3 lb Beetroot when cooked
1 1/2 Apples
1 pint Vinegar
1 1/2 lb Onions
1 tsp Salt
1 lb Sugar
Cook beetroot in salt water for approx 1 hr (until cooked)
Mince beetroot and put aside!
Put Apples, Onion through mincer and cook with other ingredients except beetroot. Boil for 20 minutes and add beetroot. Cook for a further 15 minutes.
Thicken as like & bottle while hot and seal
(Mother in-law thickens with about 1 teaspoon of cornflour (mixed in water first) repeat if needed!)
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Bottling Beetroot
Cook beetroot and slice (slow simmer until you can put a fork in. Aprox 1hr)
Cool beetroot and peel
Slice into jars
Put the following together, then boil stiring regularly.
When boiling pour in jars of beetroot then seal!
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup vinegar (if spiced vinegar 1/2 and 1/2)
1 cup water (water from cooking the beetroot above is best)
Salt and pepper to taste
Cool beetroot and peel
Slice into jars
Put the following together, then boil stiring regularly.
When boiling pour in jars of beetroot then seal!
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup vinegar (if spiced vinegar 1/2 and 1/2)
1 cup water (water from cooking the beetroot above is best)
Salt and pepper to taste
Best ever 'Chocolate Brownie' recipe!
300g butter
3/4 cup NESTLE baking cocoa
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 packet NESTLE milk CHOC BITS
1) Preheat oven to 180*C
2) Line the base of an 18cm x 23cm slice tin with baking paper
3) Place butter and cocoa in a large bowl and heat in the microwave until butter is melted, then stir
4) Add brown sugar and mix well
5) Add eggs and flour - 1 egg and 1/2 cup flour at a time - making sure to mix well between additions
6) Add CHOC BITS and combine
7) Bake for 30-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean
8) Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack
PERSONAL TIP: I slightly under cook as its nicer when cooled and doesn't go as hard.
3/4 cup NESTLE baking cocoa
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 packet NESTLE milk CHOC BITS
1) Preheat oven to 180*C
2) Line the base of an 18cm x 23cm slice tin with baking paper
3) Place butter and cocoa in a large bowl and heat in the microwave until butter is melted, then stir
4) Add brown sugar and mix well
5) Add eggs and flour - 1 egg and 1/2 cup flour at a time - making sure to mix well between additions
6) Add CHOC BITS and combine
7) Bake for 30-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean
8) Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack
PERSONAL TIP: I slightly under cook as its nicer when cooled and doesn't go as hard.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Brown Rice Salad
Boil: 2 cups brown rice (should be firm)
Soak: ½ cup dark soya sauce. (Should soak at least 2 hours - best overnight)
Chop: 3 spring onions, 1 red capsicum, ½ medium onion
Roast: 1 cup peanuts (or cashews), ½ cup sunflower seeds
Mix with above. Add ½ cup raisins, dried apricots optional
Whisk: ¾ cup olive oil (or ½ cup cooking oil)
Juice of 1 lemon and 1 tsp grated rind, 1 crush clove garlic
Pour: Oil mix over rice and mix well
Then: SERVE AND ENJOY!!
Monday, November 7, 2011
Russian Fudge
675g (1 1/2 lbs) Sugar
1/2 cup Milk
1/2 tin Sweetened Condensed Milk
125g (4oz) Butter
1/8 tsp Salt
1 Tbsp Golden Syrup
Put sugar and milk into a saucepan, mix, cover and slowly bring to the boil. Add condensed milk, butter, salt and golden syrup. Boil until it reaches soft ball stage, about 30 minutes stirring occasionally. Cool then beat until thick. Pour into sponge roll tin or shallow tin, mark and cut when set. Vanilla and nuts may be added if desired. OR MY OWN PERSONAL PREFERENCE... 3tsp Ground Ginger added to the mix!!! YUM
1/2 cup Milk1/2 tin Sweetened Condensed Milk
125g (4oz) Butter
1/8 tsp Salt
1 Tbsp Golden Syrup
Put sugar and milk into a saucepan, mix, cover and slowly bring to the boil. Add condensed milk, butter, salt and golden syrup. Boil until it reaches soft ball stage, about 30 minutes stirring occasionally. Cool then beat until thick. Pour into sponge roll tin or shallow tin, mark and cut when set. Vanilla and nuts may be added if desired. OR MY OWN PERSONAL PREFERENCE... 3tsp Ground Ginger added to the mix!!! YUM
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
CHICKEN ENCHILADAS with SOUR CREAM
This is a recipe from one of the Indian reservations that I visited in the States, I change it a little but essentially this is perfect. Enjoy
CHICKEN ENCHILADAS with SOUR CREAM
12 TORTILLAS
2 cups cooked CHICKEN
1 pint SOUR CREAM
3 GREEN ONIONS, chopped
Shredded LETTICE
1/2 pound grated CHEESE
2 cups cooked CHICKEN
1 pint SOUR CREAM
3 GREEN ONIONS, chopped
Shredded LETTICE
1/2 pound grated CHEESE
SAUCE for ENCHILADAS
2 cups TOMATO PUREE or SAUCE
2 cups WATER
4 teaspoons DRIED ONIONS
2 BOUILLON CUBES
1 1/2 teaspoons SALT
1 teaspoon GARLIC POWDER
1 teaspoon OREGANO
Combine sauce ingredients and simmer about 5 minutes in pan large enough to hold a tortilla flat. Fry tortilla lightly in a little oil (I avoid this step personally!) Dip tortilla in sauce, remove and fill with cooked chicken or other filling, onions and lettuce. Roll up and put in casserole, seam down. Repeat until all tortillas are filled. Spoon additional sauce over top. Dollop with sour cream and cheese and heat in oven at 350 about 20 minutes (makes 6 servings). (If tomato sauce is used, omit salt.)
