Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients: 
1 can Libby's Pumpkin
Pureed cooked Squash
1 Onion, cubed
3 cups Chicken broth
Pumpkin spice

Garlic power
5 Potatoes, cubed
4 Tbs butter
1 cup Milk
Cayenne pepper

1. Boil potatoes, and onion until tender in 2 cups of water. Drain water and set aside.

2. Add Libby's Pumpkin, pureed squash, chicken broth, pumpkin spice, garlic power, butter, milk and a dash of  Cayenne pepper and bring to a boil for 30 mins.

3. Add potatoes and onions to the soup and let simmer for 5-10 mins. Enjoy.

Short bread Soul Cakes for Samhain

Leave a soul cake as offering to your ancestors on Samhain.

Soul cakes were usually filled with allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger or other sweet spices. They were traditionally set out with glasses of wine on All Hallows Eve as an offering for the dead.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups Flour
1 stick butter, soft
4 Tbs. Sugar
1 Tbs. Milk

1. Mix sugar and butter together.
2. Add flour, pumpkin spice and milk to make dough.
3. Lay dough on cling wrap and roll out to 1 inch thick.

4. Cut dough with a cookie cuter and lay on a greased baking pan.
5. Bake at 350°F for 25 mins. Enjoy. 

Tomato Sauce

Garden fresh tomato sauce.

Ingredients: 
10 Tomatoes; peeled and cubed
2 Bell peppers; minced
1 onion; minced
2 Tbs. butter
1 Tbs. olive oil
1 Tb Garlic minced/powder
1/4 oz. Fresh/dried Sage
1/4 ts. Italian seasoning
1/4 ts. Rosemary
1/4 cup Red cooking wine
1 bay leaf
2 Tbs tomato paste/Corn starch with cold water

1. Cut top off of tomatoes with a knife then peel. I find it easier if the tomatoes are really ripe.
2. Remove seeds and cube.
3. Mince bell peppers and onion.
4.Combine tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, olive oil, garlic, Italian seasoning, bay leaf, rosemary, and red cooking wine in a large sauce pan on medium-low heat for 1 hour
5. Add butter and tomato paste to thicken. Enjoy.

Potato Soup

Scott Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen-Potato Soup
Ingredients:
5 medium-sized potatoes; peeled and cubed
2 medium onions; finely chopped
2 ts. salt
2 cups water
1 Tbs. butter
1/2 cup flour
6 cups milk
5 slices bacon; chopped
Black pepper
1 Tbs. dried parsley

1. In a large sauce pan add potatoes, onions, salt, and water.
2. Cover and heat on medium, boil until potatoes are tender.
3. Drain off water and place potatoes and onions aside in a large bowl.
4. Melt butter in the same pot and stir in flour and milk on medium to high heat until the sauce starts to thicken.
5. Reduce heat to low, stir in potatoes and onions.
6. Fry chopped bacon slices in a skillet until crisp.
7. Drain on paper towel and stir into the soup, adding salt and pepper to taste.
8. Serve in individual bowls and sprinkle parsley flakes. Enjoy.

 Magickal uses: Protection and healing.

Scalloped Potatoes

Creamy scalloped potatoes in 80 mins.

Ingredients:

4 cups Potatoes; thinly sliced

1 Tbs. All-Purpose Flour

1 ts. Salt

1/8 ts. Black Pepper

1/4 cup Onion; finely chopped

1 1/2 cup Milk

3-4 Tbs. butter

2 Tbs. Mozzarella

1. Heat oven to 350° F.

2. In a baking dish, lay one layer of  potatoes then add onion, salt, pepper, flour, and 1 tbs butter.

3. Add a second layer of potatoes and continue with each layer.

4. On the last layer, heat milk, pour over potato layers and add butter. 

5. Cover and cook for 65 mins.

6. Uncover and cook for 10 mins.

7. Add cheese and cook for 5 mins. Enjoy.

Favorite Blackberry Cobbler

Family and friends love this recipe.

This recipe is doubled. During the summer I add raspberries and wild black raspberries to this recipe.

