Homemade EXTRACTS, SPICE BLENDS, HERBAL INFUSIONS + More! Saving Money in the Kitchen!
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2023
- Hey Friend, we are creating some DIY Extracts, Spice Blends, Herbal Infusions and Elderberry Syrup to save some money today in the Homestead Kitchen. I've got Vanilla Extract as well as Cinnamon and Mint planned, a variety of Herbal Oil Infusions, Chai and Pumpkin Pie Spice blends and some Homemade Elderberry Syrup for us to work on today! These are so easy and will save you money in the kitchen!
Thanks for joining me,
Kelsey
*** DISCLAIMER- This is not medical advice; I am not a medical professional. I am sharing how I take care of my family's health. Do your own research :)
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Chai Spice:
4 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cardamom
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp all spice
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/8 tsp black pepper
Pumpkin Spice:
3 tbsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
2 tsp nutmeg
1.5 tsp allspice
1.5 tsp cloves
ELDERBERRY SYRUP
Ingredients:
1 Cup dried Organic Elderberries
6 Cups filtered water
1/2 Tbsp Ginger
1 Tbsp Cinnamon
1/2 Cup Honey
Bring everything, except Honey, to a boil. Cover and reduce to a simmer for 30 minutes.
Strain berries from liquid. Add honey and store in the fridge for up to 6 weeks.
Dosage: Children 1 year and up (Do not give babies under 1 honey) - 1Tbsp a day or every other day. Adults 2 Tbsp a day or every other day. *During times of sickness can be taken 3-4 times a day.
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The photography at the end is the icing on your yummy cake of inspiration! The piano music is beautiful with it. I can't wait for another serving of encouragement soon. Thank you.
Aw thank you friend! I’m so glad you enjoyed 🤍
Kelsey you are wise beyond your years. I can’t wait to see what else you will be teaching me to make.
Thank you ☺️ I love this stuff and I’m so happy to share all that I know and am learning!
If you have access to buckwheat honey, it has a ton of added medicinal properties.
Oh interesting! I haven’t heard of that but I’ll look into it now! Thanks 😊
This is awesome! Gives me so many ideas of things to make!
I make my vanilla a year in advance and use about half as many beans and keep the year befores beans too (they have a lot of life left in them). I'm not strict about it, if I need to crack it open and use some but I've done it for so many years, I usually have plenty for the whole year and I bake a LOT.
Yay! I’m so glad! Yes to reusing! I do that too. I think I’m going to make some more in a month so I have a good rotation going ☺️
Lovely video! I'm so pleased that people are sharing how to use herbs that they grow. Food is our medicine but herbs are for healing. Mary Born, ND
Yes! I love that statement! Food is medicine and herbs are for healing! 🤍🤍🤍
A woman after my own heart! Everything is so beautiful and useful. I always feel glad to see the young generation carry the torch for these kinds of home crafts. I was always a bit of an oddball in my circles, but my children never knew doctors and antibiotics! And my skin still looks healthy in my 60's. 😊
Kelsey! This is one of my most favorite videos of yours!! I am an aspiring herbalist and if I could like this video a million times I would! So informative and wonderful to watch! I'm saving it for my own reference as well as sharing it! More of this please! I cannot wait to see what you do with the concoctions that you have made! Thank you, thank you! 😍
I’m a Master Herbalist and I love this so much! Do you grow lemon balm? I’m sure you do. It’s a versatile plant as well.
I also make vanilla extract with all 3 of those alcohols and as a matter of fact, I have french plums in the crock pot right now to make preserves with spiced rum. I really like peaches with bourbon vanilla but who doesn’t! Have a great weekend 😀
Ahhh so cool Nikki! I’m hoping to take a course this winter and start on that journey! My husband and I just started getting into foraging as well! It’s so fun and so beneficial! Those plums sound divine! Yes, I’ve got lemon balm and plan to make some tinctures!
@@seedandsparrowhomestead foraging is something my husband and I do together. We’ve only been foraging for 3 years so we still have so much to learn but we really enjoy it. And time spent together is always worthwhile. Happy hunting 🌱🍄
@@Just-Nikki I love that! We finally found something we have common interest in! We always support and help each other but this is something we equally love and enjoy!
@@seedandsparrowhomesteadthat's so cool! We're also into foraging as a family. Can you make a video about the things you find?
Loved everything about this video!
I’ve never thought about making my own cinnamon or mint extract. I’ll have to try that. If you have a Sam’s Club membership they have a great deal on their brand of vodka - $12.84 for 1.75 L.
I’ve always been intimidated by making my own herbal oil infusions. After watching you, I now realize just how easy they are to make. I’ll definitely be planting more herbs next year so I can try my hand at making some oil infusions.
