The Enchanted Kitchen

The Kitchen Witch’s Creed

In this pot I stir the sun,

and follow the rule of harming none.

Banishment of bane when going windershins;

and with water and salt negativity is cleansed.

Household duties are more than chores,

Magic abounds when mopping the floors.

With this broom, I do sweep,

To clean my house and safety keep.

Marigold, Basil, Thyme, and Yarrow,

My spell is cast for a better tomorrow.

Lemons for joy and apples for health,

The power within brings great wealth.

And in this kitchen I do pray,

To truly walk the Witch’s Way.

(From gaiaonline, https://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=19019075&page=1)

Remember to always light a candle at your kitchen altar and ask for blessings and positive energy as you cook your magickal recipe!

I like to think of my special “domestic goddess” apron as a type of kitchen witchy ceremonial robe. 😉

Don’t forget that your wooden spoon can serve as your kitchen wand. I love the ones with magickal symbols. Stir in a clockwise motion when adding something. To whisk away lumps in a sauce or gravy try stirring counterclockwise.

My little kitchen witch I got in Germany in the area around the Harz Mountains, an area famous for the Brocken which is an ancient magickal site.

Here is a charm that tells about this helpful poppet:

I am your kitchen witch riding my broom.

Love and affection I bring to your room.

Pots boiling over are a thing of the past.

With my kind of magick good fortune will last!

And this little fellow always makes me smile when I’m in the kitchen. Being in the right mood can affect your cooking.

Yes, food is quite magickal! When prepared with intention it can work up some wonderful energy. Any favorite recipe can be made magickal through your thoughts as you prepare it. Focus on what feelings you want to invoke in those who eat the food even if the only one who will eat it is you!

I hope you have a little kitchen altar. Light a candle as you prepare to start cooking, form your intent, visualize and cook away! You can even use a candle color to go with your intent, and don’t forget the magickal (and healthful) properties in herbs and spices. Have fun cooking those comfort foods in a new and magickal way!

Certain foods do have magical properties. Here is a list to get you started:

Remember the old adage, you are what you eat? The simplest magical ritual that you can do is to cut open a fruit or vegetable and eat it while thinking of your magical intention. Below is a compilation of common foods and their metaphysical associations.

Apple: Draws a lover, erotic experiences to you. Increases attraction. Apple compote with cinnamon is thought to speed up the arrival of a lover to you or encourage a reluctant lover to make a cerebral relationship physical.

Apricot: For flirtation or light hearted romantic experience.

Avocado: To make yourself appear younger to others or increase personal beauty or attractiveness. Avocado is the love apple of Venus.

Banana: Eaten by males – increases fertility and heroism. Eaten by females – draws a lover.

Beets: Increases virility, passion, erotica and fertility. It is a root so it grounds a relationship and binds the lover to you.

Blueberry: To eliminate obstacles or rivals that may come between you. As you swallow each blueberry, imagine the things that come between you falling away or disappearing.

Vegan Butter: To eliminate hostility and arguments. While smoothing it on a piece of bread, think of things smoothing out.

Cardamom: This herb is thought to amplify a love that is already there or strengthen existing relationships. Drink a cup of Chai tea with cardamom in it for this purpose.

Carrot: Helps bring masculine energies to a woman. For a man strengthens virility.

Celery: Increases libido and passion. Encourages reluctant lovers to take action

Cherry: Eat for love, health and to boost sexual attraction.

Chocolate: An aphrodisiac. Lifts moods and attracts sensual experiences. Binds lovers.

Clove: Add clove to curry dishes, baked dishes and hot chocolate for fun, love and erotic experiences. This is also the bud of stolen kisses so it is good for mistresses to spike their lover’s meals with it.

Coriander: Add to curries and salads to attract your soulmate. It represents a high spiritual love combined with wisdom.

Cucumber: Eaten for sexual stamina, beautiful skin. Chop with extreme prejudice if you are into revenge on another!

Garlic: Eat to banish the “other woman” or a rival who may be in the way.

Grapes: Grapes are a symbol of a happy marriage and many children. Eat to increase fertility and emotional security. Can also be used to increase your popularity with opposite sex. As you eat each grape, picture another lover coming your way … known or unknown. Red grapes are best for this purpose.

Guava: Relieves heartbreak, attracts new romance, revives the

Lemon: Marriage, joy, fidelity, pure intentions and longevity in a relationship.

Mushrooms: Eat raw to make yourself beautiful and increase your feminine mystique.

Orange: Health, fidelity, love and joy.

Peanut: Crack these open from the shell and attract more male energy into your life.

Peas: Used to attract love, positive Goddess energy into life.

Pineapple: To attract a wealthy lover.

Pomegranate: For fertility, erotic imagination, a long line of descendants. Also eaten sometimes to attract numerous partners or a wealthy partner.

Popcorn: For popularity and fun. As each corn pops in the microwave, picture another positive romantic event.

Quince: Are traditionally eaten for happiness between lovers.

Raspberry: For sexual stamina and amplifying love that is there.

Sweet Relish: For enhancing sexual passion.

Rice: For childbearing

Strawberry: To attract a lover, to increase sexual intensity and stamina of a lover. To make a lover think of you eat a strawberry every day.

