So easy to make and much healthier than store bought versions. For those chocolate cravings, as a spread on bread or as an ingredient in cake or cake fillings.
If the creme turns out to be too dry, blend some more or add a little bit more coconut oil.
Having been high on the list of healthy remedies of many a mother and grandmother in the past, Sea buckthorn is increasingly attracting the attention of the health industry and is climbing high on the list of upcoming superfoods.
From an unimpressive shrub, the plump yellow fruits contain a huge variety of over 200 bioactive components that have been found to have an expansive range of benefits to human health. Vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, and minerals make Sea Buckthorn a most valuable ‘best kept secret’.
It’s health benefiting properties include anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-oxidant, anti-carcinogenic, anti-hyperlipidemic, neuro-protective, and hepato-protective effects.
Sea Buckthorn has been found to contain more Vitamin C than citric fruit and that property alone makes it a most valuable ally during the Winter Season.
A cup of tea with Sea Buckthorn, is not only a very tasty treat, but one that may promote immune resilience during the colder months.
Sea Buckthorn tea:
500ml water
100gr. Sea Buckthorn
2cm of peeled and grated ginger
½ Stick of Cinnamon
Honey to taste
Put all the ingredients, but not the honey, into a pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for approximately 10 minutes. Remove the cinnamon stick. Then strain the tea making sure to crush the Sea Buckthorn to release the fruit pulp into the tea. Stir. Add the honey once the tea has cooled to a comfortably drinkable temperature.
Ingredients: 250gr. flour, 125gr.Butter, 75 gr. Sugar, 1/2 Teasp. Baking powder, grated lemon peel, extra sugar & cinnamon powder
Mix to a batter and spread on a baking tray. Remove the pip of the plums and place them on the dough. Sprinkle sugar (quantity depends on how sweet the plums are) and cinnamon on the plums.
Mix a crumbly dough of: 100gr. Butter, 200gr.Sugar, 200gr. Flour & 1/2 Teasp. cinnamon powder
Crumble on top of the cake and bake for 45 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean when poked into the dough. Allow to cool and enjoy with freshly whipped cream.
The arrival of autumn brings with it a delicious treat and a potent remedy-they are from the same genus plant but very different…
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It has been known since ancient times that nature has its own laws and rhythms. Most prevalent to us ‘modern’ people are undoubtedly the change of season and the turn from day to night, and night to day. Yet in the days of old, our ancestors abode to many more such laws of nature. They were knowledgeable of the wisdom within an array of most essential rhythms that governed their every doing. The application of these laws permitted them to optimize what was given and available, what they needed to grow and form to benefit their lives needs.
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The art of basket-weaving is nearly as old as the creation of time. Centuries before the invention of cardboard or plastic, people needed containers for the harvesting, transporting, and storage of goods, possessions, and treasures. They wove baskets from whatever materials were available – grasses, vines, pine needles, barks, and strips of wood. As years have rolled on, basketry has withstood the test of time. Today there are many other forms of “containers”, but nostalgia reminds us that a well woven, handmade basket is still something to be appreciated and enjoyed.
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To take the word natural first, as likely an act as most to ensure our survival would be to eat a leaf from a tree, bush or herbaceous plant, given that the plant cannot run away as can a prey animal. It might, though, put up physical defences such as thorns or chemical defences, given the prodigious capacity of plants to synthesise metabolites that will harm us and other aggressors.
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Wisdom of Old 