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 Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:13 pm
LAMMAS/IMBOLC Welcome, everyone, to our Lammas/Imbolc celebration! The celebration will be running until Friday 5th, then voting will run for a week. If you want to enter the contests, please make sure to enter before that date. Prizes:1st Prize - Aquatica 2nd Prize - 8,000 3rd Prize - 4,000 Everyone who doesn't win a raffle prize will get 300 gaia gold. To be entered in the raffle you must post something sabbat related in THIS thread. It can be a Lammas/Imbolc ritual, spell, craft, recipe...The list goes on! So post away. Though you can only be entered into the raffle once. You can find the Party in the Moonlight Market. Just look for all of the threads titled [Party]. We hope you enjoy yourself and have an awesome Lammas/Imbolc 2011!
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:41 am
Happy Lammas everyone heart
I like posting recipes because I think its fun to try new things and what a better time to try something new then on a sabbat biggrin
Brigid's Blackberry Pie
Recipe by Edain McCoy
(Makes one nine-inch pie)
4 cups fresh blackberries (thawed frozen is okay)
1-1/2 cups sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
Unbaked pie crust
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a deep pie dish with the pie crust, or purchase a commercially-made one. Set aside. Mix all other ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. If it appears too "wet", mix in a little more flour (about 2 tablespoons). Turn the fruit into the pie shell and dot with butter or margarine. You can bake the pie as is, or cover it with another pie crust. If you do this, pinch down the ends to hold it to the other crust. Then score the top several times with a sharp knife. Bake for 1 hour, or until the top crust is a golden brown. (Note: A sugar-free version can be made by substituting appropriate amounts of artificial sweetener.)
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:54 am
Lammas comes from the Anglo-Saxon "Loaf Mass", and it is traditional to make bread for this holiday. Instead of just a bread recipe, I'm including a bread craft!
Bread Dough Wreath
Equipment: Mixing bowl; plastic wrap; cookie sheet; aluminum foil; rolling pin; toothpicks; fork; knife; wire rack; paintbrush for varnish or shellac.
Materials: Bread dough recipe below; whole cloves; varnish or shellac; epoxy cement.
Bread Dough Recipe: 4 cups flour; 1 cup salt; 1 1/2 cups warm water; 1 tsp. instant tea (heaping).
Mix the flour and salt together. To the 1 1/2 cups warm water, add 1 heaping teaspoon of plain instant tea. Dissolve well; let cool. Add liquid tea to flour mixture; mix very well with hands. Knead until smooth. Roll into ball; cover with plastic wrap.
Directions: Cover cookie sheet with aluminum foil. Preheat oven to 300° F.
Pinch off a large piece of dough; roll into a long sausage shape, then shape into a circle on cookie sheet. Wet ends and press together. Circle may be any size you desire, but keep in mind how much dough you have left with which to add ornamentation. Our wreath, without decorations, has approximately an 8" outer diameter with a 5" diameter center opening, and is about 1/2" thick.
To decorate wreath, pinch off pieces of dough and roll out with rolling pin or flatten with hands to about 1/4" thickness. Cut out leaf shapes with knife. Score each leaf with knife to mark the vein lines. Moisten back of each leaf with a little water; press on wreath. Make the largest fruit next (apples, pears, peaches). Press whole cloves into dough for stems and core ends of fruit: for stems of apples and pears, push clove bud into dough, leaving the stem end out; for the core ends of fruit, press in the stem end of the clove, exposing just the bud from which the ball of clove has been removed. Wet the wreath circle and attach the fruit pieces. Fill in spaces with clusters of grape, strawberry, nut, and a few plum shapes. Imprint texture and lines with toothpick or fork.
To make bow, roll out dough to 1/4" thickness; cut a long strip (20" x 24") about 1 1/4" wide. Fold and pinch strip into bow; cut away ends as illustrated. Place bow separately on foil-covered cookie sheet.
Bake wreath and bow in preheated 300° F. oven for 3 hours or until completely dry and hard (if bow is done before wreath, tear foil and remove bow from oven). Place on wire rack and let cool. Peel off foil. Leave on rack for several days in dry place.
Coat wreath and bow separately with varnish or shellac. When dry, cement bow to wreath, using epoxy cement as directed on package.
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I hope everyone has a most wonderful Lammas/Lughnasadh and Imbolc! biggrin
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:44 am
Special Activities:As summer passes, many Pagans celebrate this time to remember its warmth and bounty in a celebrated feast shared with family or Coven members. Save and plant the seeds from the fruits consumed during the feast or ritual. If they sprout, grow the plant or tree with love and as a symbol of your connection with the Lord and Lady. Walk through the fields and orchards or spend time along springs, creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes reflecting on the bounty and love of the Lord and Lady.
Happy Lammas smile
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:11 pm
Lammas! Whenever I say Lammas in my head, I keep saying Lame a** sweatdrop 
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:16 pm
A delicious apple pie for desert. :]
Ingredients
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.
Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:53 pm
I'm so happy that its going to be Lammas here so soon! I'm really looking forward to celebrating it tomorrow! I'm making bread, leaving an offering, I have a special blessing to say over everything I eat that day and I really hoping to do some reflection! Anyway I hope yo guys have a wonderful Lammas! 
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:12 am
I'm celebrating Lammas with my small coven today. Should be great smile And we're doing an outdoor ritual. Then we're going to leave an offering for the deities, and give to the earth as a thanks.
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:47 am
Wow...I really envy some of you guys. I haven't been able to do much in the form of rituals for sabbats thanks to being the only pagan in a highly christian family. I don't even have a coven I can do things with since life caused us to go seperate ways years ago. My granny has a really good banana nut bread recipe that I can post...once I find it in the mess I call my recipe collection lol
EDIT: Well, I can't find the recipe, so I'm not going to be able to post it, and the option of posting a pic of my alter now that it's set up for the fall season isn't even posible since my brother still has my camera.
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:45 am
Blessed Lammas and Imbolc! I'm on vacation, so I really can't do much.
As well as Lammas, I am celebrating the Days Upon the Year, the days in which the five Children of Nut and Geb were born.
I hope everyone has a blessed day and a wonderful week!
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:57 am
I'll be going to an open ceremony by a local coven next Saturday. Part of the ritual will be bringing tools of our trade to get blessed for the upcoming year. We'll then burn a corn dolly in a bonfire that we'll have a chance to leap over to cleanse ourselves. smile
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:24 pm
Hello everyone! This Lammas, I went to a Druid celebration. We (my friend and I) got there just as they were starting their meditation. We joined in and then everyone processed through the woods to their Grove. As we went, they started this chant that I really liked:
Now we come as a people
To gather at the sacred well,
Now we come as a people
To gather in the warmth and the light of the flame!
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:58 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:39 pm
Here is a list of everybody who is eligible for the raffle!
1. Abbie913
2. Kaitiaki
3. LacrymosaVampiress22
4. koudelkaW
5. Pixii Stixx
6. Musical_Vampire_Socks
7. Azareas Aquarinus
8. Nandoral
9. Aiedaile
10. lifeaura
11. Mystic White Raven
12. zabazor
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The_Blessed_Mule generated a random number between
1 and 12 ...
2!
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:42 pm
First prize goes to...
Kaitiaki!
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