Pine Tips Syrup for coughs
If it’s May, y’all know I’m starting my syrup from pine tips, or you can use spruce tips. Pine Tips Syrup helps to heal cough and boost your immune system in the fall.
INGREDIENTS
- jar pine tips – only this year’s young tips, the youngest and the greenest
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
Remember to only collect tips away from roads. Be kind to the trees you use – do not take all the tips from one twig, you want to allow the tree to keep growing. I also found few green cones and threw them in too.
Clean tips by laying them out on a white cloth for a few hours, allowing any insects to remove themselves. Do not wash or rinse them with water, you don’t want to wash away the pollen.
You can cut tips and cones into smaller pieces. Place a layer of greens and cover it with sugar, add more greens and cover with more sugar. Repeat layers until your jar is full or you run out of tips. Tighten the lid down.
Place a jar in the window and let the sun work for 4 weeks. Give your jar a shake every couple of days. You’ll want to open the jar every 1-2 days, to let the gases out. I call it burping the jar.
After 4 weeks your syrup should be ready. Strain it through a kitchen cloth to get a clear syrup and pour it to jars. It can be stored till next Spring in the fridge or cold basement/pantry.
How to use it:
- take a spoonful of syrup a few times a day when you got cough
- add a spoon of syrup to your tea
- you can have it with your pancakes or oatmeal
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