8 out of 10 You did great on the test! You probably like to try everything new and unusual! I answered intuitively, learned a lot of new and useful things.::smile1::

For example Noni (Indian mulberry)
Fruitful evergreen trees grow in Southeast Asia, French Polynesia, Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam and New Zealand. A feature of these plants is that they often "settle" near the frozen lava of volcanoes, which has a beneficial effect on the nutritional value and usefulness of the fruit.
The fruit is rough with "eyes", yellow-green in color with a bitter taste and a specific smell reminiscent of the smell of cheese, because this fruit has another name - cheese fruit. They sing throughout the year, and are eaten raw, dried and boiled.
Or black corn
Healing properties of black corn

Due to its medicinal properties, black corn has been used in medicine for more than 7 thousand years: the tribes of Mochica, Quechua, and most consciously - during the Inca civilization.

There are many recipes for use that use all parts of black corn, grains and the cobs themselves.

1. The use of black corn decoction (chicha morada) for medicinal purposes.

2. Grains of black corn (in tinctures, ointments, compresses).

3. Grains of black corn in symbiosis with the fungus Ustilago (huitlacoche) (ointments, extracts, tinctures, lotions, compresses).

3.1. Black corn grains in symbiosis with Fusarium fungus (powder, ointment).

4. Shells of cobs (leaves of cobs) together with cobs (decoctions, steams, baths).

5. Inflorescences of black corn (decoctions, tinctures, baths).

6. Aerial roots of black corn.

The grain of black corn contains important and essential minerals for the body:

- potassium salts,

- calcium,

– magnesium,

- iron,

- phosphorus.
Its protein contains the essential amino acids lysine and tiptophan.
Corn is rich in vitamins E, B, PP and ascorbic acid.
Few people know that black corn is one of the richest sources of vitamin K, which is so necessary for the normal functioning of the heart and blood vessels in the rarefied air of the Andean mountains.
Black corn has a cleansing effect on the body:

- it is able to remove toxins, radionuclides, cleanse the body of harmful substances - toxins accumulated in the cells,

- Corn on the cob can protect against cancer, heart disease and aging.

In addition, black corn:

- removes excess cholesterol from the body,

- helps to cope with stress and insomnia,

- and also prevents premature aging of the body.
Corn helps the growing body to gain body weight and supplies it with vitamins and microelements. Corn is rich in vitamins B1, B2, PP, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron, as well as trace elements (copper and nickel), which makes it possible to recommend corn products to anyone with allergies, diabetes, obesity and other forms of metabolic disorders, gastrointestinal pathology. -intestinal tract.
Black corn is rich in carbohydrates that help normalize and stabilize blood sugar levels. They are also necessary for the nutrition of nerve cells, so corn is very useful for those suffering from diseases of the central nervous system (including epilepsy and polio).
Corn is also an excellent food for muscles, therefore, with progressive muscular dystrophy, it is also indispensable.
And this is all true. In ordinary corn, everything is healing - grains, cobs, corn stigmas, leaves.
But black corn was created by someone not just as a health food, it was created as a medicine.

Play dough (not edible)

Modeling dough

Salt Dough Recipe #1:
We will need:
500 g of wheat flour, it is better, of course, to take premium flour,
200 ml cold water
200 g of salt of the finest grinding.
The dough prepared according to this recipe is very convenient because all the components included in the dough are edible. Therefore, even if your little creator decides to taste his product, you don’t have to worry.

Recipe #2:
There is another recipe for making salt dough for modeling.
Here the test includes:
200 g wheat flour of the highest grade,
200 g finely ground salt,
200 ml water
2 tablespoons of paper wallpaper glue, you can add PVA.

How to knead dough for modeling?
Do not think that if you now know the composition of the modeling dough, then this is enough for further work. You also need to know how to knead the dough for modeling. The correct kneading of the dough also plays a very important role in its quality.

First, in the bowl in which you will knead the dough, you need to pour salt, then pour it with water and stir until the salt is completely dissolved. Only then, stirring constantly, you need to add flour. You need to knead such a dough until it becomes soft and elastic. The dough should not stick to your hands.

How to knead dough for modeling
After kneading the dough, you can proceed to the most pleasant - modeling. Moreover, from this material you can sculpt everything that your heart desires, from simple uncomplicated figures to figurines and even paintings.

After finishing work, she needs to be allowed to dry, but it is better, of course, to place her in the oven for firing. After this stage, you can start the creative process - coloring the work. Some masters, however, prefer to immediately sculpt from multi-colored dough. In order to give the dough the desired color, you can use both food coloring and ordinary gouache, which is added directly in the process of kneading the dough.

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There are many recipes for salt dough.

Recipe 1.

For simple figurines:

200 g flour, 200 g salt 125 ml water.

Recipe 2.

Delicate salty dough for filigree processing (small parts and products up to 300-400 g):

200 g flour, 200 g salt, 100 g potato starch, 150 ml water.

Recipe 3.

Hard salt dough for rough figures:

200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water

Recipe 4.

