Cupcake Love! These cupcakes are from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. This is the chocolate recipe with buttercream frosting. However, it's not buttercream...it's margarine. I really like the polka dot cupcake holders! This pile is off to a housewarming party.
In the Garden: Mayapple is showing up in our garden....
Some foods made from May apples are applesauce, drinking or jelly juice, marmalade and pie. The first step for marmalade—and many other recipes—is to make May apple puree. Wash the fruit very well and cut off the black tip and navel. Slice into small pieces and strain through a colander to separate the seeds and peels from the pulp. A good drink is made by combining half May apple and half grape juice. Sweeten to taste, chill and serve. May apples freeze very well and they, no doubt, could be canned if you want to keep some over winter.
Flowering May Apple - Goods From The Woods
Wash ripe mayapples, cut away the stem and blossom ends, and any waste parts. Cut the fruit into pieces and place in a large kettle with water to cover. Bring to a boil, then simmer until mayapples are tender, mashing during cooking. Strain the juice through a cheesecloth or let it drip through a jelly bag. To the strained mayapple juice, add lemon juice and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly, then stir in pectin. Again bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and boil hard until the jelly stage is reached.
Mayapple Flower Essence from Fox Mountain
Mayapple
Podyllum peltatum (white): Premature timing. When timing isn't synchronized for highest good. Rushing in before ready or aligned. Requires calm energy for timing to be synchronized. Wanting something so badly but in a desperate way, not calm and relaxed. Good for preparing the soil/soul to be ready for planting. Gets one ready to be truly be receptive to the gifts in life. Good for impatient children and issues around instant gratification. (research)
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