There's an interesting blessing on olives (as well as oil and cheese) in
Hippolytus of Rome's _Apostolic
Tradition_ (Apostolixe Paradosis, c.215), part one--a.k.a., The Egyptian
Church-Order. There are a
number of editions, but I can direct you only to G. Dix, _The Treatise on
the Apostolic Tradition of St.
Hippolytus of Rome_ (1937). I'm sure a better-informed listmember has can
suggest a more recent
edition.
Stephen
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