Grains, Cooking Ingredients, and Sauces

Baked Goods

This section is a little more difficult because while each ingredient has it's own properties, what it creates takes on a life of it's own. It's not always the same as other cooking methods, like making a soup or a roast. Some cooking ingredients don't even have real "magickal" properties. They're just necessary because a scientific reaction is needed to get a rise or a particular change to happen. These properties can change because of the occasion they're used at or even the colors of icing. You can have any kind of cake at a wedding and it wouldn't make it any less of a wedding celebration cake.

As far as the sauces, I would always suggest looking at the ingredients list and comparing those qualities for an overall feel. Every sauce is signature to it's company, so these are based on a typical ingredient list. I would also like to note that I highly recommend staying away from the reduced, lowered, or free of whatever as they tend to have less of the real and necessary ingredients to make it magickal. 

So let's get into some of the ingredients it takes to bake, cooking oils, grain, and all that.

A

All Purpose Flour - All purpose uses and can sub when needing something to mix together or get sticky
Almond Oil - purification, anoint magical wands and candles
Apple Cider Vinegar - Healing
Arrowroot - use in place of bone meal and baking powder

B

Baking Powder/Soda - Banishing, raising energy, increasing expectations
Balsamic -  Made from vinegar and grapes, this would be used specifically to sour someone's luck, joy, or ruin their spirituality
Barley - Water for love spells, healing, grounding, protection, Lammas, treating nerves,
Barbecue Sauce - Most of the ingredients are actually sweeteners, so I would use to help bring a relationship back from the brink of break up, settle disputes, or it can also be used to cause these problems.
Blue Cheese Dressing - see blue cheese

Butter - Smoothing relationships, buttering someone up, tenacity
Buckwheat - grounding, prosperity, protection

C

Chia Seed - Stops gossip and back-talk

Coconut Oil - 

Cornmeal - Sigil making, casting circles
Corn Syrup - luck, protection, solidifying plans and ideas.

D

E

Egg - fertility, creation, see this post
Extract - depends on the flavor and if its all natural

F

Flax Seed - Money, protection, beauty, psychic powers 

G

Gravy - depends on the meat base

H

Hops - Sleep, happiness, health

Hot Sauce - Can depend on the pepper, but usually put in curses and break ups to sour or cause aggression

I

Italian Dressing - 

J

Jellies - Depends on the fruit

K

Ketchup - Healing, love, See tomatoes

L

Lard - 

M

Mayo - 

Mustard - 

N

O

Oats - Money, prosperity, offerings to the gods

Olive Oil - Sacred plant, can sub any magickal oil for anoiting, add to ritual water and holy water, spirituality
Oyster Sauce - 

P

Peanut Butter - Depends on the nut

Peanut Oil - 

Pesto - 

Pink Himalayan Salt - Love, self-love, beauty, happiness, etc

Q

R

Ranch -

Relish - See cucumber

Rice - Protection, fidelity 

Rye - Self-love, encouraging affection, fertility

S

Salt - There is a difference between sea and table salt. Table salt contain iodine. Iodine coagulates your blood, so this can help with the normal healing abilities. Sea salt is perfect for circles, sealing off an area, purification, health, healing, banishing, cleansing, etc. 

Soy Sauce - Protection 

Steak Sauce - 

Sunflower Oil - Sun rituals and magick, fiery situations, purification through fire.

T

Thousand Island - 

U

V

Vegetable Oil - this one is a little iffy. It can be used as a cheap anointing oil, but the results will wane over time. This is more for passing occurrences or making things spoil quickly.

Vinegar - Break ups, sours dispositions, can eve turn enemies working together against each other.
Vinaigrette -

W

Wheat - Sacred to the Mother Goddess, prosperity, rebirth, abundance, wishes, money, wheat flour divination

Worcestershire Sauce -  This is a fish based sauce, so it's likely to have water based properties such as healing and purifying. Its ingredients list also suggests banishing as well. 

