(Please read my update on wax dipping eggs found here Tip #21 on August 5, 2011: http://www.solomonvillereliefsociety.blogspot.com/search/label/self%20reliance?updated-max=2011-09-20T15:39:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=46&by-date=false)
Top O' the Mornin' to ya all my little Irish girls!!!
This week's tip is so SO so neat! A few months ago we had a Relief Society lesson on "Preparing Every Needful Thing". One of the points was a shelter.
President Julie Beck of the Relief Society General Presidency gave this talk April 2010 for a leadership training meeting. Please, please take the time to watch this 5 minute video. There is so much peace and wisdom in her words.
If you are running short on time, here is the short version, but please come back to this email and watch the video when time permits for you.
This piece of her talk was taken from the blog GottaWannaNeedaGettaPrepared.blogspot.com
http://gottawannaneedagettaprepared.blogspot.com/2011/01/own-tent-says-julie-beck.html
"I have a sense and a feeling as we have watched some of these disasters in the world, that this is a time for us to learn and prepare from these experiences. Sister Thompson gave an testimony of that, and the preparation happens in our own homes. There are not enough tents in the world to furnish every person with a tent unless the members of the church have a tent in their own homes...a simple thing like that. And then the storehouse is pressed down, heaped over and running over in our own homes.
Those are the kind of the things we need to be thinking about in our day and time, the Lord expects us to do our little part and then He can bring on the miracles and then we don't need to fear."
Spiritual preparedness is just as necessary (if not more so than) as temporal preparedness! If you have trouble getting the video to load, follow this link and scroll down and open the video "self reliance" directly from the church's website.
http://lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,8731-1,00.html
And Another Thing.....
What are your thoughts on egg storage? The best way to have eggs is fresh from chickens. Have you thought about it? Some of our sisters cannot do the chicken thing. You could do powdered eggs...but what if????
My brother-in-law's Uncle Jimmy (everyone has one :) ) was stationed in a kitchen on a naval ship during WWII. They would be at sea for months at a time without refrigeration. Eggs were kept fresh by having them dipped in beeswax and kept from light.
Well, I've been experimenting for close to a year and this is what I've found.... it works. If you seal the eggs from air, they stay good.
I had two sets of several dozen eggs dipped in beeswax. One set was totally set away from light in a plastic storage bin, the others were stored in a plastic storage bin under my bedroom window. I did these last September. One thing about eggs...you know RIGHT away if they're bad.
With the eggs under the window, one out of three were bad. None had gone bad in the ones hidden from light.
What if you don't want to mess with the wax? Come on...you can scrape it off and make a candle :) Seriously though, my sister has done the same thing with mineral oil. Make sure the eggs are dry, apply mineral oil to a paper towel and make sure you cover the egg completely with the oil - if any egg pores are left uncovered, oxygen will seep in allowing the eggs to go bad. Keep in a cool dark place. Eggs can last for a few years stored correctly. Uncle Jimmy said up to five years. Everybody needs an Uncle Jimmy.
Until next time...my little lassies!
Marsha
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