With This Spoon I Stir
Written by Staff Writer: Lady Clestina
Pot of Tea
Hello Again, Dearies…..
With my spoon I stir my cauldron.
A little to the right, a little to the left.
A little pinch of this, a little dab of that….
The cauldron is an ancient and honoured tool
of the witch. In that black, three-legged, bail-handled
pot many a witch has stirred & cooked up a brew, potion
herbal infusion and even lunch and the requisite pot of tea.
“Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble” cackled the black clad,
warty-nosed Hollywood celluloid horror.
Most witches do not look anything like Margaret Hamilton,
Dorothy’s frightening Wicked Witch. Neither are we the Glamour Dolls
of TV’s Charmed. We are wives, girlfriends, lovers, mothers,
sisters and daughters. We do not fly on our besoms {ritual, ceremonial
brooms}but drive our Ford’s, Chevy’s and Toyota;s. Some of us even drive
pick-em-up trucks. There’s nothing quite like the reaction and
response of a man of a certain age when he see’s a girl getting in and
out of her full sized truck. Boy’s might think trucks are for them but
we girls know better. What is more important - rumbling down the road
with an illegal six-pack feeding your ego with a load of cinderblock in the
truck bed - or hauling home a a new collection of bedding plants and the weeks
groceries? Boys will always be boys - but trucks are for girls. To be fair to the
bearded gender there is the occasional working magus or wizard with garden
blocks, trees and lunch…..
I see that our water is again approaching boiling. We can now turn down
the heat and after a moment to let the water stop bubbling boiling so violently.
We can pour the water over our tea ball that is waiting in the ceramic tea pot.
Inside the metal mesh teaball are our tea leaves. This is a very useful
alternative to teabags - especially when you want to use fresh tea leaves.
The teaball is a metal mesh ball with a short chain and hook that just fits over the
handle of the teapot. With out water poured on, our tea is brewing.
We now have a few moments to set out the plants we have brought home.
Until next time -
I’m Lady Celestina.
With This Spoon I Stir
Written by Staff Writer: Lady Clestina
With This Spoon I Stir
Hello and Welcome.
I’m Lady Celestina.
What you dearies see beside me is my Cauldron.
It’s big, black and bubbling…..
As you can clearly see I’m holding a large wooden spoon.
I prefer wooden spoons. They just work better.
Let’s see what is happening with the Cauldron…..
With a few quick stirs to the left and right
we can see that the Cauldron is bubbling quite nicely.
We are very close to boiling. We do not want the water
to boil. So we turn down the heat. Yes. We are
cooking on a stove top. Modern Stove tops are so
wonderful and convenient. Cooking on a modern electric
or gas stove is so much easier than piling up the twigs
and branches and lighting off the pyre. You can control
the heat and it is not a point of conversation with the
nosey neighbors!
Now that we have turned down the heat we can add the oatmeal.
Yes. Oatmeal. We witches cannot endure and survive on just
potions, brews, veggies and herbs you know. Especially here in
Alaska. Everybody does remember the group “Three Dog Night"?
That’s how the Innuit - Please do not call them Eskimo - know how cold
it is. It’s either a one, two or three dog night. Here sleeping with
the dogs means you stay warm at night. Your familiars like it too!
The water is bubbling much less now. We now slowly stir in the oatmeal.
Slow and steady stirring gets it done. We don’t want lumpy oatmeal -
now do we?
We can now turn down the heat completely and the let the oatmeal simmer
using the residual heal from the stove.
We can now check on the coffee - or tea. The water there is now boiling
so we can turn it down now also. We don’t want to make either coffee or
tea with boiling water. We wait just a short moment- so when we pour it
the
water is not splashing and splurting everywhere. We pour the water into
the
tea pot or Fresh Press for the coffee. We set out the bowls for the
oatmeal.
I prefer these large, oversized mugs. These are good because you can
hold them and get warmed.
The oatmeal is done and we can serve it up into the mugs now.
I like raisins and some cinnamon and brown-sugar. You can season
to your own tastes.
There you go.
Fresh oatmeal from the Cauldron.
Hot coffee and Tea.
And you thought we witches only served up potions!
Tootles!
Lady C.
With This Spoon I Stir
Hello and Welcome.
I’m Lady Celestina.
What you dearies see beside me is my Cauldron.
It’s big, black and bubbling…..
As you can clearly see I’m holding a large wooden spoon.
I prefer wooden spoons. They just work better.
Let’s see what is happening with the Cauldron…..
With a few quick stirs to the left and right
we can see that the Cauldron is bubbling quite nicely.
We are very close to boiling. We do not want the water
to boil. So we turn down the heat. Yes. We are
cooking on a stove top. Modern Stove tops are so
wonderful and convenient. Cooking on a modern electric
or gas stove is so much easier than piling up the twigs
and branches and lighting off the pyre. You can control
the heat and it is not a point of conversation with the
nosey neighbors!
Now that we have turned down the heat we can add the oatmeal.
Yes. Oatmeal. We witches cannot endure and survive on just
potions, brews, veggies and herbs you know. Especially here in
Alaska. Everybody does remember the group “Three Dog Night"?
That’s how the Innuit - Please do not call them Eskimo - know how cold
it is. It’s either a one, two or three dog night. Here sleeping with
the dogs means you stay warm at night. Your familiars like it too!
The water is bubbling much less now. We now slowly stir in the oatmeal.
Slow and steady stirring gets it done. We don’t want lumpy oatmeal -
now do we?
We can now turn down the heat completely and the let the oatmeal simmer
using the residual heal from the stove.
We can now check on the coffee - or tea. The water there is now boiling
so we can turn it down now also. We don’t want to make either coffee or
tea with boiling water. We wait just a short moment- so when we pour it
the
water is not splashing and splurting everywhere. We pour the water into
the
tea pot or Fresh Press for the coffee. We set out the bowls for the
oatmeal.
I prefer these large, oversized mugs. These are good because you can
hold them and get warmed.
The oatmeal is done and we can serve it up into the mugs now.
I like raisins and some cinnamon and brown-sugar. You can season
to your own tastes.
There you go.
Fresh oatmeal from the Cauldron.
Hot coffee and Tea.
And you thought we witches only served up potions!
Tootles!
Lady C.
Written By Staff Writer: Lady Celestina