All Souls' Day Bread

4 yeast cakes (fertility and money)

2 cups milk

8 cups flour (fertility and money)

1 teaspoon salt (protection)

8 egg yolks (fertility)

2 cups sugar (love)

1 teaspoon grated orange peel (love and money)

1 teaspoon grated lemon peel (protection)

1/2 cup butter

1 teaspoon poppy seeds (luck and invisibility)

Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of milk, and add 1 cup of flour.  Sprinkle a little flour on top and let rise until size doubles.  Add salt and egg yolks, beat until thick.  Add sugar and peels and mix with other ingredients.  Add 2 cups flour and remaining milk, alternating each so that the mixture doesn't get too dry or too wet.  Knead for 5 to 10 minutes, saying:

Blessings upon the living

Prayers for the dead.

Hum if you like or chant.  Add remaining flour and butter and knead until dough comes away from your hands.  Set dough in a warm place, covered with a warm, damp cloth, until it rises double in bulk.  Separate into 4 parts, braid.  Brush top with beaten egg yolks and sprinkle with poppy seed.  Let rise. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Silver RavenWolf

"Halloween"

Pumpkin Bread

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour (fertility and money)

1 1/2 cups sugar (love)

3/4 teaspoon salt (protection)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (spirituality and protection)

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg (luck and health)

1 cup canned pumpkin (abundance)

1/3 cup water (cleansing)

2 large eggs (fertility)

1 teaspoon vanilla ( love and mental powers)

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (health and wishes - will counteract a fertility spell)

confectioners sugar

Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well.  In a different bowl, combine pumpkin, water, eggs, vanilla, and oil.  Mix well.  Add dry ingredients slowly and beat thoroughly.  Stir in nuts and pour batter into a greased oaf pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 75-80 minutes (but watch different ovens may lengthen or shorten that time).  Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.  Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.  Makes 1 loaf.

Silver Ravenwolf

"Halloween"