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vanilla-cigarillos · 1 year
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Mayapple Jelly Recipe
Here’s another Appalachian granny recipe to fuel your tastebuds! Make sure to check out my post on the Mayapple in my Herbalism section for information about this plant.
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Mayapples have a very unique flavor! Most people describe them as tasting like a mix of grape and pear, with a slight citrus hint. The fully ripe fruit can be used in marmalades, jellies, and drinks, but the rest of the plant and unripe fruit is poisonous. Ripe mayapples will be soft to the touch. The skin can become slightly wrinkled (think prune-y!) and it will have a strong odor that rubs off on your fingers (and attracts raccoons/opossums).
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Ingredients:
2 cups mayapple slices
3 cups water
1/8 cup lemon juice
3  1/2 cups sugar
3 ounces liquid fruit pectin
Instructions:
Wash ripe mayapples, then cut away stem and blossom ends, and any waste parts. Remove seeds. Cut fruit into pieces and place in large kettle with water to cover.
Bring to a boil, then simmer until fruit is tender, mashing during cooking.
Strain juice through cheesecloth (should result in at least 1  3/4 cups mayapple juice). Add lemon juice and sugar to strained juice. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring constantly as you stir in the liquid fruit pectin.
Continue to boil and stir constantly until “jelly stage” is reached (220 F, or dip a spoon into boiling mixture and let it run off side of spoon. 
When it separates into two distinct drops that run together into “sheet” off edge of spoon, it is finished and should be taken off heat.)
Remove jelly from heat, skim foam from top, and pour into hot, sterilized jelly glasses. Seal at once with lid, and process jars in hot water bath.
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kitchenwitchtingss · 9 months
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50 KITCHEN WITCH TIPS TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WITCHY
(And other useful things I've learned over the years)
Hi! This is a list of dos, don'ts, tips, tricks, and other fun things that I've learned over the years. I always love finding more effective and efficient ways of doing things so if you have any cool things you'd like to add, leave them in the comments or reblog. I'd love to read it.
Anyways... On with the list ^_^
Light candles around your kitchen space (just make sure nothing flammable is near you)
Annotate your cookbooks with the correspondence of the ingredients.
Mediating is really good to calm the mind before cooking.
Cut oranges and lemons thinly, dry them, and hang them with twine around your kitchen
Need a cleansing tip? Open all your windows near your kitchen. Let some fresh air in.
Cutting sigils into apples, pie crusts, and carved potatoes.
Save lemon and orange rinds, freeze them, and then use them to clean the garbage disposal.
Make infused oils and honey: Things like garlic honey, lavender honey, herb oil, sun oil, moon oil, dandelion oil, and other different edible oils are very fun and useful to make.
Hid sigils in pages of your cookbooks and kitchen witch journals.
Add some plants! Snake plants and spider plants don't need too much light, and growing your own herbs in your kitchen is awesome too. Basil, lavender, thyme, aloe vera, rosemary, etc. are good fits. You could also add some plants that require more sunlight on the kitchen window sill. Like cacti and succulents.
Bring crystals into your kitchen space such as rose quartz, clear quartz, amethyst, or whatever you want the space's intentions to be.
I keep a small money tree on the sill, along with cacti for luck and protection.
Make a simmer Pot! Mostly because it makes the whole house smell good, easy, and fun.
Stir clockwise for best results!
Learning how to pickle things is actually pretty witchy. Plus, anyone could do it as it requires absolutely no kitchen experience. You could pickle any vegetable, even if you don't like pickles. I originally learned this after having to take shelter from a natural disaster. A person brought a bunch of stuff and taught us how to pickle things with different spices and herbs. Very fun!
Decorate your kitchen with your favorite stuff. Crystals, decor, heat mits, that cool mushroom cake stand you've been eyeing at the World Market for the past 2 weeks, cool looking curtains, sun catchers. Why stop there? Paint the walls, hang shelves full of marked-up cookbooks that are a little too well-loved and thumbed through.
