A recipe for pine cone honey

What are pine cones for? To spread the seed? Not only for these purposes. It turns out that they can be used for a different purpose. Almost everyone knows that walking in a pine forest is very useful, but not everyone knows why. And as for the benefits of pine honey, hardly anyone thought. From this article you can learn about the useful properties of pine cones and shoots, as well as useful honey from pine cones, recipes for its preparation.

Application

Pine cones are a highly effective remedy for cough, so delicious, sweet, healing honey from pine buds (a step-by-step recipe is presented below) will be enjoyed even by toddlers. It has not only expectorant, but also immunomodulating, diaphoretic properties. On its basis make various tinctures and decoctions for ingestion, compresses and external grindings.

Gum, cones, buds and needles contain many useful substances: ascorbic acid, panipicrin, tannins, resins, essential oils and many others. This helps them to use in the treatment of colds, rheumatism, gout and a number of others.

Beneficial features

There are many recipes for honey from pine cones , but they all have medicinal properties and are used in folk medicine under such circumstances:

• Diseases of the throat and gums.
• Pneumonia.
• Flu, cold.
• Low hemoglobin.
• Tuberculosis of the lungs.
• Polyarthritis.
• Avitaminosis.
• Diseases of the respiratory tract, bronchial asthma and bronchitis.
• Pleur.

Green pine cones are, first of all, a source of iron and many other useful elements. They contain oleic and linolenic acids, bioflavonoids, tannins, lipids, monoterpene hydrocarbons and many other nutrients and nutrients.

Needles and pine buds also contain a lot of useful elements. In pine buds contains a large number of tannic elements, essential oils and all sorts of vitamins. In needles - vitamin C, ascorbic acid, carotene, tar. Thanks to these components, cones have received wide application in the treatment of many diseases. But for this it is necessary to collect young and quite green cones.

When do you need to collect cones?

In this case, remember that you need to collect unsolved pine cones. The time of collection may be somewhat different, it all depends on climatic conditions. In our country, they can be collected from 21 to 25 June. In this case, the cones in width should be of the order of 4 cm.

In the process of collecting young cones, it is necessary to pay special attention to the state of the tree on which they grow and the appearance of the shoot. On trees affected by insects, it is desirable not to collect cones. Wood and cones should look beautiful, without any traces of rot and are not eaten by insects.

Honey from pine cones: recipes

It's not just honey in the full sense of the word, it's a medicinal product that perfectly helps with polyarthritis. It would be great to stock them for a whole year, because it is perfectly stored in the refrigerator. Prepare such honey in several ways.

The first way

Ingredients :

• Pine cones - 1 kg.
• Sugar - 1 kg.
• Water - 10 glasses (200 ml).

Pine Honey - Cooking Recipe

Cones should be thoroughly washed and soaked for a day in cold water. Mix sugar with water and cook syrup. Then the cone is added to the hot syrup, and everything boils with constant stirring until they are opened. The black scale formed during cooking does not need to be removed. If the honey is too thick, it can be diluted with boiled water. The finished product has a pleasant taste, has a dark brown hue.

The second way

Young pine cones (1 can of 0.5 liters) about the size of walnut hazelnut are poured with cold water and boiled for 15-20 minutes so that they become soft and not boil at the same time. Remove the cones with noise and transfer to a pre-prepared syrup (2 tablespoons water, 1 kg sugar) and about 20-25 minutes still boil.

The third way

The recipe for pine honey can be prepared in this way. Young pine cones must be washed, torn off roots, cut into quarters or in half, depending on the size, after which everything is covered with sugar in a ratio of 1: 1. Then within a day it is insisted, cones start up juice, and then they are cooked somewhere 30-40 minutes, after that they are rolled in cans.

The fourth way

We present one more recipe for pine honey. Have to take:

• Young cones - for 1 liter of water 75-80 pcs.
• Sugar - per 1 l infusion of 1 kg.

For honey, fresh cones are needed, still green. Collected shoots must be sorted, rinsed and poured with water so that it covers about 1-2 cm. Then boil with the lid closed for 20 minutes, then the broth should be allowed to infuse for about a day.

The next day, pour the infusion into another container, add sugar in the ratio of 1 kg of sugar per 1 liter of infusion, then cook, as usual jam. Do not forget to remove the foam during cooking. Cook should be at least 1.5 hours. The composition must be a crimson color, which must be poured into warm cans and tightly closed with lids. To avoid sugar, honey can be added with citric acid (1 incomplete teaspoon).

Pine Elixir

Consider another recipe for pine honey. Young cones collected during the period from June 21 to June 25 are placed in a transparent container, densely poured with sugar (1 kg per 1 can of 3 liters). The neck of the container is covered with gauze, and the can is placed under direct sunlight (for example, on the windowsill) for the period until September 21-24. If mold suddenly appeared on the cone surface, then these fruits should be thrown out, and those that are located under the layer of liquid should be sprinkled with a layer of sugar.

The resultant honey elixir should be poured into a container, closed tightly with a lid and put in a cool and preferably dark place. Shelf life of this honey is 1 year. It can be added to tea. For prophylactic purposes, it is consumed 20 minutes before breakfast and 1 table spoon before bedtime.

Pollen of pine

As a rule, pollen of pine is used with honey. When pulmonary tuberculosis is very useful, such a composition, as milk and pine pollen with honey. The recipe for cooking is as follows.

Pollen of pine (1 tsp) is ground in a mortar and poured into hot milk, and then honey (1 tsp) is added.

With prostate adenoma, prostatitis, the use of pollen with honey helps to improve blood flow and reduce tumors in the tissues of the prostate. Consider the recipes for preparing pine pollen with honey.

1. Natural candied honey (1 liter) is heated in a water bath, the temperature should not be more than 60 ° C. Then add pine pollen (1 tablespoon) and mix thoroughly. Take it for 2 months 3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating 2 tsp. Further it is recommended to take a break for a couple of weeks, then repeat the course again. And so until the complete cure.
2. Pine pollen and honey are mixed in equal amounts (1 teaspoon) and taken twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. You can drink with a small amount of milk or water.

Shoots of pine

The most succulent shoots in length can be no more than 12 cm. With longer shoots, you can collect much less juice. In order not to damage the tree, you do not need to collect branches only from one side, you should choose the most juicy and from different trees.

And here's how to make honey from pine shoots (recipe):

• Young shoots of pine - 500 g.
• Water - 1 liter.
• Sugar - 500 g.

Preparation:

1. The pine shoots are thoroughly washed with water and transferred to a saucepan.
2. Then water is added. Cook should be for 2 hours on low heat. After that you need to cool and leave for a day.
3. After 24 hours strain and wring out. Then the broth is poured into a clean pan and sugar is added.
4. Cook without the lid on low heat for 2-3 hours.
5. The resulting hot honey is poured into dry clean jars. Next, you need to close the lid tightly and take it out into a cool place.
6. This recipe for pine honey is designed for 2 cans of 200 ml.

Contraindications

Despite the useful properties of pine honey, this product has contraindications. To treat cones first of all you need to carefully treat people suffering from kidney diseases. In acute hepatitis, there are also contraindications. With great care should be used honey and tinctures of pine cones people of advanced age, as well as pregnant women. In addition, honey from cones can cause allergic reactions in children.

The main thing is to remember that preparations containing pine cones can not be consumed in large quantities, since this can provoke not only headaches, but also inflammatory processes in the stomach.