Sunday, July 27, 2008
An Old Fashioned Use for Vanilla Extract
Did you know that ladies used to dab vanilla extract on their wrists and behind their ears? It's an all-natural, wonderfully scented 'perfume' that you can use anytime you run out of your regular scent! It smells absolutely delish!
Want to try making your own homemade vanilla extract? It's not that hard...Find a few recipes for homemade vanilla extract on our Vanilla Page at Vanilla Recipes to Try!Labels: make your own vanilla, old fashioned tips, vanilla extract
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Recipes: Banana Squares with Vanilla Icing
These sound fantastic - just top them with a thin vanilla icing (easy - just icing sugar and milk until it creates a thin, drizzly type frosting - definitely add a nice splash of real vanilla extract to flavor it). These little banana squares would be ideal for afternoon tea or bake sales. Jazz them up by adding some chocolate chips or chopped nuts.
Banana Squares
Submitted by Jeannie - thanks!
½ c. butter or margarine
1½ c. sugar
2 eggs
¾ c. commercial sour cream
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
2 large, very ripe, mashed bananas
2 c. flour (make it gluten free by using a gluten free flour mix)
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, beat until fluffy, add sour cream, soda, salt and vanilla, beat until smooth, add flour, beat until well mixed. Add mashed banana and mix until well blended. Bake in jelly roll pan, or cookie sheet with sides. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Frost with thin powdered sugar icing.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
How to Make Your Own Extracts...Green Tea Treatment for Acne and more
Here are some oldies but goodies from the KCn'M website that I just had to share with you readers again! Most of these were submitted by our wonderful readers.
- How to make your own vanilla extract...and making homemade citrus extracts, such as orange extract. Delicious when made at home without any preservatives! And really - vanilla extract is a breeze to make yourself...nice gift idea too.
- And a nice natural way to treat acne is with this green tea treatment.
- It's summer (at long last!) and that means it's a gorgeous time to putter around the garden. Have you ever wondered how to make your own compost? This fabulous article will help.
- Always helpful are these natural health tips from our readers on how to treat water retention problems.
Enjoy! And have a lovely summery Monday...here the weather is sun-shiny and as perfect as can possibly be.
Christina
Labels: baking extracts, composting, gardening tips, green tea, health and wellness, health tips, how to make vanilla, make your own, vanilla extract, water retention
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
One more toothache remedy - Pure Vanilla Extract
Again, thanks to Tiffany for all these helpful ideas about treating a toothache until you can get to the dentist. Here's another of her great tips:
The best remedy for a toothache is pure vanilla extract placed directly on the bad tooth. It's instant relief. The taste is terrible, but it works.Labels: homeopathic, natural health, remedies, toothache, vanilla, vanilla extract
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