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Pine Needle Syrup Reciepe

This just sounds yummy to me. I just hope I can fine fresh pine needles top make it from. Let me know if you try it and how it turns out.

Pine Needle Syrup Source: thekitchenwitchblog.com

It’s a Scandinavian thing, really it is! Drive down the road in Denmark during pine needle picking season and you’ll see Danes pulled off to the side of the road foraging pine needles.  Seem strange? No stranger than juniper berries or rosemary! I got turned on to this delight several years ago when I attended my first Nordic Culinary conference in Seattle. I loved it and immediately my brain went to work on what I could do with it.

My first thought went to cocktails (of course it did)…it is a simple syrup, and my mind danced with baked good ideas (still working on that one), I even did a pork belly glazed with it (which was freaking good, but then again, it was pork belly).

This is a very seasonal offering, you only pick the bright green freshly grown new pine needles.  I like to pick mine at the cabin, it makes for easy foraging (yep, I am that lazy).  There are side effects, when you pick the new growth you stunt the tree’s growth.  I am careful to not pick all off of one tree or all on one side.  We happen to have some young trees that are too close to our cabin, they need to be cut down for fire safety, in the mean time I happily stunt their growth.

After that it’s just a matter of making a simple syrup and steeping the pine needles for 12 to 24 hours.  I like to add crushed juniper berry or rosemary (sometime both) to mine for a more complex savory flavor.

Pine Needle Syrup

Yields 2

Ingredients

  1. 1 cup organic granulated sugar
  2. 2 cups water
  3. 2 to 4 cups foraged pine needles, rinsed
  4. 1/4 cup crushed juniper berries (optional)
  5. 1 ounce rosemary sprigs (optional)

Instructions

  1. In a medium saucepan bring water and sugar to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add pine needles, juniper and/or rosemary if using. Turn off heat and let simmer 12 to 24 hours.
  2. Strain well in clean jars. Store covered in the refrigerator up to 3 months.

For Your Viewing and Listening Pleasure

Something new from YouTube.com a channel that plays calming music and show LIVE, no I did not mess up…lol LIVE, feed from under the water. Give it a try and tell me what you think of this? As I am typing this up the music is mostly piano, which I thoroughly enjoy, and the scene is showing different types of salt water fish. I do not know if the film the live action in from of aquamarines or if it is someone scuba-diving.

Relaxing Music and Underwater Scenes 🔴 24/7 Calming Music

For Your Listening Pleasure

Ancient Mother

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

There will be a couple of extra posts starting with today’s posts. Starting with Monday’s posts I will be changing the posting times to go out as I do them rather than how they enter your inbox now. I cannot guarantee that they will start at 9:00 AM CT daily but daily posts will be done each day. The reason for the change in posting times is so I am less stressed about being up early enough to have everything to start posting at 9:00 AM CT. This will help me to get my fibromyalgia and tension migraines to start calming down. I am tired of having trouble walking because it is so painful and to me using manmade pain killers too often. I hope I have your understanding and support in putting my health and frankly have mt quality of life improve by doing this. If some of you choose to quit following me because of these changes I understand and wish you all positive things in you and your family’s lives.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive!

Blessed be.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

Merry Meet Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends, Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

Thank you for the interest you show in the content on WOTC!!

I will only be posting the correspondences and spells for tomorrow everything else will be posted on the date. I think part of my problem of readership falling off is having the same posts in the afternoon for tomorrow and reposting them in the morning. There will be different correspondences and spell for tomorrow and the regular daily posts.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or witchcraft in general or herbs or flowers or anything else pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive!

Blessed be.

I Need Your Help to Figure Out Why Readership is Going Down

Please tell me what I am doing wrong. Since August 2023 views have gone down by more than half. I have done surveys earlier this year to ask you what you want to see on the website as regular posts and have tried to keep the number of emails flooding your inbox down. After trying to do what you want with WOTC my readership has gone way down which means the small amount of money I can make has gone from being paid monthly to every three months. The ads viewed have to add up to $100.00 USD in order for me to make this amount of pocket money.

I am really wondering if you all would like me to give the website to someone else or just let it go completely. I’d keep paying the $40.00 USD yearly to keep the domain name. I feel I am leaving the founder of WOTC, Lady Abyss, down with these number dwindling every month.

Please help me figure out how I am failing you. Should I go back to about 15 to 20 posts every day to bring you more information on a daily basis? Are there regular posts I stopped to keep the number of emails you get that you would like to see me bring back?

You my dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends are the only ones that can help guide me by telling what you want from WOTC. This is your website more than it is mine I’m just the person behind the scenes bring you what you want. Please be honest even if you think you may sound brutal in the comments or write to me at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com to tell me what I am doing wrong and what you want to see on here.

Thank you for taking your precious time to make a comment and/or write to me. I really do want and appreciate your input.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

Merry Meet Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends, Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive!

Blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

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Merry Meet Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends, Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive!

Blessed be.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.