Wanna be the person that has the amazing-smelling house every time people come over? Syrups take some time to simmer down, it's actually a pretty good time to leave it on the stove to simmer. Since syrups have a lot of aromatic ingredients, it acts as a really good-smelling simmer pot.
Hang up herbs to dry with twine from cabinets that are rarely used.
Invest in that new set of plates and cups.
Homemade jams, butter, sauces, and syrups are your best friend.
Crochet or knit your own dish rags, pot holders, etc.
Don't pour extremely hot things into a glass that's not Pyrex, it will break, and you will be very sad about it.
Don't cook anything while extremely upset or emotional (For safety reasons)
Make recipes you want to make, not just because you'll like the effect. Make it because you think it's tasty.
Chinese Five Spice works in place of herbs for protection and luck spells a lot of the time! It's cheaper to buy 1 spice than 4 different spices that total up to 15 dollars when you could just spend 3-4 dollars.
Take a shower before cooking (I don't know how to explain this one other than it makes you feel better)
Don't use microfiber/plastic material clothes on hot burners, it will fuse to the burner and melt. It is VERY hard to get off.
I don't know if I need to put this one but I did see someone do it so nonstick pan = wooden utensils and plastic utensils, metal pan = metal utensils. Do not use a metal spoon in a nonstick pan, please. It can make you very sick.
Keep your pets away from hot oil, open ovens, and hot pans.
You can proof bread dough in the fridge overnight if you don't have the time to bake, or want to eat fresh bread right in the morning.
Need a quick witchy meal for dinner in 12 minutes? Use premade tomato pasta sauce and doctor it up with thyme, rosemary, and garlic, for protection and distilling stagnant energies. Serve with pasta of your liking.
You can substitute Butter for Crisco/shortening, buttermilk for 1 cup of milk + 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, and heavy cream for 1 cup of half and half plus 2 tbsp of butter.
Use leftover animal bones to make bone broth
Teach yourself the art of bread scoring (It's fun, and you can show it off to your loved ones!)
Collect and hoard your own and others' family recipes.
Sometimes the food doesn't have to be a spell, sometimes it just makes you feel good and you don't know why.
Listen to your favorite music in the kitchen, it makes the monotonous things like chopping veggies move faster.
Invest in a vegetable chopper if you don't like chopping vegetables.
Find a really good hot cocoa recipe and make it once a week. Master it. Just for your own happiness because hot cocoa is really good. You could also be the friend/family member that makes the best hot cocoa ever.
Focaccia Bread Lasts a very long time, and it's very easy to make!
Keep a first aid kit near where the oven is, in case of burns, cuts, or serious injuries where time is everything.
Quick Bread and no-rise loaves are simple for beginners, tasty, and take little time. They also feel very witchy to make.
Study a bit of Herbalism! It's fun and really helps better understand the herbs you're putting into your food.
While something is boiling, put your wooden spoon over the pot to minimize the chance of something boiling over.
Try a bit of coffee magick, it's simple to get into, and gives you a boost of energy to take on the day!
If you're over 21, wine-making is a very interesting way to celebrate the sabbats. Just with that, make sure you KNOW what you're doing. With anything fermented, there's always a risk if you don't store things correctly. Apple wines, strawberry wines, dandelion wines, etc. all very cool to experiment with. If you're not over 21, vinegar is a similar way to experiment.
Hang up some witchy things, sigils, photos, cool magnets, and other things that give you joy on your fridge. (Sometimes if you are lucky they have some fun magnets at five below)
If you live in the US, for some reason, there are a lot of books in the book section dedicated to witchcraft and spirituality. At least where I live. And they are all under 5 dollars!
Teas are the cheapest and easiest things you can practice being a kitchen witch.
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ts-witchy-archive · 6 months
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What is a road opener spell?
Something that really confused me as a beginner witch was 'road opener' spells. I heard people talk about these spells all the time but I had a hard time actually understanding what it meant until I did one myself. Because of that I decided to put together a little guide for all things 'road opener'. I hope this helps!
