Thread: Instant Lucid dreaming?

Originally Posted by Placebo

Yup, I think glazed ginger is about the same thing as your crystalized one. Although it's not hard enough to break a tooth on! lol
I'll get my hands on some this weekend.

Here's a recipe I just found on the internet for making your own crystallized or glazed ginger root that really comes out good. You will want to scroll down to the candied ginger section, but this should be a lot cheaper than the crystallized or glazed ginger root you would buy in a health food store, plus much fresher, and with less sugar.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Candied.html

The only thing I would change in the recipe is to let it simmer for more like 2 hours than just 20 minutes so that the ginger root is more tender, and to possibly use more than one cup of sliced ginger root. I think I used more like 1 1/2 cups because I just filled it up until it was full. I just made a batch and it tastes good without even sprinkling the extra sugar on it. It's really good right out of the pot, but make sure you don't burn your tongue like I just did.

I wish I would have found a recipe like this earlier before I started experimenting with making it with corn syrup, but the last time I searched for recipes all I came up with was recipes that took 2 or 3 days to make.

This is how things usually work for me. If I try to be helpful to someone else, I end up helping myself. Thanks Placebo.

Cool, I'll definitely try that. I choked a bit on the price of glazed ginger. Probably the wrong choice of shop, but I'll try this recipe first.
And pleasure

Well, this ginger root thing just keeps getting better. A friend of mine at work mentioned to me the other day that he had bought some ginger ale at the store last week...click....

Ginger Ale? I hadn't even considered Ginger Ale, but had been wanting some kind of homeade soft drink I could make.

So I began googling for homemade recipes for Ginger Ale, and here is a really good one that I came up with:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...9936_7,00.html

With this recipe a person heats up the ginger, sugar, and water, then strains the ginger syrup to make ginger ale from. They then take the ginger pieces and coat them with sugar to make ginger candy. Easy to do, and you end up with two great ginger products instead of just one.

The main change I would made in this recipe is that I used 3 cups of sliced ginger instead of 2, and I let the ginger simmer for 3 hours in the sugar/water mixture in a large pot. I then just coated the ginger slices with sugar and let them sit out instead of baking them for 3 hours.

Not only did the ginger candy come out great but the homeade Ginger Ale is delicious, although you will need to buy a bottle of soda a water to mix with the ginger syrup.

And what does all of this have to do with Instant Lucid Dreaming. Not much, other than if you want to maintain an unusual sleep schedule like Placebo does to encourange lucid dreaming, you need to keep your immune system strong, and ginger is the best way that I know to keep the immune system strong and healthy.

Cool!

BTW, I've been pumping myself with stuff, including ginger.
And I've definitely made a good come-back, despite a sudden cold snap.
It's either the ginger or the olive leaf extract .. or both.
Thanks for the recipes

PS: Damn it was difficult to find ginger around here. Wierd.

Just a note of thanks, again, for the ginger recipe(s).
My immune system is pretty much bulletproof now, combined with all the other stuff I used.

The main difference I made to the recipe is a LOT more boiling, and draining/boiling again.
The syrup is good with a splash of lemon and water.

Originally Posted by Placebo

Just a note of thanks, again, for the ginger recipe(s).
My immune system is pretty much bulletproof now, combined with all the other stuff I used.

The main difference I made to the recipe is a LOT more boiling, and draining/boiling again.
The syrup is good with a splash of lemon and water.

You're welcome. I've almost perfected my ginger recipe now also. I make a giant dose, enough to last all week long by mixing 3 cups of water with 3 cups of sugar and about 5 cups of ginger in a large pot, and then let it boil all day long until the syrup is almost gone, at which point I just strain out the syrup that is left to use in mixing with carbonated water to make ginger ale with. After boiling that long the ginger is not only tender but has so much of the syrup boiled into it that it doesn't need to be dried out in the over or need any other sugar added to it, so I just lay it out on a pan to dry.

Isn't it still too potent like that? I was planning on draining the water and boiling it again