Pine cone syrup??

[Nubsnstubs]

@sprucegum, since you are a syrup make or related to one, have you ever made Maple Syrup with pine cones? I ask because of a couple videos of people in the Carpathians going out and collecting cones and canning them. Yesterdays video title was the first mention of what the cones were for. Curiosity is taking over and I need to find out if it's made here. Don't want any, but just curious.
I looked online, and there are recipes available. .............. Nubs

 

[sprucegum]

@sprucegum, since you are a syrup make or related to one, have you ever made Maple Syrup with pine cones? I ask because of a couple videos of people in the Carpathians going out and collecting cones and canning them. Yesterdays video title was the first mention of what the cones were for. Curiosity is taking over and I need to find out if it's made here. Don't want any, but just curious.
I looked online, and there are recipes available. .............. Nubs

It's not something that I am familiar with. I'm not sure if any parts of Eastern White pine cones are edible.

 

[DLJeffs]

Never heard of any pine cone syrup recipes out this way either. Can't imagine a pine cone tasting any good unless you're a squirrel or porcupine.

 

[Mr. Peet]

@sprucegum, since you are a syrup make or related to one, have you ever made Maple Syrup with pine cones? I ask because of a couple videos of people in the Carpathians going out and collecting cones and canning them. Yesterdays video title was the first mention of what the cones were for. Curiosity is taking over and I need to find out if it's made here. Don't want any, but just curious.
I looked online, and there are recipes available. .............. Nubs

They would pick the green, under developed cones and pickle them just like walnuts. Is that what you saw? As for tree syrup, only familar with the common 3, peach, birch and maple.

 

[Nubsnstubs]

They would pick the green, under developed cones and pickle them just like walnuts. Is that what you saw? As for tree syrup, only familar with the common 3, peach, birch and maple.

The firtst video was about a week ago. They went out and got about a bucket full, and the next scene was putting them in a jars, closing the lids and storing them . That made me curious, but not enough to question it, but then another video a week later had in in the title, Pine cone syrup. Therer are no explainations because these videos are made in the Carpathian mountains of eastern Europe. There are no English words spoken and very little spoken words. I'll say this for them,they sure like homemade bread.
Hopefully this link works;

https://foragerchef.com/mugolio-pine-cone-syrup/

I just went to it, didn't read any of it but saw a bunch of pictures of different pine cones. the syrup is called "mugolio".

Here is the like to the last video. I believe the cone collecting is towards the end near 30 minutes.

.............. Nubs