Spring Spruce Tip Snacks RREA Forestry in Alaska


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Spruce tip cookies Almond flour Ghee Eggs Spruce tips Caramelized spruce tip syrup Baking soda Salt. Yesterday was the first day the spruce tips were out. They are still really tiny, smaller than I would normally harvest. Although I almost never make sweets, I grabbed a handful and opened a jar of syrup I made last year. I decided to give the.


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If you process the dough until it forms a ball or sticks together in the processor, the cookies will spread out on the baking sheet and their texture will suffer. 1/4 cup fresh spruce tips 1/4 cup sugar 1 cup flour 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) Preheat the oven to 300°F. Process the spruce tips and sugar until the spruce tips are.


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Many breweries around the state have adopted spruce tips in their recipes. Curtis Holmes of Alaskan Brewing told the Anchorage Press last year that the company uses 2,000-3,000 pounds of tips per year making their Spruce IPA. Spruce trees are easy to identify. Spruce branches are sharp and pointy, unlike their hemlock neighbors, which are.


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Spruce tip syrup is easy to make once you've obtained your spruce tips, and it goes well with a variety of recipes. Cocktails, cheese platters and pancakes all love that pine aroma! There's a quick and a slow way to make spruce tip syrup, with the slow method being more traditional and the result more intense.


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Spruce tips have a delicate flavor and over-baking will obscure the spruce tip taste. Let the cookies cool. While many cookies are delicious warm out of the oven, shortbreads are one of the few cookies that taste better when they're cool. The lemony flavor of the spruce tips comes across more fully in a cool cookie.


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2 cups (480ml) water. Combine the spruce tips, sugar, and water in a saucepan. Bring to boil, and let boil 5 minutes. Remove the saucepan from heat, cover it, and steep the tips in the syrup overnight. The next day, strain out the spruce tips (you can candy them, see below, or discard them) and return the syrup to the saucepan.


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Instructions. Bring the sugar and water to a boil in a lidded pot, stirring to make sure all the sugar is absorbed. When it hits a boil, turn off the heat. Stir in the spruce tips, cover the pot and leave to cool. The longer you steep the syrup, the stronger spruce flavor you'll get. I let it steep overnight.


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Pick the mold off and discard, then blot the inside of the jar and the top of the tips with a cloth wet with white vinegar. Adding water will make the syrup ferment, lowering the pH and making it inhospitable to bacteria. Refer to my directions for fermented syrup above. Vacuum sealing the mixture before aging.


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Simple Spruce Tip Recipes. Spruce tips can be used raw or cooked, providing a bright flavor to many dishes. A straightforward way to enjoy them is by: Spruce Tip Tea: Steeping a handful of fresh tips in boiling water for a fragrant tea. Salads: Adding raw spruce tips to salads for a lemony zest. Creative Culinary Innovations


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Spruce tip salt or spruce tip sugar instructions: Combine equal parts spruce tips with either sugar or coarse sea salt and pulse in a food processor till chopped fine and uniform. Spread evenly on parchment paper and dehydrate at 140 degrees (or your lowest oven temperature) for a few hours until fully dry.


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1/4 cup finely chopped fresh spruce tips. Preheat oven to 325. Beat the butter and sugar together, then add the remaining ingredients, mixing until it's crumbly. You may need to fiddle with the proportions a bit- too soft and the shortbread will melt, but too dry, and it won't hold together. Chill for at least an hour.


Spring Spruce Tip Snacks RREA Forestry in Alaska

Pine Pollen. The male cones of pine trees make pollen during a few days in the Spring, and it's harvested in a few areas around the world, most notably China, where it's used to make a sort of Spring candy. If you want to see how to harvest your own, check out my post on Foraging and Cooking with Pine Pollen. Typically I use pollen in baking.


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Combine the hibiscus flowers and water in a medium saucepan over high heat until almost at a boil. Remove from heat, cover and allow to steep for 10 to 15 minutes. Strain the liquid through a fine.


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To make spruce sugar or spruce salt, add equal parts sugar (or salt) and spruce tips to the bowl of a food processor, and pulse until the mix is finely chopped and thoroughly combined. Spread it out on a cookie sheet and allow it to dry at room temperature, then store your mixture in a jar. Sprinkle the spruce tip salt on root vegetables before.


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Remove any large fibers or stray, whole needles. In a large bowl, combine the evergreen needles/tips, butter, sugar, orange zest, and salt. Mix with a wooden spoon until creamy. Gradually add the flour, mixing thoroughly after each addition to form a buttery ball of dough.


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If I use spruce tips in desserts, they will typically be pureed or in an infusion, and always strained if possible since leftover particles can get bitter. Remove the paper covering of any tips before eating, just as you would fiddleheads. Sure, people make spruce tip salt, breads and cookies and all kinds of stuff.