Making Colored Bath Salts Recipe

Beautiful and cheap bath salts for any occasion.

Supplies needed:

Hot glue gun (optional)

Scrap material (optional)

Food coloring

Any type of jar or bottle with lid (dollar stores have really neat ones)

Ziplock baggies

Ribbon (optional)

Epsom salts (can be bought anywhere for about 2.00 for 5 lbs.)

Scented oils, perfume, vanilla, extracts, etc. (optional)

Put 1 cup of epsom salts in each baggie depending on how many colors you want. Add food coloring about 10 drops less or more to desired color and close and shake. If you want to add scent to it add that too, sparingly.

When you have made enough to fill your container just funnel in and layer and even tilt your bottle for a cool effect. You can glue cloth over your ball jar after trimming with pinking shears or just leave plain. A ribbon and gift tag makes it complete.

Dog Biscuits

Homemade Meatless Dog Biscuits

This strange and wonderful recipe appeared in our hometown paper's consumer column, for making doggie Christmas presents! Although they are meatless, they are not vegetarian, as they contain chicken broth. However, your dog is quite unlikely to be a strict vegetarian.

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 

2 cups whole-wheat flour 

1 cup rye flour 

1 cup cornmeal 

2 cups cracked wheat (bulgur) 

1/2 cup non-fat dry milk powder 

4 tsp salt 

2 cups chicken stock 

1/4 oz active dry yeast (one package) 

1 egg 

1 Tbsp

Preheat oven to 300F or 150C Combine, in a big bowl, the flours, cornmeal, milk powder, and salt.

In a separate bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup (5 cl) lukewarm water; let it sit for a few minutes, until it bubbles.

Add the chicken stock to the yeast mixture. Mix well.

Add the liquid to the dry ingredients. Knead about 3 minutes. The dough should be stiff.

Flour a board with cornmeal and roll out the dough to a thickness of 1/4 inch (5 mm) Cut out biscuits with cookie cutters in appropriate shapes, and place on ungreased cookie sheets. Mix the egg and milk and use to brush tops of biscuits (for shine), then bake the biscuits for 45 minutes at 300F or 150C

Turn off the heat and leave biscuits in the oven overnight. This will make the biscuits be bone-hard.

Though these are intended for dogs, people find them better tasting than many health foods.

These make a dandy birthday or Christmas present for your favorite friend's dog.

RATING

Difficulty: easy.

Time: 30 minutes preparation, 45 minutes cooking, overnight hardening.

Precision: approximate measurement OK.