Thanks for showing how to make those spice blends! I’ve been making our own pumpkin pie spice for a while now but have never made chai spice. We love adding pumpkin pie spice to our teas in the morning. I’m definitely going to be making the chai spice so we can change it up and add some chai spice to our teas :)
I’m so glad you enjoyed! I need to get either a Sam’s or Costco membership for some good bulk deals, unfortunately it’s about an hour and 15 minutes from us. I want to try and make it an every 6 weeks thing if I can!
Herbal infusions and tinctures are so simple, especially with “easy” herbs like these. The hard part is knowing which herbs to use when and how much, but even that isn’t hard, just time learning! It’s great knowledge to have!
I leave my vanilla sat for 16-24 month but as you said - so many different opinions on that. I make big batches so I always have some I can use while 2 jars usually sit in the basement pantry marinating :)
So happy I found your channel! Informative, peaceful and so full of care. God bless you and your family!❤
Thank you so much! I appreciate you 🤍
I use my bourbon vanilla in everything!😋
Thank You for sharing all your recipes and ideas.
I am sooo glad I found your channel! Can’t wait to try these!
Thanks so much for listing your recipes.
Sure thing!
Beautiful and so many ideas. Thanks for teaching what a rosehip is! I need to find those.
A fantastic all in one video! Thank you for spreading joyful videos ❤ God bless!
My pleasure, thank you ☺️ 🤍
I made my first vanilla about 10 years ago and I also triple the used beans to make another batch. I havent made any salves yet so Ill be looking forward to those videos! I cant believe how warm it still is there, my son said 80 today and tomorrow! We are getting snow and it will feel like 6 degrees, BRRRRRRRRRRR. Thanks for your slow easy videos, they are the most enjoyable of all my channels! Blessings
Kelsey Kelsey Kelsey!!!! I absolutely enjoyed your video. Thank you so much for sharing so much amazing information. ❤
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful 🤍🤍🤍
Love this. I have my first batch of Vanilla Extract going. I have lots of different Mints that I dried. I think I may make extracts from some of them. Cinnamon extract sounds interesting. I made a couple salves this year. All this is new to me. Thanks for sharing with us.
KELSEY, THIS HAS GOT TO BE YOUR CALLING. I LOVE THE CONTENT, THANKS FOR SHARING. JUST FOR LAUGHS, I HAVE HAD MY VANILLA FOR 4 YEARS. INA GARDNER WAS MY INSPIRATION AT THE TIME, SHE'D HAD HER'S FOR 25 YEARS.
Aw thank you! I love helping people 🤍 Too funny, that has got to be some of the most deliciously aged vanilla! ☺️
Wow, how interesting. I enjoyed watching you make these different things.
Thank you ☺️ I’m so glad 🤍
I love rose hips.I have made rose hip apple cinnamon jelly, and rose hip teas this year with hips from my roses. I dont spray anything either. I was sick with a virus ( not THE virus) just a regular one a few weeks ago and made rose hip hibiscus tea sweetened with local honey, Worked wonders on my sore throat. Nature is amazing.
I love this one. Thanks Kelsey for taking the time to make this video.
I’d can’t wait to see how you use them all ❤
Love this video!!!❤❤
Loved this video 😃
Fantastic episode. As for the vanilla use what you like to drink. Elderberry as a shot, with a bit of maple syrup and a splash of fresh lemon juice is what we use. Hugs from Esquimalt
Kelsey, what type of raspberry plants do you have. I was impressed of how many you harvested .
3 kinds! Red- Joan J, Yellow-Anne, Pink-Double Gold. We love all of them. I source from Nourse Farms and MIGardener.
I’ve been making homemade vanilla for many years. Most often I just slice and add the beans directly into the vodka jar. I will dispense it into the bottle I keep in the cupboard as needed. Over the years I have gifted bottles of the vanilla and pretty regularly I will get the bottle back with the hopes I’ll gift another bottle 😆
The bottles on the windowsill look so pretty. I look forward to when you share how you use them. Fun video Kelsey, thank you for sharing. The autumn scenery is so beautiful! ❤
Yes that’s a great method too, right into the vodka jar! Too funny about getting the jars back 😂 I love that. Thank you so much, blessings friend 🤍
❤❤❤ this!
Thank you ☺️ 🤍
thanks so much for this, wonderful ideas.
For your vanilla you should try putting them in the instant pot or pressure canner. I prefer it that way now. Immediately gives you the intense vanilla flavor.
Excellent video, Kelsey. Very informative and enjoyable to watch. Thank you for the recipes.
Thank you from Oklahoma!
Thank YOU 🤍🤍🤍
I love videos like this. Your kitchen looks so warm and inviting. Blessings on your day.
