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Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 16 5:24 am Post subject:
If you want to sell them you would have to make bags out of fabric. Something like muslin with a ribbon round the top would be quite saleable. You can just make a square or circle of fabric, put the oats and rosemary in the middle and gather it up with the ribbon. For your own use an the bottom part of a leg of an old pair of tights, stocking or sock would do.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 16 10:00 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

For your own use an the bottom part of a leg of an old pair of tights, stocking or sock would do.

All of my old socks have holes in. And we don't talk about the stockings.

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
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Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 16 5:00 pm Post subject:
Do you have hens? Herbs are good for adding to the bedding, they're said to repel mites and lice and smell nice to us too when we open up the coop! I don't use them as often as I'd like as I rarely have surplus herbs but I would if I had more! Rosemary would be pretty robust too.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 16 6:28 am Post subject:
Tie a bit of string round the bit with the hole so the rosemary and oatmeal is only in the intact part of the sock, or start darning.

Sherbs

Joined: 27 Apr 2007
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Location: Swansea

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 16 9:25 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

Sherbs wrote:

I have made rosemary oil with mine in the past

infusion or steam distillation for essential oil?

I just put large sprigs of rosemary in a bottle of olive oil and leave it in the cupboard until it's needed or given away to family. It works pretty well and it's lovely for roasting veg, especially potatoes and carrots.

dpack

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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 16 9:49 pm Post subject:
oil infusion , tis nice for cooking or using almond oil to make rubbing/bath oil i wonder if it would infuse in a plain shampoo for an ace hair wash product?

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 16 7:04 am Post subject:
You could try making a strong rosemary oil and adding a bit of that to shampoo. It might diffuse straight into it. Worth a try with a little bit, but not too sure of the keeping properties, so could end up smelling horrible.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 16 9:15 am Post subject:
I was told you should dry rosemary before infusing else there is a risk of unpleasant bacteria.

dpack

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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 16 11:35 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

I was told you should dry rosemary before infusing else there is a risk of unpleasant bacteria.

C Bot. is a possible but unless you dry above 120 C for 15 mins any spores can remain viable.

to sterilise herbs ,vac pack and 20 mins in a pressure cooker would do the job.

or perhaps just pour hot oil onto the fresh herbs.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 16 12:13 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

or perhaps just pour hot oil onto the fresh herbs.

Hot meaning more than 120�C?
Is that hot enough to destroy the benefit of cold pressing the oil?

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 16 6:05 am Post subject:

I am not sure you will be able to extract oil from rosemary by cold pressing; this method is used for things like rape seed and olive stones.

The way that good quality herb extracts are produced is to put a very large amount into a container, which can be a pressure vessel or something not dissimilar to a shipping container, then passing steam through it. This gives the essential oil. We have a farm at the other end of the county that does this and went there with the Farmers Market one year. Fields of various herbs and other plants grown for their oils and we saw some actual oils they had produced and the equipment they used. They make most of the oil of peppermint used in certainly the UK and possibly Europe. They make lots of other essential oils too.

I agree about being sure the herbs or oils have been heated to avoid the risk of botulism bacteria if they are for food use.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 16 8:21 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I am not sure you will be able to extract oil from rosemary by cold pressing; this method is used for things like rape seed and olive stones.

I meant to cold press the oil to infuse the rosemary into.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 16 5:41 am Post subject:
If you want to go to those extremes. You can buy cold pressed oil easily enough. I don't think it will damage the oil to heat it to above 120C for a few minutes if you are going to eat the rosemary oil. The other methods of extraction use steam under pressure and some chemicals I think, which is what some people object to.

dpack

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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 16 9:37 am Post subject:

the C Bot. issue is from the herb ( and the water in the herb or garlic or veg) part rather than the oil . i recon a pressure cooker on a bag of herbs would both kill any spores and open up the oil bearing vesicles ready for infusing if heating the oil and using that to sterilise it might mess up the oil flavour .

going by adding rosemary to roast spuds etc rosemary oil seems quite temp/ oxidation stable so heating the sprigs to 120c with no air should not alter the flavour or smell.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 16 5:41 am Post subject:
Would agree with that Dpack.

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