Summer's End

Hello my fellow readers, today I have in store some treats as the summer ends and we welcome falls arrival. Today on the menu with Shannon Eats is: summer pudding and ice wine. Along with some beauty by food : Relaxing salt bath. Theme of today Relaxation. I hope you enjoy!

Summer Pudding

Recipe courtesy Gale Gand, from "American Brasserie" by Gale Gand, Rick Tramonto, and Julia Moskin: Wiley Publications Inc., 1997

Prep Time:

20 min

Inactive Prep Time:

--

Cook Time:

5 min

Level:

Easy

Serves:

8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

• 10 to 15 thin slices thin white bread, crusts removed
• 1/2 cup thawed frozen apple juice concentrate
• 1 1/2 cups raspberries
• 1 1/2 cups red currants or other berry
• 2 cups strawberries, hulled, quartered if large
• 1/2 cup cranberries
• 1 cup blueberries
• 1 teaspoon powdered gelatin
• 1/8 cup cold water
• 1 cup cold heavy cream, optional

Directions

The day before you plan to serve the pudding, line a 2 quart mixing bowl with plastic wrap. Line the plastic wrap with the white bread slices, trimming to fit so that the pieces fit together neatly. Save enough bread to cover the top of the pudding.

In a saucepan, combine the apple juice concentrate and all the berries. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until the strawberries begin to soften, about 1 minute. Turn off the heat immediately.

Stirring, dissolve the gelatin in the water, then add the mixture to the berries and stir to combine. Spoon into the bread-lined bowl. Cover with remaining bread slices, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and slightly weight it down. Chill overnight.

When ready to serve, whip the cream with an electric mixer at high speed until it forms soft peaks.

Remove the pudding from the refrigerator and remove the plastic wrap. Carefully put pudding out onto a platter, remove the bowl and the plastic wrap. Serve in slices with whipped cream on 

resource for summer pudding @ 

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gale-gand/summer-pudding-recipe/index.html

 Ice wine to be paired with the summer pudding.

Ice wine (or icewine; German Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced fromgrapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape mustto be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine

 Lavender and dead sea salt bath.
Click below to make a wonderful bath salt.
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Natural Bath Salts for Healthy Relaxation

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Power of Nature

Using the power of nature to physical and environmental advantage is great use of the resources. Simple as well as warm bath that is infused with ancient type remedies like natural bath salts can nurture the body and have soothing effects on it. Not only the body, but such products are also highly relaxing for the mind as well.

Stress Relief

Stress relief becomes much easier using natural body care products instead of the traditional synthetic items since most of them contain harmful toxic elements. One of the natural components is sea water that can work as organic body wash for the user. Therapeutic powers of seawater are recognized since centuries and it is widely believed that they can have some highly healing effects on wounds and infections of skin. Some of the physicians believe that sea water can be used for pain relief. In any case as natural body care component containing natural bath salt is great for stress relief.

Getting Natural Bath Salt

Natural bath salt can be extracted from sea water by removing the water and getting natural seawater ingredients in some concentrated forms. The derived product is called sea salt. However all natural bath salts are not the same. Usually the chemical companies would make use of sea salt as raw ingredient for their chemical products. Removing the impurities and other minerals that are in the salt as well as dried sea plants they refine the salt. However in the process they also remove a number of important components from it. With major minerals removed from the salt they use the product as synthetic bath salt.

Refined Salt Unusable in Bath

When minerals are taken out of the sea salt it becomes much more refined. Not one or two but eighty minerals are removed from sea salts for creating other products. Ultimately, only six materials are left out and the end product is pure crystal of sodium chloride or table salt. However, despite the fact that such table salts are much more refined than ordinary bath salts, they cannot be used for bath because they are not concentrated.

Bottom line of it is that best bath salts and food salts are natural.

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