp practice me thinks.

Adexolene? Never heard of it... Moon Grower, I'm practised at making a chicken last five days too... even if the fifth day is watercress soup using the bones for stock.

Two days breast, 2 days legs (casseroled), carcass boiled down to stock at least one day of soup with veggies, usually two. A good large organic chicken will cost approx £12 a piece of fish that will feed us for one night at least £3 - no brainer!

Same here - we have a medium sized chicken, and make it last three meals, plus scraps for Henry! :-)

Oh yes the Siamese girls like the scraps too...

And why not? ;-))

No reason for them not too - much preferred to bought stuff!

Thank you millions Ladies, for all your comments. I really enjoyed reading them all, it brings back such lovely memories. I also loved 'Virol', I might even ask in the chemist if they still make it. Another memory that has just come back to me is the jam jar. When it finally became empty we used to squabble about whose turn it was to clean the jar out with the crust of bread.Does anyone else remember doing this?..........Oh! the good Ol' Times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cod liver oil, the little bottles of concentrated orange juice as thick as honey that you mixed with water... Yumee. Do you remember Nurse Harvey's Gripe water for babies? You gave it to them to bring up wind. Apparently my auntie became adicted to it because it contained alcohol, don't know if they still sell it nowadays because of that?

Hey Moon, talking about making food from very little. My father came to England from The Ukrain after the last war. As you're probaby aware, they had very little to eat over there and he could make a pan of soup with a handful of barley and a beef bone. Back in the 19XX's when I was a small boy and life was tougher, all seven of us never went hungry. I vividly remember my dad standing over the gas cooker, burning the hairs off a pigs head then boiling it up to make a brawn. If we had a bit of money spare, he'd get some belly pork to add to it. Pour it all in a large bowl with some garlic and you could cut it with a knife to make sandwiches. Can't get a pigs head nowadays, probably some European health and safety ruling.

I 'think' you can still get chaps, the pigs cheeks in certain areas like Yorkshire.

I loved the Harveys Gripe water, I used to have more than my 2 girls when they were babies. I used to like Woodwards Gripe water better though, and you can still buy that today, I know that because my great- grandaughter had it when she was a baby 6years ago.

My father-in-law used to make a lot of brawn from the pigheads.He bought pig trotters and boiled them and also the ox tongue from the butchers and boil that. After it was cooked the skin peeled off quite easy and they used to have that in sandwiches etc......Oh the memories!!!!!!

I still manage to get hold of Ox tongue, pickle them. Yumee. Once knew someone that said they'de never eat anything that had been in an animals mouth then ate a boiled egg. Haha

:o))))))))))))))))))) Hahaha!

I used to like tongue a lot - but years ago, a chef friend of my sisters gave her a massive half round of pressed tongue he'd prepared. It was wonderful, ate loads, but about 4 days later, all the tongues collapsed and spread themselves out, looking just like tongues, and I've never been able to bring myself to eat it since!

Ugh, that doesn't bare thinking about, I certainly wouldn't be able to eat it again either Bamboo, infact I don't think I have ever plucked up the courage to eat it anyway, but my inlaws loved it. Another thing I have never been able to eat is heart, I dont like the idea of it and yet I used to cook them for hubby who loved 'stuffed hearts', but since we have got a bit older he doesn't often eat them now....Strange isn't it?

Ox heart, if cooked right is very simular to beef and a fraction of the price. It tastes very much the same, especially in something like a curry. Roasted, sliced and served cold with a salad people probably wouldn't know. I find the only thing that gives it away is it's closer grain.

My mum used to cook hearts for dinner sometimes - I hated all the tubes in them... but didn't mind the taste. Well, back then I didn't but then I was probably starving... there was never enough to eat. I wouldn't eat them now. And I loathe kidney, always have, but love liver.

Sorry Myron, you still won't persuade me to eat heart. I love beef though, I think I will stick with that.......(lol)

SNAP!!!! ...Same here Bamboo, yuk to kidney, but yum to liver. Another thing I dislike is Milk.

Well, it's alright in tea...

Yes, I do love my cuppa, and also good in rice pudding or custard.

Well it's amazing what you will eat if you have to or you're hungry. If the thought of eating offal makes you queezy I won't go into detail of some of the things I ate during survival training when I was in the army. I'll just say that worms are more than a gardeners friend :)

Think I've a good idea what you mean.....Yuk!!

I agree with that Myron - I don't have any doubt that were I starving, I'd eat anything at all, even a rat or a worm, without a second thought. I hope it doesn't ever come to that though, I'd prefer not...