Never thought of this, I know it makes good herbal tea with the needles; but not the green cones.
I have a large stand of pine by the homestead, I'll have to try this....
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Never thought of this, I know it makes good herbal tea with the needles; but not the green cones.
I have a large stand of pine by the homestead, I'll have to try this....
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Tea can be made from the needles? See, I didn't know that. π
Personally, I am not yet ready to eat pine cones--I mean the syrup is reasonable, but I am not yet reduced to this. BTW: my kid was listening to a podcast about the Donner Party. If only they had foraged for some pine cones and needles. I am sure those items were around ... .
The needles of the white pine, are supposed to be mild and packed with vitamin C. People swear by it, but it still tastes piney to me. But to break a cold....
The pine nuts are sold in stores, not to bad, but still a little piney for a snack food!
The Donner Party stacked failures, including having no one along that had winter survival skills! I'd have set snares, while I was eating the horses; but foraging was definitely important too.
It's amazing how far people will fall, when they get hungry!
Keep on prepping....
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Pine nuts are delicious, but it is true they are expensive.
True, but everything is becoming expensive! I just paid $17 a dozen for jars that used to be about $10 a dozen. A 70% increase in about a year, but we only have 7 % inflation, uh yeah right....
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They always lie about inflation. Well, lie is a bit of a strong word but only a bit. Some things go down in price and they always subtract the cheaper things from the more expensive items. The inflation rate is an average of price increases across a set of commodities. There are other pressures causing some prices to increase in price. Like all the preppers hoarding the jars over the last few years. Plus manufacturing is down and they stopped manufacturing GEM lids so a lot of people need to replace their jars.
They don't include groceries or fuel in the inflation calculations, so the term lying is appropriate and accurate!
The price on jars skyrocketed when the supply chain dried up. Part was scared people buying everything they could find, but mostly it was caused by foreign manufacturing with the travel problems inherent in that process.
Once a country stops manufacturing products, their supply chain will never truly recover. Enhanced production to help the supply chain stabilize is no longer possible, so it is a self fulfilling problem!