It's like a snowcone for adults! Spruce sorbet -- fresh from your nearby spruce tree! It's so good on a hot day! Here's how I make it.

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Step 1. Pick 'Em!

When the spruce trees were putting out their new growth, I went and picked a bunch! For more on how to identify spruce trees and pick their new growth, see my post How to Eat a Spruce Tree.

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Step 2. Soak 'Em!

Then I took 2 cups of that new spruce growth and put it in a quart jar filled with water. That spruce water is really tasty to drink, straight up by itself, after about 8 hours in the sun. But it keeps in the refrigerator for a few weeks, too.

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Step 3. Mix 'Em!

To make the sorbet, there's just 2 other ingredients: 1/3 cup of honey and a lime. I start by draining the water from the spruce. I don't throw the spruce out -- I save it for some really great cookies, like these Spruce Tree and Pine Pollen Cookies. Then I add the honey. I thin the honey by heating it on the stove with about a cup of the spruce water. Then I add the juice from the lime. That's it!

It was filled to the brim, but I can't help drinking some, every time!

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Step 4. Freeze It!

To freeze into sorbet, I use a little half-pint manual ice cream maker. I think they still make them, but this one is from the 1980s. These manual ice cream makers are great because you don't need any salt or electricity to run. You just put their insert into the freezer the day before and then hand crank. Or, if you are like me, you start off hand cranking and then just put the insert back in the freezer for a half hour and then stir it all up with a spoon before it freezes solid. You could do this with a metal bowl or an ice cube tray, too.

Note the APCRH -- an Admittedly Poorly Crafted Replacement Handle

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Step 5: Eat It!

Spruce sorbet is so good! It may not be sweet enough for kids. But it is so refreshing! You can't buy spruce sorbet. But you can make all you want! Just get to know some spruce trees! Enjoy your sorbet!

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I'll be posting more about making great tasting food with spruce trees, including shortbread and some prize-winning balsamic vinegar. In the meantime, if you want to see all this post put into action -- and hear a live-action taste review of this Spruce Sorbet, check out my video:

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What Do You Think?

I hope you get a chance to make Spruce Tree Sorbet! If you do, I would really like to know about it! Put @haphazard-hstead in your post so I'll be notified and use the #foraging tag so all the Steemit foragers can find it!

• Have you ever eaten a spruce tree?
• Would you eat my spruce tree sorbet?
• Do you have any pine trees or spruce trees near you?
• Do you like all the gifs in this post or would you prefer to see only photos?

Thanks, @vegetarianbaker, for showing us all how to make gifs easily. I may have gone overboard! :D

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Plant List

Spruce trees: Genus Picea, Pine family (Pineaceae)

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