In the spring we make pine syrup after we harvest the new pine spruce. We use the syrup for Christmas cocktails because of the rich flavor or when we are sick.
My husband made a vodka pine flavor last year and he loved the idea. This year he is gone try again.
Go and have fun foraging the pine trees with your family. We did this year a photo shoot also. Imagine my little one asking for photos near the small trees. It was a great day to spend with my family.
Ingredients:
– 4 cups fresh pine spruce needles
– 8 Cups water
– 2 cup sugar
Directions:
In a saucepan combine the needles with water. Cook until liquid is reduced about 40 minutes. Stir the sugar until completely dissolved. Remove from the heat and let cool.
I replaced the sugar with honey. I liked it too.
Most of the recipes say to refrigerate for 1 month. I can tell you that I have syrup since 2 years ago and is great. I put them in small bottles.
My favorite drink is 2 teaspoons of syrup and ½ liter of water. In the summer make refreshment out of this cocktail with mint leaves, lemon and lots of ice.
Enjoy!
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This sounds fantastic! I would say “I’ll have to make a drink out of that!” but, I’ll never find what I need to make it myself!
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Wow, what a fantastic idea! Ans so beautifully captured as always.
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Your photos are beautiful…I never knew you can actually use pine in a drink 🙂 Thanks so very much for sharing this…
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You are very welcome…so sorry for responding so late
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that sounds amazing!
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A question – “pine” and “spruce” are two different kinds of coniferous trees. I can see that you are using spruce tips, but do you know what kind of spruce? In fact, I’m wondering if they are balsam fir! Can you post a photo of the tree, or a branch of the tree and/or describe where they are growing? Thanks.
I checked on wikipedia and it is a type of fir we found in Romania. We use it as Christmas tree also. Here are the links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce
Hope it helps.
Thanks. I’ve since read that you can use just about any pine, fir, or spruce. There are several YouTube videos that compare the tastes of teas made from conifers. Very interesting! Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTcmexTBH0
Thank you. I will check them out. My father taughted me about their taste too.
I am used to using pine for hot tea in winter. I love this idea and your recipe for a summer drink would be wonderful. Where I live the summers are very hot and humid. Thanks.
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I love this idea!
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Wonderful idea and great photos! 🙂
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What a terrific idea. Marvellous
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Extraordinary! I’ve tried a lot of dandelion stuff. But, this is a totally new wild edible to me. I have to try it!
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I have never heard of making a drink from pine/fir before. It looks great!
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God this sounds amazing!
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Great post! This was a great reminder for me. Its been a couple of years since I’ve taken the time to do this and I realized I missed it. Thank you!
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I am so trying this. Thank you
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Love the idea!!!!!!
I’d try this out. Love the pictures and this is so creative
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I used to pick up pine spruce needles, with my parents in the Carpathian Mountains and make syrup. Reading your post was an opportunity to remember my childhood. Thanks!
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Great post👍
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Nice post. Convincing, I must try it!
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That is so interesting! I’ve never had pine needle syrup drinks before, sounds lovely to make and try! 🌲😀
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Love this recipe and the pictures!
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I remember making this when I was a kid!! Thanks for bringing back memories! 🙂
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To all those reading: be careful not to use yew trees by mistake. They’re toxic.
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This looks so tasty. And so easy or make ❤️ Loved this. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
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That sounds amazing. I never even dreamed about that. How do you use it medicinally? Also, I am a new blogger so I’m curious how long it took you to get so many followers?
Thank you. You can have a spoon of the mix when needed. I wrote a few posts about traffic and followers. Here is one of them:
https://cooking-without-limits.com/2016/09/01/how-to-increase-your-blog-traffic/
Fascinating! I never knew pine needles were edible till now. Thanks for sharing.
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This is so cool!! Definitely want to try it out!
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If I wasn’t allergic to pine trees and everything on them I would definitely try it. Didn’t know they were even edible
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Will absolutely try it. I’m a pastry chef, and love experimentation and flavor pairing. An FYI.. there’s a boutique Portland company called Clear Creek Distillery that produces Eau de Vie of Douglas Fir, a brandy. Luscious and very fragrant.
Fascinating! I love that pine-y flavor. I have some Greek pine-infused honey but now I want to try this!!
That honey sounds great!
Reblogged this on missnormality73 and commented:
Wow – someone else who uses pines! Super 🙂 We love pine cone liqueur and now I have a new recipe (and stunning photos) to pore over. Thank you!
Thank you. Pine cone liqueur sounds great!
It never occurred to me that this could also be used as a syrup.
This looks great! I wonder if I can buy the pine needles anywhere.
Thank you. I really don’t know.
This may work well for a theme cocktail for an upcoming camp out…Lovely pictures too
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Sounds Delicious! Great idea.
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Sounds like it’s a wonderful syrup. For a tree freak like me it’s just perfect! I just pruned a bunch of spruce and pine, but it sounds like you do this in early spring so I’ll wait till next year to make some. Just FYI tho, there is no “pine spruce”. Spruce (Picea) is in the Pine (Pinus) family, true, but it’s a separate genus and they’re two different plants. It looks like you’re using Spruce needles in your pictures. No big deal – just thought you might like to know… 🙂 Thanks for this nice post, and for visiting me… Great blog!
Thank you for your help.
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Intriguing! This is a MUST TRY!
I had no idea you could make syrup from pine needles!! This is just so cool. I can’t wait to give this a try!
It’s a brilliant idea, thanks for sharing! I feel like it might make for a great gin cocktail! … how long do u steep the leaves in the syrup before u filter them out?
Before cooling the liquid.