VOTE! 2010 LUGHNASADH/IMBOLC RECIPES

[Earthwoman]

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[Aurora]

This is my family's Chicken Marinade

1 cup dry sherry
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
4 Tablespoons soya sauce
1 clove crushed garlic
Good shake of pepper
up to 2 Kilograms of chicken wings

Blend well and put in container with chicken and marinate overnight for best results.

P.S. We usually cook the chicken in the oven but this is awesome when used for BBQ

[Nikki 2]

An 1860's recipe for a "pick-me-up"

Take one yolk of a new laid egg
Beat well with 1/2 teaspoon of powdered sugar, 1 tsp brandy, 1 wineglass full of milk and 1 wineglass full of water.
Serve with sponge cake or plain biscuit.

[Nikki 2]

A Recipe for a Skin Mask
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Hippocrates advised ladies of ancient Athens to moisten their hands and legs in the morning, rub them lightly with honey and - later rinse the honey away with clear, fresh water.
This treatment was to relieve redness, roughness and chapping.

I found a simillar recipe in a 1977 Almanac -
"A good skin mask"
After moistening the face with water, apply honey warmed to room temperature.
It works even better if slightly warmed and mixed with dried skimmed milk, cream or egg white.
Rinse with clear running water

[wyeuro]

Garlic Tea. (Snake Oil revisited )
Actually a brew, this is a safe, sane, pleasant tasting herbal (i.e., 'smart') antibiotic, anthelmintic, and blood-purifier. It's good for your heart too. It's miraculous for all kinds of infections (including upper respiratory tract infection and sinusitus) and, especially if taken fasting, it kills a wide range of intestinal parasites.
Utterly harmless for children and most pets. For further eulogies seehttp://www.advance-health.com/garlic.html and http://quanta-gaia.org/reviews/books/powerOfGarlic.html

Caution: Garlic may be harmful or fatal to some pets.

garlic tea

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Ingredients:
Garlic: for an adult human, goat, pig or sheep - five good sized cloves; less for a human child, dog or cat, depending on the size of the sufferer; two whole bulbs for a cow or horse; three for a camel; one clove per three four hens.
Juice of a lemon, or two for large animals (except cats - they don't like lemon juice)
Tsp to a tbs of honey or sugar.
Eucalyptus oil.
Fresh rain- or spring-water or next best.

Method (quantities are for an adult human):
Chop the garlic roughly. Bring it to the boil and simmer it for five minutes in two cups of water to five cloves. The steam is valuable for inhaling for a stuffy nose. Otherwise keep the lid on to preserve the volatile oils. Allow to stand five minutes more before pouring into a large mug.
Squeeze in lemon juice (half a lemon is sufficient for this quantity).
Stir in honey (preferred for its ) or sugar.
Add two or three drops of eucalyptus oil. (This can be omitted from the brew in the case of infected wounds; instead, apply the eucalyptus oil mixed with a little honey directly to the wound, and drink the tea.)

Drink a cupful of this every four hours until symptoms abate, making a fresh brew each time. Feverfew may be given too if headache is present - the dried flower heads are pleasantly bitter to chew. For small animals an eye-dropper can be used, or it can be soaked into their fur so that they can lick it off. Even after symptoms have abated it is wisest to taper off, reducing the dose to half a mugful every eight, then twelve hours until strength and well-being return. If given to ruminants or humans to expel worms, give only one dose and follow up with a handful of wild mustard (or some nice beef with prepared mustard) to kill the eggs.
Try it - it works. I've even used it to heal an infected wound in a bird's leg, but more often for goats, cats, dogs, family, the neighbours and myself.

[Spirit Bear]

A safe recipe against worm infections for cats and dogs.

Traditionally, pumpkin seeds (Curcubita pepo) have been used as a remedy for tapeworms.

Use freshly ground pumpkin seeds and grind up the seeds very finely just before feeding. If you do it in advance moisture can enter the seeds and can spoil them. You have to use raw seeds, not baked, grilled or salted or wathever processed way you can find them in the store. Also check that they are organic and not treated with pesticides or chemicals against fungus.
Give 1/4 teaspoon to 1 teaspoon mixed with their food per meal depending on the weight of your animal. ( cat and small dogs 1/4 tsp, big dog 1 tsp).
This is especially very effective against tapeworm and is safe. It will not get rid of roundworms, hookworms or whipworms though- just the tapes and not the fleas which cause tapes in the first place.
Sometimes you can find in books with home remedies for pets the use of pumkin seed tea, this will also help expel tapeworm but causes also diarrhea.

Blessings,

[Earthwoman]

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