What does 'road opener' even mean?
Road opener is a type of spell to open the person up to new opportunities and to remove any blocks stopping them from obtaining those opportunities. These spells are great if you're feeling stuck. You don't have to have an opportunity in mind, you might just feel like everything is stagnant and you want things to start moving again.
What goes into a road opener spell?
Generally, these spells have 2 parts/aspects to them; removing barriers and negative energy and bringing in prosperity and new opportunities. You can do these together or seperate them into a 2 part spell, it all depend what you feel like. road opener is like a fancy name for a banishing spell mixed with a prosperity spell.
An example of a road opener spell:
Candle Spell:
A white, green or black candle (green for prosperity and growth, white as a replacement or to symbolise a fresh start or black to remove any negative energy or blocks) Black salt (to remove any negative energies or obstacles from your path) A bay leaf (for prosperity and wealth. write your intention on the leaf) A sigil with your intention cinnamon (represents wealth) cloves (protection and wealth) basil (protection and wealth) an anointing oil (note: optional) something to carve into the candle with (a sharp pencil, scissors, a paper clip, etc) a heat proof dish and candle holder Method: 1. Cleanse yourself, your work space and tools
2. Create your sigil. I like to use the intention 'All obstacles are removed from my path' or ' nothing stands in the way of my success' but it's completely up to you
3. Carve your sigil into your candle.
4. Write your intention on the bay leaf then place the candle on top of the leaf
5. Mix the remaining herbs together (except the black salt) and sprinkle them in a ring around your candle. If you wish to anoint your candle and roll it in herbs instead, this is the time to do so.
6. Place the black salt in a circle around the herbs and candle. This is to represent the banishment of any negative outside energies or to just get rid of anything that doesn't serve you anymore. You don't have to put it in a circle, it just works for me.
7. Watch the candle burn and focus your intention.
Notes: there are 1000s of ways to do this spell with all the ingredients I listed. If this spell doesn't feel right to you, don't do it or change it. It is only an example.
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whimsigothwitch · 7 months
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Mabon apple pie recipe
In celebration of Mabon next week, I am sharing my favorite apple pie recipe. I chose to share this a week in advance so that those who want to make it can prepare the ingredients. All ingredients can be plant-based, for those who are vegan the egg is not necessary (you may need to add a little more butter)
Witchy tips during baking:
Mix clockwise and say your intentions for the cake out loud, this could be "I welcome abundance into my life with open arms.", "I embrace the blessings of the harvest and celebrate the abundance it brings." or if you plan to share the pie with friends and family: "May this pie nurture the bonds of love and friendship among us."
When you sprinkle the spices into the cake, do this clockwise and say each correspondence out loud as you do this: Cinnamon: for love, and warmth Cardamom: for attraction and harmony Nutmeg: for prosperity and luck
Carve sigils of choice in the bottom of the pie before adding the filling.
Ingredients For the dough: 500 grams plain flour 1 sachet (15 grams) baking powder 150 grams of white caster sugar 50 grams of light brown caster sugar 150 grams of melted butter 1 egg Pinch of cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg
For the filling: 1-1.5 kilos of apples 100 grams soaked and patted dry raisins (optional!) 1 tablespoon cinnamon (or more, until all apples are nicely coated)
To brush the dough before it goes into the oven: To give the cake a beautiful golden color, I recommend brushing the cake with 1 beaten egg OR a dash of milk of your choice before putting it in the oven.
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celcius (374 F)
Peel and cut the apples into wedges, sprinkle with the cinnamon and the raisins that you have pre-soaked and patted dry.
Mix all the ingredients for the dough together until it becomes a crumbly dough (it should be able to stick together and not be too dry, if this is the case I recommend adding more butter to the dough!)
Grease a baking tin with butter or oil and line the bottom with baking paper.
