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Recipes with herbs

 

A simple extract

Needs:

  • Fresh or dried herbs of your choice
  • Boiled water

Use one teaspoon dried or 2 teaspoons fresh herbs for one cup of water. 

To make tea you can just put the herbs in to a cup and add the boiled water. Sift before using. The easiest way to use the herbs is to put them in a tea bag. Their sold in lots of stores in the most different sizes and materials. 

The extracts are also good to make ointments, cremes and shampoos.

Love potion with special regards to Gruenwold Cottage

Add to red wine:

  • 1 teaspoon rosemary
  • 1 teaspoon anise
  • 1 teaspoon cassia
  • 1 teaspoon honey
  • 1 teaspoon orange rind
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 3 green leaves from the rose geranium

Bring to a simmer and stir deosil while counting to 91. Cool till the brew stops steaming, then strain. When the time comes, warm the potion and give to the one whose love you would sweeten and warm. It is said that this Shall not fail unless performed by one whose heart & household keep slatternly habits.

Chamomile Tonic

Needs:

  • 2 tablespoons chamomile extract
  • 1 a 2 drops chamomile oil
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon calendula leaves

Stir everything well. Add the calandula at last. When you do not sift the tonic, the calendula will form an extreme strong combination with the chamomile. In that way the tonic will be even more effective and caring.

This tonic is very caring. Especially on warm days it is well to be used as a facial spray. Keep the spray in a bottle in the refrigerator and spray as cold as possible at your face. You can dab your face afterwards to clean your pores or just let the tonic dry at your skin. 

Hair lotion with Rosemary

Needs:

  • 1 teaspoon dried or 2 teaspoons fresh rosemary
  • 6 dl. boiled water

Mix the herbs with the water in a large pot or bowl. Let them tug for 15 minutes till 2 hours. Sift the water and rinse your hair with the fluid after you've washed your hair with shampoo. Don't rinse your hair with water anymore after using the rosemary extract. in that way the potion would loose its strength. 

This lotion makes your hair shiny and keeps your head skin in good condition.

Coconut -  orange hair mask

Needs:

  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 3 drops  orange oil

Warm the coconut oil au bain marie in a small bowl. When the oil has become liquid, remove the bowl from the pan and stir in the  oils. Fill a little jar with the liquid and keep it in the refrigerator to harden out.

Comb this mask in little amounts through your hair. Leave in for approximately 5 minutes en rinse hair good afterwards.  If you can't wash everything out, don't worry. it makes your hair shiny, smooth and comb-able.

Don't like this idea? Then just wash your hair with a very mild shampoo.

Caring steam bath

Needs:

  • 1 teaspoon dried  parsley
  • 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
  • 1 teaspoon dried mint
  • 1 teaspoon dried calendula leaves
  • 1 teaspoon dried chamomile
  • 1,5 liter boiled water

Make sure your face is totally clean. Then, put al the herbs together in to al large bowl and mix them well. Add the boiled water. Make sure the steam is not to warm, otherwise it is possible your face come out entirely burned instead of entirely cleaned!

Hang your face above the bowl and cover with a towel. In that way the steam can't get away and you don't have to miss anything of the delightful essence that occur to the steamy water.

Stay in that position for 5 till 10 minutes. It is best for your skin to take after steaming a caressing (moistening)  mask or grease it with a moistening, greasy creme.

Shampoo with geranium en petit grain

Needs:

  • 4 tablespoons base shampoo
  • 2 drops  petit grain oil
  • 2 drops  geranium oil

Mix al the ingredients well and store in a bottle.

Washing just once and rinse afterwards is enough to make and to keep your hair in to healthy condition.

The shampoo is mild and moistens your hair just great! 

Moistening bath oil

Needs:

  • 4 tablespoons fat milk
  • 2 drops  rosemary oil
  • 2 branches fresh rosemary

Drain the milk and the oil into a nice hot tub. The milk ensures that the oil will spread good. Stir the water. If you don't, there will be a chance that the oils stay floating at the surface of the water at one spot. A high concentration of oils is very dangerous because of the risk of burning.

The aroma of rosemary is extremely relaxing and rosemary is also moistening. Well, if it wasn't, I would still take my rosemary bathings!

Very special simmers with special regards to Gruenwold cottage

Are you familiar with herbs and fluids that spread the most wonderful essences during simmering? That you're getting the feeling that the air is breathing again and totally clears up?

Well, Lora from Gruenwold Cottage made a list from the most powerful and delightful simmers that purifies the entire house from negative feelings or vibrations!

Put the ingredients up to simmer and the essence will do the rest!

For peace 

  • vanilla extract
  • almond extract
  • lemon
  • pieces of apple or apple juice instead of water
  • cinnamon

Prosperity

  • chamomile flowers
  • lemon bits
  • basil leaves
  • larix needles
  • ginger

Love

  • pink rose petals
  • rose oil
  • cardamom

Romance

  • red rose petals
  • coriander seeds
  • patchouli
  •  and red wine to simmer in

Creativity

  • yellow rose petals
  • star anise
  • orange bit
  • instant coffee

Protection

  • bay leaves
  • peppermint
  • rosemary
  • hyssop
  • lavender oil
  • elder flowers

A Gargle for a Sore Throat, with thanks to Botanical.com

  • A small glass of port wine

  • a tablespoonful of Chile vinegar

  • 6 Sage leaves

  • dessertspoon of honey

 simmer together on the fire for 5 minutes.

A Cure for Sprains, with thanks to Botanical.com
 Bruise a handful of Sage leaves and boil them in a gill of vinegar for 5 minutes; apply this in a folded napkin as hot as it can be borne to the part affected.

EUCALYPTUS OINTMENT , with thanks to Botanical.com
12 OZ Elder Oil

 2 OZ White Wax

 1 1/2 oz Spermaceti

2 drachms Eucalyptus Oil

20 drops Wintergreen Oil

A good ointment for the skin, containing antiseptic and healing properties. It produces very satisfactory results in scurf, chapped hands, chafes, dandruff, tender feet, enlargements of the glands, spots on the chest, arms, back and legs, pains in the joints and muscles.

Apply a piece of clean cotton or lint to wounds after all dirt is washed away. For aches and pains rub the part affected well and then cover with lint. Repeat two or three times, taking a blood-purifying mixture at the same time.