Recipes?

[Wildfyre]

What are some of your favorite recipes using wild plants? Or medicinal ones?

[zbery1]

I just made some salve to send out for chrismas gifts. I harvested devils club root after first frost, washed it and packed it in a wine bottle, covered it with olive oil and corked it. Over the next couple months I would turn it upside down a time or two every time I thought about. A couple days ago I crushed an ounce each of yarrow and golden rod that I had harvested and dried last summer and added it to about 1 1/2 cups of olive oil. I put this in a heavy bottomed pan on a cast iron grill on top of a gas burner at very low heat and warmed it for about 4 hours. After straining one cup of the oil from the bottle of devils club root I added it to 1 cup of the strained yarrow and golden rod oil and continued to warm it over the low heat while I grated 2 ounces of bees wax. I added the bees wax to the oil and stirring occasionally waited 'til every bit of wax had melted. When it had, I dipped a spoon into the mixture and put it in the freezer to make sure it would be the right consistancy before pouring it into the containers I had prepared. It hardened to a lovely, wonderful smelling salve that can be used on dry cracked skin, cuts, scrapes, and any external problems. I've even used it for lip balm.

The remainder of the oils I strained and combined to make massage oil. This I store in dark glass bottles and use on sore aching joints and muscles throughout the year.