Posted on wo 03 mei 2023 in blog • Tagged with soap, experiment, recipe
We made a shampoo bar / soap for washing our hair. We did this for the first time in 2021 and after we had used up the first batch, we made a second batch in 2022.
We took every precaution to do this safely. Please familiarize yourself with the process before …
Posted on do 03 november 2022 in blog • Tagged with experiment, harvest, recipe, season: summer
Ina found an interesting video on YouTube a while ago that talked about turning the cherries from Cornus mas (European cornel / gele kornoeille) into something resembling olives.
We have discovered three Cornus mas in the park nearby. This year the trees had a mast year. Naturally we decided to try …
Posted on vr 19 augustus 2022 in blog • Tagged with experiment, harvest, recipe, season: summer
This month I made another batch of apple vinegar. I had harvested a few apples from my mother's front yard. They had fallen down and were brown and desseccated in the middle. The tree had rejected them as viable seeds because of this. The outer part was still usable to …
Posted on ma 13 september 2021 in blog • Tagged with experiment, harvest, recipe, season: fall
This month I made mustard from mustard seeds grown in the Proeftuin. The recipe follows further down the page. But first a bit of botany.
Flowers of Sinapis alba (white mustard) being worked by a bee. Lower on the stem you can see the seed pods developing. As the plant …