Spruce Supermarket: 4 Tasty Treats You Can Make with Spruce Tree Tips

When you go for a walk in the woods, do you glance around and consider which trees around you may have edible parts? Sure, you might identify maple trees as the source of the wonderful syrup that's great on waffles and such, and there may also be nut-bearing trees in your area, but the average person wouldn't look at an evergreen tree and think it looked delicious. Well, guess what?...<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/spruce-supermarket-4-tasty-treats-you-can-make-from-a-spruce-tree/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

The delicate, feathery fronds of new spruce tips have a light, citrusy flavor that's almost like a lemon-lime hybrid.

Non-alcoholic spruce soda has a refreshing "evergreen" flavor, something like root beer, only more green.

The evergreen flavor of this jelly is very subtle, and it's great with nut butter.

Adding finely chopped spruce tips to shortbread gives the classic cookie a scented, savory taste that's really quite lovely.

Although spruce tips are abundant in springtime, please don't harvest too many from the same tree.