Thursday, 31 October 2013

All Hallows Eve...boo!

Image from here

Hallow dear friends!

Halloween is not a huge event in New Zealand

but it is becoming more so every year

as you can see from the advertisement above

from one of our local shopping malls.

Children of all ages (and some adults too)

love dressing up in costumes.

It's

FUN FUN FUN

to dress up and take on another persona

every once in a while!

I've always bought or made up bags of

spooky treats for the neighborhood

visiting gremlins, witches and ghosts

who knock on our door once it gets dark.

Image and historical information from here

I decided to search Mr Google for a traditional

halloween biscuit and this is what I found

with a song to go with it.

Soul Cakes

if you would like to see the recipe it's here

SOUL CAKES SONG

BY STING

A soul cake, a soul cake,
Please, good missus, a soul cake,
An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry.

A soul cake, a soul cake,
Please, good missus, a soul cake,
One for Peter, two for Paul,
And three for Him that made us all.

God bless the master of this house
And the mistress also,
And all the little children
That round your table grow,

The cattle in your stable,
The dogs at your front door,
And all that dwell within your gates
We'll wish you ten times more.
A soul cake, a soul cake:

Go down into the cellar
And see what you can find,

If the barrels are not empty
We'll hope that you'll be kind,

We'll hope that you'll be kind
With your apple and your pear,
And we'll come no more a-soulin'
Till Christmas time next year.
A soul cake, a soul cake:

The streets are very dirty,
Me shoes are very thin,
I have a little pocket
To put a penny in,

If you haven't got a penny
A ha'penny will do,

If you haven't got a ha'penny
God bless you.
A soul cake, a soul cake

There are some interesting
decorating ideas out there
(Shhh don't tell anyone... but time has got away with me on Google this morning
flitting from one site to the next!)