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Streusel Apple Bread

(Recipe from ‘Midwestliving’) 

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour.  1 cup chopped cored apple.   1/2 cup softened butter.    1 cup sugar.     2 eggs.     1 teaspoon vanilla.     1 teaspoon baking soda.    ½ teaspoon salt.      1/3 cup sour milk* or orange juice.     1/3 cup chopped cranberries.     2/3 cup chopped walnuts.     1/3 cup packed brown sugar.    2 tablespoons all-purpose flour.   1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel.    1 teaspoon melted butter.  

*for sour milk place one teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar in a cup add milk to equal 1/3 cups all together.* 

Oven: 350 F. 176 C

How to: 

1. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9x5x3 loaf pan. in a small bowl toss 2 tablespoons of the all-purpose flour(from you measure of two cups)  with the apple. In a large mixing bowl beat ½ cup butter with an electric mixer on medium for 30 seconds; gradually beat in sugar until combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine remaining flour with baking soda, add milk/orange juice. stir in apple mixture, cranberries and 1/3 cup of walnuts. Spoon into prepared pan. 

2.  In a medium bowl combine brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, lemon peel, 1 tablespoon melted butter and the remaining walnuts. sprinkle over batter in pan. Bake uncovered for 55-60 minutes. 

Properties: cranberries- healing, protection, love, lust, positive energy, courage, passion. Vanilla-Calming, Consoling, soothing, vitalizes energy, promotes a happy and healthy environment, attracts good fortune, enhances mental stimulation, used in spells to enhance physical energy. Lemon-Longevity, purification, refreshment, unity, uplifting, clarity, friendship, happiness, aura cleanse, rejuvenation, awareness, love, fidelity. Apple- Love, luck, used in immortality spells. 

Self-Encouragement Spell

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to promote strength and self-love through whichever process you may be going through / whichever goal you are working towards!

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Tips for the Kitchen Witch

So, I made blueberry syrup for lemonade and ice green tea.

It turned out really well on my first try.

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“I invite positive energies and love into my life and relationships.”

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↳ Emoji spell: Recovery and good mental health! 

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☕🌿Coffee Magic🌿☕

☕Flavors + Correspondences☕

Almond(milk): mental clarity + fortitude, luck, abundance, healing + good health

Amaretto: opening the mind, warding against negativity, creativity, luck

Blueberry: aids in memory + mental clarity, calmness, youth + glamour magic, restoration, aura cleansing + strengthening

Caramel: aids in changes + transformations, soothing quality to spells, good in Fae magic, increases tenacity

Chestnut: warding + protection, prosperity, longevity + increase stamina

Chocolate: self love + nurturing energy, ancestral magic, grounding, love + sexual prowess

Cinnamon: spiritual + personal power, healing, success, lust, luck, prosperity, strength

Clove: protection, actualization of desires, banishing negative + hostile forces

Coffee: inspire creativity, clear emotional + spiritual blockages, dispel nightmares, fortitude + increased stamina, encourage diligence

Coconut Milk: confidence + aid in glamour magic, strength, beauty, love

Cow milk: nurturing, fertility + prosperity, protection, abundance, aid in motherhood

Hazelnut: self-love and compassion, inspiration, creativity, wisdom + insight

Honey: happiness, offerings + Fae magic, sweetness, love, prosperity, healing, passion, spirituality

Irish Cream: dreams + intuition enhancer, prosperity, growth, aid in change

Peanut(butter): stability, aid in manifestation + intuition, attraction, energy

Pecan: spiritual purification + protection, abundance + prosperity

Peppermint: healing, purification, psychic powers + transformation, sleep, prosperity, passion

Pumpkin: wishes + dream fulfillment, protection + guarding, prosperity, magic enhancer, love

Oat(milk): tradition + ancestral work, health, stability + fortitude, beauty + youth, comfort, home magic, healing

Raspberry: invoking fertility or love, kindness + compassion, desire fulfilment, creativity, libido + sex magic

Sugar: used to amplify spells, sweetness + love, attraction, comfort, Fae magic

Soy milk: success + strength, growth, healing

Toffee: playfulness + youthfulness, friendship, easing transitions, courage + strength

Vanilla (creamer or vanilla extract): love, release of stress + anxiety, success, vitality + healing

🔮Bonus Magic Tips🔮

Pick ingredients for your coffee that align with your ambitions for the day.

It can be used as an offering to deities, spirits, ancestors, etc.(e.g. for Sif I sweeten the coffee with oat milk + honey but for Hel I leave the coffee black for an offering)

Consider the way you stir! Counterclockwise banishes and repels negativity, clockwise invites + brings energy to you.

Stain pages for you journal, spell work, or book of shadows! You can also use a strong brewed coffee and a paint brush to paint sigils onto the pages! .

See the full post + bonus recipe at the hidden hearth patreon.

References: The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook by Karen Harrison

**Disclaimer: a lot of the nut and milk correspondences are personal + intuitive**

Dealing with a Toxic Parent

So, I rarely talk about myself because of embarrassment but here it goes...I'm 25, soon to be 26 this week and my mother constantly tells me that she'll have me committed to a mental health institution because I don't have a job and her criticism is making my depression, self worth and self esteem worse. I help out in the house as much as I can but it feels like it's not good enough for her. Before getting sick with an autoimmune disease called acne inversa, I tried going to the military but she told me that I couldn't go because I didn't pass the practice test... thinking about it now, she has halted everything that I wanted to do in life and talking to her about it is impossible because it becomes all about her and how I'm not ambitious enough for anything. I'm just tired of pleasing and trying for her to accept me fully.

Happiness Will Come To You.