[Sca-cooks] Period Halloween/Samhain dishes
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 2 11:08:47 PDT 2008
Soul Cake or Parkin = spice cake, suitable for all occasions from
Hallowe'en to Twelfth Night, the dark of the year. Also traditional at
funerals; a book on Yorkshire traditions says that one euphemism for
someone who is mortally ill says "looks like a case of Slow Walking,
Spice Cake and Ale." [Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors,
p.323, "funerals".]
Do you want a period recipe or a good modern one?
Selene
Amy Cooper wrote:
> Our shire is having a bit of a Halloween celebration in a few weeks,
> for our monthly feast-night potluck. I like to try to bring period
> foods to these, to broaden the shires' tastes, and hopefully entice
> some folks to try period cooking. I'd love to bring a dish to this
> upcoming one that is a food that would have been served as part of the
> Halloween/Samhain celebrations of someplace/time in period. The only
> thing I've seen mentioned in my quick diggings on the Florilegium are
> "soul-cakes", and there is not a recipe given that I've found. Does
> anyone have any suggestions/recipes?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ilsebet
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