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🍞 Thyme Focaccia, a simple spell to attract good health. 🍞 Perfect for Lughnasadh / Lammas 🍞

Ingredients

7g fast action yeast or 15g fresh yeast

1tsp sugar

200mL warm water (37°C/100°F)

350g strong white bread flour

4tbsp olive oil

1tsp grounded salt

1tsp grounded pepper

A good handful of fresh thyme (the more the better honestly)

Recipe

In a bowl, mix the yeast with sugar and warm water until frothy. Let it rest, if the foam is growing, your yeast is activated.

In a big bowl, mix flour, salt, pepper and thyme together. Make a small hole and add the olive oil and the mix of yeast and water.

Knead everything for at least 10 minutes (if you're doing it by had) or 5 minutes if you are using a robot.

Form a big ball and rub a bit of oil around it. Put in a clean bowl, recover with cling film and let it rise until doubled in size (about 1 hour - 1h30) in a warm place protected from the wind (it will not rise)

Flatten the dough into a baking sheet, cover again and let it rise again for 1 hour.

Pre heat the oven 220°C / 425°F.

Lightly press the top of the dough with your fingers to make little dimples, drizzle with a bit of olive oil. Cook for about 15 minutes, until the top is a lovely golden colour.

Magick

Lughnasadh or Lammas is known as the feast of bread, this recipe would be perfect for your celebrations!

In this recipe thyme is used to attract good health. The plant was burned by the Greeks to purify temples. It is also carried and smelled to give courage and energy. Salt and Pepper are for protection.

Don't forget to prepare yourself and your kitchen when you are doing this spell. Before preforming kitchen witchery I always meditate on my intention, take a cleansing shower. I also prepare my kitchen: I clean it and cleanse it. I also love listening to music when I am cooking. I take the time to really feel the energy of the ingredients I am cooking with. If you are working with deities, a simple prayer and a offering can help! If you don't prepare yourself and your space you are just cooking, there is nothing magical in it.

Seeing the bread rising is kind of magical in itself, it reconnect with an ancestral tradition. To me the fact of rising enhance the properties of the other ingredients.

I am THRILLED by some facts I have finally learned. Look at this helpless, goofy creature. The way it moves is adorable. It is very very bad at it. Does this look like something capable of tunneling through flesh?? This is a scabies or “mange” mite and all I heard all my life is that they “burrow” into skin, but I’d always wonder how this animal does such a thing. It’s a fat blob with little soft feet and a teeny, tiny mouth. You hear that something burrows in flesh and you imagine something pretty sleek and bladed and sinister, not a chubby sweet potato!!!

Somehow the details of the process managed to elude me my entire life, maybe the whole question just slipping out of my mind before I’d look any further into it, but today I finally found a scientific paper with this beautiful juicy explanation:

“Mites placed on the skin secrete a clear fluid (presumably saliva) that forms a pool around their body. It appears that the stratum corneum is dissolved (lysed) and the mite sinks into a depression in the skin. As it sinks, legs I and II seem to move in a tortoise like fashion (digging, crawling/swimming motion). The action of the legs propels the mite forward as a tunnel-burrow in the stratum corneum is formed.”

Who would ever JUST call that “burrowing” and call it a day!? They don’t burrow into skin they MELT into skin!!! They melt skin and they waddle their way through the melting with their dumb little wiggle legs ““like a tortoise!”“ That’s so whimsical! It’s also terrible but that makes it even more whimsical! Horrible, sleepy potatoes just leak acid and dissolve into your body! It isn’t even the burrow per se that causes itching and pain, people can get actual wounds that don’t feel as shitty as a mange mite; the reason it feels like torture is your immune system freaking out around it, especially as the mite keeps laying eggs and pooping in there. The little potato monsters melts into your skin and lives in there and eats the skin soup but also poops in it. Nature made that! There are several species so nature thought she should make that more than once. I think she hates you but at least she’s funny!

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