Love this, I'm a total ritual person, particular around food! Yes, Tea and cake weekend afternoons, full cooked breakfast Saturday morning and coffee and croissants Sunday morning, my friends and family are aware! :) its something I have started, so not passed down to me, but hopefully passed onto my kids
It's got rye, sugar beet root, barley, chicory root and when boiled it has a dark color. She would add a splash of milk and then take a slice of stale bread (darker type, wheat with some rye) and cut it in small pieces to soak in her "Melta". It was indeed a coffee substitute, and I myself still like to partake on a chicory based hot beverage called Caro. This one is instant, so way easier to make, and I do not dunk bread in it anymore.
And yes, an afternoon tea and a little something sweet to come with it is such a great ritual, to stop and tend to our bodies. Also a great opportunity to have a friend come over, for that brief moment of hot beverage and a little cake, no agenda, just being together.
But to answer your questions about what is a ritual that I inherited without even thinking about it, that would be putting new soap into a clothes drawer or shelf. Especially if the soap is nice and fragrant. There was a life cycle to soaps in our family - clothes drawer first, then washing hands, then when it became to small we'd grate it into powder to be used for hand washing delicates. While I don't grate small bits of soap anymore, I still make my clothes faintly fragrant with a soap.
Love this, I'm a total ritual person, particular around food! Yes, Tea and cake weekend afternoons, full cooked breakfast Saturday morning and coffee and croissants Sunday morning, my friends and family are aware! :) its something I have started, so not passed down to me, but hopefully passed onto my kids
I love it!
Yet another reminder of how similar our roots, are, Frauke!
This is what my great-grandmother used to drink for her afternoon snack:
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It's got rye, sugar beet root, barley, chicory root and when boiled it has a dark color. She would add a splash of milk and then take a slice of stale bread (darker type, wheat with some rye) and cut it in small pieces to soak in her "Melta". It was indeed a coffee substitute, and I myself still like to partake on a chicory based hot beverage called Caro. This one is instant, so way easier to make, and I do not dunk bread in it anymore.
And yes, an afternoon tea and a little something sweet to come with it is such a great ritual, to stop and tend to our bodies. Also a great opportunity to have a friend come over, for that brief moment of hot beverage and a little cake, no agenda, just being together.
But to answer your questions about what is a ritual that I inherited without even thinking about it, that would be putting new soap into a clothes drawer or shelf. Especially if the soap is nice and fragrant. There was a life cycle to soaps in our family - clothes drawer first, then washing hands, then when it became to small we'd grate it into powder to be used for hand washing delicates. While I don't grate small bits of soap anymore, I still make my clothes faintly fragrant with a soap.