How do Americans spend Halloween?

The symbol of Halloween is pumpkin lantern, so pumpkin pie is also a holiday food for Halloween, especially in America. It turns out that the pumpkin lantern is not a pumpkin lantern, but a radish lantern. It is said that an Irishman named Jack was not allowed to enter heaven after his death, but was sent to hell. But in hell, he always played tricks on Satan, so he was kicked out of hell and punished to walk in the dark of the world with lanterns forever. Another story is that he is a notorious drunkard and liar. He once tricked Satan into climbing a tree, and then carved a cross on the trunk to trap Satan at the top of the tree. Later, Jack asked him to die in exchange for not going to hell, and Satan agreed to let him go. Jack can't go to heaven after he dies; But he and Satan can't agree to go to hell, so hell won't accept him. The devil only gave Jack a weak firewood to light the road. Another version is that Jack, who likes playing tricks on people, went to a bar to drink with Satan one day. Because they had no money to pay the bill after drinking, he turned Satan into a sixpence coin to pay the bill, but Jack did not pay, but used a spell to restrain Satan. Satan begged Jack to let him go. Jack said that as long as Satan didn't scare him for a whole year, he would let him go. Satan agreed, and the next Halloween, Satan promised not to harass Jack next year. But Jack died before the end of this year. God felt that he was not qualified to applaud and refused to accept him, so he went to hell, but Satan had promised not to harass him. Jack, desperate, insisted on not going. The road was too dark. So Satan threw him a burning charcoal, and he put the firewood in a hollowed-out radish to make the dying fire burn longer. This is a ghost fire. No matter which version, after the Irish brought this custom to the United States, they found that American-made pumpkins were more delicious than turnips, so Jack's lanterns were made of pumpkins instead. Pumpkin pie is a traditional home-cooked dish in the southern United States from late autumn to early winter. People usually eat it, especially around Halloween, and it becomes a holiday food. In addition, dried pumpkin seeds are often regarded as Halloween food. As Halloween approaches the apple harvest, caramel apples (toffee apples) have become a seasonal food. The method is to insert the apple directly into the bamboo stick from the pedicle, then hold the bamboo stick and soak the apple in a layer of sugar-coated syrup, sometimes with nuts, marshmallows, biscuits, popcorn and so on. Sometimes you add cinnamon powder to make delicate snacks, sometimes you soak it in chocolate and stick colored chocolate rice on the outside. The sweetness of apples goes well with the icing on the outside, and children like it! Caramel apple is a holiday food from Halloween to Christmas, which is popular all over the United States. In the United States, every household will prepare caramel apples for children who come to the door for candy on Halloween, but there have also been cases where someone intentionally hurts others by inserting needles and blades into the apples, and the habit of sending caramel apples has gradually disappeared. Although most of them are just pranks and the children in real cases are only slightly injured, many parents are still very uneasy. There is also a hot apple, Sida, which means apple juice or cider. This drink is made by heating cider and adding cinnamon, cloves and sugar. When heated, alcohol almost evaporated. This drink is very popular in Europe and America in winter. I often drink it from Christmas to this time of spring. The practice is quite similar, that is, replacing cider with red wine. On Halloween night, children and teenagers will dress up as ghosts and ask for candy along the street, so all kinds of candy can be regarded as a kind of food for the occasion. At this time, the candy sold in shops is more popular with all kinds of candy in the shape of ghosts and candy packaged in orange, brown or black, which is very common on Halloween.

Production and raw materials of pumpkin lantern

There is a kind of candy in America called corn candy, which looks like corn buds and will be made into different shapes according to different festivals. Corn candy is made of sucrose, corn syrup and honey, and it sells best around Halloween. At this time, the corn candy is made into pumpkin. Hot apples, hot cider 1000ml cider, half a cup of sugar, half a tablespoon of cloves, and a small cinnamon stick are all boiled in a pot for 20 to 20 minutes. Pumpkin pie for eight people, a medium-sized pumpkin, preferably a little ripe and sweet, one tablespoon of olive oil, a nine-inch crust, one teaspoon of ginger paste, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of salt, four eggs and one cup of honey. With a little heating, you can halve the cup of milk and half a cup of whipped cream 1. Preheat the oven to160 C, cut the pumpkin in half, coat the cut surface with a thin layer of oil, and bake it on a lightly oiled baking tray until the pumpkin is cooked and soft, and the fork can be easily inserted. Take out the pumpkin, peel it and mash it with a food processor or spoon. 2. Preheat the oven to 200°c, add pumpkin puree, ginger puree, cinnamon powder and salt into a large bowl and mix well, then add eggs, honey, milk and whipped cream. After mixing well, pour in the crust and bake at 200°C for about 50 to 60 minutes. When the knife is inserted into the pie and then pulled out, it is clean. Halloween is a traditional "Ghost Festival" in the West every June 1 1 day. 65438+1October 3 1 is Halloween. It is usually called Halloween. But the atmosphere of this day is far from "creepy" as its name suggests. Whenever Halloween comes, children can't wait to put on colorful costumes, put on strange masks and carry a "pumpkin lantern" to ask adults for holiday gifts everywhere. These are the most well-known symbols of Halloween-strange "jack-o'-lanterns" and "trick or treat" pranks. The appearance of "pumpkin lantern" is very cute and the method is extremely simple. Hollow out the pumpkin, then carve smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, then put a candle in the pumpkin and light it, so that people can see this innocent smiling face from far away. This is the children's favorite toy. However, the highlight of Halloween is still at the dinner table. You should not only prepare delicious food to entertain those "children" who make trouble, but also decorate your dining table on this special festival. Don't let your guests underestimate you! On the most "haunted" night of the year, all kinds of monsters, pirates, alien visitors and witches are out in succession. Before the Christian era, the Celts held ceremonies in summer to thank God and the sun for their kindness. At that time, fortune tellers lit and practiced witchcraft to drive away monsters who were said to be wandering around. Later, the harvest festival celebrated by the Romans with nuts and apples merged with Celtic 10 and 3 1. In the Middle Ages, people put on costumes in the shape of animals and put on terrible masks to drive away ghosts in the dark. Although Christianity later replaced the religious activities of Celts and Romans, the early customs still existed. Now, children wear all kinds of costumes and masks to attend Halloween dances. Witches, black cats, ghosts and paper-pasted bones are often hung on the walls around these dances, while grinning or ugly pumpkin lanterns are hung on the windows and doorways. Children often try to bite the hanging apples. Suggest watching the movie with the same name.