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    Boxty - Pumpkin Facts

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    The first document describes the traditional Irish recipe for boxty, a potato pancake that can be made thick and fried like a griddle cake or thinner like a crepe. It lists the ingredients as raw and mashed potatoes, flour, milk, baking powder, egg, and optional seasonings like garlic or bacon. The second document provides the lyrics to a traditional soul cake rhyme chanted by trick-or-treaters, along with an original 1600s recipe for soul cakes that calls for flower, sugar, spices, butter, ale, and optional saffron and fruit. The third document discusses Halloween traditions such as carving lanterns from turnips and swedes (rut

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    Boxty - Pumpkin Facts

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    The first document describes the traditional Irish recipe for boxty, a potato pancake that can be made thick and fried like a griddle cake or thinner like a crepe. It lists the ingredients as raw and mashed potatoes, flour, milk, baking powder, egg, and optional seasonings like garlic or bacon. The second document provides the lyrics to a traditional soul cake rhyme chanted by trick-or-treaters, along with an original 1600s recipe for soul cakes that calls for flower, sugar, spices, butter, ale, and optional saffron and fruit. The third document discusses Halloween traditions such as carving lanterns from turnips and swedes (rut

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    The first document describes the traditional Irish recipe for boxty, a potato pancake that can be made thick and fried like a griddle cake or thinner like a crepe. It lists the ingredients as raw and mashed potatoes, flour, milk, baking powder, egg, and optional seasonings like garlic or bacon. The second document provides the lyrics to a traditional soul cake rhyme chanted by trick-or-treaters, along with an original 1600s recipe for soul cakes that calls for flower, sugar, spices, butter, ale, and optional saffron and fruit. The third document discusses Halloween traditions such as carving lanterns from turnips and swedes (rut

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    Boxty - Pumpkin Facts

    Uploaded by

    Alexandra Skvortsova
    The first document describes the traditional Irish recipe for boxty, a potato pancake that can be made thick and fried like a griddle cake or thinner like a crepe. It lists the ingredients as raw and mashed potatoes, flour, milk, baking powder, egg, and optional seasonings like garlic or bacon. The second document provides the lyrics to a traditional soul cake rhyme chanted by trick-or-treaters, along with an original 1600s recipe for soul cakes that calls for flower, sugar, spices, butter, ale, and optional saffron and fruit. The third document discusses Halloween traditions such as carving lanterns from turnips and swedes (rut

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    Boxty (Potato Pancakes)

    Boxty on the griddle,


    boxty on the pan,
    If you can't bake boxty
    sure you'll never get a man.

    The traditional recipe combines raw grated potato, leftover mashed


    potato and flour. These are mixed with milk, baking powder and
    egg. It makes a small but thick griddle cake, like a dropscone,
    which is fried on both sides and eaten with butter or sour cream. Or
    the mix can be made thinner in which case the shape is more like a
    crepe. Then it can be used as a wrap. You can flavour the mix with
    garlic or spices. If you're not feeling strictly vegetarian you can eat
    it with bacon and maple syrup.

    Soul Cakes
    What trick'r'treaters are really after...

    Soul Cake, soul cake


    Please good missus, a soul cake.
    An apple, a plum, a peach, or a cherry,
    Any good thing to make us merry.
    One for Peter, one for Paul,
    & three for Him who made us all.

    From Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book (written in the early 1600s


    but published recently by biographer Hilary Spurling who also
    explains the recipes and helps the modern cook by interpreting the
    recipes) here's an original in that beautiful early cookery language
    which makes every recipe sound so much more dramatic than we
    tend to...

    Take flower & sugar & nutmeg & cloves & sweet butter & a little
    ale, beat your spice, & put in your butter, cold, then work it well all
    together, & make it in little cakes, & so bake them, if you will you
    may put in some saffron into them and fruit.
    Halloween traditions.

    The tradition of carving a face on a turnip or swede (and more recently


    pumpkin), and using these as lanterns, seems to be a relatively modern
    tradition. On the last Thursday in October, children in the Somerset village
    of Hinton St George carry lanterns. The light shines through a design
    etched on the skin. They are carried around the streets as the children
    chant: “It’s Punky Night tonight, It’s Punky Night tonight, Give us a candle,
    give us a light, It’s Punky Night tonight.”

    In pre-Christian Ireland, 1 November was known as ‘Samhain’ (summer’s


    end). This date marked the beginning of winter in Gaelic-speaking areas of
    Britain. It was also the end of the farming year on the farms, when people
    killed the sheep for meat.

    Popular Halloween customs in England included ‘souling’, where groups of


    adults – and later children wearing costumes – visited big houses to sing
    and collect money and food. In parts of northern England, special cakes
    were baked and left in churchyards as offerings to the dead. There was
    another tradition: rich people gave them to poor so they pray for souls of
    the dead.
    People who had freckles put on pumpkin masks to get rid of them.
    You can make a pumpkin beer. People made it first time 300 years
    ago.
    Pumpkins can be yellow, orange, red, white and blue.
    Many years ago people in the UK made lanterns from turnips, not
    from pumpkins.
    The word “witch” actually comes from an old English word that
    means “wise woman”.
    If you heard the call of an owl it meant that someone would die
    soon.
    The largest pumpkin weighted about 836 pounds (370 kilos).
    Stephen Clarke has the fastest pumpkin carving time: 24.03
    seconds.
    In the past people called Halloween San-Apple Night and
    Nutcrack Night.
    Scottish girls believed they could see images of their future
    husband if they hung wet sheets in front of the fire on Halloween.
    Halloween is 6000 years old.
    People in Boston lighted more than 30.000 Jack-o-lanterns at
    once.
    If you see a bat at the Halloween night, you will spend the next
    year upside down.
    People killed the witches many years ago on Halloween.
    If you were rich and you didn’t help the poor at the Halloween
    night, the next year you would be poor too.

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