½ gallon apple cider
2 cinnamon sticks
5 whole cloves
1 orange, sliced
Put it all in a saucepan. Simmer for 20-30 minutes. Strain and serve hot.
This beverage is traditional at harvest gatherings and as a special treat when the kids come in from Trick or Treating on Halloween, or to warm up your hands sitting around the bonfire on Samhain. It's a great warm up on a brisk autumn day.
We use apple cider for our harvest and Samhain libations. It is great for giving thanks for successes in the areas of prosperity and love, and for drawing prosperity and love. This beverage features both sun energies and cthonic energies.
You can buy mulling spices at most grocery stores in the late autumn. Follow the directions on the package.
A handful of pecans
1 cup of apple cider
1 apple, washed, cored, cubed
2 Yams or sweet potatoes, washed, cubed
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 tbsp butter
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place the cubed apple and yams in a baking dish. Pour cider over all and stir to coat.
Cut the butter into tiny squares and sprinkle over the top.
This is a fabulous recipe for your Feast of the Dead at Samhain as the yams celebrate the chthonic deities while the apples are the food of immortality.
This is also a great thanksgiving meal for harvest celebrations and its energies help to draw prosperity to the hearth.
2 green apples chopped
2 red apples chopped
1 cup green grapes
1 cup red grapes
1 cup plain yogurt
2 tbsp lime juice (or to taste)
2 tbsp honey (or to taste)
Candied walnuts or candied pecans
Rinse and chop fruit and place in a bowl. Set aside.
This is best eaten right away. If you store it too long, the dressing starts to separate and if you store it with the nuts in the nuts will lose their crunch.
This is a great recipe for newlyeweds as it contains energy to enhance feelings of love and to promote prosperity and fertility. If you're more into the fertility than the prosperity, you can bring in some color magic by omitting the green grapes and apples and use more red, if you're more into the prosperity than the fertility, use more green.
You could use lemon, lime or vanilla flavored yogurt as a quick dressing for this and omitt the lime and honey. But it won't be as good.
Fruit
2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
1/4 cup sugar (or to taste)
1/2 cup apple juice
1 tbsp cornstarch
Dumplings
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
dash of salt
1/2 tsp sugar
3 tbsp shortening
3/4 cup milk
Preheat oven to 350
You can use any fruit with this recipe. Try it with apples, add some cinnamon and nutmeg to the fruit mixture. You'll have to simmer the apples a bit longer.
This is great for dessert or breakfast! Serve hot with cold milk for breakfast. Yum!
This recipe contains energy for sexual energy, potency and fertility and is also very protective.
You can use pre-made canned pie filling and Bisquick or Jiffy baking mix to make this a superquick dessert.
2 cups Cranberries
2 small apples
1 tbsp Cornstarch
3 tbsp Sugar
1/4 C Apple Cider
Peel and slice the apples, rinse and sort the cranberries. Place in a saucepan with apple cider and simmer covered for 1 hour on low heat.
Adjust sugar to taste. I like things a bit more tart than the average person.
Stir in pecans and top with whipped cream for a tasty dessert. It also makes an excellent glaze for game meats or use like a sauce for your holiday feasts.
This recipe contains protective energy that fortifies inner strength and health to meet challenges, especially those related to close relationships.
Don't rush this one. You have to simmer the berries till they pop just right. If you don't have time, you can buy this ready made.