Making Votive Offerings I - Suet Balls
Suet Balls Recipe
Basically it’s 1 part fat to 2 parts dry ingredients.
I didn’t keep track of how much of each I put in because I kept having to add more to make it less sticky. You will totally underestimate how much dry ingredients are needed to firm up the fat balls.
Fats:
I used lard and chunky peanut butter. About 3 pounds altogether: 2 of lard, 1 peanut butter.
Dry Ingredients:
cornmeal
quick oats
raisins
bird seed (go for unshelled sunflower seeds) I used a mix called Happy Garden from Urban Nature Store &/or a small-grained Finch mix.
shelled peanuts
mealworms
In The Cailleach Library you can find Tabhartas Bòid; a Celtic Teaching about Votive Offerings, given by Muireann - our Iron Age Celtic Ancestor.
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This is the first of 3 “Making Votive Offerings” posts sharing how I build relationship with Spirit + the Land through Celtic cultural practice on Mishiike Minisi.
Directions:
Mix all the everything in a giant bowl - or melt the fats down in a giant pot and mix in all the dry.
If you use the melt method, you have to pour them into a mold and wait for them to set - a muffin tin works.
Once the balls/molds are firm, roll them in the cornmeal to make a non-sticky outer coating.
Freeze them or put them into a garage or shed during the winter.
The animals LOVED these and I have to ration them or they will eat them all in a day.
The people of Earth are re-awakening to expanded ways of knowing. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle.
Spirit has never been fully erased, no matter how hard the oppressors have tried to control who and where and what and how Spirit is accepted and legitimized here.
The people are awakening.