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Sunday, December 08, 2013

FLATUS Show 356 - Wild Hunt***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. I talk about plantations, Santa and lenguaje Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 356


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Sunday, September 22, 2013

FLATUS Show 355 - Flatusheim is in Kentiegard***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. I tal about nutmeg, deception and pegasus Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

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Sunday, August 04, 2013

FLATUS Show 354 - The hardest thing about that is***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. This week joe and I have a Skype talk about baking. My second batch of mead is bottled and my ragunarok was racked into the second carboy. I also made a gallon of Raisin wine. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 354


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Our New Cook Book and Household Receipts: Carefully Selected and Indexed
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Make Wikipedia articles Kindle friendly
Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Birch

Birch

BIRCH

When I hear" birch trees" a vision comes to mind of young thin, tall bright, white trees swaying together in the wind. Intolerant of shade, white birches stand in the open often near lakes or open hill tops reclaiming for the forest what fire, violent winds or man has cleared. A rapid grower, it rapidly survives to 150 years or grows taller than 80 feet, or wider than 2 feet in diameter. Be speaking its love and need for full sunlight the white birch reflects all light that comes its way and stands out thereby.

Long ago an old hollow birch protected the six great mythic Winabojo from an attack by the mighty Thunderbirds. In gratitude Winabojo blessed the Birch tree. He (?) told the Chippewa people " As long as the world stands this tree will be a protection and benefit to the human race. If they (?) want to preserve anything they must wrap it in birch bark and it will not decay. The bark of this tree will be useful in many ways and when people want to take the bark from the tree they must offer tobacco to express their gratitude ". Because of all this a birch tree is never struck by lightening people can safely stand under its branches during storm and the bark is the last part of the tree to decay ( HIU, by Frances Densmore, p.384)

The native peoples have used the birch bark for storage containers , maple sap collectors, cooking pots (amazingly enough with water in it birch bark will not burn) kindling, medicine, spoons, decorations and canoes. The birch bark canoe has grown into its own well-deserved myth. Sturdy and relatively light a product of its own natural environment it is easily repaired with readily available or carried materials -- transportation at its best!!

When gathering birch bark it is important never to peel a standing, living tree, since it can disfigure it or even kill it.

People have used the outer bark brewed into strong decoction as a wash or in a bath for chronic or severe skin problems.

A small pellicle of the bark was used as a scraper to slowly tear the outer edge of a cataract, thus making possible a finger grip on the edge to gently remove the film from the eye, thereby returning (lost?) vision. Good sized pieces can be used as splints for injured limbs. One particular Ojibwe woman used to bind her head with birch bark to cure a headache.

Just under that smooth white birch bark lies a thick inner bark, a source of good food, and helpful medicine. It can be eaten raw, and it's said to have saved hundreds of lives in that way. It can be grated or cut into bits or strips and added to soups and stews or dried and ground into a flour or meal for breads or porridge. Unlike many barks birch is bland in flavour while still somewhat sweet. Thus it is both a good emergency food and a good nutrient to include in a general diet.

Besides its food value the inner bark brewed as a tea is diuretic and helps resolve intermittent fevers, rhuematism, edema, and bladder stones. AS a strong decoction it is used externally for its astringent and weakly antiseptic qualities; as a cleansing and healing wash an/or poultice it is used on bruises, wounds, burns, scalds, tumors, and to help resist putrefaction in open sores. The boiled inner bark may also be ground fine between 2 stones and used as a plaster/ poultice for healing bruised wounds, cuts burns and scalds.

The properties of the birch leaves are similar to those of the inner bark. When young and tender they are edible raw or cooked. Best gathered before mid-summer, the leaves can be infused into tea, either fresh or dry. a strong brew of the tea is very diuretic, mildly sedative weakly antiseptic and disinfectant diaphoretic, laxative and blood-cleansing. It helps dissolve kidney and bladder stones and eases rheumatism gout and edema when taken 3 times daily for a while. Externally the tea can be used as a wash or poultice or as a bath additive for skin problems and eruptions and gargled for mouth and canker sores (?).

The twigs of birch have been boiled in water to improve flavour of other herbal tea mixtures. It is said to be compatible with almost all other herbs.

An Ojibwe woman in 1840 told how she stripped off the bark from a birch tree to get access to a milky substance on the trunk which was then scraped off an used as a remedy for tuberculosis.

Birch sap has been tapped in the early spring for centuries. It can be drunk straight from the tree and as such is very tonic for anemia arthritis and vitamin deficiencies such as scurvy. It too is diuretic and laxative. Some say it can be preserved for months by pouring a little oil on its surface.

Having much less sweetness than maple sap and a shorter 'running season' it is now rarely tapped to make syrup except in those areas where maples are rare. The birch syrup I've tried was heavier and more like molasses in taste than maple syrup. The sap can also be fermented into birch beer or wine. If exposed to air and heat the sap will turn to vinegar. As a daily wash the sap stimulates the scalp and encourages the growth of hair.

The root bark of the birch was also used to improve and disguise the flavour of other less pleasant herbal teas. When cooked in maple syrup the resulting syrup (?) was soothing to stomach cramps.

When the bark is burned the ash has been found to be healing in a poultice for mouth sores and to remove scabs.

Though not gourmet items the catkins and flowers of birches are edible.

twigs of birch are part of the regular diet of moose, deer, an snowshoe hare. Grouse eat the seeds and buds.

