Butter-making and Soap-making demonstrations at Hahndorf on Sunday
Hello - I'll be at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills with my Shoppe stall (selling The Shoppe stock) and doing a couple of demo's on Soap-making and Butter-making. I love things from times past - the simple lifestyle our pioneering ancestors teaches us much about frugal living, sustainability and common sense! The 'Imagine the Past' event on Sunday is well worth a visit. Hopefully I'll see you there. Pam - The Shoppe www.theshoppe.com.au |
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Imagine the Past at the Hahndorf Academy
68 Main St Hahndorf (diagonally opposite the P.O.)
Sunday May 1 - 11am-4pm
Showcasing the traditional crafts, skills and trades of the past (and
some still present) in Hahndorf. Enjoy demonstrations of basketry,
blacksmithing, dry stone walling, woodturning, washing, butter making,
spinning and weaving, felt making, pottery, children's crafts and see
the Kaesler Stationary Engine in action. With many opportunities to have
a go at some of the crafts, skills and trades yourself and purchase
goods this will be a fun interactive day for the whole family.
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| About Soap-Making:
I
am often asked about 'soap'. One of my most popular workshops is
soap-making. During the workshop people are surprised at how easy soap
is to make (using just three basic ingredients: animal or vegetable
fat/lard, caustic soda - the essential cleaning ingredient in soap - and
water). That's it! Other ingredients may then be added to create
specific types of soap: oatmeal, disinfectant, honey, coloured and
perfumed soaps, etc.
Interestingly what started me on this journey
of writing about self-sufficiency, making things from the basics and old
time skills is watching my grandmother make soap on the family farm.
She would use wood ash (from the kitchen wood stove), water and sheep lard
(which she rendered down from the sheep carcass). The soap would be
made outdoors in an old kerosene tin over an open fire. Being very
experienced at making soap this way she would boil it for some time
until it reached just the right consistency to set (when cold) to form
hard bars of soap (that lasted much longer than the commercial
counterpart!). I've tried to copy her technique - but without success.
So my soap-making ventures are not quite so ‘rustic’ – but still get great pleasure from creating old fashioned bars of hard soap
that last much longer (and froth less) than commercial soap. I've put together a couple of e-books on the topic:
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e-book No. 3 - Simple Soap-Making
Using just 3 ingredients: lard, caustic soda (lye) and water soap is
surprisingly easy to make. This simple method for making soap is similar
to Grandma’s approach to soap-making. Instructions are step-by-step
covering moulds, possible problems, maturation, colouring, scenting,
utensils, precautions, history of soap. Information includes variations
to basic recipe for: almond oil soap, oatmeal, honey, herbal, scented,
cucumber, sand-soap, antiseptic soap and more. Price: $12.00 Download information here
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| | e-book No. 25 - Simple Soap-Making
Follow-on booklet from No. 3 – Simple Soap-Making – containing more
recipes and ideas for making soap. Covers: glycerin soap, chamomile
& milk, lanolin, borax, heavy duty cleaning soap, soap without
animal products, soap without caustic soda, rich rose soap and more. Price $12.00 Download information here
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| | Soap-Making e-book Set
Contains 4 e-Books: No. 3 Simple Soap-Making, No. 25 More Soap-Making Recipes, No. 50 Recycling Soap, No. 47 Making the Most of Your Soap-saver Price $33.00 Download information here For more information about contents of each individual book go to 'Shoppe Publications'
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| | About Butter-Making
I
regularly make my own butter. It’s very easy to make and is the simplest way to become even a little
more self-reliant in the home. Butter is cream ‘over-beaten’ to the point hat the fat content of the cream separates from the fluid (butter-milk). The fat (butter) is removed and ‘massaged’ to
remove any remaining pockets of buttermilk, washed in running water and salt
added (optional). Rich
cream (with a higher fat content) is the best producing more butter and less buttermilk. Stale cream is fine – out-of-date cream
offers a cheaper option. Buttermilk also has innumerable uses – besides being a
therapeutic drink, it can also be used in place of milk in foods such as cakes,
pancakes, etc. enhancing the flavour an d improving the end-product. So nothing is wasted. I recently had the pleasure of making butter
from fresh (unadulterated) cream from a farm. The flavour of the butter was
quite different from that made from commercial cream and reminded me of the
butter my mother made on the farm. I
blend olive oil with my butter to make it softer for spreading and a little more
‘healthy‘. If you want to know more about making butter
– see e-book No. 11 ‘Making Butter’. Price:
$8.00 (download information here) |
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