Sweet Potato: To attract a well grounded, emotional secure, gentle wise love.

Maple Syrup: To assure a positive “first meeting” or that a blind date goes well.

Tomato: The original “love apple”. Eat to attract a partner or increase the love that is already there.

Tangerine: Health, fidelity, flirtation, love, joy and childlike qualities. Banishes heaviness.

Beverages ~ Blessed Brews

Chai Tea Recipe Base

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground anise
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground clove
1/4 cup Darjeeling (loose) tea
3 teaspoons fresh minced ginger
1/3 cup honey, blue agave syrup (a sweetener made from the agave plant), brown sugar or stevia
1 tablespoon molasses
1 bay leaf
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon orange zest

Cook the first six dry spices in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly until the mixture begins smell fragrant.

Add two cups of water and the loose tea and bring to a light simmer.

Remove from heat and add the vanilla, ginger, bay leaf, agave, molasses and orange zest. Stir

Leave at room temperature for an hour, strain and refrigerate.

To serve this concentrated mixture: add a quarter of a cup concentrate to six ounces of hot almond milk or water.

Magickal Properties: Protection, energy and joy

Family Favorites

Blue Grass Sweet Potatoes

2 large cans of sweet potatoes

2/3 c. sugar

1/3 c. Vegan butter

¼ c. bourbon

1Tsp. salt

½ tsp. vanilla

1 ½ c. Vegan mini marshmallows

Drain most of the liquid from the sweet potatoes (leave some to keep them moist while cooking) put them in a pan and heat them over moderate heat for about 10 minutes. Combine the potatoes with the next 5 ingredients in a large mixer bowl and beat until smooth. Turn the mixture into a buttered shallow 1 ½ quart casserole dish and arrange the marshmallows on top. Bake at 350 for 25 -30 minutes until evenly browned and the potatoes are bubbly.

Magickal properties: Feminine and nurturing with a kick

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Easy Pumpkin Pie Cake

1 (15 oz) can pumpkin

1 lg. can coconut milk shaken

1 ½ c. sugar

1 tsp. Pumpkin pie spice

1 pkg. plain yellow cake mix

¾ c. Vegan butter or margarine

1 c. chopped pecans

Mix in order given the first 5 ingredients. Pour into a 9 X 13 inch cake pan. Sprinkle the dry cake mix evenly on top. Drizzle the melted butter evenly over all and sprinkle with the chopped pecans. Bake for one hour at 350. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

Magickal properties: Grounding and protective. This dessert is the ultimate comfort food!!

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Witchy Remedies and Special Purpose Potions

Four Thieves Vinegar Recipe

There are many different recipes for Four Thieves Vinegar and different stories claiming different historical origins. It’s a very effective household cleaner. This has been used down south as a banishing vinegar and can be seen in voodoo shops at a pretty penny.

All of the herbs in the Four Theives Vinegar formula are potent antibacterials or antivirals and all are edible, making it a powerful mix for internal and external use.

If you plan to use this vinegar for cleaning only, you can use white vinegar. If you plan to use it internally as well as for cleaning, cider vinegar (preferably raw, unfiltered with the mother but any cider vinegar will do) is a better choice.

This recipe is made assuming you’ll be using either all dried or all fresh herbs. If you will be using some dried and some fresh, adjust the proportions accordingly.

apple cider vinegar or white vinegar, enough to cover all your plant material
lavender, 1 part
sage, 1 part
rosemary, 1 part
mugwort, 1 part

Procedure for Making Four Thieves Herbal Vinegar

Blend your herbs and pour them into a class container such as a wide-mouth canning jar.
Add enough vinegar to cover your blend completely. (If you’re using dried herbs, you may need to add a little extra because the dried herbs will expand as they rehydrate.)
Cover the jar and let the mixture stand at room temperature for six weeks.
After the mixture has finished infusing, strain the herbs out of the vinegar and store the vinegar in an appropriate container.

Storage and Use of Four Thieves Herbal Vinegar

Label and store and your Four Theives Vinegar in a colored glass container to protect it from the deteriorating effects of sunlight.

Dilute Four Theives vinegar with five parts water before using it. You can use it as a spray or a wash for disinfecting surfaces. It’s wonderful for all kinds of house cleaning.

For first aid use, you can use Four Theives vinegar to disenfect wounds, rashes, and skin in general. Do not put vinegar in your eyes. Just as with household cleaning applications, you will want to dilute it with four parts water before using it externally.

Four Thieves vinegar is edible and can be taken as a “spoonful a day” medicine or added to olive or coconut oil as salad dressing. It’s tasty and provides support to the immune system.

Other herbs you can use as substitutes include:

thyme
lemon balm

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Spirtual Cleansing Carpet and Floor Sprinkle

Mix the following in a bowl and sprinkle on floors or carpets:

1 c. baking soda

1 tsp. fine sea salt

1 tsp. powdered basil

5 drops lemon essentila oil

10 drops lavender essential oil

Allow the mixture to sit on the floor for about an hour and then sweep or vacume it up. Throw the powder away outdoors in a covered trash container.