keyword: Halloween
5 posts in this collection
- Apple Bobbing Punch
Mixture of apple juice and other fruit juices with whole apples floating in, to be pulled out with the teeth alone as a party game at Halloween. Known in Englan...
- Dumb Cake
A cake made on an auspicious day (St. Mark's Eve (April 24th), St Agnes Eve (January 20th) Midsummer's Eve or Halloween) with numerous ceremonies, by spinster m...
- Mash o' Nine Sorts
Mashed mix of nine ingredients, typically boiled potato, carrot, turnip, parsnip, leek, peas, with salt, pepper and butter.
- Soul Cakes
Small un-raised dense cake, or biscuit, of enriched dough with dried fruit and sweet spices. Commonly coloured with saffron and marked with a cross on top. Asso...
- Tharf Cake
Thick (c 1½ins) soft biscuit of wheatflour and oatmeal with butter, dark sugar and fuited with flavours such as candied peel, ginger and coriander seeds. Simila...