Noticed a few folk on instagrm picking these over in Sweden and Norway but I couldn't find any ways to prepare them, any ideas anyone?
Spruce Tips
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Most People I know of make it into syrup.
Boil (or rather simmer) the spruce tips in water (water barely covering the spruce tips) for half an hour.
Remove the spruce tips and mix the Liquid wit sugar in a 3 to 2 ratio.
Simmer until syrup (the color will turn redish).
Use on ice cream, pancakes......
I`ve not done this myself though.
I just occationally nibble a few tips raw (soft Young ones) as I pass by a spruce tree.
Boil (or rather simmer) the spruce tips in water (water barely covering the spruce tips) for half an hour.
Remove the spruce tips and mix the Liquid wit sugar in a 3 to 2 ratio.
Simmer until syrup (the color will turn redish).
Use on ice cream, pancakes......
I`ve not done this myself though.
I just occationally nibble a few tips raw (soft Young ones) as I pass by a spruce tree.
Pick spruce or pine tree tips and infuse in boiling water for a few minutes.
A very refreshing tea. Full of Vit C.
The taste is better the younger the needles are, should be ideally still very soft.
A very refreshing tea. Full of Vit C.
The taste is better the younger the needles are, should be ideally still very soft.
If the Chickadees haven't combed the buds for bugs, you are quite welcome to my share.
We have much better wild things to eat and drink on my planet.
Flowering is nearly done, probably a good fruit set and no late frosts in the forecasts.
All wild stuff within 20 minutes of my house, pick what you wish:
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, lingonberries, Lonicera, blueberries ( 3 species),
choke cherries, pin cherries, Saskatoon/Service berry,
All sorts of escaped domestics like gooseberries and currants.
If you have a compulsion to scrape the barrel, we have two native species of Sorbus (maybe you would call them Rowan)
and the Craetegus species: Douglas Hawthorn. Cornus cornuta is the local wild hazelnut.
Two species of fiddlehead ferns are yummy steamed.
We have much better wild things to eat and drink on my planet.
Flowering is nearly done, probably a good fruit set and no late frosts in the forecasts.
All wild stuff within 20 minutes of my house, pick what you wish:
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, lingonberries, Lonicera, blueberries ( 3 species),
choke cherries, pin cherries, Saskatoon/Service berry,
All sorts of escaped domestics like gooseberries and currants.
If you have a compulsion to scrape the barrel, we have two native species of Sorbus (maybe you would call them Rowan)
and the Craetegus species: Douglas Hawthorn. Cornus cornuta is the local wild hazelnut.
Two species of fiddlehead ferns are yummy steamed.
