RECIPES
One of our favorite recipes for the Holiday Season
Molasses Cookies are a perfect Holiday Season treat. This recipe has been in our family for over 15 years.
They are often called “magic cookies”. We encourage using all organic ingredients whenever possible. I know the ingredients sound sinful, but Christmas is but once a year. And as for the spices, if you have a local health food store near you that have the spices in “dispense your own” bins, then purchase those instead of the ones you maybe have had in the cupboard for a bit. The freshness will make all the difference in the world for taste!
Molasses Cookies
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of butter (softened)
1/2 cup of black strap molasses
1 egg
2 1/4 cup flour sifted
2 tea. of baking soda
1 tea. of cinnamon
1/2 tea. of ginger
1 tea. of cloves
1/4 teas. salt
Cream sugar, butter, molasses and egg together. Add dry ingredients and mix well until blended. Chill for 2 hours or more. Shape into one inch balls and place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 6 minutes. Take out sheet and drop flat so cookies spread out. Place back in the oven for a couple of more minutes.
As everyone knows, all ovens are different. That said, you do not want to overcook these cookies. They should be small and chewy when done. Yummy!! Enjoy with Soy milk or your favorite dairy product!!
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NEXT SHOW IN DECEMBER
Our next show is December 5, 6 & 7th at the Jacksonville Center in Floyd, Virginia. This will be our last big show for the 2008 season. And to top it all off we get to stay home!
The five acre Jacksonville Center campus is located in the town of Floyd, Virginia, just a few miles north of the Blue Ridge Parkway on the site of a former dairy farm and houses a vibrant arts & cultural facility for the traditional and contemporary arts. The Jacksonville Center for the Arts offers a wide variety of arts & cultural activities for visitors and community members, including contemporary & folk art exhibits, educational programs for kids & adults, and social events throughout the year.
As you can see there are a lot to experience at the center, so come on out and see us and visit the Jacksonville Center at the same time!
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HERB OF THE MONTH
The content we are going to try for each herb is a description, a picture of Damiana, possible usage, toxicity levels, and earth elements. I will try to follow that formula as close as possible.
The reason we have decided to start with Damiana is because we have numerous questions about this herb at shows and emails.
The scientific name for Damiana is Turnera diffusa.
What it looks like: Damiana is a shrub like plant that is mainly found in South America near the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and southern Africa. The shrub normally grows to about 2 feet tall. (more…)
We have reached that time of year again, the cold and flu season. Except this year everyone is little more nervous about spreading germs than usual because of the H1N1 virus. Tara and I have some guidelines we usually try to follow and we thought we might share them with you.
