For what it's worth, you can actually eat pine cones. I was surprised to discover this last year, but a woman in a Facebook group I was in when I still had a Fa

For what it's worth, you can actually eat pine cones. I was surprised to discover this last year, but a woman in a Facebook group I was in when I still had a Facebook account one day decided to post all these pictures of the delicacy she had just finished making that reminded her of her childhood. Something like this: https://www.etsy.com/market/pine_cones_jam https://www.etsy.com/market/pine_cones_jam She grew up in Soviet-run Ukraine, so I guess you work with what you have, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that people in Europe thousands of years ago figured out you could eat pine cones, too.