Food -The Other Language of Love!

In Voudou, we use food as offerings all the time - our Loas love culinary delights and grant special favors to those who provide them! We also know it is a powerful way to communicate your adoration to those you desire - and have the favorably respond, therefore, we created a special section on some the most seductive Voodoo dishes and tasty libations!

Hand-selected Voodoo Recipes from "The Voodoo Cookbook"

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Erzulie's Voodoo Bread Pudding & Bread Pudding Love Sauce

Bread Pudding Recipe:
6 ½ Oz. Stale French Bread
2 cups Milk
2 Eggs
1 Cup Sugar
10 Oz. Soft Margarine
3 Tablespoons Melted Butter
1/3 Cup Raisins
1 teaspoon powdered Grains of Paradise
1 teaspoon powdered Orris Root

Break bread into piece and place in large bowl. Add milk and let sit until bread is soaked. Add eggs, sugar, margarine, raisins, vanilla, orris root, and grains of paradise. Mix well. Coat bottom of baking pan with butter, pour bread mixture into pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until pudding is golden brown. Allow to cool and cut into 4-inch square portions; place each portion into a separate dish.

Love Sauce Recipe for Bread Pudding:
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Egg
1 Stick Melted Butter
1 Cup Dark Rum

Heat in skillet over a low flame for about 30 second. Pour over your bread pudding or ice-cream.

Voudou Fried Eggplant (To Attract a New Love)

1 Eggplant
1 Egg - Beaten
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
Bottle of Peanut Oil
1 Cup Flour with 1/2 Cup Finely Chopped Pecans
Salt & Pepper to Taste
Bread Crumbs with Cooked Oats
Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Powdered Couch Grass

Peel and cut Eggplant in 1-inch strips. Powder them in flour mixed with garlic powder and couch grass. Pass them through egg and then shake the strips in breadcrumbs, oats and chopped pecans. Deep fry in Peanut Oil at 375 degrees, turning often until golden brown. Salt and pepper to taste. Dine by the light of 2 pink candles.

Love Spinach for Women (To Draw a Man)

(2) 10 Oz. Bags of Fresh Spinach
2 Cups Fresh Mushrooms - sliced
1/2 Stick Butter
1 Oz. Swiss cheese - chopped
1/2 Cup White Wine
1/2 Teaspoon Orris Root
1 Cup Sour Cream
Salt & Pepper to taste

Cook spinach in 1/2 cup water, drain in colander and chop. Sautee mushrooms. Return the spinach to the pot with mushrooms, then add sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. Stir and add Swiss Cheese and butter, stir and then turn off the stove. Now add the white wine and pinch of Orris Root Powder, stir. Serve by candlelight.

Voodoo Libations Love & Sex

Voodoo Sex Coffee
1 Large Cup Dark Roast Louisiana Coffee & Chicory
Add 1 Oz. boiled Milk & 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
After pouring coffee, milk and cinnamon into a cup, add 1 Oz. Dark Rum
Sprinkle Cinnamon on top of coffee and serve

Voodoo Love Punch
4 Oz. Dark Rum
4 Oz. Orange Juice
2 Oz. Red Wine
Serve in Tall Glass with a slice of orange and a cherry

Voodoo Love Secret
1/2 Oz. Bacardi's 151 Rum
1/2 Oz. Dark Rum
1 Oz. Cognac
1 Oz. Lemon Juice
1 Oz. Orange Juice
Serve over ice in a Tall Glass

Voodoo Love Potion Cocktail
1 Oz. Vodka
1 Oz. Crème de Cacao
1 Oz. Gin
1 Oz. Dark Rum
Pour over ice with several fresh mint leaves in a Tall Glass. Burn a pink and red candle anointed with mint oil.