Lick your lips, folks. This came into my blogreader today: it seems that sweets for Hallowe'en go back a long, long way, back to the Roman world of Flavia's Secret and beyond. Dates in honey, stuffed with pine-nuts, anyone? Here's the full article from the National Geographic.
Thursday 30 October 2008
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Dates in honey, stuffed with pine nuts? Sounds good to me. Those Romans were on to something.
We tried that one and it really works. A touch of pepper brings the flavour out, too. Bang goes the diet...
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