Witch Bread

The Recipe

Ingredients
3/4 cups flour
1/2 teas. baking soda
1 1/2 teas. baking powder
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 Tablespoon salt
3/4 cup yellow corn meal
2 beaten eggs
1 cup buttermilk
3 teas. melted shortening

Mix first five ingredients, add cornmeal. Combine eggs and buttermilk, then stir into dry ingredients. Stir shortening into mixture. Then pour into a heated greased pan, skillet, or mold. Bake at 425 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

The Spell

This spell is best worked during the waxing moon, or during the full
moon.
Cast a circle in your kitchen, or around a campfire if cooking
outdoors. If
possible, build your fire elements altar on your stove, and your
water
elements altar at the sink. Call the elements. On you main altar,
triple, and
then mix the ingredients of the recipe. Any rhyme you feel
comfortable with,
or chant can be used. When mixing the sugar and salt, use this
procedure:
Measure the sugar by sight (no measuring spoon) into your left palm
and add
to the mixing bowl counter clockwise. Then, measure the salt by sight
into
your right hand palm, and add clockwise. Meditate on the duality of
life: the
sweet, the bitter, your personal joy and sadness. When all
the ingredients are together, put your hands over the bowl, and
inhale
deeply. Here is where you focus your spell on the bread itself.
Imagine a
bright white light enveloping you and your circle. Say prayers at
this time
over the bread. I pray for healing, but spells can also be done for
scrying,
for love, for power, or whatever. Put the bread into the oven, and
meditate
on the cauldron. At this point in the spell until the bread comes out
of the
oven, I work on personal healing work (forgiveness, insight etc) I
make a
list of things that have made me angry lately. I
acknowledge my anger, trying to open those feelings, and finally let
them go.
(If I can.) I write the names of people I forgive for different
things, and
lastly I work to forgive myself for not being perfect. I write down
specifics, things I screwed up, mistakes, and betrayals. Then, when
bread
comes out of the over, I say more
prayers of Thanksgiving to the Goddess, and open the circle.