If you put your turnip in the microwave for 5 minutes it makes it really easy to cut. I love the smell of the candle burning the inside of the turnip it brings back loads of happy childhood memories.
Here we slowly roast the pumpkin seeds in a cookie tray in the oven on low heat with a bit of salt and garlic power until they are slightly brown and crispy. Very yummy and a Halloween tradition.
We had to sing when we went guising , “ A Penny for the guisers , the guisers the guisers , a Penny for the guisers and we’ll sing ye a Bonny wee song!” , then you did a turn ie your party piece and you got a thrupence or a sixpence maybe a sweetie or an apple! Then we went home and dooked for apples and tried to eat dangling treacle scones with just our mouths - no hands!
I remember dooking with my family as a bairn, and when it was my mum's turn to dook, so she put her head in, made a grab for an apple' then pulled her head out without the apple and minus her false teeth aswell, which were still stuck firmly in the apple still floating about the babys bath that we were using for dooking I'm still laughing about it now about forty years later 😂
Pumpkins are gourds. They were a native American product. "Indian pumpkins" have thicker skin. They last longer on front porches. In Florida,regular pumpkins get moldy and mushy within 2 weeks.
Cut the top off the turnip with a knife at a angle all the way round, then use the knife and a spoon to take the insides out,we never had fancy tools as a kid to do it, it was fun.
Did you know that we would say Penny for the Guy from a tradition that kids used to go around collecting money to be able to buy fireworks for Guy Fawkes Night? I guess over time we just combined the trend of Trick or Treating into that British tradition
Dunsapie. Penny for the guy is not to do with Halloween! From 31st oct until 5th nov (bonfire night) is when you went about with yer guy(an effigy for the top of the bonfire), getting money for bonfire night shouting "penny for the guy" and collecting pallets and wood for your bon fire. The guy would be placed on top of the bonfire on the 5th... (from guy fox who tried to blow up parliament.) sometimes bairns would drag their guy about on a bogie (go cart) to try and make more money covering more areas. I even saw weans at cessnock underground that had dressed up one of their palls in rags and were shouting penny for the guy to try and get some carry out money together!
I’m sixty so a lot older than you guys. But we always trick or treating with a pillow case. Always dress as hobo. Every year the same thing of course there were six of us. 🎃🎃
Fun fact Halloween and turnips are an Irish tradition. Not Scottish. Yes the Scottish followed this Irish tradition which is fine but don't get all British and try to steel it as your own. The Irish forced out of Ireland because of the evil of the British Empire went to America where used pumpkins at Halloween because the could waste food. Halloween is Irish not Scottish.
You do know there is crossover because the Scots came from the west of Scotland guess what they were Irish!!!!! The Irish King ruled the Kingdom of Dal Reita which is Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. Why do you think West Scotland speaks Gaelic! Scot is literally Latin for the Gaels i.e. the Irish! Scot refers to the Irish in the west of Scotland! Fun Fact: the Irish King also became the King of the Picts (local Scots) and married a Pictish Princess so yeah! Scotland and Ireland have been crossing over in culture for thousands upon thousands of years! Learn History! You fool! You obviously don't know history of Scotland! You must be American!
If you put your turnip in the microwave for 5 minutes it makes it really easy to cut. I love the smell of the candle burning the inside of the turnip it brings back loads of happy childhood memories.
Here we slowly roast the pumpkin seeds in a cookie tray in the oven on low heat with a bit of salt and garlic power until they are slightly brown and crispy. Very yummy and a Halloween tradition.
We had to sing when we went guising , “ A Penny for the guisers , the guisers the guisers , a Penny for the guisers and we’ll sing ye a Bonny wee song!” , then you did a turn ie your party piece and you got a thrupence or a sixpence maybe a sweetie or an apple! Then we went home and dooked for apples and tried to eat dangling treacle scones with just our mouths - no hands!
Yep, did all of that as well.
I remember dooking with my family as a bairn, and when it was my mum's turn to dook, so she put her head in, made a grab for an apple' then pulled her head out without the apple and minus her false teeth aswell, which were still stuck firmly in the apple still floating about the babys bath that we were using for dooking I'm still laughing about it now about forty years later 😂
Kids today will never know the "pleasure" of their dah sawing a turnip in half so they could spend the next then hours scooping it out.
Pumpkins are gourds. They were a native American product. "Indian pumpkins" have thicker skin. They last longer on front porches. In Florida,regular pumpkins get moldy and mushy within 2 weeks.
If you make the hole at the bottom of the pumpkin you can just set it over the lit candle
Cut the top off the turnip with a knife at a angle all the way round, then use the knife and a spoon to take the insides out,we never had fancy tools as a kid to do it, it was fun.
Knife and sting spoon was easiest👍
Did you know that we would say Penny for the Guy from a tradition that kids used to go around collecting money to be able to buy fireworks for Guy Fawkes Night? I guess over time we just combined the trend of Trick or Treating into that British tradition
It's not penny for the Guy, it's penny for the Guiser which comes from disguise as people going guising would dress up.
Dunsapie. Penny for the guy is not to do with Halloween! From 31st oct until 5th nov (bonfire night) is when you went about with yer guy(an effigy for the top of the bonfire), getting money for bonfire night shouting "penny for the guy" and collecting pallets and wood for your bon fire. The guy would be placed on top of the bonfire on the 5th... (from guy fox who tried to blow up parliament.) sometimes bairns would drag their guy about on a bogie (go cart) to try and make more money covering more areas. I even saw weans at cessnock underground that had dressed up one of their palls in rags and were shouting penny for the guy to try and get some carry out money together!
'atleast they weren't a witch' 😂
I’m sixty so a lot older than you guys. But we always trick or treating with a pillow case. Always dress as hobo. Every year the same thing of course there were six of us. 🎃🎃
In Scotland it's called a turnip and in England it's called a swede.
That makes sense now I always knew it as a turnip growing up and never knew what the difference was.
The sweed is creepier looks like a baby's skull!
It was a little difficult to give it any character.
Fun fact Halloween and turnips are an Irish tradition. Not Scottish. Yes the Scottish followed this Irish tradition which is fine but don't get all British and try to steel it as your own. The Irish forced out of Ireland because of the evil of the British Empire went to America where used pumpkins at Halloween because the could waste food.
Halloween is Irish not Scottish.
You do know there is crossover because the Scots came from the west of Scotland guess what they were Irish!!!!! The Irish King ruled the Kingdom of Dal Reita which is Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. Why do you think West Scotland speaks Gaelic!
Scot is literally Latin for the Gaels i.e. the Irish! Scot refers to the Irish in the west of Scotland! Fun Fact: the Irish King also became the King of the Picts (local Scots) and married a Pictish Princess so yeah! Scotland and Ireland have been crossing over in culture for thousands upon thousands of years!
Learn History! You fool!
You obviously don't know history of Scotland! You must be American!