How to Make Medicinal Vinegars & Oxymels Medicinal vinegars (Vinegar Extracts) have been around since ancient times, and were an excellent way to preserve and dispense herbs before distilled spirits were known about. While the advantages of using vodka or brandy to make your herbal tinctures are many – including greater potency and longer shelf life, there are those who wish to avoid alcohol for personal reasons or due to the higher cost, making vinegar extracts ideal for them to create. Vinegar extracts (also known as “aceta”) are weaker than alcohol based tinctures, so the required dose is higher. And, while vinegar won’t draw out as many of the beneficial components of an herb that alcohol will, it does excel at drawing minerals and vitamins from a plant. Add those extra nutrients to the already established benefits of apple cider vinegar and you have a very acceptable option for your herbal remedies toolbox. Making a Vinegar Extract: According to my well loved book, Making Plant Medicine Dosing a Vinegar Extract:
How to Fix (or Remake) Jam or Jelly That Turns Out Too Soft or Runny How to Fix (or Remake) Jam or Jelly That Turns Out Too Soft or Runny This month's notes: April 2014: Spring is just around the corner. Strawberries are here in Florida, Texas and California, next in late March and April for much of the South, then in May for most of the country and June in cooler northern areas. See how easy it is to make strawberry jam or strawberry-rhubarb jam! Organic farms are identified in green! Subscribe to our: Email alerts; Follow us on Twitter Add this page to your favorites! Sometimes after you have canned your jam, jelly or other preserves and let it cool, you open a jar, only to find it hasn't set properly an d is too runny! If the jam is too thick, before you put it in the jars, just heat 1 or 2 cups of grape juice (or any other fruit juice of similar or neutral taste, like apple or white grape) to boiling. If the jars are already sealed / canned, then when you use them, just stir in a little grape juice until you reach the desired thickness. Ingredients
800+ Organized Canning Recipes for Winter Storage If you have grown a garden this summer or if you simply have an abundance of vegetables and fruits that you want to preserve for winter, there are many ways of canning those foods. Traditionally, canning was a way to keep foods that were abundant in summer and make them last until the garden came out again the next year. Pin it We have collected more than 800 recipes for canning that will help you to preserve those foods and give you many choices with regards to how you preserve them. – 32 Pages filled with canning recipes from National Center for Home Food Preservation There are many different ways to keep your foods fresh.
How to make homemade canned tomato paste, from fresh tomatoes - easy and illustrated! How to make homemade canned tomato paste, from fresh tomatoes - easy and illustrated! This month's notes: April 2014: Spring is just around the corner. Strawberries are here in Florida, Texas and California, next in late March and April for much of the South, then in May for most of the country and June in cooler northern areas. Organic farms are identified in green! Subscribe to our: Email alerts; Follow us on Twitter Add this page to your favorites! Click here for a PDF print version Yield: About 9 half-pint jars Making canned tomato paste is something easy to do and will make your tomato dishes taste so much better. Here's how to do it, in easy steps and completely illustrated. And if you'd rather can your tomatoes or freeze your tomatoes, see this page! Ingredients Equipment 1 Water bath Canner (a huge pot to sanitize the jars after filling (about $30 to $35 - $30 at mall kitchen stores and local "big box" stores. Step 1 - Selecting the tomatoes Step 2 - Get the jars and lids sanitizing
Canning Cranberry Sauce Another Thanksgiving is behind us, and while most are wondering what to do with all the leftovers, I am looking at all the beautiful jars in my pantry. I filled quite a few jars with all the good things that Autumn has to offer: cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, turnips, turkey stock, and turkey soup. My cranberry sauce is so easy to make and easy to can up to enjoy all year. I began making my own when I was just setting up housekeeping 31 years ago. 1 cup water 1 cup sugar 1 (12oz.) bag cranberries Combine water and sugar in a sauce pot. Now it is time to can your sauce. Canning the sauce: wash and boil your jars to steralize them.
