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Hummus
120g dried chick peas:
Soak overnight. Rinse. Fast boil for 10 mins, then simmer 45 mins till soft
OR
1 240g tin chick peas
plus
2 garlic cloves, peeled, roughly chopped
130 ml water
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon tamari soy sauce
2 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Blitz with stick blender / in liquidiser.
Adjust ingredients to taste. Can also use more oil and less water.
Keep some water back and see if it is texture wanted / add more.
Store in screw top jar in fridge.
(Another recipe is Butter Bean Dip : Tin butter beans (or dried beans soaked overnight &
cooked, as with dried chick peas – see above), 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 teaspoon white wine
vinegar, garlic clove peeled & crushed,salt and pepper. Blitz with blender. )
Yoghurt
Small plain live yoghurt
500g / 1 pint milk
25 g / 3 tablespoons powdered milk (optional but does make thicker yoghurt)
Wide necked thermos, pre warmed.
Thermometer
Bring yoghurt to room temperature
Pour milk into saucepan, whisk in powdered milk, heat to 85 degrees (just before coming to
boil). Cool to 46 degrees.
(if using UHT milk just heat to 46 degrees)
Whisk / stir in live yoghurt. Pour into thermos. Leave overnight / for 6 hours.
Once made, pour into screw top jar(s) and store in fridge.
(Keep some of the yoghurt to make next batch, and continue using some of previous batch
for next lot.)
Beeswax wrappers
Cotton material (thin). Beeswax, grater, baking paper. Oven/ Iron. : https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkRoh1pQoks
Beeswax supplies https://www.livemoor.co.uk
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