Chapattis or Indian Flat Bread

Chapattis are similar to tortillas, but made with no baking powder. They are easy to make and keep well if stored in an air-tight container. Chapattis are common in Southeast Asia and throughout Africa.
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups fine whole wheat flour (you can usually find this in the natural foods section of the supermarket or with the bulk foods)
2 cups water (or enough to make a soft dough)
1 pinch salt
Preparation:
1. Mix flour and salt in a large mixing bowl.
2. Make a hole in flour and using your hand, mix in water to make soft dough.
3. Knead for five minutes, return to the bowl, cover with wet cloth and refrigerate for an hour.
4. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium high heat until very hot.
5. Roll out 1/2 a handful of dough into a flat round shape and place in pan, cooking for 1 minute on each side.
6. Once turned, press gently with a towel, until brown.
7. Repeat until all dough is used.
Yield: About 10 chapattis

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Flax oil soap

• 32 oz coconut oil
• 9.6 oz flax seed oil
• 22.4 oz olive oil
• 9.6 oz lye
• 23 oz of milk
• 1 oz essential oil

Dissolve lye in milk and allow to cool.  Warm oil in large non-reactive pot, until solids are melted. When both mixtures have cooled to 95 degrees. Carefully combine oils into milk/lye mixture. Stir until trace. Stir in essential oil. Pour in large mold. Allow to sit undisturbed in warm area for 24 hours. Cut into bars and place in cool dry area for at least 3 weeks, turning bars over every few days for even drying. This recipe makes 4#’s of soap.

**Note: See other soap recipes on here for tips and ideas. 

*** Note: The bar of soap at the top was made with this recipe. It is a floral smell. Also this bar is an ultra creamy bath bar!!  Wonderful for your skin!

Honey Oat soap

• 42 oz  olive oil
• 46 oz coconut oil
• 12.7 Lye
• 33 oz milk(butter milk and goats milk can be used too)
• 1 cup ground oats
• 4 tablespoons honey

Bring fats and oils to 92 degree F.

Mix lye and milk. Allow to fall to 92 degree F. (5 gallon plastic bucket works great for this)

  Pour oils and fats into lye/milk mixture slowly, stir til thickened and til it traces.  Pour into molds . As with other recipe. You will want to check often and cut as soon as it starts to set.. (score).

Cure 4-6 weeks.  

This is one of my favorite soaps. Smells great and lathers great!!

Olive oil soap

 

COLD METHOD SOAP! YOU DO NOT HEAT THE OIL!!!!!!

You will need :

• 12 oz of Lye (not Drano)
• 3 cups milk (you can use any kind of milk.. but it needs to be really, really cold) or ice water.
• 6 cups olive oil ( or other oil)
• 1/3 ro 1/2 oz essential oil
• molds (you can use glass 9×13 pan, or any size glass pan, this makes nice bars, small plastic bowls are great too… filled half way, also the bottom of 12 oz soda bottles make pretty flowers)

Put lye in a plastic, enamel or stainless steel container(5 gallon buckets work well for this).  Add the cold milk, stir with a wooden spoon untill well blended.  Be very careful with the lye and consider doing this step outside. Let stand at least one hour.

Bring back inside, pour in your oil and mix with a wooden spoon or stainless steel whisk until it starts to thicken to pudding consistency(15-30 min).  You can use a   submersible blender, this will speed up the process.. ( I don’t have one yet… I do just use a wooden spoon)

Add essential oil, mix in. Then  pour into plastic molds.  If you are using tube molds.. take the soap out of the molds within 12-24 hours.. and then cut. Also cut /score all your soap as soon as it thickens up good. You don’t want to wait until it is too hard to  cut.. it won’t cut well.  Once scored, set aside for one month. 

Great soap!

Oatmeal chocolate chews

• 1 1/2 cups of raw sugar( you can use white sugar)
• 1 cup butter softened
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 large egg
• 2 2/3 cups oats
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup of cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt

Heat overn to 350 degrees. Beat egg, sugar, butter, and milk in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed or mix with spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients.

Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches part onto ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 10-12 min. or until almost no indentation remains when touched in center. Cool 1 to 2 min. remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

Enjoy!!

**Note to make gluten free.. use the gluten free flour mix.  To make dairy free.. use coconut milk instead of regular milk.

Basic gluten free flour

• 4 cups brown rice flour
• 1 1/3 cup potato stratch (not potato flour)
• 2/3 cup tapioca flour (also known as tapioca startch)

Spoon each ingredient into the measuring cups. Put ingredients in a zipper bag..shake well.  Now you are ready to use your flour.   Store in the freezer.

Easy fudge

• 1 can of sweetened condensed milk(14 oz)
• 1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips(12 oz(about 2 cups))
• 1 tsp vanilla

Grease bottom and sides of a square pan(8×8).  Heat milk and chocolate chips in a 2 quart sauce pan over low heat. Stirring constantly, until chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth; remove from heat.  Quickly stir in vanilla. Speak in pan. Refrigerate about 1 hour 30 minutes or until firm. cut 1 inch squares.  

Enjoy!

**Note: to make dairy free..use Enjoy life chocolate chips and coconut milk.

Toffee

• 1 cup of raw sugar(you can use white sugar, would be same amount)
• 1 cup of butter
• 1/4 cup of water
• 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup of pecans(opt. if you don’t use them. You can use another 1/2 cup of chocolate chips)

In a 2 quart saucepan on medium heat cook the first three ingredients.  Stirring consistently until mixture reaches 300 degrees on candy thermometer. Be careful not to let it burn.

As soon as it reaches 300 degrees, pour toffee onto an ungreased large cookie sheet.  You might need to spread mixture out to about 1/4 in. thick.  Sprinkle with chocolate chips right away. Let them melt for 1 minute, then spread and top with nuts.

Let set for 1 hour or until chocolate is set.  Store in an airtight container.

** Note: if you don’t have a cookie sheet .. layer two towels on the counter and lay parchment paper over the top of it, the whole length of the towels.  You can pour the toffee out on this.

Enjoy!

Elderberry tincture

You will need:

• 1 clean quart jar
• 1 cup of dried elderberries
• 1 cup of hot water
• about 20 oz or so of vegetable glycerin
• towel
• crock pot
• hot water
• plastic lid

Take your quart jar, place  1 cup of elderberries in the bottom of the jar, then take and pour 1 cup of hot boiling water over it.. and let it sit for a couple of minutes.. then fill the jar the rest of the way up with  vegetable glycerin , about 1/2-1 inch from top of jar.. and cap. Next place jar in a crock pot that has been lined with a dish towel and then set jar on the towel in the crock pot and pour hot water around it.. put crock pot on warm or low setting..  place the lid on if you can.. and keep your jar of “goodies” in the crock pot for three days. Stirring regular..  (you want to keep the mixture hot in the jar without boiling it..) keep the crock pot filled with water around the jar.. the whole time. After three days.. strain the ” glycerin mixture” you can use a stainless steel strainer , cheese clothe or nut milk bag.. if you use cloth you can squeeze the all the goodness out of it.  Now you have your own elderberry tincture.. place in dark jar.. label and store in a cool , dry.