Combine sauce ingredients and simmer about 5 minutes in pan large enough to hold a tortilla flat. Fry tortilla lightly in a little oil (I avoid this step personally!) Dip tortilla in sauce, remove and fill with cooked chicken or other filling, onions and lettuce. Roll up and put in casserole, seam down. Repeat until all tortillas are filled. Spoon additional sauce over top. Dollop with sour cream and cheese and heat in oven at 350 about 20 minutes (makes 6 servings). (If tomato sauce is used, omit salt.)
Lotion Bars
I found this on http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/lotion-bars.html and am dead keen to give it a try
EVERYMAN’S LOTION BAR RECIPE
1 part vegetable shortening
1 part vegetable oil
1 part beeswax
Melt the shortening and beeswax a double boiler or a little pan in a bigger pan of simmering water. Stir in the vegetable oil. Pour into cups/molds and let cool. Pop out of “mold” and it’s ready to use. The beeswax will fragrance the bars with a nice, light honey smell, or you can stir in a little essential oil before you pour it into the molds.
LOTION BARS!
What exactly are lotion bars? They are solid, oil and butter based (anhydrous) bars made with beeswax, liquid oil, and butter. You melt, fragrance, then pour them into a mold or something like a deodorant container or tin and use them to seal in moisture wherever you need it. I think of them as giant lip balms for your body!
A basic recipe for lotion bars...
33% beeswax
33% liquid oils
33% solid butter
1% fragrance oil
Weigh all three ingredients in equal amounts in a Pyrex jug, then heat until all the solids have melted. Add 1% fragrance oil (by weight) and pour into a mold or deodorant container. Let set. Use. Rejoice.
This is a fairly basic recipe and the lovely thing is that you can tweak it to your heart's content, using a variety of oils and butters. (Check out the posts on oils and butters to see what would work for you!)
For your first bar, try something really basic and use that as an example bar of what you want. Try sunflower, safflower, or soy bean oil (all available at the grocery store) with cocoa butter and beeswax. This will give you a good baseline for what a basic lotion bar feels like.
TWEAKING THE BAR!
The hardness of your butters is important here. If you use all cocoa butter in your lotion bar, you're going to have a very hard bar. If you use all shea butter in your bar, you will have a softer bar. So consider how soft you want your bar to be. A softer bar will be squishier, but will definitely melt at body temperature (great for a massage bar).
For an after bath bar, I'd choose...
sunflower oil - a great emollient (about 20% of the bar)
hempseed oil - I can use this in a lotion bar as I'll be using it quickly, and it is fabulous for my skin (about 13%). I will need to add 1% Vitamin E in this bar for sure!
cocoa butter - it lays down a protective barrier to trap in moisture
For a foot lotion bar....
avocado butter or avocado oil - a heavy oil great for really dry and chapped areas
mango butter - if I use 33% mango butter, it'll be quite soft, but very emollient
avocado butter & mango butter (equal amounts) - a quite soft, but emollient bar
For my lips...
olive oil - a great humectant (draws water from the atmosphere) about 1/2 the oils amount
aloe oil - a great healing oil (not making a claim here, but it is awfully good!)
aloe butter - the goodness of aloe in a butter - but very very soft (about 15%)
cocoa butter - to harden the bar and offer great emolliency
You can add anything you like to a lotion bar recipe, as long as it is oil soluble. So hydrosols, water, aloe vera liquid, and other water soluble ingredients are right out! Hunt around for butters and oils. I've recently picked up aloe butter and aloe oil, so I can have the goodness of aloe in an anhydrous bar.
