To the kitchen witch, the hearth is their altar. Their pots are their cauldrons and their cooking utensils are their tools.
Cleanse and purify all items and ingredients to be used in your recipe. Charge your ingredients with the desired energy or invoke their meaning as you add them in. I like to say "this sugar is for love" etc.
This is from my grimoire. I've collected these meanings through a variety of sources throughout the years. The herbs you use are important to. Herbs and their magickal properties should also be considered. Its best to grind these together with a mortar and pestle as you put your energy into them and invoke the meaning
MEATS AND DAIRY
Pork - grounding
Beef - grounding; prosperity
Chicken - health
Turkey - family energy; sleep
Fish - psychic awareness
Shellfish - rebirth
Milk - feminine; nurturing
Cheese - joy; health
Butter - smoothing relationships
Eggs - fertility, spirituality
BEVERAGES
Beer - protection, physical strength
Champagne - friendship, love
Coffee - mental, empowers, grounds, purifies
Green Tea - riches, courage, strength, money
Milk - nurturing, love
Wine - love, joy
White - lunar energy
Red - solar energy
My spaghetti is always made as a protection meal for my family. Many family recipes can be reviewed and their magickal meaning can be discovered by using this list as reference. A meal will only hold this magick if you intend for it to.
When you stir, be sure to stir in energy, using the spoon as a wand. Counterclockwise for lunar energy, and clockwise for solar energy.
Cleanse your cutting boards, pots, pans, stove, utensils, EVERYTHING you use for kitchen magick. Obviously adding water to your meal will add in the properties of water you wish to use.
Its very fun to read, I like. But one question whiteraven - is it true that kitchen witches have a bad reputaion? I have heard that they are not "real" witches.
Kitchen witchcraft is a way to integrate magick into other facets of our life. Food is something we must have to sustain us, and for many, cooking is a part of everyday life. When we consume the food and drink, we accept the magick we have placed within it into our bodies. I don't believe any witch only practices kitchen witchcraft. But it is a wonderful thing to incorporate into your normal magickal practice. Kitchen witchcraft is most commonly coupled with Hedge or Green witchcraft, and this is its origin, but anyone who uses magick can utilize it.
I don't have those in my grimoire but I know my way around google! Lol
Here is a list of beans and their magickal properties.
http://gypsymagicspells.blogspot.com/2011/06/bean-magick.html?m=1
As for green tea. Black, white and green tea all come from the same plant Camellia sinensis. What makes them different is that white are young leaves, green is picked mature leaves, and black are sun dried.