X

Y

Yeast - Grounding, purification 

Z

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Kitchen Magick - Fruit

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Fruit

A

Apple: Fruit of the Gods, balance, harmony, health, strength, rebirth, peace, love, longevity

Apricots: sweetens someone's disposition, romance, passion, health, peace

Avocado: beauty, passion, arousal, fertility, improve dispositions,

B

Bananas: prosperity, male members, sex, money, love, happiness, wisdom

Blackberries: Wealth, wards away the evil eye, abundance, fertility, money, sex

Blueberries: Acceptance, peace, protection from psychic attack

C

Cantaloupe: Sweeten one's disposition, 

Cherries: Divination, finding love, discern the future, sex, potency, energy, creativity

Coconut: Purification, heath, diversity, chastity, abundance

Cranberries: Purification, banishing, fight negative energies

D

Dates: Celebrates death, potency, sex, fertility

Dragon Fruit: Strength, stamina, protection, energy

E

Elderberries:

F

Figs: meditation, fertility, love, good luck, abundance, infatuation

G

Grapefruit: health

Grapes: Spirituality, mental clarity, dream magick, visions, women's fertility, wealth, romance, prosperity, luck, joy, abundance

Guava: romantic fantasies, stress relief

H

Honeydew: Cleansing, healing, purification, home and hearth

Huckleberries: Fortune, home protection, banishing negative energies, dream magick, anti-negativity, banishment, good luck, wishes

I

J

Jackfruit: Protection,

K

Kiwi: happiness, health, longevity, love, romance

Kumquat: Luck, prosperity

L

Lemon: contact spirits, cursing, faithfulness, fidelity, friendship, growth, happiness, health, longevity, love, psychic powers, purification, marriage, overcoming addictions

Lime: cleansing, cursing, energy, healing, health, love, peace, protection, purification, relaxation, strength

M

Mandarin: (see orange)

Mango: Spiritually charged, elevation, lust, love, protection, balance, harmony

Mulberries: Fertility, protection, psychic awareness, strength, wisdom

N

Nectarine: Love

O

Olives: Abundance, goals, integrity, trust, favors, sexual potency, fertility, pregnancy

Oranges: Wealth, happiness, fertility, clarity, love, fidelity, quickness, peace, prosperity, generousness,

P

Passion Fruit: Passion, romance, friendship, calmness, relationships,

Papaya: Love, protection, fidelity, banishment, hex breaking,

Peaches: happiness, healing, fertility, longevity, love, wisdom, luck, lust, attention, virginity, youth, purity

Pear: Strength, lust, longevity, energy, love, sex, stress relief, arousal, confidence

Permission: Happiness, healing, love, sexual identity, change, wisdom

Pineapple: Love, lust, protection of one's possessions and family, chastity, creativity, fortune, memory, power, luck, prosperity

Plantain: (see banana)

Plums: Health, love, lust, protection. anti-negativity, adoration, attention, relaxing

Pomegranate: Luck, longevity, divination, beauty, abundance, fertility, creativity, hospitality, growth, wishes

Prickly Pear: Protection

Prunes: (see plums)

Q

Quince: Happiness, love, protection, romance, marital bliss

R

Raisins: (see grapes)

Raspberries: Courage, dreams, fertility, good luck, happiness, love, stamina, vigor, childbirth

Rhubarb: Willpower, reduces worry, dominance,

S

Star Fruit: Protection, lunar magick

Strawberries: Youth, peace, joy, love, prosperity, intensity, success,

T

Tangerine: Protection, (see orange)

U

Uva Ursi: Strength, healing

V

W

Watermelon: Cleansing, healing, purification

X

Y

Z









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Kitchen Magick - Vegetables

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Vegetables

A

Artichoke: Personal growth, protection, the bottoms are an aphrodisiac, grounding

Arugula: Wealth, prosperity

Asparagus: Lust, sex, male member

B

Bamboo Shoots: Luck

Beet: Beauty, love, passion, rebirth, love, fertility

Bell Pepper: Energy, strength, prosperity, growth

Bok Choy: Prosperity,

Broccoli: Protection, leadership, strength

Brussels Sprouts: Protection

C

Cabbage: lust, prosperity, protection, longevity, fertility, money, love, health

Carrot: fertility, grounding, luck, lust, dispels illusions, banishing, clarity, sex

Cauliflower: protection, lunar cycles,

Celery: grounding unspoken passions and lust, mental powers, peace, psychic powers, concentration, mental clarity

