These days a home made Halloween feast can give you the ultimate stress out, what with all of the perfect, expensive and super time consuming things I’m sure we’ve all saved on a Pinterest board for “someday”. So, how about a couple of old time, easy treats to help lessen the stress?
I used to run a YouTube channel called The Vintage Kitchen, where I modernised the measurements and cooking of vintage recipes for today’s cooks. Here are a few of the Halloween recipes I made.
![Goblin sandwiches. A halloween treat from the 1930's](https://www.knitting-and.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/goblin-sandwiches.jpg)
Goblin sandwiches from 1936 – a fun way to dress up your kid’s lunch on Halloween.
![Witch's Brew](https://www.knitting-and.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/witchs-brew-300x269.jpg)
Witch’s brew from 1936. Decorate some shop bought (or home made) marshmallows with grumpy or scary faces and pop them in a cup of frothy hot chocolate.
![A tray of pumpkin pasties cooling down.](https://www.knitting-and.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/pumpkin-pasties-300x166.jpg)
Celebrate Halloween in style with pumpkin pasties from 1947, rock cakes from 1927, orĀ treacle tart from the 1970’s. These rock cakes won’t break your teeth!
![Jellied chicken salad garnished with tomato and cucumber](https://www.knitting-and.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jellied-chicken-salad-300x204.jpg)
Or you could take the ultimate challenge and make Jellied chicken salad from 1953, and dare anyone to eat it! It’s a basic chicken salad in jellied dressing but you could dress it up to be really horrifying instead of just “why would anyone do that to a poor, innocent salad?” type of scary. Set it in a skull shaped bowl, with spiders made from black olives for a dinner with a difference!
Whatever you do on Halloween, I hope you have a spooky day! I’ll be handing out treats and trying to peel my son off the ceiling after he eats too much sugar.
![Sarah](https://www.knitting-and.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/signature.png)