Class Length: 2¹/₂ days  (Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Class Dates: Nov 21, 22, 23 2008
                   
Cost: $225 (all classes)
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      Friday evening :    $40 Candle Making ($10 supply fee) Friday 1-5
      Saturday morning :  $40 Wine Making  
      Saturday afternoon :   $70 Cheese Making Saturday 1-6
      Sunday (all day) :  $95 Soap Making ($10 supply fee) Sunday 9-4

Take all 4 parts - or -  pick only the class that interests you.
                   
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This 2 ¹/₂day intensive will cover the essential things you need to know so you can do the essentials that were a part of the lives of the pioneers.
 

The Weekend Agenda:
Candles
Friday evening - Hand Dipped, taper, molded and "drip-less" candles will be covered

Wine
On Saturday morning learn how to make Home-Made Wine for those intimate dinners or cold winter nights.  We will teach you the basics of how to start with inexpensive grocery store frozen grape juice and transform it into a table wine

Cheese
Saturday afternoon we will make you into a "cheesemaker".  You will start by making Mozzarella cheese and then progress to learning to make Colby, Cheddar, Parmesan and Ricotta Cheese with the utensils you already have in your kitchen and a few easy to obtain ingredients.

Soap
Sunday we will spend the day on Soap Making (a fascinating hobby that will keep your family clean and provide an abundance of Christmas gifts), first by learning the "old-fashion" Lye and fat methods and then go onto vegetable oil soaps in the afternoon.

During the class you will learn the process to make each end product and how you can repeat the process at home.

Soap Making

"Soap you and your family will use" (also makes GREAT gifts for the holidays!)
Class Length: 1 Day
Class Dates: February 26th 2006 - (9 AM - 4 PM)
Cost: $95*
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Whether you were first introduced to soap making by watching your grandmother or from seeing "Granny" on The Beverly Hillbillies making it, making soap has been a tradition as well as a necessity for hundreds of years. Like most things, you can easily go buy soap at a store but, in doing so, you eliminate the pleasure and satisfaction of knowing that you made it yourself. On the practical side, learning how to make soap opens up a whole new aspect of cleaning and skin care since you control the ingredients that will become the soap you and your family use.

If you have dry skin, make a moisturizing soap by adding Glycerin and Coconut oil to the mix. If your kids are going camping, make them a "Bug Repellent" soap by adding Citronella and Tea Tree Oil to the soap. For the guest bath room, you may want to try the translucent "Glass Soap". And think about the great Christmas gifts your "homemade soap" makes. The possibilities are endless.

The class starts from the beginning, giving you all of the basics you need to understand how the soap making process works so that you can modify the recipes and even make up your own. You will learn the traditional "fat and lye" methods and discover why the lye does not burn the skin after it is made into soap. We'll then go into the vegetable oil based soaps that will give you the basics for the "specialty soaps" that you will be most likely to make.

* $10 supply fee due the day of the class

"Hard" Cheese Making
Make Cheddar, Colby, Mozzarella and even Parmesan Cheese at home! 
(makes a GREAT gift for the holidays!)

Class Length: 1/2 Day
Class Dates: TBA
Cost: $70
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In this 1/2 day class you will begin with whole milk that you can buy at any grocery store and go through the 4 hour process to make Colby cheese in the morning, Mozzarella Cheese around noon and and Cheddar Cheese in the afternoon.   All of the equipment will be supplied to each pair of students so that each will have a through "hand-on" experience in the cheese making process.

Learn about the different cheese cultures, the adding of renet, how to separate the "curds" from the "whey" and why "cheese cloth originally got its name.

Cheese Making Kits will be available for purchase at the class for those who want to continue making cheese at home.

* A $10 supply fee will be required on the day of the class

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