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beetiger ([personal profile] beetiger) wrote2004-12-17 11:38 pm

Herbs in the air

Just made a batch of Yule microgifts for my covenmates in the form of some hand-rollable incense powder/powdered incense, based on a wildcrafted Cretan herb blend I ended up with a few years back. One of those one-shot, I can never repeat this, kind of things. It's pretty nice, even if it burns way the hell too fast. I didn't leave myself enough time to do a lot of testing, so I had to just go with something that I knew would at least burn. I had to run the herbs through a sieve after powdering them, and the mix is still a little coarser than I'd like for hand-rolling. I should definitely only sell kits that use ingredients I can buy commercially powdered. Doing that part for commerce rather than love is just too labor intensive.


Anyway, for my records:

Cretan Dreams Yule 2004
8 tbsp Cretan Herb Mix
8 tbsp Dittany
5 tsp Sandalwood
2 1/2 tsp gum
20 drops cinnamon oil

Pack per 3 tsp to be mixed with 1 1/4 tsp water for cones or sticks.