50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

2cats1kid

You can eat all of those, naturally. Crab apples can pretty much be used like normal apples I think, and crab apple jelly is good. Similarly rowans and hawthorn. Came across the idea of hawthorn schnapps too, which is like sloe gin only with hawthorn and vodka. It's supposed to be nice, so I might give it a go and use for Christmas pressies if it works.

My old school used to do nettle soup and it was yummy. (At least we called it nettle soup, and I have no reason to believe it wasn't. Although we called one pudding Dead Man's Leg, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't true!). They did do homemade stuff as every now and then we'd have the most luscious chutney ever - all my life I've been trying to find a chutney recipe that tastes like that!

BASHFUL_2

Good Morning everyone...I seem to remember HM soap being talked about....is there a recipe??? I'm going to be making hampers for everyone for xmas (if I can find baskets to buy!) and thought HM soap would be a nice idea. My mum is allergic to yeast, so in hers I am going to be putting HM yeast free bread!!! and my sisters are getting HM cookies, got so many ideas, not all made by me...don't worry!!!! There would be sour faces looking back at me if that was the case!!! Appeciate a link to the recipe if it is on here please....94 pages is a lot!!!!! x x x

redglass_2

BASHFUL wrote: »

Good Morning everyone...I seem to remember HM soap being talked about....is there a recipe???

Hi
Just popping in. There's a fairly detailed soap recipe on the selfsufficient-ish website, though I'm sure other moneysavers will have ones just as good. Sorry but I'm such a wimp, i can't do links!

BASHFUL_2

redglass wrote: »

There's a fairly detailed soap recipe on the selfsufficient-ish website, though I'm sure other moneysavers will have ones just as good. Sorry but I'm such a wimp, i can't do links!

Thanks redglass!!! But what is the selfsufficient-ish website??? I'm not the sharpest tool in the box!!!!!!

shaz_mum_of__2

soaps not quite as simple as a recipe

i suggest some research first

http://candleandsoap.about.com/od/soapmakingbasics/u/soapuserpath1.htm#s3

then here's a simple starter soap recipe



http://houseofstrauss.co.uk/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=462

Shaz

BASHFUL_2

thats great. Thanks Shaz x x

naturally_2

Thanks 2cats1kid, I shall be searching out recipes now! Bashful, you'd like the crafty for Christmas 08 thread, I'm sure they've got recipes, or just search this forum, I'm sure there are millions.

2cats1kid

Went out for some more blackberries today and came back with 2 ice cream boxes full, and that was without trying! The bushes are just dripping them now. A lady with a buggy stopped when she saw me and got out a carrier bag and picked a few, and as I was leaving the common another gentleman with a box was heading towards the bushes, so it looks like I will no longer be the sole forager there. Just so long as they leave my grapes alone - they are so mine!

Looks like the rosehips are just starting to turn - another couple of weeks and I can get my rosehip wine on the go.

Plum_Pie

BASHFUL wrote: »

Thanks redglass!!! But what is the selfsufficient-ish website???

If you're on OS, I'm sure you're very sharp in many ways!:beer:

The site being referred to is www.selfsufficientish.com

If some one says 'the so-and-so website', just type 'so and so' into google and you'll probably get there.

BASHFUL_2

Thanks naturally and plum pie....I'll be checking out both!!!