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Kezzie, I generally use the whole plant when I'm using mullein, but this time I didn't have the root. I had pulled up one big stalk, but had used the root in something else, with the bottom of the stalk. So for this syrup I used the top of the plant including flowers. Chopped it up, infused it, then...

I don't use them exclusively, but I have a preference for them and use them a lot. I do like my daily tonic, which is dandelion/nettle/red clover and sometimes burdock; but that's the only thing I think I use regularly that contains more than one herb. When I do mix, I make up each herb separately a...

I've made mullein syrup for sore throats this winter, for the first time. Nice and gooey!

I have a pot of thyme on my kitchen windowsill. Thyme has been my best friend since I was a small child - lately, when I take her off the sill at night (because it's too cold for her on the windowsill at night), I've spent just a few minutes with her breathing in her scent and thanking her for being...

Lady A, I have a gingerbread recipe that I love, but I will definitely try this one - the crystallised ginger sounds as if it would make it absolutely fantastic!

I envy you, Lady A - we just had 14 inches of snow! No nettles showing here!

I take a couple of teaspoons of nettle/clover/dandelion vinegar every morning for my vitamins. Just added some burdock vinegar to this latest batch!

Speaking of ginger, I have a recipe that doesn't require any heating but does take time - as in a couple of weeks. Peel and slice fresh ginger root, put it in a jar, pour honey over it, stopper it tightly, leave to infuse! Both the pieces of ginger and the honey end up delicious.

I see. It's so hard to check everything out!

Lady A, just curious, why don't you allow canola oil in your home? I don't use it for herbal preparations but I've always found it useful in cooking.

I have come to prefer olive oil the vast majority of the time. I can't quite say why, but it does last a long time and it feels like an old and authentic kind of oil to me. When I was learning to make herbal oils 20 years ago, all the recipes i found said to use sweet almond oil; now that's a very n...