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Excerpt from Holiday Sweets alongside Exotic Herbs
originally published inwards the Nov/Dec '15 Essential Herbal Magazine
yesteryear Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh www.backyardpatch.blogspot.com
Gingerbread seems to endure a staple of the holiday, merely it is non i of my favorite things.  In fact I produce non fifty-fifty similar making gingerbread houses!  I know sacrilegious, merely I produce similar ginger in addition to I love this corking recipe for shortbread that uses crystallized ginger that volition pick out the flavour of the vacation to a traditional tea treat.

Ginger Shortbread
three ½ C flour, addition extra for dusting piece rolling dough
1 t soil ginger
½ t salt
12 T butter
½ C confectioners sugar
three rounded T slightly crystallized honey

¾ C crystallized ginger, finely chopped
Sift together the flour, soil ginger, in addition to salt.  Rub inwards the butter in addition to stir inwards the sugar.  Mix inwards the dearest in addition to chopped crystallized ginger in addition to shape into strong dough.  Knead lightly inwards the bowl. 
Halve the dough in addition to curl out each slice on a lightly floured board to brand an 8-inch circle.  Score wedges into the shortbread alongside a abrupt knife in addition to prick the overstep alongside a fork. 
Bake at 325 degrees for fifteen to twenty minutes, until crisp in addition to golden roughly the edges.  Sprinkle alongside a fleck of confectioners saccharide in addition to function out to cool slightly earlier breaking apart in addition to allowing to cool completely.


Ginger Shortbread

I'm too thence excited to denote that both I too my friend Susan Hess (from The Stillroom at Pitch Pines) each bring a novel majority coming out!

My majority is called The Healing Power of Herbs too I'm ever too thence happy to part the joy of working amongst herbs too promise to inspire confidence inwards those merely start their herbal journey. Those of y'all who bring been magazine subscribers over the years know that this is the virtually of import affair I do.  In improver to a primer of herbal preparations, the majority covers xxx of import herbs, too offers over threescore simple,interesting, too helpful ways to role each ane of them.


Its sis majority past times Susan Hess is called The Herbal Medicine Cookbook.  It is brimming amongst information too delicious, healing dishes too meals that tending to back upwardly vitality too health.  I was thrilled to produce some background function on the book.  During her years every bit a trained therapeutic herbalist, she has fed many of these dishes to her students during her Homestead Herbalism courses.  Some of y'all may holler upwardly posts from Molly acre she enjoyed taking Susan's class series.  Now nosotros tin brand these foods at domicile amongst the teachings that become amongst them included.


These ii books (together or separate) are bully resources for whatever herbalist to bring inwards his or her library. Stick merely about every bit I part some helpful sneak peeks from each majority over the coming weeks. I can't expression to part all this bully information amongst you!

They'll live on available Jan 15th.  Do something for yourself, or for soul y'all love.  These books volition live on referred to ane time to a greater extent than too again!

Pre-order The Healing Power of Herbs here: http://bit.ly/HealingPowerofHerbs
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Announcing - Ii Corking Novel Herb Books!

Here are several jam-packed pages amongst info, recipes, together with herbal crafting for the wintertime months.  It volition laissez passer on yous a adept stance of what our periodical is like.  The Essential Herbal is impress inwards the USA only, pdf is available everywhere. 

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Just to laissez passer on yous an idea, *some* of the things you'll detect within this miniature sampling:
- Mushroom Ginger Soup
- Frankincense together with Myrrh
- Handmade Holidays
- Herbs for Immunity
- Herbal Resolutions (with a comport upon of humor)
... together with quite a fight more!

Take a few minutes out of this busy season, take in a loving cup of tea, cocoa, or eggnog, together with taste these pages.

Winter Essential Herbal Mini-Mag

Everyone loves cookies, together with they're a existent downfall for me, but making them to divulge helps.  Making minor batches helps fifty-fifty more.  I've made vi lilliputian batches this week, together with they almost all made it to the freezer.
2 of the batches were recipes that I variety of made up, taking guidance from vi or 8 recipes I institute online, together with using the parts I liked.  They both turned out dangerously delicious.

Without farther ado...

Confetti Shortbread
This turned out to survive the perfect quantities of rosemary together with ginger without either beingness overwhelming.  Delicate together with buttery, they had to survive packed away equally presently equally they were cool! 
Preheat oven to 300 F

1/4 c sugar
1 stick butter
1 c all utilization flour
confetti:
1 1/2 t finely chopped (fresh) rosemary
1 T finely chopped crystallized ginger
1 t chopped dry out cherry-red rose petals
1 t cornflower petals
1 t calendula petals
(Alternatives to these flowers could survive pineapple sage blossoms, bits of saffron, 1/2 t lavender, or whatever dried, colorful edible flower.)
Cream together saccharide together with room temperature butter til fluffy.
Add flour together with mix well. 
Add confetti.
Form the dough into a 2" diameter log.
Roll log inward lite chocolate-brown saccharide (I mixed it amongst the loose saccharide inward the crystallized ginger bag)
Chill until firm.
Slice 1/4" thick, together with house on parchment lined cookie sheets 1" apart.
Bake for xx - 25 minutes, until only barely browned.  Turn the pan halfway through to insure fifty-fifty cooking.

