If you ever made a dumpling, you gather the edges all together and seal the ends with plenty of room for the herbs to move. Boiling water to cup and seep for at least 5 minutes. Honey for sweetening. I learned to do this with loose tea growing up and it’s a little easier than a tea baller or muslin baggie (which I couldn’t find when I went shopping today). I’ve been having a cup at night and you can let it sit till it’s luke warm and the flavor will still be subtle. The lavender brings the other two together well and i didn’t need anything to sweeten it. If you want it stronger, just double the amount of herbs. Change it up however you like as this comes out as a very clean base, flavor wise.
I can say I’ve been waking up better in the mornings when drunk the night before. I only had 2 cups so far but i don’t feel as sluggish. Please check with your doctor and medication in case these herbs have any interactions that could affect your health.
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Today, I’ll be taking a look at a staple of Irish medieval cuisine: the humble nettle soup. Late spring and early Summer is the ideal time to make this dish, as the nettle leaves used here won’t have matured fully, and retain a soft, lighter texture than older woodier leaves. Plus they won’t sting your hands as badly as mature nettles. Plenty of Irish families have their own takes on this recipe, and this is influenced by my family’s take on the tradition!
In any case, let’s now take a look at The World That Was! Follow along with my YouTube video, above!
Ingredients 2-3 cups nettle leaves 1 onion, minced 2-3 cloves garlic (or two bulbs of wild garlic, minced) chives (for decoration) butter ½ cup milk/double cream 500ml water or stock salt pepper
Method
1 - Chop and cook the Garlic and Onion
To begin with, we need to peel and chop a whole onion, before tossing this into a pot with some melted butter. You can of course use oil, but dairy products was (and still is) a major part of Irish culinary traditions - so try and use Irish butter here if you can.
In any case, let your onion sauté away for a couple of minutes until it turns translucent and fragrant. When it hits this point, toss in a couple of cloves of crushed garlic - or some wild garlic if you have any!
2 - Deal with the Nettles Next, ball up some nettles and chop it roughly with a knife. Be careful, as the leaves and stems of this plant has stinging fibres (which will get denatured and broken down when it’s cooking).
Nettles act like spinach when you’re cooking them, so have about 2-3 times more than what you think you’ll need on hand. Add your chopped nettles into the pot, and let them cook down before adding the rest!
3 - Cook Soup When all of your nettle leaves have cooked down, pour in 500ml of soup stock (or water) into the pot. Then, toss in about a half a cup of whole milk, or double cream if you have it. Mix this together gently, before putting this onto a high heat. Bring it to a rolling boil, before turning it down to low until it simmers. Let the whole thing simmer away for about an hour.
Serve up hot in a small bowl, garnish with some chives or seasonal herbs, and dig in!
The finished soup is very light and flavourful, but quite filling for what it is! It’s another variation on a medieval pottage, with ingredients that could have been easily foraged in the spring and summer. As it can be made with only a few ingredients, it could have formed the basis of more complex dishes - such as the addition of more vegetables, or meat products.
Given how little the dish has changed from antiquity to modernity, it’s likely that the basics of this soup go back to pre-historic Irish culinary traditions.
Puccinia caricina -rust fungus on common nettle (Urtica dioica). The fungus produces aeciospores on nettle but other spore types (urediospores and teliospores) on different Carexspecies.
Stringing together herbs while sipping on a delicious nettle and @loving_earth maca green smoothie. nettle grows in many places, and is so much more than an itchy weed. I picked some yesterday morning at the market, they’re so delicious inside a smoothie, and don’t worry, once blended up they lose their sting Nettle is taken as a blood purifier, as a tea it helps to cure mucus congestion, skin irritations, water retention and diarrhoea. The beverage is also said to help nursing mothers produce milk and it also stimulates the digestive glands of the stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas and gall bladder. Nettle juice will even ease the stinging of the rash brought about from contact with the plants own bristled leaves! ✨ The seeds are super easy to spread, just keep the very tops of the stems and spread them over your soil ！
This is a spell to promote hair growth. I personally use this spell to try to make my hair longer to grow out my bob into the hime haircut I used to have. Hopefully, this spell will help skip those vitamin gummies into a more natural alternative. Note that hair growth usually takes long in general.
Also, I’ve delevelopped this spell with both my local witches and alchemists around my area.
What you’ll need :
Oats (the leaves and not the the cereals)
Nettles
Rosemary
Field Horsetail
Rutilated Quartz (also known as a Venus Hair stone)
Instruction:
Prepare a sachet or a everything you need to make a tea.
Put one teaspoon of each herbs and chant :
“ My Hair Shall Grow Like The Finest Weeds
My Energy Shall Serve As Little Seeds
To My Tailbone It Shall Grow
So This Is My Will…
So Mote It Be “
Either activate the Venus Hair with the intention of beauty and having hair as beautiful as her and thus putting it in the sachet and turning it into a mojo bag orDrink the tea envisioning yourself having beautiful long hair.
For the tea version, it is remanded to drink about 2 mugs a week according to the alchemist I’ve spoken to while developing this spell.
For the Mojo version, carry the sachet with you until the desired effect.
This spell is intended to use the abundance from the oats, promoting a good spirit and body from the Nettles and the strength of the Field Horsetail.
Accoring to the Witchepedia, it is said that :
“An infusion of rosemary makes an excellent hair rinse, gradually covering gray hair, and adding strength and shine to any color hair. It also helps reduce dandruff and stimulate hair growth. Rosemary oil rubbed into the ends of hair will also help reduce split ends.Rosemary oil massaged into the scalp is believed to prevent baldness and stimulate hair growth.”
[Image Description: A full body digital drawing of Nettle, a white woman in a short green dress, one strap falling off her shoulder, and combat boots on a pale green background. She is smiling slightly and looking up and to the side. She has white hair tied in two low ponytails with yellow ribbon and yellow flowers are tucked behind her ears. Her left arm has a sleeve of botanical tattoos with her hand behind her skirt. She has a small watch on her right wrist and holds a leather book in her hand. An old fashion satchel is propped up against her legs. There is a circle of leaves on the background behind her head and her face is lit with a bright white light. End ID.]
