Hickory Syrup
This is essentially a synopsis of my resurrection of a now-archived but worthwhile thread originally begun by our friend hada (Shagbark Hickory syrup) which covers the initial experiments and...
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Yeah, we do have hazelnuts and they are used extensively in baking over here.Still, I like pecans a lot and wish I could get them more often over here.
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Quills - sorry for the jar size, it was all I had when I made the batch (all of my bigger jars are crammed full of dried mushrooms). I hope that you will use what you have of your remaining syrup on...
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Box came today Steve..Thank you so much...now Ive got more hickory syrup and the raw material for making more. Looks like it was washed? maybe. Thank you for the dried mushrooms as well. Quills
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Quills I'm glad you got it OK, although I didn't expect otherwise, with the specialized packing material surrounding the jar. I can't recall whether I scrubbed that bark or took it from the harvest...
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That was a question I was going to ask you...of it was washed. I don't want to take any chances of bark stained by yellow water from folks walking their dog. LOL!~! again Thank you .... I will be...
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Just a note to those who live where shagbark hickory doesn't grow. The bark of other hickory trees may be used with equally satisfactory results however they are not as cooperative in donating their...
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Kinda cool to see new interest and thanks Steve for jump starting it once again. We all seem to bring a jar to any gathering and all injoy it. We are on the last jar put up two years ago. A new batch...
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Glenn it was when I ran out of my supply that I decided to revisit this topic here. You did many of us a favor by bringing this special treat to light in the original thread so I thought I'd grab the...
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Funny how we all seem to be on the same cycle. I'm down to my last bottle from two years ago also and need to be making another batch during the winter wood stove season. I found a new source of...
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Thinking for gifts this year. Everyone seems to love it. Thinks to of other trees to tap. Anyone tried wild cherry?
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It needs to be indicated that different botanical parts of the same species will vary in their chemical content because of their purpose relative to the overall functions of the plant/tree. A simple...
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Thanks Strve for that reply. It was the first tree that popped in my head without looking into the Chemical make up. Just goes to show what you may think sounds good may very well not be good for you.
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Glenn I know that you have a good working knowledge, the extra details were in the interest of the broader readership and for those inspired by your curiosity.
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Hmmmm.....I wonder...Black cherry's were dried and pounded into a pulp pits & all....and added to pemmican. Apparently the drying process rendered the Prussic acid in the pits neutral. I wonder if...
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Quills I had a strong feeling you'd bring this up and I'm glad you did. For a few years I was privileged to receive the benefit of guidance from a tribal elder well trained in what he modestly called...
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As a farmer ansda student of agriculture in high school we were studying the poisonous things animals could eat and came to cherry leaves and horses. Always were taught that if a cherry tree were cut...
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Good point Steve....and as a former horse owner who cleared a piece of land to pasture my horse on ( years ago )that had a lot of choke cherry trees on it..which some of them I cut down and cut all...
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Forager I have always wanted to do the dried crushed cherries and mix with some dried meat for pemican. Back when I had wild cherry trees growing basically in my front yard..I only made jelly from the...
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Using a primitive tool with limited free time I was unable to reduce the shells to a fineness which would have given me the confidence to reconstitute the brick and work it into muffins which was...
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Foods containing prussic acid are acceptable as a flavoring agent in small quantities. This is our familiar bitter almond extract. Some postulate that we are deficient in these compounds, where as in...
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