So here we are again for another week of slaving over the hot stove, spending hours making something special for Hive Top Chef!
BUT, and it's a BEEEEG BUT, I cheated, really cheated badly; no slaving over the hot stove but wanted to show you just how easy it is to make something fun in a jiffy when time runs away with you, as it has the habit of doing to me and I'm sure to you as well!
All that I used was:
- A pretty Orange Hokkaido Pumpkin
- Blue Bubblegum flavoured Marshmallows (made by a local candy manufacturer...not me I confess!)
- Food colouring
- Coloured Sprinkles
- Toothpicks for painting
- Kebab sticks for our ghoulish Popsicles
I mixed a little red and green food colouring which turned into a very dark purply-black colour, and had a whole load of fun painting funny faces with toothpicks.
A sharp knife was needed to carve my Halloween Pumpkin; unfortunately my pumpkin was too small to make a Jack-O'-Lantern!
A Bit of History on Trick or Treating
Most of the traditions related to Halloween originated from four different festivals:-
- The Roman Feralia festival which commemorates the dead.
- The Roman Pomona festival which honours the goddess of fruit and trees.
- The Celtic festival Samuin (also called Samhain) which means the end of summer, and this is where most of the Halloween traditions stem from.
- The Catholic “All Soul’s Day” or “All Saints’ Day”, which was initiated by the Church in an attempt to replace Samuin.
The wearing masks or costumes during this celebration stems from a Celtic year-end tradition; their New Year starts on 1 November.
Their superstitious belief was that the realms of the living and the dead would overlap allowing the dead to roam the Earth again during the transition from one year to the next, therefore by dressing up as spirits they would fool actual spirits who would then leave them alone!
The practice of trick or treating began in the Middle-Ages, when poor children and sometimes poor adults would dress up in costumes during Hallowmas and go from door to door begging for food or money in exchange for songs and prayers mostly for the dead. They called this practice souling and the children were called soulers.
During the 1920s, pranking rather than souling took place but this got worse when the Great Depression hit; turning to full-scale vandalism and violence with cars being overturned, houses trashed and people assaulted.
Some believe that modern-day trick-or-treating was a way to restore order and keep people safe on 31 October.
Halloween history sources:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/10/how-the-tradition-of-trick-or-treating-got-started
and
https://www.history.com/news/halloween-haunted-house-great-depression
This has been my contribution towards the exciting weekly @qurator foodie contest for this weeks' theme of Qurator's: Hive Top Chef! | Homemade Halloween Candies.
Sorry I cheated, but hope you enjoyed my Trick or Treat Cheat, and thank you for popping into my kitchen :)
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