Chickpeas: Fertility, 

Chicory: Energy

Chives: Breaking habits, protection, exorcism, sex, addiction

Collards: Abundance, wealth, family, money

Corn: Abundance, attracts rain, burn to help up delivery 

Cucumber: Chasity, fertility, healing, peace, 

D

Dandelion Greens: Increases psychic powers, health, strength, wishes

E

Eggplant: Spirituality, money, prosperity, wealth

Endive: Love, lust, physical strength, attract lovers

Escarole: Fall crop, abundance, family

F

Fava Beans: Luck

G

Green Beans: decision making, grounding, love, lust, prosperity, protection, money, sex, divination, 

H

I

J

Jicama: Health

K

Kelp: Sea magick, weight loss, health

L

Leeks: Drives away evil and impurity, physical strength, protection

Lettuce: Peace, money, chastity, relaxation, sleep, psychic centering

Lotus Root: Wheel of the Year, changing, time, life, death, and rebirth

M

Mushrooms: Psychic awareness, strength, courage, health, spiritual journeys, 

N

O

Okra: Love, romance,

Onions: Endurance, healing, lust, prophetic dreams, prosperity, protection fro disease, used for oaths, exorcism, 

P

Parsnip: (see carrot)

Peas: Luck in love and finance, prosperity

Pickles: (see cucumber) 

Potatoes: Protection, compassion, potency, wishes, poppet magick, 

Pumpkins: Abundance, divination, money, prosperity

Q

R

Radicchio: Exotic, lust, wealth,

Radish: Lust, protection, wards off the evil eye, sacral chakra

Red Peppers: Energy, strength, vitality

Relish: Amplifies whatever it is added to, passion

Rhubarb: Love, protection, fertility, willpower, reduces worry,

Rutabagas: (see turnip)

S

Shallots: (see onion)

Snap Peas: (see peas)

Soy Beans: Abundance, prosperity, health, longevity, psychic awareness, spirituality

Spinach: Prosperity, strength, health, money

Squash: Spirituality, (see pumpkin and other squash)

Sweet Potatoes: Nurturing, family, sex, love

T

Tomatillo: wealth, prosperity, money, luck

Tomatoes: Healing, love, prosperity, protection, romance, repels negative energies, health, 

Truffle: Love, lust, aphrodisiac, wealth, power

Turnip: Wards off unwanted presences, keep away evil spirits, banishing, 

U

V

W

Watercress: Fertility, mental powers, protection, longevity, strength, wisdom

X

Y

• Yams: (see sweet potato)

Yellow Pepper: Empowered creativity

Z

Zucchini: Abundance, prosperity, sex, 








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Into to Kitchen Magick

What is Kitchen Magick?

Kitchen Magick, or Witchery, is the use of cooking for spells. This includes everything from potions and drinks to full meals. Every item used is picked for a specific use to either create a whole spell. You can add to it by using sigils and symbols carved into meats, bay leaves, pies, etc. This extensively uses herbal knowledge, but incorporates the magickal properties of meats and other foods that you wouldn't normally use in entry level spell work.

We're going to split this up into separate posts for each section of foods. This will make this MUCH easier to navigate and use for future research. I'll also include some easy recipes and spreads for your dining pleasure. Click the links to read the information.

Spices and Herbs:

A-D

E-H

I-L

M-P

Q-T

U-Z

Meats, Fish, and Other Proteins

Vegetables

Fruits

Grains, Breads, Baked Goods

Dairy, Sweet, Sugars

Cooking Oils, Alcohol, and Other Ingredients

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Fertility and Family Magick Spells

Fertility and Family

Fertility is a complex issue with many facets of it's own. It can be an issue with simply wanting your partner to be on board with family planning to dealing with more sensitive issues such as not being able to get pregnant. In thist section, I'll also include things like menstrual cycles and, of course, actual pregnant spells since they do play a large roll in fertility and family planning. Family spells can include anything from keeping your family close knit, to protection, to just having fun or increasing that love and bond. 

