Lemon Cordial

We have five lemon trees in our garden and they are all full of lemons at this time of year, so Jen and I decided to make Lemon Cordial with our bounty of lemons. This is a recipe from granny and it is lovely.

Ingredients:

3 lemons

2 teaspoons of citric acid

900 grams of sugar

a large bunch of mint

750 ml boiling water

Grate all the skins off the lemons and place them in a bowl, then squeeze the juice from the lemons over the skins. Add all the other ingredients, pour the boiling water into the bowl and stir until the sugar has disolved, crushing the mint at the same time.

Let this mixture cool down and then strain and bottle when cool. It can be stored in the fridge.

Because this is a cordial, you only need to pour a tiny amount in a glass and fill the rest of the glass with filtered water. This is such a refreshing drink, enjoy!

Needle Felting

Yesterday I decided it was time for me to try needle felting. Well I did and I love it, I have only made a flower so far but it was very satisfying indeed.

The children saw me busy with all of this fleece and sponge and needles and asked if they could also try, so quite a few flowers were made (precious). So now we have a new aspect to our handwork, we will all be needle felting too.

We have decided to needle felt a Spring Mobile for our work area hanging from some natural branches, I think this will look lovely. I have two needle felting books that I would like to mention: Magic Wool and More Magic Wool. If any of you know of any fabulous needle felting sites or blogs please could you send me that information, thank you and have a fantastic day!!

My New Addition to my Farmyard Etsy Shop

Hello everyone, I am posting my new addition to my farmyard Etsy shop, she is a beautiful horse called Honeybell and was really such a joy to make. She is made from pure Merino sheep wool, her mane and tail were handspun and she is simply Lovely.

Mozarella Cheese

I was looking at various blogs today and I came across:
http://www.littlehomebiglove.blogspot.com/
please visit their site for the recipe for their Mozarella Cheese. They have this lovely Mozarella cheese recipe that is so quick and easy to make and since Erin is in grade 3, I thought it would be a good opportunity to make more cheese. It is hardening in the fridge now, but I thought I would blog the photos of our experience.
The milk has boiled, the vinegar has been added and it is starting to curdle.








After 15 minutes the milk is completely curdled.














Draining the cheese. Don't forget to add salt.














We tied the cheesecloth onto a spoon over a bowl to drain and harden a little.










Here we have taken the Mozarella out of the cheesecloth . Thank you Littlehomebiglove for sharing this process with us, we really had a wonderful time making it and we can't wait to taste it tomorrow.

Today is my Birthday!

Yip today is my birthday, but the reason for this post is not to advertise that fact, but rather to express how deeply blessed I am as a Waldorf homeschooling mother. Birthdays are very special in our family, each child has a beautiful table arranged with their presents, flowers, gemstones and a candle and a crown that I have hand sewn. It is a very special time indeed!

When I awoke this morning, I was astonished to see, that I too had been given a special birthday table by my children, with orchids in a vase, cards that they had made themselves and gift bags, with lovely gifts from all of them! Erin even spent the whole of yesterday afternoon sewing me my very own birthday crown! I had no idea! I will always cherish this great surprise that I received this morning, that was completely the childrens' idea with absolutely no help. I feel very blessed indeed! Thank you my little angels!