It is said that women would dance naked and sing special prayers while making bread in the old temples. Cakes are also a food of offering, and filling them with your prayers and intentions while cooking is still a powerful practice. Here are two different recipes to try:
(1)
Whisk together:
1 cup olive oil
1 cup milk
2 eggs
Sift together:
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Etz Chayyim
“V’achalta, v’sheva’ta uv’rach’ta…” Deut 8:10
Mesopotamian Unleavened Bread
from “The Oldest Cuisine in the World”, Jean Bottero
Knead coarse-ground ziqqu (cheap, plain, ordinary) flour with buttermilk.
Cook on buttered dish spread thin.
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Make for me an altar of earth for libations
Make for me an altar of unhewn stone for offering
And in every place where my name is called
I will come and bless you
מזבח אדמה תעשה-לי יין נסח
מזבח אבנים תעשה-לי קדוש
בכל-המקום אשר אזכיר אתשמי
אבוא אליך וברכתך
Elah
Elah Shaddai
Elyaqim
Yoyahkhim
Kadesha
Shekhina
Aethra
Athra Qadisha
Qaniyatu Elim
Ashera
Ashesh
Atarah
Atiratu
Astarte
haS’tar-hi
Isha S’tar
Ishtar
Shulamitu
Shalimu
Rabbah
Rabbatu Atirat Yam
Rachmanah
Rachmay
haMakom
Eyn Sof
Eyn Chayyim
Etz Chayyim
Tel Chai
Ruach haKodesh
Ruach haOlam
M’kor Beracha
M’kor Emet
M’kor haOr v’haChosech
Ham’vorach
Hawat
Elat
Anat
Labi’tu
Lilit
Belet-ili
Tannit
Tiamat
Tehom
Guruma v’Tahamatu
Imah Ilha
Imah Adamah
Im Kol Chai
Inanna
Malchuta
Malka haOlam
Malka haElohim
Malka Yichudah
Malakuma
El-yon
Artzay
Ha-Aretz
Artzu v’Shamuma
Amma
Nammu
Ninshibur
Ninhursag
Nintu
Ninmah
Ninsar
Ninmena
Damgalnunna
Kotaratu
Pidray
Nikkal
Ningal