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Dried sage makes good tea but it also adds depth to pot pourri.
I like it fresh in bread and in vegebangers/ burgers. It makes great herby doughballs *dumplings*, and it enriches gravy too.
You can make a pesto with it using the sage instead of basil, very strong though but great with chutney and cheese on oatcakes.
You know this gluten and dairy free diet thing I live on ??
Sometimes it sucks
Oh, and if you pound the sage up with rocksalt it makes a really good salt for sprinkling over oven wedges.
Take a gutted fishy, wrap it in clean grass with sprigs of sage in it and then coat in mud. Bake it slow in the hot fireashes until the clay is hard and ready to break off.
Supposed to be good with a quartered chicken done this way too.
Sage and tomato soup is good too.Use syboes with it to give oniony without being too much.
cheers,
Toddy
I like it fresh in bread and in vegebangers/ burgers. It makes great herby doughballs *dumplings*, and it enriches gravy too.
You can make a pesto with it using the sage instead of basil, very strong though but great with chutney and cheese on oatcakes.
You know this gluten and dairy free diet thing I live on ??
Sometimes it sucks
Oh, and if you pound the sage up with rocksalt it makes a really good salt for sprinkling over oven wedges.
Take a gutted fishy, wrap it in clean grass with sprigs of sage in it and then coat in mud. Bake it slow in the hot fireashes until the clay is hard and ready to break off.
Supposed to be good with a quartered chicken done this way too.
Sage and tomato soup is good too.Use syboes with it to give oniony without being too much.
cheers,
Toddy
Don't hippies burn it as a kind of jostick?
I'm sure if seen this somewhere, apparently it creates a calming atmosphere.
I'm sure if seen this somewhere, apparently it creates a calming atmosphere.
And it keeps the midges at bay. Irishlostboy made a wonderful smoke thingy the other day out of two tin cans. He put sage leaves and lemon balm leaves in it, and it produced a lovely aromatic smoke, and the bugs buggered off.
I use lemon balm in my anti-midge wipes recipe.......much nicer than citronella. I hadn't thought of burning it though.............must try, thank you 
cheers,
Toddy
cheers,
Toddy
Smudgestick...
My mother is one of the believers, as are many of my hippy friends.
It's supposed to clean and purify, so they use it to 'cleanse' people of bad feelings, and places of bad 'vibes' maaan... People do it when they move somewhere new too.
From what I can tell, all it does is make the place smell quite nice.
I believe it was an ingredient in the smoking mixture used in an American Indian pipe ceremony I took part in some years ago.
There was other things in it, but no tobacco. As I'd given up smoking, I made sure to ask!
Jim
There was other things in it, but no tobacco. As I'd given up smoking, I made sure to ask!
Jim
You sure thats not Salvia Divinorum, which although technically a member of the sage /mint familly has more pronounced affects.
I don't think so, it was quite innocuous - it was the ceremony that counted. It was carried out by this person, who visited in the early 90's and brought Sitting Bull's pipe to the U.K..
http://www.neiu.edu/~team/memory/jimgill.htm
The story about his cancer is interesting and I couldn't really make my mind up about it when he told us. He also carried a stone in a pouch round his neck, which was a tallisman that he had collected in a 'vision quest'. It was his guardian and he claimed it had talked to him and saved his life once.
Jim
How do you make your anti midge wipes recipe. I have a lot of lemon balm in the garden and as I make a good midge dinner I am always looking for anything that will keep them at bay.
Dave
Dave
Boil up a good handful of bog myrtle leaves, mugwort leaves/flowers and lots of lemonbalm leaves. Cover pot and leave to cool; strain. Wipe the liquid on with a soft cloth or make wipes using bounty kitchen towels. Split the roll in half so that it's two toilet roll sized pieces. Remove the central cardboard cores and put the roll into a ziplock bag or an old babywipes container. Pour over half the liquid and allow to saturate the paper towels. Pull from the centre and you have anti midge wipes. Cooling and cleansing too
Or you can soak your shemagh in the liquid and allow to dry, repeat as necessary, but the scent helps to deter the midge. Some midgies it stops dead
Not the ones around Loch Achray or on the Cobbler though
It can also be made as a tincture, just use the cheapest vodka you can find. You'll need to seal the container really well though or the alcohol will evaporate.
I'm using a meadowsweet tincture to sooth my bites just now, it really works but I'd run out for a couple of days and the resultant bites were driving me nuts.
cheers,
Toddy
Or you can soak your shemagh in the liquid and allow to dry, repeat as necessary, but the scent helps to deter the midge. Some midgies it stops dead
Not the ones around Loch Achray or on the Cobbler though It can also be made as a tincture, just use the cheapest vodka you can find. You'll need to seal the container really well though or the alcohol will evaporate.
I'm using a meadowsweet tincture to sooth my bites just now, it really works but I'd run out for a couple of days and the resultant bites were driving me nuts.
cheers,
Toddy