Aw thank you! I’m thankful for my cozy kitchen. Blessings 🤍
Thank you for sharing these fun recipes! I’m sharing with my girls too. I know they will come in handy for their kitchens too. ❤
That’s awesome, I’m so glad it’s helpful! Thank you 🤍
Awesome timing! Gearing up for holiday baking and stocking my spice blends and also wanted to try Elderberry syrup. Thanks for the inspiration! Hope your day is blessed.
Awesome! Enjoy and be blessed 🤍
Thank you dear for sharing. Blessings
Thank you for watching 🤍
I love your videos. Thanks for inspiring me.
Thank you ☺️ 🤍
Thank you for sharing 🥰
Thank you for watching 🤍
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! 🤍
Great video. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you ☺️ 🤍
Thank you for this video! I've been wanting to make my own vanilla and elderberry syrup, but just haven't. I ordered the beans and berries so it will be happening. Also, I couldn't find the pumpkin spice so this is on the list as well. I'm looking forward to upcoming projects. Thanks so much again!!
Loved this video! I just pulled all my herbs today and I plan on making some herbed salt, when dried it's shelf stable. Looking forward to more great content!
Thank you so much! Herbed salt sounds great!
What do you do with your vanilla beans once you remove them? Are there other uses for them afterwards?
I’ll reuse them a second time! If they still have some life in them you could scrap them and use them in baking or a simmer pot for a lovely aroma!
I have a 2 gallon jar, with allot of them in it. I was thinking of removing them, try drying them somehow? Storing them somehow? So I could get more " uses" out of them. Maybe get more new beans..start more! Lol!
Thanks!
😭so kind and generous, thank you for your blessing 🤍
great video
Have you ever used castor oil for your infusions? Cast oil has a lot of benefits to the body on its own. I’ve never done an infusion with castor oil but it’s on my list of things to do.
My! This video is incredible!! I have freeze-dried quite a bit and am now looking forward to being able to work with the simple ingredients in order to create end products that help insure good health for my family and all my little ones in my child care community. Curious, where do you source your dried elderberry? As you know, I so appreciate all the videos you create. The presentations are informative, thoughtful, and delivered with mellow peacefulness. Feeling blessed to have found your channel. Prayers and blessings, Side note... I, too have just signed up for beginners herbal classes and look forward to expanding my knowledge of nature's abundance,
I love the video! I just subscribed to your channel! I would love to see how you make soaps, etc. ❤
Awesome! Thank you so much ☺️ 🤍🤍🤍
Thank you. ❤Do you make butternut extract?
Could you use fermenting weights to hold the herbs down? I know some herbs float and will not stay down?
Thank you for sharing!!! I made vanilla 4 months ago so I can have some for gifts…
I will need to have my son try your recipe for chai tea… he hasn’t found one that he like yet …. So I’m excited for your recipe!!
Thank you again
Also … for the mint extract… can you use fresh mint or does it have to be dried??
Great for gifts, definitely one I’d appreciate! Just remember with the chai, it’s a spice, not a tea but you can add it to black tea with some cream and maple syrup for a fantastic chai tea! I personally only use dried herbs, the water content in fresh can cause spoilage ☺️
How do you dry the rose petals? I have a rose bush in front of my house. Didn’t know it could be used. Also how do you use it? Could you teach this?
Chai spice is something I have never tasted. You said your kids like chai spice in warm milk, what does chai spice taste like and what would you use it for?
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What happens if you don't drink alcohol, can you use some thing else to soak the vanilla in?
Hey there! Really enjoy your content, thanks for sharing. I’ve been trying to shape your storefront, but the link doesn’t seem to be working for me. Wanted to let you know in case it’s not just me having internet troubles 😅
Oh thank you so much! I forgot I can’t copy and paste the link from video to video because it cuts it off! I’ll go fix it ☺️
Where did you find your measuring cups? I love them!
Amazon! I have them linked in the description ☺️
@@seedandsparrowhomestead great! Thank you 😊
You grabbed my attention. Elderberry, which I love the flavor.
Making something to help fight of colds is a big thing. Vanilla I have plenty for now. But the Elderberry syrup. Besides a health benefit item for winter. Can this also be used as pancake syrup, or flavoring in recipes.
I personally wouldn’t use it as a pancake syrup, it’s not that sweet, much more bitter than a typical syrup!
I’ve never attempted using elderberry for anything other than medicinal purposes though so I can’t really say if or how it could be used in other recipes ☺️
Completely off topic, seeing you with the lavender & roses made me think of something. Have you tried cooking with lavender? It’s so delicious! I went to a restaurant that served everything with lavender, lavender butter, lavender cakes, chicken with lavender, etc probably even lavender honey. I want to try making a few dishes to recreate them, it was something I never would’ve thought of using but a billion years later I still remember that meal.
