Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce

Here are some recipes which have been published in the weekly column “Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce”:

Cow Shed Cleaner/Mould Remover/ Deck Cleaner

 Equal amounts of washing soda and white vinegar – can use soda ash instead of washing soda.

Ie:  2 cups of each in a 20 litre bucket

Warm water and a good squirt of detergent (eg: Dish washing liquid)

Spray on walls and waterblast or hose off and/ or scrub.  Also really good for getting cow poo off cups as it doesn’t hurt your hands.

Cheaper and nicer to use than XY12 which is blimmen expensive these days considering what it is.

 Get washing soda in bulk from Bin Inn or try Aakland Chemicals for a bag of soda ash delivered 0800 100 350 

Toothpaste:
1T baking Soda
1t salt
A few drops of glycerine.

Peppermint essence to taste. Experiment with the amounts to get a taste you like. You could add tiny amount of artificial sugar if you really can’t stand the taste.

Mix to a paste in a small container.  Dip brushes in.  Should last about 10 days

Mouthwash
1 t Baking Soda
1 t of salt
500 ml water

Store in recycled Listerine container – because you won’t be spending money on that again. There is now one less plastic container in the landfill.

Rinse out mouth as you would with Listerine but at a fraction of the cost.

Hair Washing
Wet hair
Sprinkle with baking soda
Massage in
Rinse out

Optional:  rinse out with small amount of white vinegar before final rinse. Leaves hair looking and feeling beautiful and, surprisingly, leaves no smell.

Conditioner
Try a home made conditioner.  Heaps of recipes on Internet.
1 Egg Beaten
1 T Olive Oil

Mix together with warm water

Apply to hair and leave as long as desired

If this leaves a residue, rinse off with white vinegar, then water.

Smelly Feet Remedy
Soothe aching feet in a this solution.
4 T baking soda
Enough hot water to cover feet in a container

Soak feet to dissipate odour, and bring comfort to your tender toes.

Baking Soda may also help with athletes foot problems.

Glycerine Soap Base – you need a crock pot for this.  Plastic soap mould, gloves for handling Lye

Stage One Ingredients:  200g Tallow, 110g coconut oil, 85g olive oil, 60g castor oil, 70g sodium hydroxide (Lye), 160ml water

Stage Two Ingredients:  140g granulated sugar, 70ml boiling water, 140ml glycerine, 280ml vodka.

Stage One :

Melt tallow, coconut oil, olive oil and castor oil in a crock pot.

In the meantime…

Carefully add lye to water and dissolve. Wear gloves and long sleeves when handling Lye.  Be careful. Keep away from children and pets.

Carefully add lye to oils and stir to trace (until it leaves tracks in the mixture) – this could take quite a while (20 minutes or more)

Cook on low for 3 hours – gel stage.

Stir soap until there are no visible white bits

Stage Two:

Stir glycerine into soap.  Cook on medium for 30 minutes. Carefully stir in vodka (alcohol) and cook until soap has dissolved.

Pour boiling water over sugar (dissolve sugar)

Stir sugar solution into the soap and continue cooking until liquid & syrupy

Pour into plastic mould and leave overnight to set.

Freeze for 2 hours before removing from mould.

Lave to firm up for two weeks then use for melt and pour.