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Mood enhancer for snacking: spiced biscuits from monastery medicine

These little spiced cookies pack a punch—in the truest sense of the word. Inspired by the monastic medicine of Hildegard von Bingen, these so-called "tortellos" combine healing spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves into a powerful blend for body and soul. In ancient medicine, they weren't used as a sweet treat, but rather as a natural remedy to lift the mood, open the heart, and stimulate the senses. Today, these cookies are easy to bake yourself—as a delicate ritual on dark days, for inner balance, or as a special gift with a powerful effect.

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Ingredients

2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp cloves
300 g wholemeal spelt flour
100 g powdered whole cane sugar
200 g butter (room temperature)
1 egg
1 pinch of salt

durability
The tortelllos will keep for 1 year at room temperature.

Application
Eat 3–5 cookies daily, spread evenly over the dough. Chew slowly and consume with plenty of liquid (e.g., tea or milk). Please be careful not to overdose.

Effect
Stimulating, slightly psychoactive effect
Have a gently euphoric effect and increase feelings of happiness
Mood-enhancing effect

Here’s how to prepare it:

Powder the spices and mix with flour and sugar.

Preheat the oven to 180 °C top and bottom heat.

Combine all ingredients and about 50 ml of cold water to form a shortcrust pastry. Let it rest in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a thickness of ½ cm and cut out 5 cm cookies.

Bake in the preheated oven on the middle rack for about 10 minutes until golden brown.

Let cookies cool and store in an airtight jar.

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Gabriela Nedoma
Natural aphrodisiacs –Naturopathy and medicinal plant recipes for love
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Mood enhancer for snacking: spiced biscuits from monastery medicine

Ingredients

Here’s how to prepare it:

The content of this article is from the book:

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