Pine cone jam

And I didn't even think that it was almost July! Our summer has not really begun yet! Not like in your south.

and the south is not so difficult to get to! you have a night train to kiev - it's warm there, and the embankment is beautiful

Where am I going besides Yalta? Well I have a sister with a nephew! If I pass wherever I go, or even to another steppe, I’ll ... oh, I’m even afraid to think !!!

To be afraid of wolves - do not go to the forest! and the language, it will not only bring to Kiev!

Not a fig! I’m such a talker, but there’s no way to get to Kiev!

Yes, I can’t do anything quietly !!!! Here I am !!!!! My husband says so, you are like a railroad rail, the same in character heavy and the same straight !!! And if I’m lying, then I’ll be sure to blabber! Realizing this shortcoming of hers even in deep childhood, then she refused to lie !!!

I don't know what green walnuts are soaked in, but I ate jam once (store), well, I really liked it, but now I can't find it anywhere

[all]

Maybe you ate it all?

Apparently the rose petal jam was piled up and there were more walnuts niii

And as a child, I rested in the Young Pravdist pioneer camp. So there was a field of roses in the middle of the camp ... You could make jam ...

And I went on the second round. That is, according to a different recipe. It is on the first page, and then Aunt Basia gave it.
Filled the cut cones with water 2 cm higher:



And she boiled it on low heat for 20 minutes:



Left to stand for a day.

A day later, I drained the water from the pan with cones and added sugar 1: 1:



And she boiled for two hours under the lid. Need with or without a lid, I don't know:



It turned out like this:



It tastes like both, and it's almost the same. I just can't find a small jar of what is more accurate to compare ...

If someone thought that the epic with shishichny jam was over, he was very mistaken :) For this week I celebrating the forties took out my jam, raw, which is 40 days old! Let me remind you that nothing is cooked according to this recipe. cones in sugar and forget for a month and a half. running time is good to measure with pine cone jam ...
So, I got out something like this:


and my father-in-law was visiting me. I have not seen how I manipulated banks. I give him a spoon, I say, "guess what!" he tried it, says "it looks like plums" "oh, I say, dad, this is the same cone jam, the raw material for which your wife managed to get from a 25-meter height, climbing the pines!" dad liked it very much. in the sense of jam. And me! at first somehow sour, but the coniferous aftertaste is just super! the cones were no longer young, so the resin, you see, in them more than. because it gives off very resin. then I did not know how to wash off this resin
the output turned out to be such a beauty, mind you, without any heat treatment


but there is a lot of sugar left in the bottle, and we are not used to throwing such good things around. that's why ... we had my daddy with us, an old eeeeeeee ... a chemist, once presented me with a bottle of clear liquid "for medicine." just for further medicine, I decided to adapt the gift.



and put it in a dark place for another 40 days. just before that my father-in-law and I tried a sip. my heart smells hefty sweet, I will have to add all kinds of grass-ants there and hide it for another month. there and winter is just around the corner :)
and I didn’t pass it on to my mother-in-law. because greedy decided to please her with an unusual jam in the winter in cold weather and a blizzard. it seems to me it is for these purposes. very, you know, some kind of cozy and homely.and now let him eat fresh fruit!

And I'm already finishing my own ... But I forgot about liqueurs. I'll have to get off! The only thing is that jam jars are ooooooochen badly washed and stick to this day!

And you are their alcohol or vodka ... it's pine resin. it dissolves well in alcoholic liquids.

I'll try with alcohol, thanks!

Hmm ... maybe who thought the topic was closed until spring? Nothing like this! Nadys from the pantry was taken out a bottle of pine liqueur, which turned out after jam in the cold way! The liquor is bottled and ... and ... and there were 20 grams left that didn't fit. I had to call the godfather with a request: "I'm going to get drunk here, talk to me, otherwise it will turn out that I, like a real cron, already drink with myself!" Well, she was telling me the news, and I was trying the liquor. slaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeee very, tyayayayayaguuuuuuuche and smells of pine needles! after drunk the work was done 2 times faster! I ran around the apartment like crazy.
Girls, maybe I'm a gummy bear ??? was it magic juice? or am I Asterix? Well, at least not Antivirus!