MY FAVOURITE LOTION BAR RECIPE
28% beeswax - to harden the bar
10% fractionated coconut oil - this is a very light oil, very emollient
25% sunflower oil - conditioning for the skin
3% rice bran oil - high in Vitamin E
30% mango butter - creamy and emollient
2% IPM - (an ester) IPM helps greasy things feel less greasy and sinks in quickly
2% cyclomethicone - this silicone helps with the glide
2% vitamin E - to prevent rancidity and good for my skin
1% FO
Melt all but the cyclomethicone and fragrance oil in a heat proof container in your double boiler. When all the ingredients have melted, add the cyclomethicone and fragrance oil, then pour into a mold or twist up deodorant container. Let set. Use!
This is a bar intended to start melting at your body temperature, that's why I used all mango butter.
SOME TIPS
Packaging: Wrap them in foil and label them, then present in a nice cellophane bag.
Chocolate molds and silicone ice cube trays are great for molding lotion bars!
Packaging: Find some nice tins for portability!
Make sure you label your lotion bars so you know which one you loved best or so your giftee knows what they are getting! Please note on your labels that these are NOT EDIBLE even if they are adorable and smell great. (A co-worker tried to eat one I scented with pecan praline!)
Lotion bars are incredibly easy to make and wonderful to use. They're portable and non-liquid, so they're great for long flights or camping trips. Play with the butters and oils to find a recipe your skin loves!
This is the first in a series of posts about anhydrous products. What are anhydrous products? It means "without water", and they are products made with oil soluble ingredients. Because they don't contain water you don't need to use a preservative (although I suggest 0.5% to 1% Vitamin E to keep the oils from going rancid), and you can usually package them in something other than a bottle (like a chocolate foil, bag, or tin). You also don't have to worry about emulsification (bringing oil and water together) because all your ingredients are in one phase (oil being one phase, water being another).
Oil based ingredients are pretty obvious - oils, butters, essential oils, fragrance oils - and include silicones, as well. When buying an ingredient, check the INCI or the information from the supplier to see if it is oil soluble. Water based ingredients would be things like water, glycerin, aloe vera, hydrosols, and surfactants. So you can't include those things in your anhydrous products. (Again, you can find oil based aloe vera oil or butters, so that's not to say you can't find things that might work well with an oil based product.)
What happens if you mix a water based thing into an oil based thing? You will get separation. Oil and water don't like each other (check your salad dressing to see this in action). If you add a water based thing - glycerin - to an oil based thing - shea butter - it will eventually seep out as the water and oil repel each other (this isn't exactly true, but it's easier to explain it this way...)
As I've noted above, you can include essential and fragrance oils into your anhydrous products without effort, but colouring can be a pain. (I'm doing a post on colouring in the future, but you will need to use oil based or powdered colours. Food colouring or icing colouring is right out!) So if you use water based colours, they will sit there in little watery balls in amongst your whipped butter or lotion bar - it's not pleasant to look at, and when the watery ball touches someone's skin, it's going to leave a big mark.
EVERYMAN’S LOTION BAR RECIPE
1 part vegetable shortening
1 part vegetable oil
1 part beeswax
Melt the shortening and beeswax a double boiler or a little pan in a bigger pan of simmering water. Stir in the vegetable oil. Pour into cups/molds and let cool. Pop out of “mold” and it’s ready to use. The beeswax will fragrance the bars with a nice, light honey smell, or you can stir in a little essential oil before you pour it into the molds.
LOTION BARS!
What exactly are lotion bars? They are solid, oil and butter based (anhydrous) bars made with beeswax, liquid oil, and butter. You melt, fragrance, then pour them into a mold or something like a deodorant container or tin and use them to seal in moisture wherever you need it. I think of them as giant lip balms for your body!
A basic recipe for lotion bars...
33% beeswax
33% liquid oils
33% solid butter
1% fragrance oil
Weigh all three ingredients in equal amounts in a Pyrex jug, then heat until all the solids have melted. Add 1% fragrance oil (by weight) and pour into a mold or deodorant container. Let set. Use. Rejoice.
This is a fairly basic recipe and the lovely thing is that you can tweak it to your heart's content, using a variety of oils and butters. (Check out the posts on oils and butters to see what would work for you!)
For your first bar, try something really basic and use that as an example bar of what you want. Try sunflower, safflower, or soy bean oil (all available at the grocery store) with cocoa butter and beeswax. This will give you a good baseline for what a basic lotion bar feels like.
