Message #1140 - THE_HERBALIST Date: 12-23-95 18:47 From: Song Bird To: Mother Subject: Welcome back! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > After an eventful 3+ weeks, Mother and Mother's Kitchen are back > on-line in our new home. I apologize if I've missed any mail but our > contact to the mail was intermittent through no fault of our hostess but > instead because of our own busy schedule. Welcome to Colorado! Glad to have you here, this state can certainly use more folks like you. Now, perhaps, we can meet the man himself! In your honor here are the following! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INCENSE OF ROSES 2 oz. scented, red rose petals 1 oz. dried, powdered lavender 1/2 oz. powdered orris 1/2 oz. powdered gum benzion rosewater Thoroughly crush the rose petals in a mortar and beat in the lavender, benzion and orris. Mix in sufficient rosewater to make a thick paste, shape into small lozenger, the size of a nutmeg, and put them to dry on thick paper in the sun for a week. Heat in a hot pan to scent the room. ---The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, S.Garland =========================================================================== INCENSE PERFUME Take equal quantities of lignum rhodium, and anise, in powder, with a little powder of dried Seville orange peel, and the same of gum benzion, or benjamin, and beat all together in a marble mortar. Then, adding some gum dragon, or tragacanth, dissolve in rose water, put in a little civet; beat the whole again together, make up this mixture into small cakes and place them on paper to dry. One of these cakes being burnt in the largest apt., will diffuse a most agreeable odour through the whole room. --Family Reciept Book, 1819,(taken from Early American Herb Recipes) ============================================================================ Great to have you back! Song Bird --- DB 1.58/003113 * Origin: COFFEE HOUSE - Naturalists Table (93:9902/0) @PATH: 9902/0 9900/0 9600/0 9000/0 9004/0