Teeek, don't pour Saturn anymore .... otherwise our Svetka is already mutating ... youh, gummy bear, hide, give your juice to the pantry, otherwise you'll redo everything, and we'll be left behind?

aha, now I go to the bottle, like a cat looking at a valerian ... and a thought creeps in: why not roll it in order to prevent the broncho-pulmonary system? Well this is needles!

and we can already jump in the trees, huh?

Oh yes, clever !!! And I almost forgot ... But it's still too early for Moscow ...

[Hairpin]

But it's still too early for Moscow ...

Hairpin
And when will it be "possible"?

[Crochet]

This is what my husband brought me today !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Lots of dancing emoticons !!!!

Crochetit was June 25th. But they were already big. I think this is the beginning of June. The husband found them 120 km away. from Moscow, and, unfortunately, not in the Tula direction (otherwise we would have captured you).

I would like to be at least 50 km away ... I'll go look for a map of the vegetation of the Moscow region ...

and I'm going into the woods. since last year they were already too old. considering that we have already had +28 for a week ...

Well, I looked at the map. In the Moscow region, there are pine forests in the north (well, very close to the Tver region), in the west (but there is a lot of Industry) and in the southwest. It looks like the southwest is the most optimal.

and I laughed today! we rode through the fields, we were on the estuary, we found one and a half pine trees, so I stuck to them for half an hour! I collected a gram of 100 cones I collected, and now I figure out what to do with this wealth !!!

Well, I looked at the map. In the Moscow region, there are pine forests in the north (well, very close to the Tver region), in the west (but there is a lot of Industry) and in the southwest. It looks like the southwest is the most optimal.

Well, that means I'm in flight ... I'm in the south ... I'll have to cook from dandelions ... but it's not destiny from pine cones ...

And I found them!

But, for some reason, when they are large and brown, there are a lot of them, but there are very few green and small ones !!!
My son was collecting ... but when I told him that it would be, he almost threw it out! He understood who I was going to feed the jam to!

but I did not collect large and brown ones ... out of the ten pines that I attacked, only two had green ones. brown seemed to me already very hard, I did not dare to collect them
and this morning I accomplished the feat: I cleaned them (ass from the husks) and filled them with cold water! I still haven't decided what to do, but they will certainly go through preprocessing! )))))))))))))))))
by the way, the husband refuses to drink tincture from them - he said that he would get gin, but he does not drink gin
PySy: by the way, I noticed that pines are different! Well, in the sense of the cones they have different colors! I specially collected a little reddish. I'll take a picture of my wealth in the evening

[fugaska]

fugaska, and you are there to Koblev within a stone's throw.There you can cut them in large wholesale for free - also iodized from the sea air ...unless kind people from the surrounding bases call the doctor ...

aha! to kobleva - low beam !!! firstly, I live in Tairovo (this is at the opposite end of the city from the exit to the Nikolaev highway), and secondly, the Nikolaev road is broken after winter, or rather, there is practically none! so either I should trudge to a koblev and it is not known what kind of maturity there are cones to find, or, for my own pleasure, ride through the local fields, where, on occasion, I may attack a couple of pine trees (quite environmentally friendly, by the way - the roads are sooooo far away from them). and besides, I quite accidentally saw these bumps! if I hadn't seen a fresh message on the forum the day before. so I would never have paid attention to them !!! )))))))))))))))))))
but generally a very good job, well, in the sense of collecting cones - in the fresh air, in the shade, it smells of field grass, well, pure health !!! ))))))))))) and by the way, the resin is wiped off with an ordinary wet napkin! Yes, this is actually not resin, but tears

girls, here are my bumps after a day and a half in the water:

the longest - it's so drawn out in the water! I mostly collected greens, but I also captured a couple of red ones for testing
in general, I weighed my wealth - 235 grams !!! covered with sugar 1: 1, covered with a lid and where should I go now? in a dark cool place?

