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Garden Mint Ice Cream 13 Dec 2010 | 05:23 pm
What you need 1 pint (600ml) full fat milk fresh garden mint 6 medium egg yolks 6 oz (175g) caster sugar 1/2 pint (285ml) double cream To make Place the milk and four good sprigs of mint ...
Lavender and Almond Biscuits 9 Dec 2010 | 12:39 am
Don’t be put off by my dreadful photograph. These are delicious! What you need 5 oz (125g) butter 2 oz (50g) golden caster sugar 4 oz (100g) plain flour 4 oz (100g) ground almonds 2 level te...
Plum Cake (Pflaumenkuchen) 2 Sep 2010 | 09:13 pm
We are lucky to have two plum trees in our garden which every year in late August / early September supply us with an abundance of Victoria plums. After publishing this photograph on Postcards from W...
Making Herbal Bath Oils part 2: Heat Infusion 5 Aug 2010 | 10:09 pm
In my first post about making herbal bath oils I was learning about solar infusion, or the cold method. This post focuses on heat infusion, also known as the hot method. I realised heat infusion was...
Soothing don’t-sniff-it-just-bung-it-in-the-bath-and-think-of-England Calendula Oil 4 Aug 2010 | 09:13 pm
So what do you think? Will it will catch on....? You may remember my less-than-satisfactory Calendula Oil solar infusion experience. At the time I said I was going off to research essential oils tha...
Orange Ginger Beer (Lesley Kenton) 27 Jul 2010 | 11:44 pm
This recipe is taken from Lesley Kenton’s 2001 publication: Cook Energy, which is still available. The book receives mixed reviews from customers on Amazon: it seems that you will either love it (5 S...
Homemade Lip Gloss 27 Jul 2010 | 08:45 am
There are so many important things I could be updating you on: progress reports on the pungent Sunflower and Calendula Oil and on other recent herbal oil and soapmaking attempts, thoughts on where I’d...
Sunflower, calendula and … parmesan??? 23 Jul 2010 | 01:54 am
Would you take a bath in water to which you’ve added cheese-scented oil? I appreciate that this is probably not a question you came here expecting to find, but it is one that has been exercising my b...
Soapmaking Safety 13 Jul 2010 | 11:00 pm
Sometimes making potions is a dangerous activity. Three weeks ago I made two batches of soap. I haven’t mentioned it here before now because there’s really nothing to see yet. Soap has to be left t...
Making Herbal Bath Oils part 1: Solar Infusion 3 Jul 2010 | 12:04 am
There are a few ways of making herbal bath oils. I still have more to learn about the other methods, but this one is very straightforward. Since this method makes use of the heat of the sun it is kn...
