{"id":10871,"date":"2015-03-01T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T22:55:51","slug":"witchcrafting-crafts-for-witches-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2015\/03\/01\/witchcrafting-crafts-for-witches-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Witchcrafting: Crafts for Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Bread for Cakes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Merry Meet<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Italian-Bread-Cake.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11271\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Italian-Bread-Cake-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"Italian Bread Cake\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every Easter, my Catholic Sicilian grandmother made a special bread. It was a bit sweet, braided and had colored eggs in it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when planning cakes and ale for Ostara, it occurred to me to use this bread \u2013 after all, Easter does draw on may Spring Equinox celebrations. I was able to special order a braided ring, complete with eggs, from an Italian bakery, even though Easter was still weeks away. (See photo.)<\/p>\n<p>This year, I plan to make my own. I feel it honors my ancestors and keeps a tradition alive, albeit modified. Gram\u2019s recipe died with her, but I think the one below will come close.<\/p>\n<p>My Germanic ancestors also baked a similar sweet braided wreath decorated with eggs for Easter. Look to your ancestors for a traditional Easter food. In England, that might be hot cross buns; in Poland, it\u2019s babka.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><em>I found\u00a0a wonderful\u00a0<\/em><i>recipe by Marbalet online at <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">allrecipes.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"\">Merry part. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And merry meet again<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bread for Cakes Merry Meet &nbsp; Every Easter, my Catholic Sicilian grandmother made a special bread. It was a bit sweet, braided and had colored eggs in it. Last year, when planning cakes and ale for Ostara, it occurred to me to use this bread \u2013 after all, Easter does draw on may Spring Equinox celebrations. I was able to special order a braided ring, complete with eggs, from an Italian bakery, even though Easter was still weeks away. (See photo.) This year, I plan to make my own. I feel it honors my ancestors and keeps a tradition alive, albeit modified. Gram\u2019s recipe died with her, but I think the one below will come close. My Germanic ancestors also baked a similar sweet braided wreath decorated with eggs for Easter. Look to your ancestors for a traditional Easter food. In England, that might be hot cross buns; in Poland, it\u2019s babka. I found\u00a0a wonderful\u00a0recipe by Marbalet online at allrecipes.com.\u00a0 Merry part. And merry meet again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}