Using
Your Herbs for Making
Gifts and Crafts
Herbal Bath Salts
Bath salts is a wonderful way to enhance your daily beauty bath. They are
the easiest bath and body products to make and are often some of the most
expensive items in gift sets. Making them at home with your own home-grown
herbs can cut some of those prices by half or more.
How to
make pesto sauce
An outstanding basil based 'sauce' that goes very well with pasta and savory
snacks. The name 'pesto' comes from the original method or preparing the
basil by pounding it with a pestle in a mortar. It makes a great gift.
Make your own
Gourmet Mustards
Making your own mustard mixes can be fun and interesting! The combinations
are endless, delicious, aromatic and rewarding. They make great gifts that
are inexpensive to make. These recipes don't need cooking
and they are great with fresh herbs as an ingredient.
Make your own herb vinegar
When bought in shops, herbal vinegar can be very expensive. However, it can
be easily and cheaply made at home. All you need is
vinegar and some fresh herbs.
Fines Herbes
One single herb can make the world of difference to any dish. When herbs are
used in combination with each other, the effects can be even more delicious.
Learn how to make a fines herbes mixture with fresh herbs. For gifts simply
dry and gift wrap in decorated containers.
How to make your own bouquet garni
Secret blends of herbs know as bouquet garnis form the basis of many herbal
recipes, and gifts. Find out how to make your own in this series of
articles.
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