Divide the prepared dough into 3 parts, and put 1 part over the bottom. Press this with your hands or a spoon with a little flour on it so that the dough does not stick.
Then take 1 more part of the divided dough and press it onto the edges around the baking tin. You can roll this out with a rolling pin and cut it to size, I think this takes too long so I just press the dough along the edges (about 0.5 cm thick)
Put the apple filling in the pie and spread it evenly.
Sprinkle the last remaining part of the made dough over the pie to get an apple crumble pie, if you want a lattice top: make a ball of the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin. Cut strips from the dough that are 1.5 cm wide and long enough to cover the pie. If you are making a lattice top, brush it with egg OR milk of your choice to give it a nice golden glow. If you have a crumb top this is not necessary.
Bake the pie for 40-50 minutes, but keep an eye on the pie because every oven is different! You know the pie is ready when you insert a toothpick or skewer into it and the apples can be pierced and the dough does not remain wet around the stick.
Let the pie cool down for fifteen minutes before removing it from the baking tin.
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alchemisoul · 1 year
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"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
- Carl Sagan, excerpt from the 11th epsidode of Cosmos ("The Persistence of Memory")
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moonkissedmeli · 5 months
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Enjoy <3
ps. this is something i would offer to agriculture and chthonic deities.
@fiddlysticks recommends toasting walnuts first. Let's all try this!!! I think they're right on the flavor being amazing from toasting them.
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this-possum-cries · 1 year
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Quincy's Golden Milk Tea
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casp1an · 7 months
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Hot take? Maybe yes. Maybe not.
YOU DON'T NEED EXPENSIVE TOOLS, HERBS, ETC FOR WITCHCRAFT!!!!!
in my personal opinion witchcraft doesn't have to be fancy! It can even just be you hoping and manifesting for a good day, for money, for better health, etc! Of course you can make it fancy if you you need to! I've seen some people use fancy materials when working with deitys because they feel it's more respectful and I RESPECT YOU FOR THAT!!
Witchcraft is about you and how you experience it, work with it, etc. It's YOUR craft! Don't let others fancy dancy stuff make you wish you had better. You are good and your tools and materials are good enough!
Much love :D ❤❤
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samwisethewitch · 1 year
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Mushroom Broth Recipe
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There's a pretty simple backstory here: I wanted to make soup, but when I went to buy groceries the store was out of both vegetable broth and bouillon, but had mushrooms on sale. I did some Internet searching and learned that making your own broth is pretty simple and easy, so I decided to try making my own mushroom broth to use as a substitute for vegetable broth in my recipes.
In my Internet searching, I also learned the actual difference between a broth and a stock. Although most people use the words interchangeably, stock is traditionally made from bones, while broth is made with meat and/or vegetables. This is kind of fun, because it means that "bone broth" is actually, by definition, bone stock, and "vegetable stock" doesn't exist.
This recipe is my own creation but it's very, very flexible. You can swap out the vegetables and herbs to suit your own tastes. If you wanted to, you could switch the brown mushrooms for a trendier medicinal mushroom, like reishi or chaga, or for whatever your grocery store has. You could also use the same method to make other homemade broths, like vegetable broth or chicken broth.
Ingredients:
One carton of brown mushrooms (these are sometimes labeled baby bella mushrooms or crimini mushrooms)
One onion, roughly chopped
[optional] One cup of dry white wine (I used chardonnay)
8 cups water
Dried thyme, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste
Garlic powder, to taste
Olive oil or another cooking oil
Recipe:
Saute the mushrooms in olive oil over medium heat for 10 minutes.
While the mushrooms are cooking, go ahead and chop the onion. I like to leave the skin on when I'm making broth (it adds a really nice color), but you can remove it if you want.
Add the onions to the pan, and saute for another 10 minutes (or 20 minutes if you decide to skip the next step).
Add your white wine, stir everything together and let it simmer for (you guessed it!) another 10 minutes to let the alcohol cook off.
Add 8 cups of water to the pot with your mushrooms. Add the thyme, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Turn the heat up to high.
