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Hi, I am sorry to say, that it is very unlikely you will be able to cut it without crumbling, as it is a pure soap, it should be cut just after a few hours of being in the mould. I would simply take the crumbles and use them as they are. I would not advise melting it down and re moulding it is not q...

Hi thanks, I thought it was around May/June as I remembered from last year, but as we had the 'heatwave' in April, I did think it may have had an effect on the flowers.

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Just a quickie, when will the elderflowers start to bloom ?

Thanks as always

Re the Jacket Potatoes. sorry I should have said, in Spain you can buy wood burners which are built with an integral shelf so that you can put dishes, plates, and plates with food on the shelf and the heats cook as an oven. My friend cuts large roasting potatoes in half, drizzles some of our organic...

This is how the Spanish do it, and nearly everybody in our village, and their friends, and relatives who own houses, do this : have woodburners which simply sit in the room, with the flue going straight up through the roof The spanish do not bother making chimneys, when we bought our house and asked...

Hi, I meant the old fashioned sherbert lemon powder which I can dip my liquorice stick ! You used to be able to buy them in yellow tubes with the liquorice sticking out of the top! I know it has citric acid and sugar, but not sure what the quantities and if anything else is needed! Louise www.blogs....

Neem Oil is a natural oil produced from seeds, and is widely used in Head Lice Treatments, as well as many other treatments including insect repellant, it is much better for you than Tea Tree. neem oil is also used to spray on crops as an organic substitute for other harsher insecticides that might ...

Hi Does anybody have a sherbert lemon recipe please? I think I have the ingredients, just not sure about the quantities!

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Hi, I know this is a little old, just come across it, but all I wanted to add was a I have a really effective & easy cure for the erradication & prevention of nits, which is the use of Neem Oil. Anybody interested can just pm me, I can email a word document with all the details, but it is so...

Just thought I would add my natural remedy for the curing of warts! My husband suffers from them and doing some research for something else, I came across a treatment using Neem Oil. Simply rub the neem oil over the infected area, soak a cotton poultice in the Neem Oil as well and wrap over the area...

Hi, Have you tried looking for Jam making Thermometers, ? These are usually the best as they can stand the high heat temperature.


That is the only real criteria for the thermometer, it must be able to stand the high temperature. Doesn't have to be any special one.

Good luck

Louise

Hi, just read your message, I can recommend the two following books Melinda Cross, The Handmade Soap Book, this is a great book! Plus Making Scented Soap by Linda Hambleden, again another mainly soaps book, but also starts to cover bath melts I will pm you with lots of other stuff too! Louise :flower:

Hi It is a beautiful violet colour, and definitely smells of violets, I could tell instantly what it was, As when we ordered it, we did not know what we were ordering, as the menu was written in Valenciana and not traditional spanish, and we do not know very much Valenciana, I will definitly take a ...

It is without a doubt ' fab' and tastes devine. Certainly a must for a speciliast jam maker, and also in Spain they make really great Tomatoe Jam, which is really sweet, I have brought some back and asked my friends to do a blind tasting they were all guessing fruits - such as mango, etc, nobody cou...

Hi Kimmi

I have sent you a little pm message!

Louise