I decided to put one item for each sabbat but they can be ate at any time if you enjoy witchy cooking i recommend the book "Wicca in the kitchen" by Scott Cunningham. Remember witches don't do anything without reason they think thourought. The ingredients in these recipes will have certain properties and attribute which should be applied and visualised when cooking.
So lets start with yule as its just round the corner
First of all cookies are traditional for this holiday, and are easy to bake the baking isn't important below is a basic cookie recipe its the decoration thats important I suggest decorating with an icing sugar paste (Use the thing that squirts if you have one sorry i dont know the technical name.
http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/607380
Decorate these biscuits with icing; paint on circles whilt visualising the suns strength returning.Bells which drive away evil if possible you may wish to ring a bell and visualise the vibrations of the sound being absorbed into the cookie.Stars for protection and trees for the continual fertility of the Earth.
obviously as with all of these recipes if you wish to add anything do so because experimenting is good!
Imbolc
This ones a bit more tricky, the holiday represents the suns growing strength and warmth, so hot and spicy foods are obvious perhap a spicy indian curry or something? visualise it lighting a fire deep inside you chest and this flame spreading throughout your body. Obviously some people hate spicy food so incoperate garlic into your food and visualise all negativity being purified from you. There are thousands of food I could suggest here and if you want to find your own thats probably better for individual tastes. My personal favorite are a Madras curry or lasagne, remember try to make it at home as it will be charged with your energy just from utilizing the ingredients.
Ostara
My favourite holiday and symbolises the start of spring, if you can dine outdoors in nature and connect to it in a deeper way.To tune into this seasons energy eat seeds and leafy green vegetables perhaps coperate these in a salad and charge them with your own energy perhaps create a salad dressing which incoperates sage and visualise good health.
How to make a sage salad dressing-http://www.yummly.com/recipe/Balsamic-Sage-Dressing-Recipezaar
Beltane
Ice cream and all things dairy are incorperated in this holiday i think different colours of Ice cream mean different things e.g green mint ice cream can mean good health and prosperity these ideas should be visualised when eating. If your having a part bake some cookies and decoreate them with symbols of fie and perhaps something which represents energy for you - i use a pentagram but these symbols should work for you this is also the ultimate rule of magick- do what is right for you.
Oatmeal cookies are more traditional-http://www.momswhothink.com/cookie-recipes/oatmeal-cookie-recipe.html
Midsummer
This is the time of year when nature is producing the most fruit. Incoperate fruits into a meal make a fruit salad but visualise what each fruit shall do for you when chopping e.g. apples are considered the fruit of wisdom so visualise success in exams and your brain absorbing all information. I'm not going to list all fruit aattributes here google can be used for this.
lughnasadh
Traditionally the first harvest. Now if you're over 18 beer is considered traditional due to its ingredients and if you do use this visualise happiness for the rest of the year. Now bread making is traditional Now it is known bread baking has an alluring smell. This is why when baking it you should visualise you love energy going into it particulary when kneading and then when its cooking visualise it spreading your love outside your home perhaps open a window or door and then visualise it bringing friendly people towards you.Obviously any other ingredients you may wish to add to your bread should be appropiately used and visualised carefully.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/bread
there are quite a few on here and some utilise herbs such as sage which can be used to purify the body of all negativity upon consumption.
Mabon
Corn is all I can suggest here, visualise the earth or gaia or mother goddess or whatever you wish going into a peaceful slumber and send loving energy to her.
Samhain
First I suggest pumpkin soup or pumpkin pie due to its symbolis of the underworld visualise yourself being protected form evil on this night when it is more possible to be attacked by it. One of the main uses of the energes of samhain is diviniation or gaining knowledge of the future so again incoperate apple perhaps apple pie or even bobbing for apples and visualise knowledge. If you know what bobbing for apples is when doing it visualise yourself reaching for knowledge with appropiate symbology perhaps a golden book? and then once you have the apple visualise the contents of this book entering your brain.
Sorry about the length of this but just take out what you wish some may consider this type of magick as fake. But to them I say all things external effect the internal and these foods are symbols which can effect us internally via our psyche which can then with the aid of will manipulate your world externally.
And above all baking and making food is fun and the results are tasty! and effective
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