The colors are yellow, green, orange, and brown. Decorate your altars in these colors. Harvest late summer vegetables, grains, and herbs. Any herbs that you need for the following year should also be harvested on this day. The incense of aloes, rose, and sandalwood should be burned. Honor the goddess and god and the harvest dieties who are Lugh, tammuz, Persephone, Ceres, Demeter, Bride, Freya, Adonis. The appropriate gemstones are aventurine, citrine, peridot, and sardonyx.
Begin celebrating the harvest with a light cleaning. Change your altar linens, decorate your home in fall colors. You want to keep the Goddess and God energy flowing throughout the house. Sabbat festivals begin at sun set on the eve of the holiday. You can use the day to prepare baskets for harvesting your garden the next day. Baking breads and preparing jellies. Prepare your altar with the appropriate color of candles. Use gold serving trays for putting offerings on. Have a basket that includes what you have harvested during the late summer. Also, decorate your home and altar with flowers and ferns.
1 cup yellw cornmeal
1 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons honey
2 eggs, well beaten
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/2 cup corn kernels (fresh or thawed frozen)
Preheat ove nto 400. Grease an 8 inch square cooking pan with butter. In a large bowl, mix together the cornmeal, flour, salt, and baking powder. In a large measuring cup, whisk together: milk, honey, and eggs. Using a wooden spoon, stir the egg mixture into the cornmeal mixture. Mixing well. Stir the melted butter and then gently mix in the corn kernels. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the center is firm to the touch, 18 to 20 minutes. Cut into squares and serve hot.
Noodles in Faery Butter
4 hard boiled egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 pound noodles anykind cooked
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried sweet basil
1 orange sliced, garnish
Beat the egg yolks, sugar, butter, thyme, and basil until smooth. Mix enough of the batter with the hot noodles to coat the noodles with a golden color. Garnish with orange slices. ( Or buttercups/foxglove)
Fried Honeycakes
These cakes were left in the garden to please the Faeries.
1/2 cup sweet white wine
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1 cup honey
2/3 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
Oil for frying
1/8 teaspoon salt
Beat wine and egg in a bowl. Combine the flour, cinnamon, salt, and sugar in a small bowl. Stir into the egg mixture. Let stand 30 minutes. Combine honey and nutmeg in bowl. Heat 1/2 inch of the oil in a frying pan until hot, but not smoking. Drop the batter into the oil 1 atablespoon at a time, fry until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and dip into honey.
Lammas Oatmeal Apple Bread
1 cup wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 reaspoons salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
1/2 cup nuts which are optional
3 medium apples chopped
1 cup raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1 1/2 cup rolled oats
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Mix ingredients together, the nplace in a greased 9 inch cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Lammas Chant
Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust
We shall go as we can and do as we must.
the body may die but the spirit is free
To do greater wonders, so mote it be!
Ashes to ashes, clay to clay
We shall seek for our center and find our own way
The flesh may be blind but the spirit can see
The Gods within all, so mote it be!
Ashes to ashes, sand to sand,
We will use all our talents to heal our great land
The flesh may be weak, but the Spirit in me
In full with Her Blessings, so mote it be!
*Begin as whisper and increase volime as energy rises
Blessing for Lammas Feast
Now is the Time of the First harvest,
When the bounties of Nature give of themselves
So that we may survive
o God of the ripening fields, Lord of the Grain,
Grant me the understanding of sacrafice
As you prepare to deliver yourself
Under the sickle of the Goddess
And journey to the lands of Eternal Summedr
O goddess of the Dark Moon
Teach me the secrets of rebirth
as the Sun loses its strength and the night frow cold...
(Crumble graoins of wheat and let them fall on your altar. Take a bite of the ritual fruit and continue)
I partake of the First Harvest
Mixing its energies with mine
that I may continiue my quest
For the starry wisdom of Perfection
O Lady of the Moon and Lord of the Sun
before whom the Stars halt their courses
I offer my thanks
For the continuing Fertility of the Earth
May the nodding grain loose its seeds
To be buried in the Mother's breast
Ensuring Rebirth in the Warmth of next Spring...
