Gypsy Toast
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- Pinch of salt & pepper
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 slices of bread
- 2 tablespoons oil, butter or lard
Instructions:
- Beat the eggs lightly and season with salt & pepper
- Add the milk
- Soak the bread slices in the mixture
- Heat the oil, butter or lard in a frying pan and when hot add the soaked bread
- Fry until crisp, turning occasionally.
From: Journey Folki
Healing Chicken Soup
Ingredients:
- Quarter of a chicken
- 2 Pints water/vegetable stock
- 1 Large leek
- 1 Onion
- Half a cup rice
How to:
First, boil the chicken for an hour on a very low heat with salt and pepper. Remove the chicken, then add the leek, onion and rice and boil for another 15 minutes.
The chicken meat can be chopped and added to the soup if you wish. This is guaranteed to get rid of a cold.
From: Journey Folki
Gypsy Style Turkey Soup with Dumplings
Ingredients:
You can use your turkey leftovers after Thanksgiving dinner or even buy turkey drumsticks which are huge and very cheap. If you have any leftover sliced turkey meat add it after you’ve boiled the carcass and taken the meat off of the bones.
How to:
- Boil the turkey carcass for about two hours,
- Add salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Add herbs (your choice), preferably fresh.
- Add some pearl barley after the first hour, just a handful or so.
- Drain the liquid from the carcass and pick the meat off of the bones.
- Now add the sliced meat (if you have some).
- Add chopped carrots, and turnips to liquid.
- Cook for 20 minutes.
- Make dumplings.
- Add them and cook for 30 minutes on stove.
- Add sliced leeks and a handful of frozen peas.
Serve with a loaf of fresh white or brown bread.
Disclaimer: I found this recipe back in 2006 and didn’t make a note of where I found it. If you know the author, let me know so I can give credit and a link.
Sármi
Mix ground beef or chopped ham with cooked rice, salt, black pepper and jalapeños (or similar hot peppers) into a thick paste. You may add an egg if it’s too thick. Take the biggest leaves from a cabbage making sure not to break or tear them; dip them in boiling water to soften them, then wrap each leaf around some of the filling mixture into a sealed roll. Secure by sewing or simply stick a toothpick through, and simmer for about an hour in tomato soup.
Found at: The Patrin Web Journal
Rhymed List of Gypsy Verbs
To dick and jin,
To bikn and kin;
To pee and hal,
And av and jal;
To kair and poggra,
Shoon and rokra;
To caur and chore,
Heta and cour,
Moar and more,
To drab and dook,
And nash on rook;
To pek and tove,
And sove and rove,
And nash on poove;
To tardra oprey,
And chiv aley;
To pes and gin,
To mang and chin,
To pootch and pukker,
Hok and dukker;
To besh and kel,
To del and lel,
And jib to tel;
Bitch, atch, and hatch,
Roddra and latch;
To gool and saul,
And sollohaul;
To pand and wustra,
Hokta and plastra,
Busna and kistur,
Maila and grista;
To an and riggur;
To pen and sikker,
Porra and simmer,
Chungra and chingra,
Pude and grommena,
Grovena, gruvena;
To dand and choom,
Chauva and rom,
Rok and gare,
Jib and mer
With camova,
And paracrova,
Apasavello
And mekello,
And kitsi wasror,
Sore are lavior,
For kairing chomany,
In jib of Romany.
From: Romano Lavo-Lil by George Borrow 1841
Home Sweet Home Spell
Just as Romanies blessed and protected their vardos, so you can bless your new home and protect it from burglary and fire.
- Sprinkle salt around the perimeter
- Or plant garlic around the boundary.
- You can also pray for a circle of gold light for protection and a circle of blue light for healing to be placed around the home.
Disruptive neighbors who upset the harmony of your home can be tamed quite simply. Place small hand mirrors on windowsills facing their home. These reflect back whatever they are sending out to you if you say, “Return to sender.” If no anger is attached to your actions, your neighbors will respond to your influence without realizing why.
From: The Good Spell Book
Spell for a Windy Day
To stir up the wind to dry washing on a line,
stand with your back to the breeze and exhale facing the washing.
To make it less windy,
inhale and blow the wind back in the direction it is blowing from.
From: The Good Spell Book
Water Witching
If rain is your desire, whipping pond water with a hazel stick is believed to invoke a downpour. This is known as “water witching.”
From: The Good Spell Book
Your Heart’s Desire
You have met someone you desire. According to the Romanies this spell will ensure that he or she responds.
First, gather a fresh rose and two red candles, and find out the time of sunrise the next morning. Just before you go to sleep, place a red candle on each side of the rose.
The next morning at sunrise, take the rose outside or sit by an open window facing east, keeping the rose in front of you. Inhale the perfume and say aloud:
This red rose is for true love.
True love come to me.
Now go back indoors and put the rose in its original position. Light the candles, and imagine love burning in the heart of the one you long for. Keep the candles lit day and night until the rose fades. (If they are extinguished, the incantation will be broken.) When the rose is dead, pinch out the candles, and bury the rose.
Source: The Good Spell Book
Spell To Deter Unwanted Visitors
An old Gypsy – Romany spell to avoid being revisited by an unwanted caller. All you need is salt. Sea salt is best, but any form of salt will do.
Here’s how it works:
Immediately after they have made their departure, sprinkle salt, which is regarded as a purifier and a protection against evil forces, on the ground where they said goodbye.
From: The Good Spell Book
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