First I rinsed my lovely fat duck in cold water to wash away blood and then I set to work removing all the fat but leaving all the meat using my butchery skills (I'm sure my former Chefs didn't have this in mind when teaching me butchery!). If you've never quartered poultry before let alone painstakingly removed just the fat, I don't recommend trying this without someone showing you how to do it first and testing yourself a few times on less precious chickens. I collected all of the fat into a pot and then portioned the remaining meat and cut up the carcass to save for making soup stock.
Then I put the fat on the stove on low heat for about 4 hours until the skin the fat was attached to was golden and crisp and any liquid not fat had been evapourated. Then I strained out the skin and bits and added the herbs, bird bits, and entheogens and let the fat mixture simmer on the lowest heat for another 3-4 hours. The smell of the flying ointment filled the whole house with the rich luscious scent of duck fat and balm of gilead - it should seriously be an air freshener scent! I can't even describe it to you, you'd have to smell it!
After this was ready I strained it twice, once through a medium sieve and once through a fine one. The fat from one duck renders down into about one and half cups of pure golden liquid. Then I added beeswax and portioned the Aves Salve into two ounce jars to set. Once left overnight I'll be able to label them and will list some in the Botanica "after" testing it out first to make sure it won't scare anyone (too much). With luck the effects will be mild but very useful. Entheogens which have been made fat-soluble have been shown to increase the production of melatonin in the pineal gland (the third eye), and create the most vivid waking "dreams" - in effect opening the door of your third eye while awake. I think the witches of old knew quite a bit more than they let on and modern scientists are just figuring this out
On modern witches salves from Witchcraft Medicine:
"despite the fact that none of the 'modern witches' themselves have any experience with the plants, they warn about the poisonous additives. In this literature, which is as superficial and empty as the elaborately fashionable themes of tantra and shamanism, it is considered trendy to brew 'modern flying ointments, guaranteed to be not poisonous.' The recipes are nothing more than ineffective rubbish."
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