The origin, meaning and traditional dishes of Halloween

Halloween is known as one of the major festivals in Western countries. Do you know the origin of this festival? Join Huongmai Cafe to find out more information as well as unique and unique Halloween traditional dishes that cannot be missed.

 What is Halloween?      

Halloween is a typical traditional festival in the West, whose full name is "All Hallows Evening", also known as "Devil's Festival". This festival is usually held every year on October 31, before the feast of All Saints in Christianity.

Halloween is celebrated to mark the end of a harvest season and the beginning of the cold winter. Today, Halloween has been widely popular around the world with a large and small scale depending on each country.

On Halloween, people often dress up as ghostly characters, appear together under the moonlight, attend creepy decorated parties.

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Origin of Halloween

Halloween originated with the Celts who lived more than 2000 years ago in the lands of what is now England, Ireland and northern France.

The Celts believed that, on the eve of the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead would become blurred, the spirits of the dead could return to the earth, so they often lit a bright fire and wore costumes. costumes to ward off evil spirits or welcome relatives "home" on this festival night.

Meaning of Halloween

This is an opportunity to remember the deceased as well as banish evil spirits and wish for a peaceful and prosperous life.

Traditional Halloween dishes

Pumpkin soup

Pumpkin is a typical symbol of Halloween. Therefore, pumpkin dishes are considered indispensable in this holiday. Pumpkin soup is one of them.

Depending on the country, there will be different ways to prepare pumpkin soup, such as cooking with beef, lamb or making a dish that even vegetarians can use. This is a nutritious thick soup that both adults and children love to eat.

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Apple candy

Candy apple is one of the indispensable dishes in Halloween. Because according to the ancients' explanation, October is the time to harvest apples in regions in the United States, and Halloween must have candy, so people have made apple candy.

To make this candy, you need to choose fresh, freshly harvested apples and dip them in a layer of sweet syrup, then use a small stick to stick in the core for easy handling. Apple candy has a dark brown appearance full of magic, attractive with sweet, delicious taste, extremely attractive.

Corn candy

Corn candy is a popular candy in America, first appeared in 1880 with the name "Chicken Feed" and is still popular today.

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This is possibly the most controversial candy of Halloween. People either love it or absolutely hate it because of its special taste and is always a hot topic of discussion during Halloween and year-end.

Candy is made mainly from corn syrup, sugar, honey and artificial colors. As the name suggests, each candy has a triangular shape like a corn kernel after being separated from the core with three colors white, orange and yellow.                             

Barmbracks bread

Barmbrack bread (shortly called brack) originated in Ireland and quickly became popular on Halloween throughout Europe and then spread to other continents. There is no fixed recipe to make this bread, they are usually baked in the oven, the dough has the same texture as regular bread, combined with the filling of dried fruits such as grapes, raspberries, ...

Traditionally, there will be an item placed inside this cake and people see this as a fortune-telling to predict the future on Halloween night.

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Three randomly mixed items with the Barmbrack filling are a coin, a cloth, and a ring. Coins are a symbol of money luck. On the contrary, the cloth symbolizes financial hardship. The ring, on the other hand, predicts the love life of the person who receives it.

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