Hello, Sous Baker Here!
We're sorry it's been a while but it's been a busy few weeks in our household.
To celebrate the return of our blog, we have decided to share something a little different this week. It is still food related, but not a recipe. Have you guessed what it is yet?
Beeswax Wraps!
It is more important than ever to try and be kinder to the planet, and beeswax wraps are a great way to start.
We don't recommend using them for raw meats and fish, however they are great to wrap half an onion, to wrap your sandwiches for work, or to keep a block of cheese fresh.
We use ready made beeswax blocks by Swizzle and Friends (available on amazon) to make ours as they already have jojoba oil and pine resin mixed in. These additions are essential to making a wrap. Jojoba oil gives an antibacterial quality to the wraps, and the pine resin ensures that they are sticky enough.
We have never tried to make our own beeswax blocks and so our method assumes that you will have all 3 necessary ingredients all mixed ready.
You will need:
Beeswax blocks
Material of your choice
Pinking shears
Old tin of baked beans or equivalent
Method:
1. Cut out material using pinking shears to ensure a nice finish.
The size really depends on what you plan to use them for. We would suggest cutting a mix of different sizes and seeing how you go. We have wraps around 30cm x 30cm and 22cm x 22cm in our kitchen. It doesn't matter if you cut too many squares - you can always make a second batch if they turn out well!
2. Preheat an oven to 100C.
3. Bring a small pan of water to the boil.
4. Whilst the water is coming to the boil, prepare a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper. Place your material on top of the paper.
5. Place one beeswax block in your old tin and place in the boiling water.
6. Once the block has melted, use an old brush to dip into the wax and brush over the material. Ensure that it is thoroughly covered before placing in the oven for 3 minutes.
7. Once the timer is up hang up your wrap to dry - this doesn't take long at all.
8. Repeat the process until all wax has gone.
When getting to the end of the melted block, instead of trying to cover a wrap with what little you have left, we have found it best to leave the wax to harden and keep the tin for your next batch of wraps. This saves finding that some wraps don't have coverage all over the material and having to restart.
One block should make roughly two large wraps and one small one, but this really depends on the material you are using, the type of brush and how much you use to coat each square.
We can't wait to see all your beeswax wraps replacing single use plastics, so please tag @rousties on instagram for us to see!
Until next time,
Sous Baker x
We're sorry it's been a while but it's been a busy few weeks in our household.
To celebrate the return of our blog, we have decided to share something a little different this week. It is still food related, but not a recipe. Have you guessed what it is yet?
Beeswax Wraps!
It is more important than ever to try and be kinder to the planet, and beeswax wraps are a great way to start.
We don't recommend using them for raw meats and fish, however they are great to wrap half an onion, to wrap your sandwiches for work, or to keep a block of cheese fresh.
We use ready made beeswax blocks by Swizzle and Friends (available on amazon) to make ours as they already have jojoba oil and pine resin mixed in. These additions are essential to making a wrap. Jojoba oil gives an antibacterial quality to the wraps, and the pine resin ensures that they are sticky enough.
We have never tried to make our own beeswax blocks and so our method assumes that you will have all 3 necessary ingredients all mixed ready.
You will need:
Beeswax blocks
Material of your choice
Pinking shears
Old tin of baked beans or equivalent
Method:
1. Cut out material using pinking shears to ensure a nice finish.
The size really depends on what you plan to use them for. We would suggest cutting a mix of different sizes and seeing how you go. We have wraps around 30cm x 30cm and 22cm x 22cm in our kitchen. It doesn't matter if you cut too many squares - you can always make a second batch if they turn out well!
2. Preheat an oven to 100C.
3. Bring a small pan of water to the boil.
4. Whilst the water is coming to the boil, prepare a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper. Place your material on top of the paper.
5. Place one beeswax block in your old tin and place in the boiling water.
6. Once the block has melted, use an old brush to dip into the wax and brush over the material. Ensure that it is thoroughly covered before placing in the oven for 3 minutes.
7. Once the timer is up hang up your wrap to dry - this doesn't take long at all.
8. Repeat the process until all wax has gone.
When getting to the end of the melted block, instead of trying to cover a wrap with what little you have left, we have found it best to leave the wax to harden and keep the tin for your next batch of wraps. This saves finding that some wraps don't have coverage all over the material and having to restart.
One block should make roughly two large wraps and one small one, but this really depends on the material you are using, the type of brush and how much you use to coat each square.
We can't wait to see all your beeswax wraps replacing single use plastics, so please tag @rousties on instagram for us to see!
Until next time,
Sous Baker x
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