TWEAKING THE BAR!
The hardness of your butters is important here. If you use all cocoa butter in your lotion bar, you're going to have a very hard bar. If you use all shea butter in your bar, you will have a softer bar. So consider how soft you want your bar to be. A softer bar will be squishier, but will definitely melt at body temperature (great for a massage bar).
For an after bath bar, I'd choose...
sunflower oil - a great emollient (about 20% of the bar)
hempseed oil - I can use this in a lotion bar as I'll be using it quickly, and it is fabulous for my skin (about 13%). I will need to add 1% Vitamin E in this bar for sure!
cocoa butter - it lays down a protective barrier to trap in moisture
For a foot lotion bar....
avocado butter or avocado oil - a heavy oil great for really dry and chapped areas
mango butter - if I use 33% mango butter, it'll be quite soft, but very emollient
avocado butter & mango butter (equal amounts) - a quite soft, but emollient bar
For my lips...
olive oil - a great humectant (draws water from the atmosphere) about 1/2 the oils amount
aloe oil - a great healing oil (not making a claim here, but it is awfully good!)
aloe butter - the goodness of aloe in a butter - but very very soft (about 15%)
cocoa butter - to harden the bar and offer great emolliency
You can add anything you like to a lotion bar recipe, as long as it is oil soluble. So hydrosols, water, aloe vera liquid, and other water soluble ingredients are right out! Hunt around for butters and oils. I've recently picked up aloe butter and aloe oil, so I can have the goodness of aloe in an anhydrous bar.
MY FAVOURITE LOTION BAR RECIPE
28% beeswax - to harden the bar
10% fractionated coconut oil - this is a very light oil, very emollient
25% sunflower oil - conditioning for the skin
3% rice bran oil - high in Vitamin E
30% mango butter - creamy and emollient
2% IPM - (an ester) IPM helps greasy things feel less greasy and sinks in quickly
2% cyclomethicone - this silicone helps with the glide
2% vitamin E - to prevent rancidity and good for my skin
1% FO
Melt all but the cyclomethicone and fragrance oil in a heat proof container in your double boiler. When all the ingredients have melted, add the cyclomethicone and fragrance oil, then pour into a mold or twist up deodorant container. Let set. Use!
This is a bar intended to start melting at your body temperature, that's why I used all mango butter.
SOME TIPS
Packaging: Wrap them in foil and label them, then present in a nice cellophane bag.
Chocolate molds and silicone ice cube trays are great for molding lotion bars!
Packaging: Find some nice tins for portability!
Make sure you label your lotion bars so you know which one you loved best or so your giftee knows what they are getting! Please note on your labels that these are NOT EDIBLE even if they are adorable and smell great. (A co-worker tried to eat one I scented with pecan praline!)
Lotion bars are incredibly easy to make and wonderful to use. They're portable and non-liquid, so they're great for long flights or camping trips. Play with the butters and oils to find a recipe your skin loves!
This is the first in a series of posts about anhydrous products. What are anhydrous products? It means "without water", and they are products made with oil soluble ingredients. Because they don't contain water you don't need to use a preservative (although I suggest 0.5% to 1% Vitamin E to keep the oils from going rancid), and you can usually package them in something other than a bottle (like a chocolate foil, bag, or tin). You also don't have to worry about emulsification (bringing oil and water together) because all your ingredients are in one phase (oil being one phase, water being another).
Oil based ingredients are pretty obvious - oils, butters, essential oils, fragrance oils - and include silicones, as well. When buying an ingredient, check the INCI or the information from the supplier to see if it is oil soluble. Water based ingredients would be things like water, glycerin, aloe vera, hydrosols, and surfactants. So you can't include those things in your anhydrous products. (Again, you can find oil based aloe vera oil or butters, so that's not to say you can't find things that might work well with an oil based product.)
What happens if you mix a water based thing into an oil based thing? You will get separation. Oil and water don't like each other (check your salad dressing to see this in action). If you add a water based thing - glycerin - to an oil based thing - shea butter - it will eventually seep out as the water and oil repel each other (this isn't exactly true, but it's easier to explain it this way...)
As I've noted above, you can include essential and fragrance oils into your anhydrous products without effort, but colouring can be a pain. (I'm doing a post on colouring in the future, but you will need to use oil based or powdered colours. Food colouring or icing colouring is right out!) So if you use water based colours, they will sit there in little watery balls in amongst your whipped butter or lotion bar - it's not pleasant to look at, and when the watery ball touches someone's skin, it's going to leave a big mark.
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