Cooking American Style Class 4 Halloween International Center

Cooking, American Style Class 4 Halloween International Center at Catholic Charities Community Services October 22, 2013 Instructor: Virginia Guilford

Cooking, American Style • • • Class 1 – American Cuisine Class 2 – Fall Foliage Class 3 – Supermarkets Class 4 – Halloween Class 5 – Thanksgiving

Cooking, American Style Class 4 • • • Halloween Traditions Trick or Treat Halloween Costumes Carving a Pumpkin Recipes Halloween Parties

What is Halloween • Halloween is celebrated the evening before All Saints’ Day – Halloween (All Hallows Eve), Oct 31 – All Saints’ Day (All Hallows Day), Nov 1, celebrates all the saints who have died. – All Souls’ Day, Nov 2, celebrates everyone else who died. • Halloween is celebrated on October 31 st – It is a Christian holiday, although it may have its roots in pagan celebrations such as the Gaelic holiday Samhain. – This is the day that is furthest away from last year’s All Saint’s Day • It is a day on which it was thought that the ‘gates of hell’ were the weakest, and devils and witches from hell might come through into our world. • If people dress up like devils and witches, it may scare away the real ones.

Halloween in Other Countries • Ireland – Halloween – Trick or Treat] – Costumes – Treasure Hunts • Mexico - Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) – November 1, All Saints Day – Visit cemeteries & decorate with offerings of food and sweets and flowers – Parades, costumes, dancing

NYC Halloween Parade • NYC Halloween Parade – Oct 31, 7 PM – Participate • You must be in costume, • Lineup begins at 6: 30 PM on 6 th Avenue, between Canal Street & Spring – Watch in Person - 6 th Avenue from Spring Street to 16 th Street from 7: 00 pm - 10: 30 pm – Watch on TV – WPIX Channel 11: 7: 30 pm - 9: 00 pm, and on NY 1: 8: 00 pm - 9: 30 pm • Find out more - http: //www. halloweennyc. com/

Other NYC Halloween Celebrations • Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Botanical Garden – – • Sun, Oct 20 – Wed, Oct 31 (closed Mondays) – 1: 30 PM – 5: 30 PM. $20 admission fee. Other special exhibits include “Kiku – The Art of the Japanese Garden” and “The Edible Garden”. Haunted Highline Halloween – • Sat, Oct 26, 11 PM – 3 PM, various locations on The Highline, from 14 th Street to 17 th Street, Free Phantasma. Gory 2013 Grand Halloween Ball – Sat, Oct 26, 9 PM, India House Club, 1 Hanover Sq, between Pearl and Stone Streets. Admission $40. Advance tickets $25–$30 available at dancesofvice. com. More info at indiahouseclub. org

Trick or Treat • Traditionally, children would knock on doors of neighboring houses, saying “Trick or Treat!”. There was an implied threat that, if there was no a treat, a trick would be done – writing with soap on your windows, decorating your garden with toilet paper, or some similar prank. • NYC tradition has children in costumes stopping at local businesses – dry cleaners, shoe repair shops, nail salons, etc. – and asking to be given candy.

Other Halloween Activities • Bonfires • Apple Bobbing / Bobbing for Apples – A large tub is filled with water and apples are floated in it. – People try to catch the apples, using only their teeth. • Telling Scary Stories • Watching Horror Movies

Halloween Costumes • If you are invited to a Halloween party, you should wear some kind of a Halloween costume. • You will see many people wearing Halloween costumes, even during the day, even while they are at work.

Halloween Makeup • A Halloween costume can be mostly makeup, like this “Day of the Dead” girl, or the “Evil Queen” from Martha Stewart Living magazine.

Halloween Costume • Many people like to dress as a superhero or a character in a TV show or movie. Costumes like these can be made at home, but are more often purchased or rented - like this Batman costume.

Halloween Masks • A costume can be just a mask. The mask can be an elaborate silicon, over-the-head mask in the image of a celebrity or a monster, like the one shown here. Or the mask can cover just the eyes and forehead, like this glamorous black feather mask.

Carving a Pumpkin • Cut a lid • Clean out the interior

Carving a Face on the Pumpkin • Using a sharp knife, carve a scary face or an interesting design. • Place a votive candle in the inside of the pumpkin. Use the carved pumpkin as a table decoration or as a decoration on your doorstep.

