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Wild Blueberry Biscuits:

2 Cs Flour

1 C milk (cold)

1/3 Cup sugar

5 Tbsps. of butter (cold or frozen)

4 tsps. baking powder

1 tsp salt

3 ozs. wild blueberries (fresh or frozen)

At home, Glaze:

1 C powdered sugar

1/8 C water

1 tsp. vanilla

½ tsp. lemon juice

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450F. Mix salt, sugar, flour, and baking powder in a bowl. Add the super cold milk into dry ingredients and mix. As dough begins to form take each tablespoon of hardened solidified butter and break chunks off and spread evenly over dough. Fold dough, and knead… repeat until all butter is spread in chunks evenly throughout dough. Move dough to floured cutting board and roll flat to about ¼ - ½ thick (or to desired thickness) and cut approximately 6 biscuits with a biscuit or cookie cutter. If you notice the butter start to melt (hot kitchen) during this process it may be necessary to return the dough to the freezer for 10-15 minutes. Do not exceed 20, as the baking powder’s 1st stage may become inactive past that. Place in oven and bake for about 7-12 minutes. Melt 1 tablespoon of low-fat butter in the microwave, and paint finished biscuits with pastry brush. Mix glaze ingredients in a bowl, and drizzle over biscuits. © Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan.

BREAD IN A BAG

PREP TIME: 20 mins         COOK TIME: 30 mins

TOTAL TIME: 50 mins

Serves: 2 mini loaves or 1 full size loaf

INGREDIENTS

3 Cs all purpose flour, divided

3 Tbsps. white sugar

1 (.25) package rapid rise yeast (2¼ tsps.)

1 C warm water

3 Tbsps. olive oil or vegetable oil

1½ tsps. salt

INSTRUCTIONS

In a resealable plastic bag place 1 C flour, sugar and yeast and add in warm water.

Squeeze air out of the bag and seal.

Squish with your hands until well mixed together.

Let it rest for 10 minutes at room temperature. Bubbles will form.

Open bag and put in 1 C of flour, oil and salt.

Seal bag again and squish until well blended.

Add last cup of flour and continue mixing in the same manner until well blended.

Remove dough from bag and put onto a lightly floured surface.

Knead for 5-10 minutes or until smooth.

Divide dough in half and place each half into a greased mini loaf pan  Or make one large loaf

Cover with a towel and allow to rise for about 30 minutes.

Bake in a 375 degree oven for 25-30 minutes or until bread is golden brown.If you are in the bush and you do not have any pans; wrap around a stick and roast over the damp fire.

SAFE, Tick Removal

Even better than tick removal is to AVOID allowing ticks to attach in the first place. Wearing long pants and sleeves, and walking with a friend who can keep an eye on your back means that you have time to see the tick and brush it off before it attaches. Keep switching positions of who is in back if walking single file. Look frequently for signs of ticks on you or your friend. If you find an attached tick, remove the tick as completely and as quickly as possible.

How to Properly Remove a Tick

Do you remember being told to burn a tick or cover it with nail polish, lighter fluid or petroleum jelly to remove it?

Well, the old methods often cause the tick to vomit the contents of its gut into the bite.  According to research, all of the improper tick removal can increase your chance of contracting Lyme disease.

• Researchers have discovered that the spirochete that causes Lyme disease is actually found in a tick’s gut, not its mouth.

• Removing the tick’s mouth isn’t really as important as we were all taught years ago.

It’s much more important to make sure the tick doesn’t “throw-up” the contents of its gut when removing it.

• As a tick feeds, it regurgitates germs from its gut into the bite site, and each “burp” increases the likelihood of Lyme disease transmission.

• It’s still important to remove ticks promptly, though, because many ticks have Lyme spirochetes in their saliva along with the bacteria for other tick-borne diseases and the more bacteria injected when a tick bites, the higher the chance you will be infected.

• Nymphs (young ticks) actually cause most cases of Lyme disease. It’s difficult to

remove a nymph without squeezing the nymph’s abdomen with tweezers, so the tick

removal tool is recommended

• If ticks are found and removed right away, they may not have time to give you Lyme disease.     It often takes several hours for a tick to give you the germs. If no tools are available, rather than delay use a cotton thread. Tie a single loop of cotton around the tick’s mouth parts, as close to the skin as possible, then pull upwards and outwards without twisting.

DO start by cleansing the tweezers/tool with antiseptic. After tick removal, cleanse the bite site and the tool with antiseptic.

DO wash hands thoroughly afterwards.

DO save the tick in a container in case a doctor asks for evidence that you have been bitten (label it with date and location). Public Health England is also currently running a scheme to investigate ticks – see below.

DO NOT squeeze the body of the tick, as this may cause the head and body to separate, leaving the head embedded in your skin.

DO NOT use your fingernails to remove a tick. Infection can enter via any breaks in your skin, e.g. close to the fingernail.

DO NOT crush the tick’s body, as this may cause it to regurgitate its infected stomach contents into the bite wound.

DO NOT try to burn the tick off, apply petroleum jelly, PEPPERMINT OIL, nail polish or any other chemical. Any of these methods can cause discomfort to the tick, resulting in regurgitation, or saliva release.

DO NOT squeeze the body of the tick, as this may cause the head and body to separate, leaving the head embedded in your skin.

DO NOT use your fingernails to remove a tick. Infection can enter via any breaks in your skin, e.g. close to the fingernail.

DO NOT crush the tick’s body, as this may cause it to regurgitate its infected stomach contents into the bite wound. See this graphic animation of what can happen, courtesy of the Lyme Borreliosis Foundation, Hungary.

DO NOT try to burn the tick off, apply petroleum jelly, PEPPERMINT OIL, nail polish or any other chemical. Any of these methods can cause discomfort to the tick, resulting in regurgitation, or saliva release.

DO USE:

Fine-pointed tweezers.  This works for adult ticks, if you grasp the tick at the mouth, where the tick is attached to your skin; it’s not safe for the tiny young ticks, because the gut might get squeezed and squirt germs into you.

A credit card or something else you can slide under the tick.  Slide something under the tick and press upward at the mouth until the tick pulls itself out.

A tick remover that slides under the tick sells a tool that slides under the tick sells for less than $5.

After removing a tick, disinfect the bite site, removal tool, and your hands.

Tick Remover

How to Use Tick Remover

Slide something under the tick, like a tick removal tool or credit card (which doesn’t always work).

The tips of the tick remover should be pointed and a slight upward angle, forcing the tick’s head into the narrowest part of the “V.”

Grasp the tick as close to the mouth as possible (where its attached) and pull straight out SLOWLY.

Do NOT turn or twist as you pull

Disinfect the bite site and tool and wash your hands with antibacterial soap.

Mouth parts left in the skin can be removed with a sterile needle or by a doctor.  Like a splinter, they will work themselves out over a few days or weeks, but may cause itching.