Kitchen Quickies for Lammas

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Kitchen Quickies for Lammas

 

Most of us simply don't have the time to bake regularly the way our Great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers did. But if you do just aLittle planning in advance, most of us can usually carve out the time to bake

Bread once a year, beginning on this day. By slowing down and savoring eachStep of the process, we rediscover the blessings of bread with our hands, ourHearts, and our starved spirits. When your loaves are done, you may want to

Bless them by singing a song over them, or saying a prayer, or wafting a smudgeStick or incense wand over them - or by simply touching them with your hands. Now tear off a piece of your bread and place it in your mouth. Close your eyes

As you taste it. It is amazing how different we feel about food when we cook itWith the conscious intention of honoring its sacredness. You can save a tinyBit of your special, sacred bread to place at your kitchen altar. Or wrap a

Piece in cloth and tuck it away until next year,When you can burn it outdoors or compost it, giving it back to the earth withThanks before you taste the first piece of your new bread. When we activelyParticipate in simple, cyclical rituals like this one, year after year, we feel

A sense of connection that goes a long way toward healing our spirit-wounds. You may also want to make or buy a small wheat figure (or corn dolly) today.These harvest blessings were traditional in many cultures to honor the spirit

Of the wheat and bring luck and protection to the home. Craft shops alsoSell lovely sheaves of wheat or barley, which are easy to soak and braid. TieYour braid with a green ribbon and hang it over your oven. Or gather some dried

Grasses and do the same.

From

~Witch in the Kitchen by Cait Johnson~