Antique Apothecary

  What do you do when one of your friends freezer dies and she asks you if you'd like to take some bones off of her hands?  You do a happy dance and make bone broth!       In case your a newbie to broth and stock in general, I'll give you a quick run down. Broth Typically cooked with meat in it.  Cooked for much less time than time than it's cousins stock and bone broth.  Great in a pinch when you have a hankering for some homemade soup, but have no broth in a tetra pack conveniently stashed in the pantry.  Cook time is only 1 to 2 hours. Stock This is what your making when throw those leftover chicken carcasses you've been saving in the freezer, into a pot.  The cook time on stock is 4-8 hours,  If you throw this on in the morning, you'll have some delicious flavorful stock to make dinner with.   Bone Broth Bone broth is a whole different thing from regular broth, in fact I wonder why it's not called Bone Stock because they have m

Source      What's so great about coffee soap you wonder?  Well good news, I'm about to tell you, because I know that's the question you've been pining away at since your existence.     My coffee soap is one of my FAVORITES!!!!!!!!!!!   And it's not my favorite just because I made it either. There are no fancy fragrances or essential oils here, and that's part of it's wonderful charm, even though I love me some fragrant soap.  But I know there are people out there who can't tolerate fragrance, natural, or otherwise.     Here's a run down on the ingredients in the coffee soap, and after we'll talk about the ingredients that make this soap so fabulous.

    When you have children a good pancake recipe is a MUST!  It has taken me a year to figure out a few that I liked and could still eat.  So without further ado, because I can't stand it when you have to scroll through a post for 15 minutes to get to a recipe, here it is.

     Whether you're allergic to corn, or just trying to avoid the stuff, it's a real challenge.  I frequently say I would gladly keep my dairy and gluten allergies, if only I could tolerate corn.  It's EVERYWHERE!  Even on many brands of toilet paper.  Seriously folks, cornstarch on your toilet paper to prevent the rolls from sticking together.    Another place many people don't think of finding corn is in their baking powder.  It is typically made up of baking soda, cream of tartar, and cornstarch.  The baking soda is the leavening agent.  Cream of tartar is the acid that induces the reaction to set of the leavener.  And the starch is a drying agent.

     Tis the season........ Saint Valentines Day .  If your like me, you wait until the last possible minute to get your Valentines ducks in a row.      Are you still scrambling for ideas?  Here's a list of a few super cute Valentines I've been collecting over the years on my Pinterest board .  I've successfully made the first 3, and the rest are on my wish list!  Did I mention I like a good craft?  You can find the links to all of these fabulous ideas under the pictures. Heart Crayons  and free printable   Pen or pencil, free printable Glow Sticks and Free Printable For all you techies Bubble Valentine, Free Printable Pop Rocks and Free Printable Free Printable Free Printable Diy Poppers (No Printable, but couldnt' resist!) And one more.   Happy Valentines Day from me to you! (If you need some soap to give with these tags click here )

     This is both nerve wracking, and exciting!  My very first blog post......ever.  I really don't know where this will go, but that's half the fun isn't it!      What will you find here?  A little of this......a little of that.  I'm a diy and craftaholic.  A homeschooling mom of 4.  So I'll have plenty to share.      My number 1 craft is soap.  Soap, soap, soap, soapy, mcsoap soap.  I could probably talk about soap ALL day.  I never would have thought that's the craft I would have fallen into just a few years ago, but here I am.  A contributing member to soapaholics anonymous.  There's a story behind how it all came to be, but that's for another time, soon.      I've recently opened a little shop on etsy.  Hence the name of the blog.  Antique Apothecary.  I find my inspiration in a time gone by, when things were simpler, more pure and natural, hence the antique part.  Apothecary......because I plan on offering products that are health and