When the water comes to a boil, turn the heat down to low and cover the pot with a lid. Let simmer for at least 2 hours.
When your broth is done simmering, use a sieve to strain out the mushroom and onion chunks and transfer the liquid to a clean container. Store the container in the fridge and use it in the same ways you would use vegetable, chicken, or beef broth when cooking.
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whoopseydaisy · 4 months
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The Overflowing Heart
I will tell you how I made this witch’s token, but you will have to find a way of your own. It is as Grandmother Wren told us,
“Remember always that some portion of magic is yours to wield, and that the world contains many, many truths.”
the recipe:
3/4 oz Kazuki gin
1 1/2 oz. Sake + tea mixture
1 oz. fresh squeezed grapefruit
3/4 oz. Strega
shake over ice, and serve in your finest or favourite tea cup
garnish with dried rose petals
notes:
Sherringham Kazuki gin— a collaboration of one of my favourite distilleries and my favourite local tea shop, Westholme Tea Farm. Made from Japanese cherry blossoms, and locally grown tea leaves with notes of yuzu, grapefruit, and juniper. I first visited Sherringham in a trio of my own, on a day long adventure, visiting a beach someway up the island. Westholme is run by an old coworker of my Aunt’s, and his partner who makes gorgeous pottery. I could not put words to my excitement when I first heard whispers of their collaboration.
Sake + Tea Mixture— I can never fully recreate this just the same. There is magic in that, I think. I have little left. I made it by taking a sprinkling of the following teas from Westholme, and cold steeping them in a mason jar with a large ice cube, topped with sake and a splash of moon bathed witch water.
featuring:
Blossom: (jasmine green, floral), for the cottage’s calendar
Bi Luo Chun: (green, delicate and earthy), for i thought it was grown here, over seven long years (I rolled a nat 1 on my perception check)
Pur-eh: (fermented, earthy), for its mushroominess and it’s connection therin
Dog: (black assam, vanilla and cardamon, from the Chinese Zodic series), the cardamom pod and a few leaves, for our beloved Fox
Witch Water: the witch water used in this potion was bathed in the Friday, October 13th New Moon (a day so witchy I thought for sure the class would be released that day!) in an empty kazuki gin vessel
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Grapefruit— because it was pink and in season and a citrus I love dearly
Strega— the witch liqueur! According to legend, Giuseppe Alberti was given the recipe for this elixir after saving a witch falling out of the sacred walnut tree, under which witches would convene to dance and perform their rituals.
for the cocktail chapter of the @worldsbeyondpod unofficial cookbook
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grandmawitch · 1 year
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✨My mom’s super simple secret potato soup recipe (only a secret from my dad who HATES gravy)✨
•One large sweet onion, diced
•3-4 carrots, thinly sliced
•3 celery ribs, thinly sliced
•3-4 potatoes, diced (or as many as you like, this soup can make a little or a lot. Follow your heart.)
•2 Tbsp butter
•1 Tbsp dried basil
•Knorr powdered broth (vegetable or chicken)
•salt & pepper
•1 package of pepper gravy mix, whisked up with 1.5 cups of water in a separate bowl (my mom’s secret thickener 🙏🤣)
Melt butter over medium heat in a large soup pot or Dutch oven and add the onion, carrots, celery, and potatoes.
Stir and get everything nice and coated in butter and let it cook for about 5 minutes.
Use a measuring cup to add water until the vegetables are covered by a good inch, keep track of about how much water you used so you can add the proportional amount of broth powder once it is boiling (one tsp powder to one cup water).
Turn soup up to medium high heat and when it starts to boil add your broth powder and dried basil. Place the lid on and return to medium/low heat and let it simmer/lightly boil for about 15-20 minutes. Until potatoes are getting soft.
Stir in your pepper gravy mix (I don’t follow package direction, I just slowly whisk in 1-1.5 cups of cold water in a separate bowl then add to soup pot). I like to crack in a ton more pepper too and quite a bit of salt.
