[00:02] trick-or-treaters this year. See, it used to be that in the days leading up to All Souls Day on November 2nd, the poor and sometimes children would go from house to house collecting cakes, beer, and other little treats in
[00:15] tradition dates back to the Middle Ages, though it's often linked to the pagan festival Sawin. It's a tenuous link, but they did occur at the same time of year, the boundary between the living and the dead was more easily crossed. So, it
[00:28] folklore also say that sawin is when the spirits known as a shei would come to our world to cause havoc. So to stop with treats like this. But in the Middle Ages, it wasn't spirits you were
[00:40] bribing, but regular people often dressed up as spirits. In some places, involved dressing up as ghosts, devils, costume for this year's Halloween party yet, you might consider dressing up as
[00:53] St. Chel of Monermouth, and I bet you'll be the only one. Anyway, dressed in go from house to house offering their prayers for departed loved ones. And in thanks, they would receive a soul cake which often featured a little cross on
[01:06] top for decoration. Now, there is no single recipe for soul cakes. Rather, it was any cake or bun that was given out around All Hallow's Eve. This recipe, for instance, which comes from 16004, is simply for cakes, and it is a bread
[01:18] flavored with sugar, nutmeg, cloves, mace, and sack, an early type of cherry. yeast and you get these delicious, if maybe a little dense, breads to hand out don't want your house egged, you might be wise to stick to Snickers. For more
[01:33] full video on YouTube. And this recipe is in the tasting history cookbook.