Brown sugar wort
Helen
Mar-10, 5:06 amJust dropped by, and had to add my two cents worth.
Have you tried Sorghum? Not Black Strap [Brer Rabbit] Molasses,
but real, honest Sorghum Molasses? Especially if you can find the
kind made by the Mennonites, it's wholely organic, and made from
the first boiling of the Sorghum cane.
It give things a much better flavor than brown sugar, without
overpowering the taste. I remember my dad used to add it to his
applejack when they lived in West Virginia. It makes the stuff a little
dark, but that doesn't hurt anything.______________________________
Medicine Touch
Mar- 11, 3:20 amTurbinado is a lightlight brown and is great!!! But Louisiana
Cane SUGAR(tan in color) is perfect! :) My 1/2 cent's
worth! ;=D
Making a proper pot of tea
Melaluca
Mar- 09, 6:13 amI got slightly different information from my grandmother
about making tea. She said 3/4 tsp for each 6oz cup.
Boiling the water twice was a no-no for her and she used
spring or filtered water. She never used tea bags, only
loose tea; It needed "room to bloom". The steeping time
varied depending on the herb and what she was going
to use it for.Every house I ever lived in had a comfrey plant in the back
yard. My grandmother gave me the first one, and I always
took part of that plant to grow when I moved.Just as an aside, my grandmother lived to be 99! Every
morning for over 50 years she drank a 4 ounce glass of
cider vinegar diluted with water and 4 ounce glass of
lemon juice and water. She also ate lots of garlic. It was
tough kissing the old girl, but she was healthy and beautiful.
Herb tea:Melaluca
Mar-10, 5:55 amI like a cup of rosehips tea in the morning. Rose hips
is high in vitamin C and can help lower your cholesterol.
The astringent after taste reminds me of lemon and it
is an energy booster for me.I have mixed lemon balm with rose hips and hyssop.
Very tasty.Sage and licorice root make a great mouthwash and
this tea is effective for gum irritation. I have used this and it
works.One more, lemon balm is very good for skin problems.
Lemon balm works to reduce the pain from shingles. Tried
this on a friend...it helped. Make an infusion of lemon balm,
allow to cool and apply as a compress to the painful
area. Repeat as necessary, also drink some of the tea! :)
Can't hurt!
Cordials and Herbal Wines:LadiCoyote
Mar-7, 6:41 pmWhen I was living 'wild' I got into winemaking and one
of the nicest wines I made was from honeysuckle flowers
..a ladies drink, mainly because it was sweet and smelt devine.
The act of gathering the flowers themselves was very
theraputic.....try gathering a bucketful and you will discover
yourself the patience it takes... The honeysuckle that grows
wild here (Antipodes)is deemed a noxious weed because
its vine is quite invasive.
The flowers are quite small, creamy yellow and highly
perfumed. To make the wine I simply washed the flowers
lightly....poured hot water over them....added sugar, the juice
of two lemons and a few slices of root ginger, and when it
had cooled down to body temp I added a teaspoonful or
so of yeast.
( Sorry the measurements aren't detailed, I did it all by
'feel' and have no memory of the exact amounts I used.)
After a week or so I strained it into porcelin jugs and let
it sit quietly for a month or two....
It was delicious to drink cold after a hot day in the garden
..... every mouthful brought back the memory of the peaceful day
I gathered the flowers. And what was also great was that no
males within reach would drink it because it was too 'flowerey'
for them....yay!. This recipe can be used with a variety of herb
flowers, eg. elderflowers, borage, rose, violet, calendula, red
clover, etc.....The yeast I used was basic bakers yeast, (granulated).
I baked bread every day and cooked it in a camp oven over
an open fire.
Now and then I used 'potato yeast' in my bread...basically
thats just like a ginger beer bug.....Boil some spuds up,
until they are really well cooked, drain the water off and to it
add a tablespoon of sugar, a teaspoon of bakers yeast and let
it work.
Next day drain off half the liquid and use in your bread dough
.....with the remaining liquid add water, a teaspoon of sugar
and leave it to ferment some more......
In the winter it became so cold where I lived that the potato
yeast would freeze over just sitting on my window sill.
But it still worked very well... the one good thing about this
yeast bug is that the bread didn't taste 'yeasty' as some
homemade bread can.
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