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- Sun Dec 01, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: DIY and Handicrafts
- Topic: Traditional way of lighting - making rush lights.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 588
Re: Traditional way of lighting - making rush lights.
Welcome back Mushroom. First, a quick safety tip: NEVER MELT WAX OVER DIRECT HEAT, ALWAYS USE A WATER BATH OR DOUBLE BOILER I've seen a wax fire and they're bad, like napalm filled chip-pan bad. If you're dipping candles use the widest container you can, this is because the wax level in a narrow co...
- Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: DIY and Handicrafts
- Topic: Traditional way of lighting - making rush lights.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 588
Re: Traditional way of lighting - making rush lights.
If you watch the old Ruth Goodman series 'Monastery Tudor Farm' she makes rush lights in that from reeds and sheep's tallow! I had a go at making my own candles this year and it proved really successful. I collected old bits of wax (various burnt out candles and a few from the recycling centre shop ...
- Tue Mar 22, 2022 2:39 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 989
Re: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
Thanks all... well tonight is a large tin of Cassoulet (bought in a French supermarket when on holiday!) with a BBD of 2018. If I don't come back tomorrow, you'll know the botulism got me :lol: :lol: In all fairness though Cassoulet is a great prep... tin of beans, lentils, sausage and chicken all i...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 7:09 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 989
Re: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
Yes, all best before. Thank you! Now more than ever I don't want to waste food!! I've really upped the veg growing for this year. Grow every year but trying to do it on a much bigger scale this year. Also buying some different pastas / pulses and rice in bulk, so hopefully between the two will have ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 6:36 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 989
Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
Just going through a few shelves that haven't been checked on in - ahem - quite a while! While I'm very used to using tins which are out of date by up to a few years depending on what they are etc... what is the received wisdom on glass jars and bottles? These are factory sealed jars - such as hot d...
- Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Flash Sale of MREs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1918
Flash Sale of MREs
Just a heads-up... I just got an email from The Prepper Shop. They are having a 48 hour flash sale of MRE main meals - all at £1.50. No affiliation - but I've just put an order in - so now mine is secure, I'll spread the word!!
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Acorns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4788
Re: Acorns
I'm going foraging to the same place again this year - but I think I'll leave the acorns alone! I'll stick with blackberries, elderberries and rosehips... I think a Vit C tonic will be much called for this year instead of acorn coffee! I never made the beach nut butter - but I might even revisit tha...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:24 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Acorns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4788
Re: Acorns
I made some acorn coffee and posted a thread about it in 2015 - I'd just been on a foraging course with Ffyona Campbell (she who walked around the world in the 80s!) It was a HUGELY time consuming process. The result looked like coffee but had it's own very distinctive taste. It's not something I ev...
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 11:02 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: How are you preparing for Brexit?
- Replies: 217
- Views: 45594
Re: How are you preparing for Brexit?
Just got my Mogul Gravity Water filter set up and sorted and run a couple of lots of water through it... tasted my first glass this morning and it seems to be working a treat! Water has always concerned me as very few people have space to keep enough of it - and while I have purifying tabs / ways to...
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 12:38 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: How are you preparing for Brexit?
- Replies: 217
- Views: 45594
Re: How are you preparing for Brexit?
I'm taking a muti-strand approach! I have no idea what to expect at the moment so using the old adage of prepare for the worst... hope for the best. It has the POTENTIAL to perhaps be the biggest thing we need to prep for in recent times... POTENTIAL. So, I'm very lucky in that my house is old and h...