Classic recipe:

1) 150 g of water + 1 tbsp. mix simple wallpaper glue, let the glue dissolve well;

2) 200 g flour + 200 g fine salt + 2 tbsp (with top) potato starch mixed separately;

3) combine everything + 2 tbsp. rast. oils.

Recipe 5.

Also classic.

Pour 1 cup of fine salt and 1 cup of flour into a bowl, mix. Then pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and half a glass of water, mix with a spoon and knead with your hands until smooth in the same way as regular dough. Water can be replaced with starch jelly, then the mass will be much more plastic. Kissel is done like this: dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in 1/2 cup of cold water. Heat 1 cup of water in a small saucepan until boiling. Pour the starch solution into the boiling water, stirring. When the contents of the pan thicken and become transparent, turn off the heat. Let the jelly cool and pour it into the flour and salt mixture instead of water.

Recipe 6.

200 g wheat flour
100 g salt
2 teaspoons cream
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
300 ml. water
Mix flour, salt, cream and butter in a saucepan. Pour in water and mix thoroughly, avoiding lumps.
Place the saucepan over low heat and stir constantly. At first, the dough will be liquid, then it will immediately begin to thicken. Continue stirring until completely thickened.
Remove the dough from the heat and with a wooden spoon, transfer it to a smooth surface.
Let the dough cool. Knead the dough until it is soft and moldable and holds its shape well.

Recipe 7.

For large models (like plates or ceramic tiles):

200 g flour, 400 g salt, 125 ml water, 2 tablespoons wallpaper paste

Recipe 8.

For particularly durable products.

THE BEST RECIPE!!! There will be no problems with the product at all! This is the recipe of the master from the Arbat (unfortunately I don’t know the details).

Instead of water and glue, add bustilat (it is liquid).
1 cup fine salt, 1 cup flour - mix. Add bustilat until the dough is kneaded! No water and no flour added during the kneading process!

With the use of bustilat, toys do not get damp, do not deform during firing, do not break when falling - they become stone! Dry on a very low heat in a semi-open oven.

I took "Bustilat-3", it is even thicker than sour cream, like pudding, so it is difficult to knead the dough, but the result is simply wonderful!!! It cannot be compared with anything - neither with wallpaper glue, nor with PVA, etc. It costs 25 UAH. - 1.3 kg in a plastic jar.

Since I tried this recipe, I have not used any others!

Recipe 9.

Dough for air drying, not in the oven:

200 g flour, 200 g salt, 2 tablespoons wallpaper paste, 125 ml water.

Recipe 10.

Air-drying or oven-drying dough that makes waterproof, unbreakable products:

1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup vinyl glue, 1 tablespoon melted Vaseline, 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Mix everything in a Teflon bowl over low heat and stir. As evenly mixed, cool slightly and you can sculpt. Dry in the oven at a temperature of 50-60 degrees with the door ajar, if on gas. If an electric oven, then 75 degrees, the door can not be opened. Not in the microwave! It is better to put silver foil on the pallet, because the black surface gives off heat more strongly and the figure may crack. The slower it dries, the safer it will not crack. In the end, you can give 200 degrees, then the protruding parts will be baked and brown, this effect is aesthetic. If you do not have the opportunity to burn your product in the oven, please be patient. On the battery or in the sun, products (especially large ones) will dry out no earlier than in a week. After firing or drying, dough products can be painted and varnished. For coloring, you can take acrylic paints, but it is best to use artistic gouache, in which a little PVA glue is added. After drying, this mixture is slightly shiny and does not stain hands. For lacquering, use acrylic lacquer. It is water soluble, non-toxic and dries in 6-8 hours. You can also add dye to the dough itself when it is cooked, cocoa, for example, or turmeric.

Salt will not completely dissolve in water, its grains will be felt in the dough and shine in the product. Therefore, do not try to dissolve the salt, mix it with flour, and then knead the dough by adding water or bustilat. Any salt is taken, although more often - coarse grinding.

If the dough is too soft, then proceed as follows: mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of salt at the bottom of the bowl. Press the ball of dough into this mixture and then knead it. Do this until the dough becomes more dense. Put the resulting mass in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After that, you can sculpt from the dough. If after modeling you still have dough left, then store it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag.

In the open air, the drying time depends on the thickness and volume of work and can be up to several weeks. Outdoor drying is best done at room temperature. Remember: the thicker the product, the more time it will take. It is recommended to turn the product over to dry evenly, but if it has a convex volumetric ornament, then this is not possible. To dry the bottom at the same time as the top, dry the product on a metal mesh.

In the oven (gas or electric stove).

Dry the craft first in the open air (2-3 days), then in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees, gradually raising the temperature, but not higher than 150 degrees. At too high a temperature, the product may swell, sometimes even cracks appear. Swollen crafts cannot be fixed, and cracks are easy to cover up. To do this, dilute a little PVA glue, mix well and apply this mass to the crack, then rub this mixture.
To be honest, I can’t dry products in the oven of my gas stove without deformation (((I dry in the air and use this excellent device

Drying time in the electric stove oven:

1 hour - at 50 degrees,
1-2 hours at 75 degrees,
1 hour - at 100 - 125 degrees,
0.5 hours - at 150 degrees.

