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I find it very worrying that the Governments and the Press do not dare to stand up against the Muslims. We have a saying in Swedish "It is easier to make a dam in a stream than in a river" i.e. Stop it while it is still in small proportions because it will get out of hand if it escalates. ...

Yes, I missed the site. My husband got very restless, kept checking if the hompage was back. He is now happy again. And so am I.

Well done Isenhand.
How did you make that music.
Are you a musician?

Alice

Thanks.
Now I know.

Alice,

Thanks
Very interesting.
By the way what is a "demi-john"?

It is actually very difficult not to get yeast. It is on everything growing. It is part of the natural degrading system. Yeast is a fungus. However if you want to grow it and be sure you only have yeast it is difficult. In industry they take a few milligram of pure yeast that they ?bring to life? by...

I know that it is only one kind of ethanol but I could not be certain that you knew that. How you get wood into alcohol probably takes a bit more of heavy industrial resources as you say. Maybe it came with the industrialisation. Wood is a big resource here so it is used a lot. Alcohol making, stron...

They make ethanol from wood or any cellulose and then the fermentation carries on until all alcohol has turned into vinegar. How they do that exactly I do not know. But that will probably be covered on some other posting as it is the same ethanol as the ethanol used to fuel vehicles.

The fibre is added to the dough and gives a more moist bread that stay fresh longer.

I do not know how exactly vinegar is made wood. I shall try to find out more. I read a bit about it and the technique and it is supposed to came from France using birch tree wood.

Writing from a Northern European point of view sugar is something rather resent in the diet. It was very expensive until the mid 1900?s. As we were not part of a great empire we did not have the same easy access to a lot of goods that would have been commonly used in England. This includes spices, c...

Hello all Sweet people. I found this about sugar making from sugar beet and it does not seem to be something one would get into if not really desperate for sugar. BTW The idea of cane sugar being the only thing for preserving I find most amusing probably launched in the Victorian time by some big ca...

We all have a lot of rubbish each week that we want to get rid of. By thinking ahead we can reduce it. Start to think already in the shop when you choose your groceries. Buy things with minimum packaging or reusable packaging. Buy refills if possible and use all the contents of the things you bought...

If you want more spice and colour, grow some chilli. I have successfully grown chilli in my bedroom window for years. Like other peppers they first go green and turn red if they get plenty of sun. I chop them up and store them in the freezer. They can also be dried.

Jam requires sugar, but I see no technical problem with honey, however you would get a different favour, as honey in itself is full of flavours. What we in everyday talk call sugar is sucrose, which is a molecule built up by one glucose and one fructose (fruit sugar) molecule, both simple kind of su...

Thanks.
I have to take that as a complement, however, I m not the writing type. My husband likes to write books and he keeps going on about me doing so too. Are you a jam maker yourself or just generally interested in self-sufficiency?