Harvest loaf
A loaf shaped from the year's grain for the harvest festival — the year's labour made into one edible image.
A harvest loaf in a dream is the dream's image of a whole year of work compressed into a single offered loaf. The bread is shaped — wheatsheaf, plait, ring — to be looked at before it is eaten. The dream brings the harvest loaf when something in your life — a completed project, a child's year of growth, a long season's saving — has reached the point of being lifted up in finished form so the household can see what the year actually produced. A harvest loaf displayed and then shared is the dream affirming that the year's yield has been both honoured and used. A harvest loaf displayed and left on the table to harden is the dream noting that the year's labour has been admired in public and not, in fact, eaten by anyone who needed it.