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Article: Jumping Juniper! Cone Pie, Anyone?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 15, 1996
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Anybody who's seen a juniper tree (or bush; it's not what you'd
call a really impressive tree) has noticed that it's covered with
needles instead of leaves. Junipers are conifers - members of the
cypress branch of that family.
Now, conifers don't produce berries; they bear cones. So
botanically speaking, even though juniper berries are blue and
fleshy, they're cones.
Culinarily speaking, they're still berries because that's how
they're used in cooking. They're added to things for a fruity sort
of flavoring. But they're acrid and basically inedible by
themselves.
Though not the most common of flavorings, they do flavor gin,
which gets its name from the ...