I personally used the 2 by 2 foot birch bark sections peeled form already harvested birch trees as the shingles for my roof. under a foot thick layer of sod, for my little 12 by 12 foot home of 2 years. Only for the 2 days of spring thaw did I experience any leakage. I also found birch bark between the ceiling and the soil above it in our old root cellar we recently rebuilt on our century-old polish settlement farm.

we will now turn to the other birches, Black Birch (Betula Lenta) Yellow Birch ( betula Lutea) European White Birch (vetula alba) and other birches have many properties similar to White Birch (betula papyrifera). The three just specified however have a distinct wintergreen taste in their twigs and bark that derives from the oil therein.

To extract this oil the twigs and bark are gathered from May to September chopped or ground up , Placed in vessels with water, and kept warm over a low fire for 12 or more hours; then the liquid is distilled and oil removed. The active principle is mehyl salicylate. Because of its flavour the oil is labeled and sold as wintergreen oil. It is commonly used as an astringent in antiseptic ointments for skin diseases as a flavour in candy and as a counter-irritant for sore stiff muscles and joints. The black birch yields by far the most with yellow birch a distant second and European white birch the least.

The sap of these birches can also be made into syrup, wine, vinegar and birch beer, with the added bonus of the wintergreen flavour. The twigs are also made into a tea that enhances the flavour of other teas.

The yellow birch is a very distinctive tree with several amazing attributes. sheathing an excellent hardwood for lumber and fuel is a bark that in a young tree is often shiny gold occasionally shiny bronze or silver. Old trees sport coarse scaly plates on the trunk with the shiny smooth bark still evident on the young branches high above.

Meanwhile down below at ground level, I'm often in awe to witness a large tree standing on stilts. yellow birch seeds, especially loved by birds, in late winter sprout readily wherever there is ample moisture, to the delight of deer who love the wintergreen flavour. Sometimes old stumps hold enough moisture for a seedling. In a few years new roots grow down the sides of the stump to the ground and still later the stump rots disappears and the yellow birch appears to be standing on golden stilts.

black birch also known as sweet birch and cherry birch is rarely found in Canada/. Its bark and twigs are perhaps more potent for the same uses as white birch because of the extra presence of the '' wintergreen oil'. The tea is also used for diarrhea, dysentery and cholera infantum, and as an enema ingredient. As an external wash and as a drink the tea purifies the blood especially when boils and sores are present.

To make a tonic, boil 2 pounds of twigs in a gallon of water until only a pint of strong brown tea is left. Drink about half a pint a day. To make birch beer, put a gallon of sap into a jug with a handful of corn and let natural fermentation do the rest.

Scandinavians traditionally used switches of European white birch to stimulate circulation during a sauna bath.



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Sunday, June 30, 2013

FLATUS Show 353 - The ingredients could be very good***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. This week Joe and I have a Skype talk about baking. I started my second batch of mead which I am going to rack today into the second carboy for continued fermentation. I also am making a gallon of Raisin wine. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 353


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Our New Cook Book and Household Receipts: Carefully Selected and Indexed
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SM
Pain
Heathen Gods
Waltham House
Make Wikipedia articles Kindle friendly
Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!

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Sunday, May 12, 2013

FLATUS Show 352 - Pain, Mead and Rainy Days***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. I catch you up with my adventures and my mead has cleared and I bottled it today. I'm traveling to Montreal this weekend and I am thinking about a second batch of mead. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. I have an iPhone so if you have one, we can have FACETIME together! If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 352


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Our New Cook Book and Household Receipts: Carefully Selected and Indexed
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Pain
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Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

FLATUS Show 351 - Bay leaves, two cloves and gin or metamorphosis***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. I catch you up with my adventures and I'm waiting for my mead to clear. I'm in CAST Shakespeare shoot-out and I may have a small part in Loves Labours Lost. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. I have an iPhone so if you have one, we can have FACETIME together! If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 351


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Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

FLATUS Show 350 - Play the drums, your brother played the drums***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. This episode is a conversation with Matthew from Montreal. I'm making mead and preserving citrus fruits. I was cast as Casca in the CAST production of Julius Cesar, which opens the first week of March, I'm sure you'll hear me practice my lines soon. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. I have an iPhone so if you have one, we can have FACETIME together! If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 350


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The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844)
Jarðarmen Kindred
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Make Wikipedia articles Kindle friendly
Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!
Nil Desperandum

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

FLATUS Show 349 - Meteors and Monarchs***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Hail! Flatus Show listeners. I'm making mead and preserving citrus fruits. I was cast as Casca in the CAST production of Julius Cesar, which opens the first week of March, I'm sure you'll hear me practice my lines soon. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. I have an iPhone so if you have one, we can have FACETIME together! If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 349


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Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!
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Monday, January 21, 2013

FLATUS Show 348 - Flatus in polite company***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Happy New Years! Flatus Show listeners. I'm making mead and preserving citrus fruits. I was cast as Casca in the CAST production of Julius Cesar, which opens the first week of March, I'm sure you'll hear me practice my lines soon. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. I have an iPhone so if you have one, we can have FACETIME together! If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 348


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Heathen Gods
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Breakheart reservation
Make Wikipedia articles Kindle friendly
Priape
Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

FLATUS Show 347 - All So(n)domy Time or being knotty***206-984-3617***

In this episode: Happy New Years! Flatus Show listeners. I'm making mead and preserving citrus fruits. I was cast as Casca in the CAST production of Julius Cesar, which opens the first week of March, I'm sure you'll hear me practice my lines soon. Call my number and tell me what you are doing. Check out Retrofoodkink.com for exciting recipes. I have an iPhone so if you have one, we can have FACETIME together! If you have any questions, or comments leave them on the blog, email me at Flatusshow@gmail.com or call me at 206-984-3617. Enjoy and thank you for listening.

The Flatus Show 347


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Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set at about $4 bucks! Wow! And it includes "Malibu High"!
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