Samhain Recipes

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        Cranberry-Pumpkin Cookies

        From CookieRecipe.Com

        Makes soft, cakelike cookies.

        Ingredients:

        • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
        • 1 cup white sugar
        • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
        • 1 egg
        • 1 cup pureed cooked pumpkin
        • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
        • 2 teaspoons baking powder
        • 1 teaspoon baking soda
        • 1/2 teaspoon salt
        • 1 cup cranberries
        • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
        • 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
        • 1/2 cup chopped nuts

        Directions:  

        1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets.  
        2. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, egg and pumpkin.  
        3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and add to mixture. Mix until until well blended.  
        4. Cut the cranberries in half and stir into mixture. Add orange peel and nuts.  
        5. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 3 dozen cookies.

        Popcorn Balls

        These are fun to make and fun to give--wrap them in orange tinted cellophane or clear wrap and tie with a ribbon. This makes about 18 three inch balls. Unless you have a really large pot, make these in two batches.

        • 1/2 cup solid margarine
        • 2-10oz packages of large, white marshmallows
        • orange paste food coloring
      • Melt margarine in a large pot. Add marshmallows, turning to cover with oil well, and cooking slowly to melt completely. Stir in tiny amounts of food coloring with a toothpick until the color appeals to you. When completely melted, remove from heat. Then:
      • 20 cups popped, fresh plain or colored popcorn (don't use microwave corn)
      • 1 cup candy corn (optional)...stir in popcorn and candy, covering well with melted marshmallow until marshmallow turns to stringy threads. Let sit a few minutes.
      • extra butter...butter all popcorn ball-maker's hands liberally, and begin to pack mixture into balls. Adults mind that the mixture can still be quite hot, so put aside a pan in which to set balls down if children find them too hot. Let balls thoroughly cool, then wrap them up!

        Bread of the Dead

        Serve with milk or hot chocolate, and offer some to your departed ancestors, so they may breathe in its essence and be nourished, before you gobble it up yourself!

        • 2 cups flour
        • 2 teaspoons baking powder
        • 2 Tablespoons sugar
        • 1/4 t. salt
        • 1 egg
        • 2/3 cup milk
        • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
        • 10 drops anise extract

        Mix all of the above until smooth. Heat the oven to 400 degrees and grease a cookie sheet. With clean hands, mold the dough into a round shape with a knob on the top (which will be a skull) or into smaller round shapes, animals, faces or angels. Place dough on cookie sheet.

        • 1/4 cup brown sugar
        • 1 T. flour
        • 1 t. ground cinnamon
        • 1 T. melted butter

        Mix together brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and melted butter for the topping. Sprinkle topping on dough and bake for 20 to 25 minutes. When cool, decorate the skull shaped knobs, animals or faces with icing sugar to make eyes, nose and mouth.

        Curried Pumpkin Stew

        Contributed by White WinterWolf

        You will need the following ingredients ;

        • 1 quart (liter) chicken stock
        • 2 cans pumpkin
        • 1 pint (1/2 liter) whipping cream
        • 1 cup sugar
        • 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
        • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
        • 1/2 tsp nutmeg

        Bring chicken stock to a boil, reduce to a simmer.

        Add pumpkin, stir well .

        Add whipping cream and sugar. Bring to a good simmer.

        Add spices, serve hot!

        Enjoy!

        Ichabod Crane's Baked Pumpkin Mousse

        • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
        • 1 cup superfine sugar
        • 4 eggs, seperated
        • 5 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
        • 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
        • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
        • 1 teaspoon ginger
        • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
        • 1 cup heavy cream
        • Pinch of salt
        1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Butter a 6-cup ovenproof bowl.
        2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 3/4 cups sugar. Beat in the yolks, one at a time. Stir in the cornmeal, pumpkin, and spices, then the cream.
        3. Beat the egg whites until they are foamy. Add the salt. Continue to beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining 1/4 cup sugar, a teaspoon at a time, and continue beating until the whies are stiff and glossy but not dry. Fold the whites into the pumpkin mixture and pour the mixture into the buttered bowl.
        4. Set the bowl in a larger pan filled with 1 inch of hot water and bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm from the bowl, or let it settle on a cooling rack for 30 minutes and then invert the mousse onto a plate. Make a jack-o'-lantern face with currants and serve with unsweetened whipped cream. Serves 8.

        Soothsayer's Sliced Apples

        • 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
        • 1/4 cup pecans, finely ground
        • 6 large, firm apples
        • 1/2 cup sugar
        • 1/2 cup heavy cream
        • 1/2 cup dark corn syrup
        • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
        • Pinch of salt
        • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
        1. Place the chocolate in a double boiler over medium heat until it is almost melted. Remove from heat, stir, and let cool.
        2. Spread the nuts in a small bowl.
        3. Dip the apples into the chocolate and shake off excess. Then dip the apples into the nuts to coat the bottom. Set them 3 inches apart on a lightly buttered tray and refrigerate for 45 minutes.
        4. In a small pot, stir together the sugar, cream, corn syrup, butter, and salt. Cover and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook until the mixture reaches 240, stirring occasionally. Remove pot from heat and add vanilla. Pour the hot caramel over the apples, a little at a time, letting it drip down the sides. Cool the apples but don't refrigerate them.
        5. When ready to serve, slice the apples in half and remove the cores. Cut each half into 4 slices. Makes 48 slices.

        Pumpkin Cookies

        --from Auramooth's Wiccan Page

        • 1/2 cup butter
        • 1 1/2 cup sugar

          Cream butter and sugar together, then add egg and blend well.

        • 1 egg
        • 1 cup cooked pumpkin
        • 1 teaspoon vanilla

          Blend in pumpkin and vanilla.

        • 2 1/2 cups flour
        • 1 t. baking powder
        • 1 t. baking soda
        • 1 t. nutmeg
        • 1/2 t. salt
        • 1 t. cinnamon

        Blend together dry ingredients: flour, powder, soda, salt and spices, and add to pumpkin mixture.

      • 1/2 c. walnuts
      • 1 cup chocolate chips

        Stir in nuts and chips, and drop by spoonfuls onto baking sheet.

        Bake at 350 degrees for fifteen minutes, cool and eat!

        Pumpkin Soup

        --from Auramooth's Wiccan Page

        • 4 pounds of peeled pumpkin, chopped
        • 2 onions, chopped
        • 2 apples, chopped
        • 2 cups chicken or vegetable stock
        • 1 teaspoon nutmeg or 3 t. curry powder
        • 1 t. salt
        • 2 cups water

          Place pumpkin, apples, onion, stock, nutmeg and salt in the water in a heavy saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer 40 minutes until pumpkin is tender. Puree in a blender or processor.

        • 2 1/2 cups milk
        • freshly ground pepper

          Return to pan and add milk and pepper.

        • garnish with cilantro if curry is used.

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