1 Kg Mixed Fruit
2 cups Orange Juice
3 cups Self Rising Flour
1 teasp each, Cinnamon, mixed Spice & Cloves
Soak fruit and spices in Orange Juice for a few hours
Then add Self Raising Flour and stir well.
Add one bottle of Rum Essence and
One bottle of Brandy Essence (or the real thing)
If you add the Essences, or Brandy/Rum, then
use only 1 and 1/2 cups of Orange Juice.
Bake at 170*. One Hour
WITCH-HAZEL has always been a farourite herb of mine. Firstly its an interesting Tree as its yellow-gold spider like flowers come out on the branches as one of the first signs of Spring returning to the garden. WITCH-HAZEL grows to about ten to twenty feet high and is a lovely shrub as well as a healing one. After the flowers are gone it has quite big leaves all Summer through.
When my children were young and suffered bruises and scratches I always gave them Witch-Hazel on cotton- wool to hold on the bruises etc. It quickly soothes and heals. My children loved it so and always ended up sucking the cotton-wool as well!!
The forked branches were used to divine water, and it is regarded as a Miracle Plant. It is astringent, prevents haemorrhage, anti-inflamatory, helps to rid warts. Can be used internally for piles, diarrhoea and colitis. In homeopathy it is Hamamelis. Given for piles, bleeding, stomach ulcers and wounds. Try a few drops in sore ears.
Foot therapy: Massage clean feet with mixture of 120ml witch hazel, and 20ml glycerine, ( herb thyme), can be also soaked in this mixture which has been sunbathed on the window-sill, for a few weeks to blend. Strain and squeeze out the thyme before using. Lovely for tired swelling feet.
WITCH HAZEL LOTION
Take a handful of the leaves 2 cups water and 1/2 cup vodka
Rinse and chop leaves. Boil the water, add leaves (using an enamel saucepan or glass pyrex) simmer 15 minutes. Cool strain, add the vodka. Apply with cotton cloths or cotton wool.
The twigs and bark can be processed same as for the leaves, but simmer about 1/2 hour, strain, and add vodka.
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EDWARD (or TED) CALLANAN a son of Daniel Callanan and his wife Margaret Keogh (or McKeogh), Callanan.
TED would have been born in Australia before the Callanan Family came to the Rosstown Gold Fields, of South Westland, New Zealand.
Seven young children came to Rosstown about 1866 with their parents, and TED was one of them. Their Australian origins prior to 1866 were Port Eliot, Adelaide, and the Gold Fields of Victoria. Little is known of TED except a comment by his mother Margaret in an old letter of about 1894, when she comments we havent heard from TED for 10 years! I know this is a long-bow shot, but someone may feel they are a descendant of Ted Callanan. He may even have gone to America!
If any one would like to contact me this is my email address
MICHAEL CALLANAN was born in 1871 in Rosstown, South Westland, New Zealand. Michael was baptised on 19-9-1871 and his Sponsors for Baptism were Michael Beakney and Mrs Catherine Ryan.
Michael was the youngest son of Daniel Callanan and his wife Margaret McKeogh Callanan. On his baptismal record Margaret was Mckeogh not the usual Keogh.
About 1880 Michael, his brother Daniel, and two of his sisters, namely, Ellen and Catherine, left with their widowed mother Margaret Callanan for Australia. Ellen (later Mrs William Rogers), was the only one of these children to have been born in Australia, and would have been the eldest one of the group.
They travelled the area of New South Wales, Australia, working here and there.
It is possible that Michael Callanan was at one time in Myrtleville, Goulbourne area, N.S.W, say about 1929. He may have been married. Daniel his brother may also have lived in the area.
I would be pleased to hear from any relatives.
Please contact me at my email address mary.cowie@clear.net.nz
Mary Cowie's family history 