Ingredients with Magickal uses:
8 cups Blackberries-money, sex/Raspberries-happiness, protection, love
3 cups Sugar-love
4 Tbs. Cornstarch
2 sticks Butter-spirituality
1 cup Milk-love, spirituality
1 tsp. Salt-grounding, stopping psychic awareness, protection
1 tsp. Vanilla extract-love, sexuality
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 cups All- purpose Flour-prosperity, money

1. Combine blackberries, 2 cups of sugar, and cornstarch in a medium bowl; mix well.
2. Pour in a 13x9 in. baking pan.
3. Combine 2 sticks of butter, 1 cup of sugar, milk, salt, and vanilla extract in medium sauce pan.
4. Bring to a boil; cool to luke warm.
5. Stir in baking powder and flour.
6. Pour over blackberries.
7. Bake at 350° for 45 mins. Let cool for 30 mins. Enjoy.

Lammas Bread

Ingredients with Magickal uses:
3 to 3 1/2 cups All-purpose flour-prosperity and money
1 1/2 ts Yeast
2 cups Water
1/3 cup packed Brown sugar-love
3 Tbs Butter-spirituality
1 1/3 ts Salt-grounding, stopping psychic awareness, protection
2 cups Whole wheat flour-prosperity, money
1 Egg; heavily beaten-spirituality,protection, grounding, physical fertility

1. In mixing bowl combine 2 cups all-purpose flour and yeast.
2. In a medium sauce pan heat water, brown sugar, butter and salt until the butter melts.
3. Add water mixture to dry mixture and mix on slow to medium speed for 30 seconds.
4. Beat on high for 3 mins.and add whole wheat flour and as much you can of the rest of all-purpose flour.
5. Turn dough out on a lightly floured surface.
6. Knead in enough of the remaining all-purpose flour to a moderately stiff dough to smooth and elastic.
7. Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, turning once to grease surface of dough.
8. Cover and place bowl on a heating pad on high for 1 to 1 1/2 hours to rise in double size.

Directions on how to shape dough to sheaf of wheat go to: http://momsrecipesandmore.blogspot.com/2007/09/world-bread-day-2007.html

9. Bake at 450°F for 15 minutes.
10. Reduce temperature to 350°F and coat with egg whites.
11. Bake for 30-45 minutes till golden brown.
12. Let cool and share with your friends on the first harvest of the year. Enjoy!  

Spicy Tomato Turtle Soup

Ingredients:
Snapping turtle meat
Garlic
Cayenne pepper
Salt
Black pepper
Worcestershire sauce

4 Tbs. Butter

1 15oz. can tomato sauce

1 Bay leaf

1 onion, minced
4 tbs Corn starch

Parsley

4 Chicken Bouillon cubes

Basil
8 cups water

1. Boil meat in 4 cups of water and garlic for 1 hour.
2. Add , basil, bouillon cubes, parsley, onion, bay leaf, salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, butter, Worcestershire sauce and simmer for 30 mins.
3. Add tomato sauce and corn starch mixed with 4 cups of cold water.
4. Simmer til soup thickens. Enjoy.

🐢🍲 Turtle Chowder

Ingredients:
Snapping Turtle meat
Garlic
Onion or onion powder
Potatoes
Carrots
3  Tbs Butter
2 chicken bullion cubes
3 Tbs Corn starch
2 ts. milled flax seed
2 cups Milk
Salt
Black Pepper
Water


1. Bake turtle meat with garlic, salt, black pepper, onion powder, and water at 435° F for 2 1/2 hours the night before cooked in crock pot.
2. Let meat cool and pull off bone; Refrigerate meat.
3. Peel and cube potatoes; Refrigerate in water.
4. Cut carrots and refrigerate.
5. In the morning combine all ingredients in crock pot and set on high for 6-8 hours. 

Homemade Chocolate pudding

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn starch
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp. salt

3 cups of milk or Lactaid milk

1 teaspoon vanilla and/or almond extract
3 tablespoons butter

1.In a medium sauce pan add sugar, corn starch, unsweetened cocoa, salt, and milk on low heat.

2.Whisk until mixture starts boiling and thickening; remove from heat.

3. Add butter and extract.

4. Cool for 1-2 hours. Enjoy. 

Lima Bean Soup

Ingredients:
4 cups dry Lima Beans
4 cups water
4 Tbs. butter
2 Chicken Bouillon cubes
Salt
Onion
Italian Seasoning
Sage
Garlic
Black pepper
Cubed ham(Optional)

1.Combine Lima beans, water, salt, onion in a large pot with lid on medium heat; boil for 2-4 hours.
2.After 1 hour add butter, chicken bouillon cubes, Italian Seasoning, garlic and back pepper.
3.Add 1-2 cups of water after every hour.
4.Add Cubed ham on the last hour.