{"id":15114,"date":"2017-10-01T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=15668"},"modified":"2017-09-22T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:28:53","slug":"the-kitchen-witch-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/10\/01\/the-kitchen-witch-26\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kitchen Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enchanting Apple Crisp<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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To me, it is not a proper Samhain celebration without a dish made of apples. Apples are sacred to several of my favorite goddesses and long ago, I took the name \u201cAppleQueen\u201d as a magical name. Apples, harvested in the fall, are a perfect offering for this Sabbat. Hecate is the goddess of Samhain but do not forget that Pomona, the goddess of Apples, has her own feast day November 1. Influenced by the Romans, the Celts easily integrated this feast day into their own Samhain festivities and later, when the Christians came, and Pagan rites went underground or were turned into some other acceptable form, Pagan divinations using apples passed into folk-lore. Many of these divinatory acts were turned into Halloween party games such as bobbing for apples or peeling an apple and then throwing the peel onto the hearth to see what letter it would create, believing that whatever letter you would see would predict the first letter of the person you would marry someday! I remember doing this with my sisters and cousins when I was a young girl. I also remember getting thoroughly soaked bobbing for apples in a large wooden trough at a Halloween party at my friend Joanna\u2019s house when I was twelve. I was dressed as Raggedy Ann and my red yarn wig came off in the water and was floating around with the apples!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I was born in May during the time of apple blossoms. My mother told me that she craved apples the entire time she was pregnant with me. She said she ate \u201cbushels\u201d of apples when I was growing within her. \u201cThe sweetest apples that fall,\u201d she remembered. Perhaps this is why I love apples so much and why I took \u201cAppleQueen\u201d as a magical name. There are apples everywhere you look in my home. In my old age, I have grown round like an apple. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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If I am invited out to a Samhain gathering, usually I will make an apple pie \u2013 a classic two-crust pie or maybe a Dutch Apple pie with a yummy streusel topping \u2013 but nowadays it seems like I\u2019m so stressed for time and pies take a lot of time to do properly. So here is a quick recipe for Apple Crisp. Like so many of my *best* recipes, it\u2019s based on one of my mother\u2019s. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Apple Crisp<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups apples, peeled, cored & sliced (about 4 or 5 apples, depending on size)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bd cup brown sugar, packed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc cup flour<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc cup oats<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bd teaspoon cinnamon<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bc teaspoon nutmeg<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4 tablespoons soft butter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9\u201dx5\u201dx3\u201d pan. Place apples in the pan. Blend the remaining ingredients until crumbly. Spread the sugar-flour mixture over apples evenly. Bake 30-35 minutes, until apples are soft and topping is golden brown. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I put red sugar sprinkles on the top of the sugar-flour mixture before baking and as you can see, it made the apple crisp look really festive! And of course \u2013 you have to have ice cream for a topping! I topped my serving with maple walnut ice cream \u2013 it was divine! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is literally one of the quickest and easiest recipes you will ever make and I will tell you something else \u2013 it won\u2019t last the night. This recipe serves 4 to 6 people but I have to confess \u2013 I ate it ALL myself! AND I AM NOT SORRY!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Brightest Blessings!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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References:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/jessicajewettonline.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Enchanting Apple Crisp   To me, it is not a proper Samhain celebration without a dish made of apples. Apples are sacred to several of my favorite goddesses and long ago, I took the name \u201cAppleQueen\u201d as a magical name. Apples, harvested in the fall, are a perfect offering for this Sabbat. Hecate is the goddess of Samhain but do not forget that Pomona, the goddess of Apples, has her own feast day November 1. Influenced by the Romans, the Celts easily integrated this feast day into their own Samhain festivities and later, when the Christians came, and Pagan rites went underground or were turned into some other acceptable form, Pagan divinations using apples passed into folk-lore. Many of these divinatory acts were turned into Halloween party games such as bobbing for apples or peeling an apple and then throwing the peel onto the hearth to see what letter it would create, believing that whatever letter you would see would predict the first letter of the person you would marry someday! I remember doing this with my sisters and cousins when I was a young girl. I also remember getting thoroughly soaked bobbing for apples in a large wooden trough at a Halloween party at my friend Joanna\u2019s house when I was twelve. I was dressed as Raggedy Ann and my red yarn wig came off in the water and was floating around with the apples! I was born in May during the time of apple blossoms. My mother told me that she craved apples the entire time she was pregnant with me. She said she ate \u201cbushels\u201d of apples when I was growing within her. \u201cThe sweetest apples that fall,\u201d she remembered. Perhaps this is why I love apples so much and why I took \u201cAppleQueen\u201d as a magical name. There are apples everywhere you look in my home. In my old age, I have grown round like an apple. If I am invited out to a Samhain gathering, usually I will make an apple pie \u2013 a classic two-crust pie or maybe a Dutch Apple pie with a yummy streusel topping \u2013 but nowadays it seems like I\u2019m so stressed for time and pies take a lot of time to do properly. So here is a quick recipe for Apple Crisp. Like so many of my *best* recipes, it\u2019s based on one of my mother\u2019s. Apple Crisp 2 cups apples, peeled, cored & sliced (about 4 or 5 apples, depending on size) \u00bd cup brown sugar, packed \u00bc cup flour \u00bc cup oats \u00bd teaspoon cinnamon \u00bc teaspoon nutmeg 4 tablespoons soft butter Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9\u201dx5\u201dx3\u201d pan. Place apples in the pan. Blend the remaining ingredients until crumbly. Spread the sugar-flour mixture over apples evenly. Bake 30-35 minutes, until apples are soft and topping is golden brown. I put red sugar sprinkles on the top of the sugar-flour mixture before baking and as you can see, it made the apple crisp look really festive! And of course \u2013 you have to have ice cream for a topping! I topped my serving with maple walnut ice cream \u2013 it was divine! This is literally one of the quickest and easiest recipes you will ever make and I will tell you something else \u2013 it won\u2019t last the night. This recipe serves 4 to 6 people but I have to confess \u2013 I ate it ALL myself! AND I AM NOT SORRY!! Brightest Blessings! References: http:\/\/jessicajewettonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}