Advice. Cover a baking sheet with food foil, put salted dough figures on it and place in the oven to dry. To check whether the figures have dried out well, you need to tap them with your finger. If the sound is muffled, then you still need to dry it, and if it is sonorous, then it means that the dough has dried out. Uniformly dried products are monophonic without "raw" spots.

On the heating battery.

This method is convenient to use in winter, when the central heating radiators are well heated. Put the craft on foil or cloth and leave it on the battery until it dries completely.

To keep the crafts well, after they are dried and painted, cover them with a transparent liquid varnish. This will reliably protect them from moisture. If you don't like mirror shine, then use a matte varnish.

You can sculpt from plasticine, sand, clay, gypsum, wax. But the safest material is dough. It is malleable, plastic, soft. It is a pleasure to work with him. And how children like to create from dough! Therefore, in today's issue - salt dough, recipes, tips, riddles and much more.

little stars

On the basis of the Gomel City Social and Pedagogical Center, a master class on salt dough modeling was held as part of the II Open Festival of Children's Folklore Groups "Holy Kalyadnaya Zorki". Boys and girls from three to six years old showed considerable interest in this type of creativity. For them, it was like magic: the dough suddenly turned into a bright star, and she smiled. The kids tried: they puffed, groaned, opened their mouths, their eyebrows jumped, their eyes shone.

So, for mothers, teachers and all caring craftsmen, I recommend doing salt dough modeling with children. The lesson is useful, firstly, for the development of hand motor skills, logical thinking and creative abilities, and secondly, it helps the child to see the world around him with different eyes. Tell the children a story about testoplasty, ask riddles, arrange games.

Mukasolka

Our ancestors were also involved in molding from dough (flour salt, testoplasty): they sculpted figurines of birds and animals with which they met spring; bagels, gingerbread roes, which were presented to relatives and friends on New Year's Eve and Christmas, for birthdays as a sign of love and respect; figurines were presented at the wedding with the wishes of health, prosperity, wealth and good luck.

The dough is elastic, pliable, does not get your hands dirty and, most importantly, natural and therefore safe. For children who taste everything, they knead edible dough. However, PVA glue can be added to it, then the product will be stronger and dry faster. You just have to keep an eye on both eyes so that little gourmets do not eat the dough.

Plastic mass is easy to prepare. Main ingredients: flour, salt, water - everything that any housewife can find. It is easier to sculpt from dough than from plasticine. For work, they use forms for baking cookies, a knife, a rolling pin, skewers, cocktail tubes and other items that may be in the kitchen. If there is dough left, put it in the refrigerator in an airtight package.

Finished figures are dried in different ways. According to Victoria Lipen, a teacher who conducted a master class for kids in a social and pedagogical center, it is better to dry in a natural way: in air at room temperature. This method is the most energy efficient. You can, of course, use an electric and gas oven. But there are some nuances here.

Even the color of the baking sheet matters: light reflects heat, which significantly increases the drying time. Immediately put the product in a cold oven. Drying in a gas cabinet is twice as fast as in an electric one. If you start drying the craft with the door closed, then bubbles will appear on its surface, which cannot be removed.

After drying, the product can be painted with gouache or any other paints. For a more saturated color, paint in two or more layers. If desired, the craft is varnished, but only after the paint has dried.

Recipes

#1 Edible

Wheat flour of the highest grade - 500 g

Water (necessarily cold) - 200 ml

Salt "Extra" - 200 g

No. 2. Inedible

Premium flour - 2 parts

Water (cold) - 1 part

Salt "Extra" - 1 part

PVA glue - 1 teaspoon

Games

Children love their mother's pastries and are always curious about how the dough is prepared. Reveal this secret for them and let them touch this magic themselves. Let the acquaintance with the test for kids become an exciting game.

Rolling and pressing

Most likely, the little master will want to roll out the dough. Don't deprive him of that opportunity. Let him try to roll out the cake with his toy rolling pin, then a real kitchen one. Tell your child that his tortilla can turn into a cake or pizza if you decorate it. Make it simple. Let the cook press pasta, beans, counting sticks, small toys, lids into the dough.

Patterns on the test

Prepare various molds for the baby, Lego, curly rolling pins for printing. Show that on the test, as in a sandbox, you can draw patterns by pressing and taking away objects, make palm and finger prints.

Koloboks in a bowl

Invite the child to roll up the koloboks, put them in a bowl, count, transfer to another bowl.

Surprises and finds

This game is my favorite. Only the kid himself prepares a surprise. Let him put any object or toy on one cake, cover the other. Show how to pinch the edges. Then uncover the secret together.

INTERESTING

● According to legend, in ancient times, Christmas decorations were made from ordinary dough, to which a large amount of salt was added - so that the finished product would not be eaten by mice or insects.

● In Russia, on New Year's Eve, it was customary to give figurines made of salt dough - "hospice" - as a sign of well-being, fertility, and satiety.

● Dough paintings are popular in Eastern European countries. They are not painted, and they have a characteristic baking color.

● In Scandinavia and Germany, salt dough is used to make horseshoes, medallions, rings, wreaths and other souvenirs that are hung in windows and fastened to doors to attract good luck.