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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • If you may ever feel an interest towards collecting your herbs, apple tree leaves are a tea that’s totally slept on.

    Oxidise/ ferment them like one would black tea by freezing them to burst open the cells. Then thaw them and roll them in your hands into little balls or cigars. With enough pressure so that water comes out (your hands will turn yellow from the juice). Then rest these balls for a few minutes under cover, roast them quickly in a pan (not until it smells toasty, just to lose some moisture quickly) and dry.




  • Recessive isn’t always bad. In fact, many (maybe all) genetic traits have a dominant and a recessive information.

    For example peas. Let’s say there is a gene for colour. The dominant variation of the colour gene carries the information “green”. Let’s call this gene c for colour. Then there is a recessive variation with the information yellow.

    We’ll write the dominant information as capital C and the recessive as lowercase c.

    Now there is a pea with the genetic information CC (one from each parent). That’s a green pea.

    Then there is one with Cc (father green, mother yellow). But you see the pea and it looks just like a green pea. Because the green gene C is dominant and the yellow c is recessive. You don’t know, that this is a mixed variety.

    If two seemingly green peas pollinate each other, but under the hood, they are Cc, then they might produce a cc yellow pea.

    For a lot of genetic information that’s not a problem, they are just different characteristics and not harmful.

    But if you have B = your blood coagulates normally, and b = your blood doesn’t thicken, you just bleed out and die when you have a paper cut…

    Then inheriting b from both of your parents is a terrible fate.

    This happened in the House of Saxe-Cobourg and other nobility in the 19th century.

    Edit: the last part is actually a bit more complicated, but the explanation of dominant and recessive still works.