Nursing Mothers
1. For milk production: Pour one cup boiling water over one teaspoon dried fennel, steep five minutes, strain, and sweeten.
2. For milk production: Add two teaspoons of sweet basil to one cup boiling water. Steep ten minutes, strain and sweeten. Drink several
times a day.
LAYERED HERB SOAP
Ingredients:
1 pound glycerin soap base
1 color chip
O.5 once essential oil
Soap Mold
1/2 cup rolled oats or lavender flowers, or 1 cup rose petals
1. Melt the glycerin base in a double boiler
2. Add the color chip and essential oil. Stir well. Fill ¾ of the mold(s). Let set for 5 minutes. Reheat unpoured
soap mixture.
3. Add the oats, lavender flowers or rose petals. Fill the remainder of the mold with the soap mixture.
4. Let set for 30 minutes. Then freeze for 30 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes. Pop out of the mold.
Note: Choose an essential oil that will induce certain qualities. For example, choose Jasmine, Sandalwood, or
Lavender for relaxation; and Cardamom, Ginger, or Orange for stimulation.
You can order soap making supplies from
Creation Herbal Products
PO Box 344
Deep Gap NC 28618
Or visit their Web Site
REFERENCES
Recipe and procedure fromHealthy Living Magazine
Aromatherapy correspondences from The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Wormwood

BRANDY SALVE
Use for dry, irritated skin, and well as old skin wounds to prevent scarring. This Salve is especially helpful for pock
marks left behind from Chicken Pox. NOTE: If you use this for Chicken Pox, wait until the blisters have dried.
100% pure cocoa butter
brandy
Heat cocoa butter in microwave until melted, add a touch of brandy and mix until creamy. Note: only make
enough for one application.

HANGOVER FIX
These are the best for repairing the damage done by drinking a little too much and spending hours in a
smoke-filled room
Step One: Headache
- Take 1-2 feverfew pills (they can be found in any herb or health food store) depending on your drug tolerance. If
you want, start out with 1 pill and if you still have a headache one hour later take another.
Step 2: Helps liver and upset stomach
- Fill a tea ball with dried dandelion leaves and set aside
- Bring 2 cups of water to boil
- Turn off heat (if using an electric stove be sure to take the water off the burner)
- Add tea ball
- Add 1 peppermint tea bag
- Let steep for 3-5 minutes
- Drink both cups
Note: If your throat is sore you may add honey and lemon
Step 3: Helps the body repair damage from cigarette smoke
- Bring one cup of water to boil
- Turn off heat
- Add one bag of Ceylon green tea
Green tea is known to be a mild stimulant as well as a powerful anti-oxidant
Alternate steps 2 and 3 through out the day. Be sure to keep food intake to a minimum and keep it restricted to
fresh fruit until dinner time. This will allow your body to quickly heal itself. You will begin to feel better from the
first cup of tea

Apple Pancakes
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 tbs. sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1tsp. salt
2 well beaten egg yolks
2 cups milk
2 tbs. butter/margarine, melted
1 cup finely chopped apple, peeled and cored
2 stiffly beaten egg whites.

In a large non-metal bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients. In a smaller bowl, combine the milk and egg yolks. Pour mixture into the dry ingredients and stir well. Stir in the butter/margarine and apple. Fold in the egg whites. Let the batter set up for a few minutes. Cook on a hot griddle or in a large frying pan, using 1/3 cup of batter per pancake. Use a spatula or spoon to spread batter evenly. Remove from heat, dot with butter, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and roll up into log. Top with slightly heated applesauce and a dash of cinnamon.

Fairy Honeycakes
These cakes are not unlike those made on the night before Beltane by women around the turn of the century. These cakes were left in the garden to please Faery visitors.
1/2 cup sweet white wine
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1 cup honey
2/3 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
Oil for frying
1/8 teaspoon saltBeat the wine & egg in a medium bowl. Combine the flour, cinnamon, salt & sugar in a small bowl. Stir into the egg mixture. Let stand 30 minutes. Combine the honey & nutmeg in a small bowl. Heat 1/2-inch of the oil in a frying pan until hot, but not smoking. Drop the batter into the oil 1 tablespoon at a time; fry until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Dip into the honey. Yield: 1 1/2 Dozen. Can also be eaten on Lammas and the Day of the Dryads.

Danish Gingerbread Recipe
1 cup butter
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup light corn syrup
2/3 cup honey
1 teasp grated lemon rind
1 teasp vanilla extract
1 teasp ground ginger
1/2 teasp ground cloves
1 teasp ground cinnamon
1 teasp salt
1 teasp baking soda
4 1/2 cups flour
Cream butter and sugar. Add syrup, honey, lemon rind & vanilla, spices, salt & soda. Add enough flour to make soft dough. Chill until firm enough to roll.
Set oven to 350 degrees. Grease & flour baking sheets. On floured cloth roll dough 1/8 inch thick. Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Bake 8 min or until puffed and dry. Cool on a rack and decorate with colored icing.
Icing for Gingerbread:
1 1/2 cup sifted confectioner's sugar
1 egg white
1 teasp lemon juice
a few drops of vanilla extract
various food colorings
(Collect flavored extracts and food colorings and get creative)
Beat everything but the colors and extracts until the icing peaks. If necessary add more sugan and egg white. Divide into separate bowls for each of the different colors and extracts...have fun!

Samhain Remembrance Cookies
These cookies can be made on Hallow's Eve. They can be shaped like people and the herb rosemary is added to the dough as a symbol of remembrance. Some of the cookies are eaten while telling stories or attributes of special ancestors, reminding us that we still have access to their strengths--or perhaps a predisposition to their weaknesses. The rest of the cookies are left outside by a bonfire as an offering. This can be a solemn ritul, but it need not be.
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
1 c. butter or margarine (softened)
1 egg
2 t. vanilla
1 t. almond extract
2 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
1 t. cream of tartar
1 1/2 T. chopped rosemary
Heat oven 375 degrees. In a large bowl, beat sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, almond extract, and rosemary until creamy. In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Fold flour mixture into sugar mixture. Beat until dough forms and refrigerate for three hours. Divide dough into halves. Roll out one portion to 3/16 of an inch on a floured surface. Cut out with gingerbread women or men cutters and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat rolling and cutting with second portion. Bake for 5-7 minutes.