4 Ways to Cure Olives User Reviewed Four Methods:Curing Olives in WaterCuring Olives in BrineDry Curing OlivesLye Curing OlivesCommunity Q&A Curing olives is an ancient process that turns the naturally bitter fruit into a deliciously salty, tart snack. Choose a curing method that works best for the type of olive you have. Prep time (in water): 7-10 days Steps Curing Olives in Water <img alt="Image titled Cure Olives Step 1" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn" onload="WH.performance.clearMarks('image1_rendered'); WH.performance.mark('image1_rendered');">1Obtain fresh green olives. <img alt="Image titled Cure Olives Step 9" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn">9Cover the olives with the brine. Curing Olives in Brine Dry Curing Olives Community Q&A
Fruit Butters Surplus fruits may be preserved by making fruit butters. The only equipment necessary is a good preserving kettle. Various fruit butters recommended are apple butter with cider, apple butter without cider, apple butter with grape juice, apple butter with lemons, pear butter. peach butter, plum butter, and Garfield butter made with plums and peaches. With the exception at a good preserving kettle very little equipment is needed for the preparation of such butters. Apple Butter: There is no better way to use good apples than to make them into butter. The peeled and sliced apples may be cooked in the boiled cider, or they may be first made into apple sauce, which is then cooked in cider. In other words, 2 gallons of sweet cider should be boiled down to 1 gallon, and 2 gallons of the prepared apples should be added to it, either uncooked or as apple sauce. If sugar is used, it should be added after the cooking is about two-thirds done. Apple Butter Without Cider: Pear Butter: Peach Butter:
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Vollwerternährung Vollwerternährung bezeichnet ein Ernährungskonzept, bei dem frische und unbehandelte Nahrungsmittel sowie Vollkornprodukte bevorzugt werden. Das Konzept basiert auf der Vollwertkost von Werner Kollath.[1] Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch wird der Begriff häufig synonym zu Vollwertkost benutzt; ebenso zu Vollwertige Ernährung: Vollwertige Ernährung basiert auf den Empfehlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ernährung und bezeichnet ein Mischkost-Konzept mit ernährungsmedizinischer Zielsetzung. Moderne Vollwerternährung erfordert zusätzlich eine besondere gesundheitliche Qualität der Nahrungsmittel, sowie eine bessere Umwelt-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsverträglichkeit.[2] Geschichte[Bearbeiten] Ernährungsreformer vor 1933[Bearbeiten] Der Begriff Vollwertkost wurde zwar erst von Werner Kollath 1942 eingeführt, das Prinzip wurde jedoch bereits Ende des 19. Als ein Pionier der Vollwertkost gilt der Schweizer Arzt Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867–1939), der unter anderem das Müsli erfand.
Weird And Funny Halloween Recipes Posted on Jan 17, 2011 | Comments 0 It is time to bring out the weirdest, the craziest and the goriest of your recipes to add to the horror element of your Halloween Party. The mood for a successful theme party is set with the help of the décor and the food. So for your Halloween party to be the talk of the town you need the spookiest décor items and some truly weird and funny Halloween recipes. Some of the favorite Halloween recipes are those where the end products look like body parts or gory messes. How about a bloody drink? Some interesting and easy Halloween recipes for a kid’s party would be mummy pizza or mummy dogs, both very simple to make and a tasty treat for the kids. Actually the concept here is pretty simple; all you need to do is get creative when baking cookies, use food colors like red and green to gross them out. Cream cheese and marshmallows along with a little lemon gelatin and pineapple juice can be converted into bite sized eyeballs.
How to Make Verjus, or Verjuice Photo by Hank Shaw You know the old saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?” Well, when life gives you unripe grapes, make verjus. I have a problem. Verjus, pronounced vehr-ZHOO, is a sort of vinegar made from the juice of unripe grapes. Photo by Holly A. As you may have surmised by the name, verjus is a French creation. So how do you make verjus? Fortunately, green grapes grow near you. how to make verjus You will need lots of grapes, a food mill, a fine mesh strainer, some Mason jars and some patience. Makes about 6 cups. 7 pounds unripe grapes1/4 teaspoon citric acid1/8 teaspoon sodium metabisulfite Take most of the stems off the grapes. In batches, grind the grapes through the coarsest plate of your food mill. As you get a slurry of ground-up grapes and grape juice, pour it into a bowl as you work. Now you need to run the ground grapes through a fine mesh sieve. Finally, you will need to pour the strained juice into a Mason jar. Bottle and store in the fridge.