Oh, I love homemade things! Yesterday, I attempted making butter for the first time after reading
Rhonda's post at Down to Earth a few days ago. I had some thick double cream left over and with a bit of elbow grease (due to lack of food processor), I turned it into butter. Wow! I am really pleased with the result and shall be making my own butter from now on - it actually turns out that even buying organic cream still makes the butter cheaper than the cheapest "value" brand stuff in the supermarket. Plus, I end up with bonus buttermilk to use in making soda bread (if you missed the recipe for the soda bread, please click
here). Thank you Rhonda for the fabulous instructions!
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| Little wells in icing sugar... |
I have also discovered the joy of making your own lozenges or throat sweets. It should come with a health warning - truly addictive. I have now made three different ones (told you it was addictive): honey/lemon/ginger, peppermint tea and also rosehip ones. The best thing? Apart from maybe a thermometer you don't need any special equipment. For the mold, simply use a plate of icing sugar or corn flour and any rounded object to make little wells into the powder (a bit obscure but I used the rounded end of our coffee scoop). The liquid sugar mix (careful: very hot!) is then poured into the mold and left to cool and the powder also helps to stop the sweets from sticking to each other. How amazing is that? I found the instructions online when I was browsing and came across the recipe and instructions at a website called Instructables (you can find the instructions
here).
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| ...filled with hot sugar mix |
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| ...end up being sweets |
So, I hope you will have fun over the weekend and maybe even some time to try making these. Whatever you do, have a fabulous time!