Family Planning

Fertility spells can be a very intimate issue. A lot of times this comes with impotance and having to find a way around it. Unfortunately, magick is not a fix-all and when dealing with these issues, I always suggest going to a doctor and using modern methods as a first source with spells being something of a booster. There are multiple spells out there meant to assist you with getting pregnant including some really great kitchen witchery. I have meals planned out to help with getting pregnant as well as the stages of pregnancy. I've researched some great male and female specific impotancy ingredients, like clotsfoot. So don't feel like you won't be able to find something that fits your specific need sufficiently, it's just... Touchy. There's also work that can be done to increase libido, reduce stress, and try to increase intimacy because all of those can be a factor if it's not medical, as well keeping up with your diet and exercise. I'veI've f knot spells to keep a baby safe in the womb until it's ready to be birthed and other really useful information googling around, but all of these things should come with a warning that they may not work. Nothing in life is guaranteed and sometimes all the charms in world won't help. Even from my very religious views, sometimes it's just the Gods' will. I've seen spells where you can go for a very particular gender, and honestly, i wouldn'tw trust those at all. I would also put in this category adopting spells, simply because of the nature of the situation. You're still bringing a new love into your life.

Here are some foods for fertility:

Avacados, Carrots/Parsnips, Bananas, Apples, Strawberries, Cherries, Chestnuts, Asparagus, Beef, Cabbage, Celery, Cucumber

The Knot Spell to Help Pregnancy: 

If you are having trouble carrying to term, use this spell in combination with your conception ritual. Begin by getting a sturdy piece of green rope (for growth). Tie one knot in it to represent the baby. Hold the rope gently in both hands and place it up against your heart and say, “Secured in my womb, a seed of love. There to grow and blossom until released by nature __months hence. Surrounded by safety, health, and wholeness you shall remain until this knot is undone.” Fill in the blank with the number of months until your due date, then keep the rope bundled in a baby blanket. When you go into labour, untie the knot at the hospital to release any pain and open the birth canal. (Credit to The Black Witch Coven)

Amulets to wear during pregnancy:

Cherry or avacado pits, and there's a couple other herbs to wear to help ease delivery. ( I sell some in my shop.)

Family Magick:

So as I said above, these include anything assisting your family and home.  A lot of this work will include dirt from the four corners of your home so that the spell has a kind of barrier, especially when it comes to protection spells. I prefer doing knot spells using the hair and clothes, like socks, when performing any kind of family magick because I feel those are just the best type over a candle spell. It's a lot more personal like it should be. There's, also, of course kitchen magick that would play a large role in family relationship magick, or scents that are often found around the house are good to keep for later get togethers. There's also work here to help you get out of pending poisonous family situations, because, of course, sometimes those things just happen. For those I suggest again some kind of knot or cord spell and even probably with dolls. I keep dolls of myself and my husband for ongoing work and I plan on making ones for my kids later on. There's a lot to use these for in terms of sicknesses and life situations where they made need an extra bit of help than the mundane can give. I do sell a jar spell to help the family get along in my shop as well as handmade Cornhusk dolls. 

Knot spell to keep family close:

Take a sock from each person, preferably a used one still dirty. Take a strand of their hair and place it in the sock. Tie one sock to another until they form one long rope of socks. Tie the first and last sock together to join them saying:

"We are bound by blood

We are a family given to each other for love, support, trust, and happiness.

We are now bound through these knots to uphold those truths and honor and hold each other in our hearts.

A family is a bond never broken and neither will these knots."

Place this up somewhere out of reach in the home where it won't be disturbed. If you ever feel the need the cleanse your family of negative energy or to renew this love and bond, you can wash these socks in an appropriate herbal bath.

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Type of Relationship Magick - Friendship, Love, Marriage

The Steps of Love

So as stated in the last post, we were going over the different types of relationship magick. I feel that all of these play a role in relationship, more commonly known as "love", magick because they are all involving that same emotion, just on different levels. You have to first love yourself to find a true friend. You have to be friends with your significant other to make the relationship last. They all are intertwined and so they all work the same way. 

A Platonic Love

Friendship Spells are usually more involved than just making friends. It's overcoming anxiety in a new place or in your everyday life to become more sociable. It can be about coming out as yourself, your true self, and wanting people to see the better part of you. You could be in a situation that involves fake or poisonous friends who are really out to bring you down instead of raise you high above in whatever path you choose. Having that stepping stone in life is very important and should always be built upon. You really only need a handful of real friends, but it's attracting them into your life that is the difficult part. As a mom with toddlers, I know this is a struggle. You want your kids to have friends, so you feel you should befriend the parents of their play dates, but those are so often superficial and can later on be more hurtful. 

