Day 1: The Wizard and the Hopping Pot: Class 4

As today's tale was the Wizard and the Hopping Pot today's hands on class will be potions. As the first problem presented was warts, a wart-curing potion is in order. Please take out the following ingredients:

Wartcap powder
Nettles
Porcupine quills
Concentrated Dandelion juice
Vinegar
Dried toad skin
Dragon's blood
Fresh mooncalf cream

Take 2 grams dragon's blood and mix it with two tablespoons dandelion juice until it is reconstituted and a deep red brown. Let that sit while you slice the toad skin into thin strips. Next, being careful not to touch it, add 1/8 of a teaspoon of the wartcap powder to the dandelion juice. Set this aside to do the next step. Bring 1 cup of vinegar to a boil and add two stems fresh nettles. Keeping at a boil, drop in five porcupine quills and half of the toad skin strips. Simmer until a purple foam forms on the top. Skim off this foam and add it to the dandelion juice. Now comes a tricky part. Set the bowl of dandelion juice next to your cauldron of vinegar. Slowly add 1/2 a cup mooncalf milk to the dandelion juice. Stir both at the same time in opposite directions, the juice clockwise and the cauldron widdershins for three minutes. When three minutes are done, stop stirring and let settle. When settled, take the cauldron off the heat. Both mixtures should be a light lavendar. Take a spoonful of the vinegar and add it to the juice, stirring slowly. Take another spoonful and do the same. Repeat for ten more spoonfuls. After this, slowly pour the juice/vinegar back into the cauldron. Quickly add the remaining toad skins. Let sit for three minutes while you find a metal pan that is about two or three inches deep and can hold the whole mixture. Pour the mixture in the cauldron into the pan. As it touches the metal it will solidify into the consitancy of butter. To use, spread a goodly amount of this butter onto the afflicted area and bandage it in a soft cloth. Within three hours the warts will disappear. It is best stored in a metal lined glass container.

That is all. Please leave me a sample of your potion and exit the classroom.