Well, I kept it right in a saucepan on the stove. I just don’t know, will they give you uncut juice? I had mature ones, and I chopped them off.

yyyyyyyyyyy ... !!!! urgently for the weekend I go to the shishkopoiski !!! you can skip it all

and what have I collected unripe cones? here's my!

[fugaska]

fugaska , have you read this thread from the beginning? there are all sorts of pictorial pictures. and the cones should be exactly young, as you rightly noted, because the old ones have to be additionally processed.

but I can't identify old or fresh buds! maybe they were still green, or maybe they were overripe ...
girls-specialists, what bumps did I have?
and I immediately refused to cut them (I had enough to clean them) - an experiment for 200 grams, so I want to try "dry" I agree to crazy experiments! suggest!

I, too, wondered this question, until finally today I again went to the place where "pineapples" used to grow. It turns out that real cones are now growing at the base of these "pineapples" !!! They are in size, well, a maximum of 5 cm, this is in the Leningrad region, and in Kursk, too, they should probably already grow. The rain did not have time to pick it up, well, nothing, they will grow a little ...

you are young, young :) and what does green mean? the greener, the more conveniently

yes, what are there 5 cm !!! I have bumps maximum 1 cm !!! maaaahhiny !!! and in the pictures are already quite adults, fledgling, you can say, maybe I collected bones?

I can't find this post now, but someone wrote that he leaves the lumps in the jam and they are then eaten with tea. so those that are in the photo of figs you will gnaw, and you have the most juice! what are you worrying about?

well, then I'm calm!
THANK YOU!!! at least for a restful night's sleep!

to your health! in the cone business, undersight is better than vice versa.

[fugaska]

fugaska, and I have centimeter !!! I read that these are necessary, so without waiting for their increase, they stripped all the nearby pines.
But they are so cool !!!! Bald, smooth !!! I went and looked at my own, cut them into 4 parts, but even in syrup they are the same pimply ..... And before you filled them with water, what were they like?
I covered my 200g with sugar 1: 1, withstood not a day, but already one and a half, I'll close it today. And 100g, fell asleep and set for 40 days. How tastier I will report in the fall

I liked it a lot without cooking! and the vitamins are intact, and then the liquor turned out :)

[Fugasca]

Fugasca, you have collected the right young ones. And I - the wrong ripe. I just didn't have time then.

I only collected bald cones and only a few things changed, they somehow stretched out from the water ... in short, from the water I haven't changed a fig!
By the way, they let the juice out overnight! I'll post pictures at home in the evening

oh, I didn't have an evening soon!
here are photos of my artwork
1.filled with sugar

3. and it was in the evening (total time - day)

I cooked this household, it turned out to be such a thick syrup, refreshing to taste. some dryish cones if gnawed, dry grains in the mouth crumble next year I'll try to make a tincture, the jam did not inspire much - a lot of small work that takes a lot of time

[Fugasca]

some dryish cones if gnawed, dry grains in the mouth crumble

I somehow stewed pork ribs. Doooooooooo long. And then my daughter complains that the meat is tough. I look, and she gnaws bones !!!

Fugasca, I threw bumps ...

my hand did not rise to throw good

but I do not cook. I fall asleep with sugar and for 40 days in a dark place. then I drain the syrup, and pour the remaining sugar and cones with vodka and insist for another 40 days. there is practically no work - just sort out the cones and put them aside with the pink vessel worms. I put them aside and think: what a monster one should be. to eat pine needles and at the same time be fat, pink and not lose optimism!

oh, and I didn't have pink worms ... but should have been?
and I did not instruct the first time, because my husband was against it, and somehow I was not ready for testing on strong drinks ... I’m more for sweets !!!
so the tincture will be next year