Pumpkin Flower Vase • Cut open the pumpkin; remove seeds; discard top • Place a small jar inside the pumpkin to hold water and flowers.

Pumpkin Dip Holder • Cut open the pumpkin; remove seeds and any loose pulp. • Spoon a dip into the pumpkin & arrange cut vegetables on a tray around the base of the pumpkin.

Pumpkin Drinks Cooler • Select a large pumpkin. Cut off the top 1/3 of the pumpkin. Remove seeds & loose pulp. • Fill with ice and beverage bottles.

Recipes • • Warm Spiced Apple Cider Halloween Spider Cupcakes Coconut Ghost Ice Cream Balls Aunt Betty-Bob’s Brownies

Warm Spiced Apple Cider • Ingredients • • Directions • Combine spices & cider in a large pot. 32 allspice berries • Bring to a simmer over 24 cinnamon sticks medium heat, and cook 24 cardamom pods until fragrant, about 5 12 whole cloves minutes. Cider can be kept warm over very low 12 strips of orange peel heat. Strain before 1 gallon apple cider serving, reserving some Apple Jack, Captain Morgan cinnamon sticks for garnish if desired. Add a Rum, Brandy or Bourbon splash of brandy or (Optional) bourbon, if desired. • Makes 16 1 -cup servings.

Ingredients • Allspice Berries • Cinnamon Sticks • Cardamom Pods • Whole Cloves

Halloween Cupcakes Cupcake Ingredients Cupcake Directions • • • 1 ½ cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 egg 1 cup water ½ vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vinegar • • • Preheat oven to 350 Mix all ingredients together with an electric mixer or a wooden spoon. Fit paper cupcake liners into three 6 cup muffin pans. Pour batter into the 18 cupcake liners. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Let cool. Frosting Ingredients Frosting Directions • • 1 cup butter, softened 3 ½ cups powdered sugar 1 teaspoon milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 tube black decorating gel 18 plastic spider finger rings Mix butter, powdered sugar, milk & vanilla together with an electric mixer or a wooden spoon until frosting is smooth.

Ingredients & Techniques • Decorating the Cupcakes – Frost cupcake tops with white frosting. (Or add a dash of red food coloring and a dash of yellow food coloring to the frosting to color it orange for a more Halloween-y effect. ) – Draw concentric circles on top of the white or orange frosting with black decorating gel. – Using a toothpick, pull out from the center to the edge of the cupcake to create a spider web design. – Place a plastic spider ring somewhere on the spider web.

Coconut Ghost Ice Cream Balls • • Ingredients 1 quart vanilla Ice cream Flaked coconut Chocolate chips • Directions • Place wax paper on a baking sheet • Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out round balls of ice cream. Drop into a bowl of flaked coconut, and roll to coat ice cream. • Add 2 chocolate chip eyes. • Place in freezer until ready to serve.

Aunt Betty Bob’s Brownies Ingredients • ½ cup butter (1 stick) • 1 cup sugar • 3 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder (Ghirardelli is a good brand) • 2 teaspoons vanilla • 2 eggs • ½ cup flour plus 1 teaspoon for the pan • 1½ cups pecans, roughly chopped or whole • PAM oil spray Directions • Preheat oven 350 degrees. Prepare a 7”x 10” pan by spraying it with PAM and then shaking the teaspoon of flour around the pan to spread the flour all over the bottom & sides. • Melt butter in saucepan. Add sugar, cocoa powder & vanilla to the melted butter and whisk together. Let this mixture cool for 5 minutes. Stir in eggs & flour and mix with a whisk until blended. Stir in pecans, and scrape the batter into the prepared pan. • Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool for 30 minutes. Cut into squares.

Techniques - Prepare the Baking Pan • If you don't have a 7” x 10” size baking pan, you can just use a flat cookie sheet and create a pan by folding up a piece of heavy aluminum foil into a pan shape - create sides that are about 1. 5" high. • Make sure to use a pan of the correct size – too big and the brownies will be dried out; too small and they will be undercooked. • To grease & flour the baking pan for cakes and brownies: Spray with PAM Add flour & shake

Halloween Parties • Halloween Themes – Witches & Cats – Skeletons & Ghosts – Spiders & Bats – Moon – Black & Orange • Your Halloween Costume ? • Your Halloween Party ?