| How to Extract Lanolin from Sheep's Wool Posted: Sheep ready for shearing. Sheep's wool contains lanolin as a form of protection against nature and insects. Human use of lanolin is as old as the use of wool. Extracting it is easy to do at home and is a great way to get lanolin that is pure, free of industrial chemicals and ready for use in homemade products. Steps - Obtain raw wool pieces or fleece that has not been washed. Raw wool or fleece can be purchased direct from a sheep farm, or, if you have your own sheep, use your own fleeces.
- Take a pot and pour water into the pot until full. The pot should be large enough to contain all the wool. It might be easier to do this outdoors over an open fire if you have a large amount of fleece.
- Put the raw wool into the pan or pot. Push the wool into the water gently. Pieces of wool can be placed in mesh laundry bags to prevent them from breaking apart.
- Add 1 - 3 tablespoons of salt to the water.
- Bring the water to boil. Keep the wool boiling over a period of several hours. During this time, keep an eye on the boiling water and add more water as it evaporates off. Do not leave unattended as the water could boil off and burn the wool.
- Remove the wool from the boiling water. Do this using a pair of tongs or large slotted spoons. Clean and waterproof an area to place the wool.
- Keep the water boiling until all the water evaporates off. The remaining substance is lanolin.
- Pour the lanolin through a cheesecloth. This will remove any impurities. Pour it into a bowl and leave to cool. Once cooled, scrape off the lanolin and place into sterilized jars. The lanolin is ready to use.
Tips - Do not wash the wool before the process or the lanolin will be washed away!
Things You'll Need - Large pan/pot
- Laundry mesh bags
- Water
- 1 - 3 tablespoons of salt
- Stove or open fire.
- Raw wool
- Tongs/slotted spoons
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| Rhubarb's in Season. How to Make Sweet Rhubarb Compote Tarts Posted: Rhubarb compote tarts are a lovable and simple dessert with a tartly, refreshing taste. Though this recipe may sound complicated, it's actually quick and easy. Ingredients - 4 stalks of rhubarb (a little over 1 pound)
- 1 large apple (e.g. Braeburn)
- 4 teaspoons organic granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons brown sugar
- Small pre-made phyllo tart shells (2 packages, 30 pieces total)
Steps - Defrost . If your phyllo cups were stored in the freezer, you'll want to pull them out now to let them defrost a bit while you wash and brush your rhubarb stalks.
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Chopped and diced Rhubarb apple mixture -
Heat the mixture and stir well - Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F for the phyllo cups while you give the compote some time to cook. After the compote's five minutes are up, pull the lid off and check it out. You should start to see at least some progress towards the mixture starting to look a little bit like apple-sauce! Stir some more, cover up again and depending on how done it looks, you may need to give it 5 more minutes more and check back. (It is recommended to cook just until a few solid chunks of rhubarb and apple are left, and when it looks much like an apple-sauce.) Turn the burner off and remove the compote from the heat.
- Line a baking sheet with foil or with silicon baking sheets and arrange your phyllo cups out on the sheet.
Fill the cups with compote - Place the phyllo cups in the oven, and bake for about 10 minutes. You can make as many or as few tarts as you've got shells for.
The leftovers of the Compote
Tips - If you went with plain phyllo dough and shaped the cups yourself then it would indeed be more time-consuming and complicated. You can save yourself the trouble with pre-made dough!
- Make this sweet dessert on the day of the occasion (doesn't have to be special though) because, once assembled, it doesn't tend to store so well. (The dough may get soggy in the fridge just after one night.)
- Any leftover compote can be stored in a jar or container in the fridge and eaten apple sauce-style too.
Warnings - Do not eat the leaves of the rhubarb plant as they are poisonous.
Related wikiHows Sources and Citations - Mo+Ray's Kitchen By Máirín Duffy & Ray Strode. Shared with explicit permission.
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| How to Make Clothesline Coil Baskets Posted: If you have a sewing machine, this is a colorful way to make baskets, bags, bowls, coasters, or placemats. You will need a length of cotton clothesline (no metal or other hard cores) and, optionally, some colorful fabric. Steps - Plan out the general shape of the object you wish to make. It may be circular or oblong, and it may be flat or have sides that come up. Really the only requirement is that you be able to get your sewing machine inside to stitch it together.
- Cut long strips of fabric, about 1cm wide and as long as the fabric permits. A ruler and a rotary cutter will help with this process.
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Wrap the strips around the clothesline and pin. - Begin coiling the clothesline into the shape you'd like the finished piece to be. For a round piece, simply coil the rope into a spiral. For an elongated or oblong piece, start by folding the clothesline back onto itself in a straight line, then build the coil working out from that.
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Sew together with a zigzag stitch. - To create walls, simply tilt the finished coil up as you sew.
Video Tips - You can combine this technique with other sewing. For example, you could do the bottom of a bag with this technique and make the top pieces with fabric.
- Use multiple colors of fabric, as long as they coordinate or contrast in a way you like.
- If you already like the color(s) of the rope or clothesline, there is no need for the fabric wrap.
- This is a great project for using up scrap fabrics.
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