Saturday Seeds and Spores
Traditional, old and beautiful recipes and things to make in this season.
The seeds and spores I offer you in this fortnightly post, are winter, Yule and solstice recipes that can help us to honour the season we are in, our bodies and the earth at this time.
Seasonal recipes have been handed down within communities, from person to person, lovingly brought to life over and over as part of our sacred celebrations.
Here are a few things I love making at this time, and some things I will try to make this year.
DRINK ME
Herbal Hot Toddies
A hot toddy is traditionally a hot whiskey drink with lemon. But, today, variations and recipes abound with folks making hot toddies out of rum, whiskey, or bourbon. Our winter herbal hot toddies tend to focus on warming herbs—those that induce circulation that brings a gentle heat throughout the body.
Variations of these winter herbal cocktails can include:
Ginger rhizome – By stimulating circulation and energy, it enhances the “fire” in the body that supports digestion, heart health, immunity, and reproductive system vigour and balance .