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Halloween Treats

Halloween treats include: Pumpkin Pie, Candy, Hot Apple Soda, Caramel Apples, and Magosto.

1. Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkins can be made into pumpkin lamps, and of course, they can also be made into pumpkin pie. In the United States in the late fall to early winter, pumpkin pie is often eaten at home snacks, before and after All Hallows' Eve, the lovely pumpkin has become a festive food, dried pumpkin seeds is also a Halloween must eat snacks.

2, candy

Since we are going to play the game of "Trick or Treat", all kinds of delicious candies are of course a must-have for Halloween. Candy is one of the most popular Halloween foods. On Halloween, stores sell candy in all kinds of spooky shapes, as well as candy wrapped in orange, brown or black, which are common on All Hallows' Eve, and are very popular with children.

3, hot apple cider

and apple related and a hot apple cider, cider, cider is apple juice or apple cider, this drink is heated with apple cider and then add cinnamon, cloves, sugar boiled and become, the alcohol in the heating has been evaporated almost. This drink is prevalent all winter in Europe and the United States, and is drunk from Halloween all the way through Christmas and into spring.

4, caramel apples

Because Halloween time is also a bumper crop of apples, so foreign caramel apples as a holiday food. Caramel apple practice is very simple, the apple from the tip of the fruit directly into the bamboo skewer, and then hold the apple to dip the apple in the syrup dipped in a layer of icing, and sometimes glued with nuts, marshmallows, small cookies, popcorn, etc., we can do it at home, want to stick anything on it can be.

5, Magosto

To harvest seasonal ingredients to celebrate the festivities is the world's common **** knowledge. In Galicia, Spain, Halloween is also called "Magosto", which translates to "bonfire" or roasted chestnuts.

Either of these explanations has something to do with chestnuts, which were a staple food in Galicia before the introduction of corn and potatoes from the Americas, and even influenced the spirituality of the Galician people, who believed that each air-dried chestnut also symbolized the ascension of a departed soul to its heavenly resting place.