Re: making a basic harquus
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on December 18, 1999 at 03:59:45:
In Reply to: Re: making a basic harquus posted by kate on December 17, 1999 at 21:27:35:
Hippie health foods stores and new age stores have both frankincense
and myrrh, also Middle Eastern stores, and Catholic church suppliers.
The myrrh powder (tried that today) had a lower melt temperature, but
it was easy to overheat, and then went grainy. Doing this stuff feels
really "Morganna le Fay" and all alchemic ..... twiddling about with a
candle flame, fragrant oils, soots, smoky stuff.....
Hmmmmm.....when the wise men brought gifts to the baby, they were
bringing stuff traditionally used to avert the evil eye. Hadn't
thought about that......