Originally Posted by
mixteup
This - It's pine sap / resin
aka balsam in our neck of the woods. One of my late mother's early-married-life cookbooks contains this transcription of an observation from (?three-year-old) me: "Giggy [my first attempt at saying "Grandpa", which stuck] uses Esso Escra to get the blossom off his hands." Context unknown but preserved lovingly to this day in my sister's attic.