Soups and stews can be thickened and flavored with the dried leaves but, remove the veins and hard portions first. This medium-sized tree is well known for its many herbal medicine uses. The thick and fragrant inner bark is extremely sticky, but provides nourishment, either raw or boiled. The inner bark of the willows can be scraped off and eaten raw, cooked in strips like spaghetti or dried and ground into flour.
Young willow leaves are often too bitter, but can be eaten in an emergency — it is a survival food! The entire pine family comprises one of the most vitally important groups of wild edibles in the world, particularly for wildlife. The inner bark and sap is very high in vitamins C and A, plus many other nutrients. And, when eaten raw or cooked, its bark has saved many from starvation and scurvy.
You can cut the inner bark into strips and cook like spaghetti, or dry and ground into flour for bread and thickening soups and stews. The sap in spring can be tapped and drunk as a tea. Even pine needles, when young and starchy, are rich in nutrients, like vitamin C, and are reasonably tasty. These are not usually eaten, but rather chewed upon for about five minutes, swallowing only the juices. Perhaps a better alternative is to make a tea with the needles.
Pine or fir needles make a fine tea in winter. The cones of a Korean pine P. Then, there are the edible cones, seeds and pollen of the Pinus genus. The woody cones that produce seeds within their framework are female. These are delicious when shelled and roasted. Nutritious pine nuts are often not considered for food because they are too tiny and hard to get at a hammer or rock will be needed. However, there are a few pine species that provide delectable pine nuts seeds that can be as large as sunflower seeds or larger.
Here is a small selection of these: the Korean Pine, P. The soft male cones and pollen are also edible, but the taste is very strong, so is better if used in cooking. In spring many of these male cones produce copious quantities of pollen, so much so, that you can practically scoop it up from the golden carpet it makes on the ground. The pine family includes genera such as: the pines, Pinus ; spruces, Picea ; larches, Larix ; firs, Abies ; and the hemlocks, Tsuga not to be confused with the totally unrelated poison hemlock.
Certain genera of another plant family, Cupressaceae , specifically two species of arborvitaes, Thuja , cedars, also have an edible and nutritious inner bark. These are: western red cedar, T. Native peoples would harvest and dry it, then grind it into a powder for use when travelling or as an emergency.
On the advice of native peoples, Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, used the eastern white cedar to treat scurvy among his crew. Properly selecting and tapping trees for syrup can be a detailed process. Credit: Alan Sheffield via Flickr. There are a relatively surprising number of trees that can be tapped for their sap and syrup.
However, be forewarned; many of these offer a bland, bitter or almost tasteless flavor and quality. For example, you will find that tapping a hickory tree will result in unsatisfactory tasting syrup. Whereas, tapping certain other nut trees, like butternut and black walnut, will provide you with quite a fine-tasting syrup. Also, the native peoples tapped the sycamore tree, Platanus acerifolia , but this syrup is considered much too dark and strong flavored by most people.
The maple by far yields syrups of the best quality and taste, and the best of these is from the sugar maple, or black maple, and followed closely by the silver maple. Properly selecting and tapping trees for sap can be a detailed process, so here we will address just the basics.
You can purchase the necessary spiles and pails for sap gathering, or for better enjoyment do it on your own. First, in most instances, you will want to select trees that are at least 18 inches in diameter.
A rough estimate of how much finished syrup you will get per tap is about one to two quarts, or about one gallon of syrup per year, per tree.
The sucrose-rich sap is so sweet and tasty that it is a feature of breakfasts and snacks across North America and many other parts of the world.
Experienced maple tappers can collect as much as 80 gallons of sap from one tree in a year. You need 10 gallons of fresh sap to make a quart of syrup, according to the University of Maine Extension. Sap from the birch tree is edible, though tapping only tends to occur in cold states such as Alaska or parts of Canada.
The sap is a clear sticky liquid that turns more yellow when reduced on the stove. You can use it as a breakfast syrup, though it's less sweet and rich than maple syrup. The syrup provides a range of nutrients, including fructose, glucose, amino acids, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, sodium and iron, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Unlike maple sap, birch sap doesn't contain the disaccharide sucrose. When you were young and playing outdoors, it's likely that adults reminded you of the saying, "Leaves of three, let it be. Sycamore trees Platanus occidentalis , birches the genus Betula , and hickories the genus Carya can also be tapped for drinking water that can be boiled for syrup. The sap of a maple tree looks like water. It tastes quite a bit like water, too, with just a hint of mapley sweetness. The particular sap used to make syrup is different from that produced by the tree at other times of the year.
If you find yourself out of fresh water and not near a stream, you can get a drink from a friendly bamboo plant. Bamboo grows in discrete cylindrical sections which are hollow and walled at the top and bottom. These sections contain fresh, drinkable water. Maple syrup can be made from any species of maple tree. Trees that can be tapped include: sugar, black, red and silver maple and box elder trees. For example; it may require 60 gallons of box elder sap to produce one gallon of syrup.
The most common "live" Christmas trees are fir, scotch, and pine species. Generally, these trees are only mildly toxic. Tree needles are not easily digested and may cause gastrointestinal irritation, vomiting, obstruction, or puncture.
Make sure your pets cannot access the Christmas tree water. Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells vessel elements or tracheids or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant. Maple sap has a shelf life much like milk. If you keep it cold, as close to 32 f.
A great way to remove sap from your skin is by using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer or nail polish remover. Simply rub onto the affected area s and follow up with soap and water. Using Crisco or grease-cutting dish soap is also effective. What happens if you eat tree sap? Category: hobbies and interests beekeeping. Some trees produce bitter or even poisonous sap. Plus, even edible sap licked directly from the tree is not very tasty.
However, the next time you drizzle maple syrup on your waffles, just remember that it comes from tree sap.
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