Ginger Crinkles
A calendar week earlier, I dug some recipes to utilization cacao nibs together with nighttime cocoa pulverization - both of which I had "laying around," together with ginger.  I came upward amongst this recipe, amongst those ii ingredients added.  It was skilful - but I similar it amend without the chocolate.  You mightiness desire to add together a tablespoon of each to endeavour that!  These are crisp on the exterior together with chewy on the inside.  The perfect ginger cookie inward my mind!
Preheat oven to 375 F
1/2 c butter
2/3 c sugar
1 egg
1/4 c dark strap molasses
1 1/2 c fllour
1 T chopped crystallized ginger
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t clove
1/4 t cardamom
pinch salt
1/8 c chopped pecans
1/2 c or together with then confectioners saccharide for rolling.

Cream butter together with saccharide together. I utilization a processor.
Add egg together with molasses.
Add spices, baking soda, together with pecans
Mix inward flour (by hand)

Chill dough for an lx minutes or so.

Roll into 1' balls. Roll those inward the confectioner's saccharide together with house 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet, or preferably on parchment.
Bake nigh 10 minutes, til the tops are cracked.
Makes nigh xxx 2" cookies



These are both recipes that volition survive made again!

Confetti Shortbread As Well As Ginger Crinkles


Here nosotros larn again, some other yr begins. A build clean slate filled amongst half-formed dreams together with plans,
born inwards the mists of winter.  This final result has an extraordinary publish of things to make, recipes to try,
and medicines to create!
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Table of Contents:

Field Notes from the Editor, Tina Sams
My park rambling thoughts on a handful of things.

About the Cover
Jenel Schaffer provided a dreamy watercolor, featuring the herb of the yr – Anise Hyssop. 
We include a recipe for shortbread together with tea!   

Facing Senior Challenges, Naturally, Sandy Michelsen
Lots of dissimilar ways to proceed the one-time bones from creaking, together with assist us remain active together with vital equally nosotros age.
   
Witch Hazel - Medicine Cupboard Necessity, 
Barbara Steele
Learn well-nigh this wintertime beauty, together with how to brand Witch Hazel Water.
   
Turkey Tail, Kristine Brown
TONS of information on this lovely medicinally active mushroom. 
How-to’s for many preparations together with how to purpose it equally a dye.
     
Five Fun Herbs & Their Uses, Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh
Lavender, Peppermint, Borage, German linguistic communication Chamomile, together with Lemon Balm are discussed.
Loads of recipes, similar aioli, lip balm, dressing, together with more!
   
Planning Your Herb Garden, Jenel Schaffer
What practice y'all desire to plant?  Where volition y'all pose it?  What volition y'all purpose them for?  So many things to mean value about. 
There’s a sugariness representative included to inspire you.   

The Scone Debate, Rebekah Bailey
Did y'all know the departure betwixt an American scone together with a British scone?  You will! 
And you’ll cause got several delicious sugariness together with savory recipes to try.
   
Agastache, Kathy Musser
Herb of the Year for 2019 is Anise Hyssop, of the Agastache genus.
Read well-nigh some history together with information well-nigh Anise Hyssop together with motility on to several
other agastaches that are briefly covered.   

The Herbal World of Adaptogens, Cathy Calfchild
What are adaptogens?  How together with why should nosotros include them inwards our foods, teas, together with supplements?
   
Conifers - Our Winter Healers, Janet Gutierrez
There are together with then many ways that the conifers come upwards to our assistance inwards the wintertime time. 
We tin likewise brand salves together with diverse preparations to accept us through the year.
   
Experimenting amongst Vegan Waxes, Marci Tsohonis
If y'all don’t know your carnauba from your candelilla, this is for you!
   
A World of Spices, Jackie Johnson
Mmmm… warming spices.  After nosotros read well-nigh them, nosotros tin larn on to brand several fabulous blends.
   
Recycle a Shutter, Rita Richardson
A really cute decorating idea.   

Endocannabinoid System, Pt 1, Marita Orr
“The endocannabinoid organisation is made upwards of neurons, endocannabiniods, together with cannabinoid receptors.” 
Lots together with lots of information here.
    
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Essential Herbal Upshot - January February 2019

This is a BONUS Recipe.  It is non inward the novel mass The Healing Power of Herbs, simply you lot volition acquire many things similar this.  See below for ordering information.


The mass volition last released Jan 15th.
Also, at that topographic point are five ingredients although I country iv inward the video.

We used around equal parts (1/4 cup) of:
 - Oatmeal
 - Coconut Milk Powder
 - Epsom Salts
 - Mint (dried)
 - Rosemary (fresh, because it was available)
Use most 1/4 to 1/2 loving cup per bath.

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tea bags together with magazine - essentialherbal.com

Winter Give Away Bathing Herbs

It's ever expert to know what you're getting into earlier plunking downward the bucks, right?

Well, I'm going to part a footling sense of savour of each majority below.  Links to pre-order (Jan fifteen release) at the terminate of the post!

From The Healing Power of Herbs by Tina Sams:




2 1/4 c water
1/2 c pino needles cutting into 1/2" pieces



And from The Herbal Medicine Cookbook past times Susan Hess alongside a footling aid from yours truly:




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Sneak Peeks From The Novel Books

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