Cover again and simmer for another 15 minutes.
Taste for saltiness and adjust seasoning if necessary, enjoy!
✨If it gets too thick (leftovers might be the next day) just add more water.
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kitchenwitchtingss · 9 months
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WITCHY MUSHROOM LINGUINE
A whimsical pasta that makes you feel like a forest dweller~
INGREDIENTS
8 oz chopped mushrooms (you could use any kind, or even mix different kinds! Just make sure they are edible.)
1/2 cup chicken stock
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 1/2 cups half and half
4 cloves garlic, minced.
4 shallots, chopped.
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 box linguine pasta
4 tbsp butter
1 tbsp thyme
Salt and pepper
Italian seasoning
DIRECTIONS
Melt butter in a pan and cook shallots and garlic until soft on medium heat. Add in the mushrooms, thyme, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper, and cook until tender. (About 4 minutes.) Add chicken stock and red wine vinegar and cook for another 4 minutes on medium heat.
Add in half and half and simmer for about 3 minutes, or until the sauce thickens a little more. Add in parmesan cheese. Cook pasta according to the directions on the back of the box with a salted pot of water.
Taste the sauce to see if it needs more seasonings, then add to taste..
Drain the pasta, reserving about 1/4 cup of pasta water. Add your pasta into your sauce and toss to coat. Add in your pasta water so it combines well.
Top with parsley and enjoy!
Editors Notes:
You could add some shredded mozzarella to make it super cheesy!
Use an assortment of different mushrooms!
Using fresh thyme from your own garden is a good pick
Source your ingredients locally!
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999lcf · 6 months
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whimsigothwitch · 7 months
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Mabon pumpkin soup
Today it is the autumn-equinox, so I decided to share an delicious warm pumpkin soup that you can make to celebrate this turn of the wheel!
Ingredients:
1 Pumpkin cut in pieces
3 Garlic cloves
1 Carrot
1 Onion
1,3L of vegetable broth
1 tbs of olive oil
* Toasted bread
*Pepper
Cut all the ingredients in pieces.
Fry the onion and garlic on medium fire in a big stockpot.
After sautéing the onion and garlic, turn the fire low and add the pumpkin in the pan. Slowly pour the vegetable broth in the stockpan en mix with a wooden spoon clockwise while saying:"As Mabon's magic fills the air, May abundance flow, and love be shared."
Let the soup simmer for 30 minutes until the pumpkin and carrots are mushy/or can easily be mushed when pressed on.
Turn the stove off, and place the pan on a wooden cutboard or cork pad, puree the soup until velvety smooth.
Toast some bread and sprinkle some pepper on the soup when served, enjoy!
Blessed Mabon
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cajunwitch101 · 2 years
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thewitchywitch · 6 months
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Candied Orange Peels
And homemade orange syrup!
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You can make the candied peels yourself using this recipe, which is the one I loosely followed.
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For the syrup: I took what was left over from making the peels, and boiled it down until most of the water had evaporated. I added an extra splash of vanilla extract and allowed the syrup to cool before I bottled it. It set up really well overnight and was very "syrupy" the next day :)
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Okay well what can you do with the syrup?
It's fantastic over ice cream, in teas or coffee, in simmer pots, in potions, in sweetener jars, to anoint candles, as an offering, etc.
Orange has correspondences of abundance, happiness, divination, strength, courage, health, creativity, success, attraction, and prosperity
And vanilla has correspondences of love, calmness, money/wealth, good fortune, emotional balance, improving one's mood, peace, comfort, and restoring lost energy
Of course, you can skip the vanilla extract all together if you want. And you can even substitute the oranges for lemons or grapefruits
I highly recommend labeling your bottle or jar with what's in the syrup and also the date you made it. This way you can keep track of it better, especially if you have a lot of homemade things in bottles & jars in your refrigerator
Have fun with it, be creative, and stay witchy! :D
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