Cook-A-Long with Brooke-A-Long: Edition 7

Over the coming months, Cook-A-Long is going to feature some basic recipes to help you replace some of the day to day items we use all the time - yoghurt, nut butters, sauces etc.

We're going to start a little differently though, with washing powder.  I've been using this now for about 2 months since a friend sent the recipe on and it's fabulous.  You can only make one batch at a time, so I just do several batches one after another and fill my tub.

I use white vinegar as my fabric conditioner, with a drop of lavender oil and a drop of eucalyptus oil.  Smells fabulous, works really well at removing stains and is a bundle cheaper. 

As always with Cook-A-Long, I really encourage you just to give it a go and see what you think.  Let me know if you try it out!

Thermomix Washing Powder

(Forum Thermomix)

Ingredients:

1 bar Sunlight/Velvet soap - roughly chopped

1 bar Sard Wonder soap (or other stain removing soap) - roughly chopped

200g Borax

315g Washing Soda

Method:

1.  Blitz soap for 5 seconds on speed 7.

2.  Add borax & soda and mix together for 10-20 seconds on speed 7.

Use 2 tablespoons full per load of washing.  Wash TM bowl well, then wash it again - just to be sure!

In terms of cost, it's about $5.50 per batch.  For our family, it's cheaper than what we were buying and is lasting much longer.