Thursday 30 October 2008

Hallowe'en treats

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.

2 comments:

Linda Banche said...

Dates in honey, stuffed with pine nuts? Sounds good to me. Those Romans were on to something.

Lindsay Townsend said...

We tried that one and it really works. A touch of pepper brings the flavour out, too. Bang goes the diet...