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Ela La Salle wrote:

Esther ter Reehorst wrote:

Holy macro! Those are lovely! You gotta have A LOT patience ! LOL
P.S.
Bees wax is very expensive here. Just like nuts and many other goodies.

HAHA! You'd think. In fact I had a deadline and people depended on me, but there is a reason I don't think I'll ever do 140 again 😅.

Too bad about the beeswax. Here in Georgia it isn't very cheap either. What about soy wax? Some is actually produced in a eco-friendly way, even though it needs to come from far. Now I come to think of it, I didn't use soywax for the labels but rapeseed wax, a local alternative (back when we lived in the Netherlands) and just as nice to work with. And quite cheap.

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Anne Miller wrote:

This year, I have a lot of almonds and walnuts.
Other than the candied recipe in the first post, what could I make so that they will be gifts from my kitchen?

This simple and wonderful recipe from New Mexico State University calls for pecans as they are grown extensively in the southern half of our state. Almonds and walnuts work just fine:
"Deviled Pecans
1 lb shelled pecans
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
1/3 cup melted butter or margarine
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 300°F. Place nuts in a shallow baking pan. In a separate bowl, combine remaining ingredients, then pour over nuts and stir well. Bake 20 minutes, stirring twice during cooking. Let cool on thick paper towels. Store in airtight container."

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Heidi Schweitzer

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Esther ter Reehorst wrote:

Heidi Schweitzer wrote:
Lovely! How do you make the wax stamps?

You melt wax (soy, bees or rapeseed), add some oils for a nice smell, pour it in some sort of mall (I actually used silicone cupcake malls).

When the wax is still molten but starts to solidify, you add the decoration. I used pieces of dried citrus, dried flowers and those little cones you get from a tree that I don't know the English name of .

Thank you so much! I can’t wait to try them and always have beeswax onhand!

Then you hope it turns out nice. I actually used a blow dryer (that I had to borrow 😂) to sometimes melt the top a little extra so I could make some adjustments.

I used orange, clove, cinnamon and pine oil to give them that nice and wintery smell.

That's all!

If you try it, be sure to let me know how it turns out!

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