Fermented Sweet Pine Cones

£18.00

Sugar-fermented young pine cones—tangy, resinous, and sweet like a piece of forest candy.

Collected in the forests of Northern Europe and prepared by hand, this salt is part of FORAGED, a limited-edition series by Protopia Collective. The series began as an installation for London Design Festival and now continues in small, seasonal releases. Each piece is wild-foraged, made in micro-batches, and designed to bring a raw, elemental presence into contemporary food rituals and thoughtful tables.

50g

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Tiny, resin-rich, and only harvestable for a short window in late spring—young pine cones are one of the forest’s most elusive offerings. Foragers gather them in a narrow two-week period, just as they begin to form and before they harden into wood.
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Their texture is soft, their flavour deeply aromatic—somewhere between sap, citrus, and spice. Traditionally preserved in syrup or honey, we ferment them slowly to bring out their natural sweetness and forest complexity. The result is intense, sticky, and unexpected—like tasting tree resin softened by time.
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Pine cones have long been used in folk remedies and herbal practices across Northern and Eastern Europe, prized for their grounding energy and symbolic link to evergreen endurance. These are small, wild luxuries—harvested at the edge of a season, and transformed into something golden.