Good Harvest Loaf

Good Harvest Loaf

OR Basic Bitch Banana Pumpkin Bread ($$$)

Okay. Strap in. This is a complicated recipe, but totally worth it. Make this bread for a nice Autumn prosperity spell, abundance spell, or even as a shareable for Mabon. This is full of spices with money/prosperity correspondences, and never forget that banana and pumpkin are great for attracting prosperity, too. As this is the harvest season, I like to add a splash of whisky to represent grain. 

Meditate, set your intentions, and prep your ingredients. I like having everything set out in bowls/cups. This cuts down on how often you (if you’re like me) have to scramble around and breaking your concentration.

Ingredients

2 ripe bananas, mashed

2 eggs*

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 can pumpkin puree

½ cup honey**

¼ cup sugar

¼ cup brown sugar

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour***

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground clove

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon ginger

Optional Ingredients

¼ teaspoon allspice

2 teaspoon espresso

½ shot grain-based alcohol, preferably whisky/bourbon - to represent the grain harvest

Walnuts for topping

Raisins

ALTERNATIVE DIET OPTIONS

*To make vegan, add 6 tbsp aquafaba (garbanzo bean juice)

Please note that this will add a slightly nuttier taste to the mixture, but with the banana and pumpkin, there isn’t much of a noticeable difference

**For a vegan alternative to honey, try agave syrup

***To make gluten free, replace all-purpose flour with almond flour. This WILL change the texture of your loaf. It will be a bit denser. Also, to keep the recipe gluten free, DO NOT add any grain-based alcohol

Cooking Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan (you may sprinkle it with almond flour to make it even less likely to stick).

Stir together the banana, eggs, oil, pumpkin, honey, and sugar. Add espresso and alcohol, if desired

In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices

Fold flour mixture into pumpkin mixture. Add walnuts/raisins, if desired.

Pour batter into pan and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. To check loaf, insert a toothpick into the center of the loaf. If done, the toothpick should come out clean

Allow to cool before serving

Ingredient correspondences below break

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ATTENTION: 2020 Witch Challenge??

I’m considering running a year-long witchcraft research challenge, but first I’d like to know who’s interested. It’d work like this:

Each month is assigned a topic. Before the month starts, I’ll release information about that months challenge. It’ll involve one task or assignment to complete each week (4 per month) at any time of your choosing. Most of these assignments will involve you posting your findings or final product under the challenge’s hashtag. The idea is that you can then go and read everyone else’s work and learn more that way (e.g. an assignment could be to research and post the properties of a herb of your choosing; you can then read everyone else’s posts to learn more without having to research thirty herbs on your own). I’ll be doing the challenge along with everyone else: the topics will be areas I know enough about to be able to guide the process, but I’ll be learning along with you.

I hope to structure this challenge so that it’s beneficial for all witches, regardless of their skill level. If you’re an expert on a months particular topic, you can drop out of the challenge until the next month. If you’re busy the first month, you can drop in on the second month, or catch up on missed tasks in your spare time. This challenge will be largely theory based, with a few practical components. I’m creating this because I’ve noticed that most of the witchcraft resources available on Tumblr are practical (spells, instructionals, etc.), and there is little attention paid to the why and how of witchcraft. If you don’t know why the spell you’re doing works the way it does, or how the various components affect it, then your craft is inevitably going to be less effective than it could be.

The topics I’m thinking are:

JAN: History of Witchcraft (covering both ancient and modern aspects)

FEB: Elemental Studies

MAR: The Wheel of the Year

APR: Meditation & Mind Skills (shielding, visualisation, etc.)

MAY: Divination

JUN: Astrology

JUL: Spellcraft

AUG: Green Witchcraft

SEP: Religions (a look at the other spiritual practices of the world to better understand our own)

OCT: Mythology

NOV: Locational Studies (how time, place and location affect magick)

DEC: Ritual Magick

I’d appreciate people reblogging (to spread the word) with suggestions and expressions of interest.

“There are seven herbs that nothing natural or supernatural can injure; they are vervain, John’s-wort, speedwell, eyebright, mallow, yarrow, and self-help. But they must be pulled at noon on a bright day, near the full of the moon, to have full power…. Of all herbs the yarrow is the best for cures and potions. It is even sewn up in clothes as a preventive of disease.”

—

The Properties of Herbs and their Use in Medicine

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

by Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde[1887]

Been seeing this around and wanted to share it here as well.

Ways to charge a hex/curse jar:

Shake it daily  (Violently)

Throwing it

Throwing or placing it on railroad tracks

Melt wax over it

Submerge it in hot water

Meditate while holding it and visualize your anger going into the jar

Hide it in a dark space

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