A simple friendship spell:

Take a yellow candle and carve into it your desire:

"Making new friends", "True friendship", "gaining confidence", etc

Use:

Salt - for good vibes

Orange - joy, blessings, and frienship

Lavender - happiness, general relationship herb

If you're attracting - Catnip

If you're wanting to be rid of Negative friendships or emotions - Lemon

As you mix the herbs together, think of your intention. You can write your own spell and say it as make the mixture and place it around your candle as well. Burn the candle down in the herbs and keep the wax in your living room, preferably near the door.

First Comes Love

Love and marriage spells are fairly self-explanatory. They're meant to attract that energy your way or to grow on the emotions already there. As I said before, you can't FORCE someone to love you. This initial misunderstanding on how to work these is where you'll find a lot of failures in your spell work. Unless they are causing you emotional harm or already experience those wants, the spell simply has nothing to work with. Most of the time these spells are used as a push in a direction they're simply too scared to walk down themselves or they feel like the romance won't be reciprocated. This can even include the Ducky's left in the friend zone. (If you get that entire reference, we're both old.)

Here's some sweet love and marriage spells:

Carve off an entire apple skin in one full piece. Ask who you're going to marry three times and toss it over your shoulder. The skin will land in the initial of your future spouse. If you fail three times, you'll never marry. 

Slice an apple in half and pull out the seeds. Name each seed, one at a time, and toss it into a fire. If it suits back, then that's the name of your next love interest. 

The Handfasting: when you marry, you may see many pagans using cord to wrap around their hands during their vows. This is symbolic of their union and also a spell to bind them to one another.

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Glamorous Magick and Fashion Spells

What is Glamour?

The word glamour was anglicized by a writer, Sir Walter Scott, from the Scotish word gramarye and literally meant a spell which would effect what the eyes were perceiving. It then slowly turned into the word glamorous, but without all the witchy tones. It was not so much spell binding as it was simply irregularly beautiful. The ideal of being glamorous transforms from culture to culture, country to country, and even city to city. It has been what made red hair evil and pale skin the desired trait. It also has shaped our very DNA from the most likely eye colors to the average height. It's caused diets and fashion crazes, even toys and what drives modern day society, because being glamorous may be what you're decorating your house with this season or that nice new TV you can't really afford. However, how does that tie into magick and paganism?

How to Use Fashion in Glamour Spells

This obsession with being in the limelight and having beauty or money has been the stage we all sit on when we open any of our social medias, especially Instagram. It's more a play on real life than it is actual reality; a facade. It's a spell we cast on those scrolling to get them to stop and pause for a nanosecond. We can take that power of color and fabric and transform ourselves just by following certain trends. It's said people only perceive what they want to, anyway, so by using that you can instead have them see what you're wanting them to.

Use jewelry to add to the effect. Wearing gemstones is pretty standard form of glamour, but did you know about metals? Aluminum is reflective, so works best for protection, while copper is the best at conducting and would be best for pushing away any of your current negative energies. Iron is the all purpose metal, but is best used for grounding and earthy magicks. Zinc is transformative and nickel solves problems or helps to aid in other metals. You can learn more about metals in this very descriptive blog.

Cotton is a relaxing fabric known to be more free and gives the perception of comfort. While we all look at sweaters and think cozy or safe, other will see the same in a scarf or a particular pair of shoes. Think of your wardrobe as being a backstage. Carefully pull out colors to match a mood and give off a certain aura. Want to look friendly and approachable? Wear yellow or pastels. Want to be bold? Go for gold, red, or even orange. Watch the way each piece of fabric drapes and moves as that will also be part of the spell. And, yes, you can actually enchant your clothes. I have a dress I like to wear when I'm not feeling so confident and need boost. I pair it with a floppy sun hat for an upper class look or wear my hair loose for everyday. The experts aren't lying about "dressing for success". If you want to BE successful, dress as such and others will already assume you are. This isn't saying to go out and buy an Armani suit, but that the clearance rack at Kohl's is a pretty awesome hustle.

Other Things to Use in Glamour Magick

Go by the moon, and make looks that will have you following the phases so that retrogrades don't turn you upside down. Use the days of the week for certain situations. Have it down and planned. This is definitely something that is more thought provoking and can take time to master, but don't get stressed. If you want the inner you to shine through, I highly suggest some deep meditation before you go shopping so you're guided to what you need more than what others want. Just always make sure to have fun.



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