Autumn harvest greetings, All,
Nokomis debegekgises, greetings Grandmother Autumn Moon,
Thinking of you all as each of us meet and move into the season of
return and the moons of falling leaves which bring us so much beauty
and strength from the Marriage of Our Mother Earth and Our Father Sky
Sun, our elemental parents....the first, most beautiful and enduring of
gifts from the Creator God.
We Thank you for your beauty....and your Song...Shewendagzewin odo Pi...A Blessing has been visited on us here.
This recipe was passed to me, with thanks to Pazhe, and I would like to pass it on.
I've 'tinkered' with it quite a bit and re-sent this recipe with
findings. The recipe was found to be very accommodating of sugar and
wheat substitutions. When the cookies have cooled completely, place them
in tins or baggies, refrigerate and the next day the flavors and
cherries will have developed and deepened. Shopping for the ingredients,
cooking, cooIing, and mashing a sweet pumpkin in prep for a double batch
was a lot of work but these cookies go fast! Making these cookies is an
act of devotion for it calls for most of a day in and out of the
kitchen. But then, some of the baked pumpkin is available to serve with
supper...clean and roast the seeds...compost the peelings and egg shells.
The oats, cherries and pumpkin make it a very substantial and nourishing
cookie. The sugar rush can be softened if granulated maple sugar is
used. I did not but DID cut the sugar amount down by 1/3 and substituted
coconut flour for one half of the flour. Buckwheat flour could be used
to completely eliminate wheat, if desired. Cardamom may be an unfamiliar
spice for some of us but worthy of inclusion.
A sweet metaphor for 'making our days' and celebrating the sharing our 'breaths of life' together.
Offered In the Spirit of Light and Love Forever,
Dawn Woman