I’ve been thinking of roses to make rose water and use in desserts. There’s a panna cotta recipe I have that uses rose water, I’m not sure exactly the process involved but I would guess it’s getting edible rose petals, boiling them & probably let them sit for infusion before use.
I’ve thought about but never tried! It all sounds delicious, what lovely ideas! I need to try for sure, thank you ☺️ 🤍🤍☺️
You are very young and talented
So kind, thank you 🤍
How do you prep your wild rose hips for tea? I collected roughly eleventy billion off our property, and I will likely be working on them til next October if I really need to cut them in half and scoop out the middle as the internet seems to suggest.
LOL, that’s a pain! I personally don’t scoop if using for tea. I’ll dry them completely, then grind with mortar and pestle or run through a coffee grinder or food processor, then sift out the hairs using a sieve. I then use them for tea. If using for jelly I pick the big ones, slice in half and scoop. Also Eleventy billion is most definitely a measurement I’d use 😂😂😂🤍🤍🤍
@@seedandsparrowhomestead that is music to my ears! My hubby "helped" forage, so I'm already hours into separating the bad ones. It's what I was doing while watching your video.
I'm not at all surprised that you would use my unit of measure. My favorite part of watching is that you're so much like me which clearly makes you very entertaining. Your movie and book references always get me, and I appreciate that you don't pretend to be the picture of perfection so many do. I mean we all have areas of homemaking we fall way behind on and feed our kids frozen nuggets when need be right?
Please tell me how you use the yarrow infusion. I have a ton of yarrow and no clue how to use it. Every one tells me what I can do with it ie: oil infusion but that doesn't tell me how to use the oil or what situations I can use it for. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give me on this matter. ❤
Very curious. I have vodka left over from making vanilla. I saw you put cinnamon sticks with the vodka. What do or can you do with? I was at a loss as to how I would use it. Other than what you mentioned
I’d use it in baking ex. cake, cookies, cinnamon rolls, icing, whipped cream, also ice cream and sorbet. Hot chocolate, wassail, apple cider. I’m thinking some stewed fruit as well like apples, pears and peaches ☺️
Maybe a silly question, but i thought I'll ask. I noticed you did not vacuum seal your jars. When I attempted to make these, is that step necessary?
No need to seal! Simply tightening the lid is enough 🤍
I’m going to be making vanilla extract! I bought the 10 piece vanilla beans from Amazon you recommended. You said 20 per quart jar. Does that mean the 10 vanilla beans cut in half making 20 pieces? Or 20 whole vanilla beans?
Awesome! I do 20 per quart but that’s just my method, I’ve seen others do less and have success but it may take a bit longer for them to infuse the vodka.
@@seedandsparrowhomestead okay! Thank you so much for responding! God bless 🙏❤️
How do you get your vanilla to even smell like vanilla? When I tried making vanilla, I first tried eight beans and scored them and put Into a pint and added good vodka. Yuck smelled like vodka. So I tried again. This time I filled the jars with vanilla beans ( scored and cut) and did one with vodka and one with brandy. Still the same strong alcohol smell. So they sit on my shelf unused.
How long are you letting them infuse for? Even store bought vanilla will have a slight smell of alcohol. Could be the quality/quantity/brand of beans, could be time, perhaps more stirring up the jar would help.
My oldest is two years old, the newest is about six months. I know that it takes time, but I just thought it should be smelling like vanilla by now. @@seedandsparrowhomestead
would this really work , I have hard time believe the jars wouldn't mold; Mason Jar Pumpkin Bread🎃
Ingredients
2/3 cup shortening
2 2/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 cups canned pumpkin
2/3 cup water
2 1/2 cups flour
2 - 3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoons salt
2/3 cup nuts
Spray 8 mason jars with non-stick spray
Directions
Cream together shortening and sugar, beat in eggs, pumpkin and water. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Add to pumpkin mixture. Stir in nuts. Pour mixture into greased wide mouth, pint jars filling 1/2 full.
Bake at 325°F for 45 minutes. When done, remove one jar at a time, wipe sealing edge with paper towel or cloth, and screw cap on tightly. The heat will vacuum seal the jar and the bread will keep up to 1 year.
VARIATIONS
Substitute for pumpkin, one of the following:
1 bag whole ground fresh cranberries plus 1 can whole berry cranberry sauce
1 3/4 cup applesauce plus 1/4 cup pineapple
1 3/4 cups applesauce plus 1/4 cup raisins
2 cups mashed bananas
2 cups apricots
2 cups shredded zucchini
2 cups chopped fresh peaches
They don't mold because the herbs are dried.