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Hawthorn Berries (1)

Hawthorn berries were once used as a substitute for flour when baking bread. Ignorantly, I dried them and ground them into flour with a coffee grinder. That worked. I substituted only 3 heaping tablespoons of the resulting flour at a time from 400 grams of whole wheat flour, though.

Later I read (where, I unfortunately do not remember) that the hawthorn berries are cooked and then passed through a sieve. The resulting pulp is dried and then finely ground in a blender. (I have not yet tried to do this myself). However, I find this preparation quite energy-intensive, especially because it is more difficult to dry in the air in autumn.

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Notes from friends and more

Note from Telegram – Channel: Aussie Preppers – User: Surfer65

Hawthorn berry dropped my blood pressure to normal within a day or less, dried organic berries steeped by themselves. Once blood pressure normalised I mixed green tea, hawthorn berries, star anise and honey for a tincture. I’d make a tincture in the morning for a room temperature drink before bed and a tincture at night to have on an empty stomach on the morning.

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Tooth powder

Or how I clean my teeth

Again an answer to a question in a group. This is my tooth powder and below alternatives to it.

Ingredients:

  • 1 Tbsp. of turmeric powder
  • 1/4 Tsp. of finely ground pepper
  • 1 Tbsp. of Himalaya salt (or sea salt or any other whole salt)
  • 1 Tbsp. of baking soda

Mix well and simply add it on the toothbrush. Please note that tumeric will stain your clothes in case you get a drop of this on them.

Another possibility, when you don’t have turmeric is:

  • 1 Tbsp. sage powder
  • 1 Tbsp. salt
  • 1 Tbsp. baking soda

I would also consider other antibacterial herbs in powdered form.

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Store grain – and more – safely

I wanted to share a method that my grandmother passed on to us:

In grain, flour, castings, dried fruit, etc. to be stored, simply add several dried (!) 🌶 hot chillies, black peppercorns and if necessary also a few bay leaves along with them….

Beetles and moths are reliably kept away by this 👍🏼.

Author: Kokosblüte

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Dieser Post ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.

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Transferring contents from other places

I wrote quite some articles on various blogs and those I will transfer with their original date to this website to make sure they will “survive” if one of those places vanish in the dark – it already happened more than once and there come the day when “enough is enough”. So please do not wonder if you find old blogs around that were created well before the setup of this website.

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Translating this website

Well, I decided to go for a managed WordPress website. There is a moment, when you have to decide if you want to care about the back-end yourself or if you want to concentrate on contents. The decision was not easy, since I would have preferred Drupal to some extent for it’s great localization tools. WordPress does not offer similar free tools and often the plugins are backed with machine translation, which is somewhat useless for me.

It will be fun to see this site develop. I will use categories for the various languages. This is very much working “old style html” without needing to write code.

Let’s see how this is going to work out.


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Quotes by Willy Brandt

If I am selling to you, I speak your language, if I am buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen.
(dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen = than you have to speak German)

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