Got the neighborhood kids rounded up in your living room? For a vintage Halloween party, try these spooky treats from 1972.
ZOMBIE ALE
Ingredients: 3 quarts orange sherbet, 5 quarts chilled ginger ale, maraschino cherries and grapes.
Directions: Insert large chunks of orange sherbet into chilled punch bowl. Pour ginger ale over the sherbet. Garnish with maraschino cherries and grapes to make faux floating eyeballs in your Halloween punch.
MUMMY HEADS
Ingredients: 1 cup unpopped popcorn, 1 teaspoon salt, ¼ cup butter, ½ pound marshmallows.
Directions: Pop the corn and sprinkle with salt. Melt butter in skillet. Cut marshmallows in quarters. Alternate layers of popcorn and marshmallows in skillet. Cover, and heat slowly until marshmallows are partially melted. Remove from heat, and mix well. Form into 2-inch balls. Use licorice strings for X-shaped eyes and sewn together mouth. Makes 9 balls.
GNOME TONGUES
Ingredients: 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar, ½ cup shortening, 2 eggs, 1 ¾ cup canned pumpkin, 2 ¾ cup plain or all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon ginger, 1 cup plump raisins, 1 cup chopped pecans.
Directions: Mix sugar, shortening, eggs, and pumpkin. Measure flour by dipping or sifting. Blend dry ingredients together, and add to pumpkin mixture, stirring until well blended. Add raisins and pecans. Drop batter by teaspoonful on ungreased baking sheet, lightly forming into an oblongl tongue shape. In oven preheated to 400 degrees, bake 12 – 15 minutes until slightly browned. Cookies may be thinly and ghoulishly iced if you desire. Makes 6 dozen cookies.
What’s your favorite Halloween themed treat? These vintage recipes from 1972 should help you ward off the Halloween tricksters!
Cheers & Happy Reading!
Flossie Benton Rogers, Conjuring the Magic with Paranormal Romance
I’m glad the signing books day was a blast.
The kid treats sound great. Around here we aren’t so much into pumpkin and we have no Halloween celebration. Instead there are a lot of traditions and beliefs, especially in the rural area, surrounding St Andrew’s Night 29th November, ( a kind of Romanian Halloween). I will have a post in November about it.
Have a lovely weekend!
Your area has a lot of celebrations so that you may not miss Halloween. Around here it’s a big to do and lots of fun. I look forward to your post on St. Andrew’s Night!
Those are wonderful Halloween treats, Flossie. I remember the popcorn balls my parents used to make when I was kid. They’d wrap them in plastic and hand them out on Halloween. I guess I’m still partial to those, even though they didn’t decorate them. Add the licorice and they would be Mummy Heads 🙂
Ooh, those were back in the days when hand made treats were expected and not feared. We did the same with candied apples. Good memories, Mae.
I am glad your book signing went well these treats sound fun
Thanks, Cathy.