Such original holiday is my favorite! And I want to tell you about it. Halloween is the holiday of vampires, witches, ghosts and other evil spirits. Because of that children wear costumes and masks with their images. This holiday until recently wildly celebrated only in the United States and now it is becoming increasingly popular in Europe and gradually USSR. What do we know about this holiday, from where it originates? For thousand years in October, different people celebrate different holidays and festivals. Halloween-is one of the oldest festivals in the world. It`s history numbers millennium, beginning from the Celtic festival Samhejn, the Roman Day of Pomona (the goddess of plants) and Christian "Day of all sacred". This holiday in strange way combines the Celtic tradition of celebrating of evil ghost and the Christian-worship all sacred. Across all Europe this night marked transition by the winter. They hold that at this time souls of the died visit the former houses to get warm at fire. They wander around, collecting donations of food and drink at other members of a family. Souls of the died could accept different appearances-malicious were installed in animals. Together with them other powers of darkness are also: demons, house, witches. All evil spirit goes down on the earth. Because of fear, people extinguished the centers in houses and dressed up as it is possible more terribly-in animal skins and heads, hoping to scare away evil ghosts. At the end of XIX century a Halloween have tried to transform it into a public holiday, and many superstitious traits of a Halloween were dissolved in the history. Now Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the United States children wear costumes and masks and go trick-or-treating. Many of them carve jack-a-lantens out of plump kinds. Fortunetelling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities. People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people do not believe in ghosts and witches but they like to tell stories about them on Halloween.
Cornish Pasty is a traditionl round or oval pie, made of wheat or wheat-rye flour. It can be stuffed with beef, pork or chicken and vegetables, such as carrots, potatoes, cabbage. Usually Cornish Pasty is seasoned with spices and greenery, including parsley and parsnip. They can also cook this kind of pies with fruits, for example with apples. Actually, there are dozens of varieties of Cornish Pasty, differing from each other in dough, filling or shape.
Cornish Pasty is a traditional dish for the south-western regions of England, mainly Cornwall. This kind of pies considered to be a distinctive feature of local food, although sellin this kind of tasty and nutritious food has spread throughout England at present. Cornish Pasty can be purchased for a very modest fee (from 50 pence to 2 pounds) in a variety of specialty pastries from York in the north of the country to Windsor in the south. In addition, this type of hot snacks can be bought now in many countries outside the United Kingdom, from Australia to Mexico.
Under the official version, Cornish Pasty was a meal-lunch for the Cornish mines who mined tin in local mines in the Middle Ages. These pies were baked by miners' wives. Miners had no opportunity to was their hands in mines, and they threw away the crust of the pie to protect themselves from harmful metal. So the legend was born that the pie crusts were left for underground gnomes to appease them.
At the same time, the author of the "Official Encyclopedia of Cornish Pasty" Les Merton argues that the recipy of Cornish Pasty had been passed from generation to generation for the last 10 thousend years, soit can be said that the recipe dates back to the beginning of times.
Across all Europe this night marked transition by the winter. They hold that at this time souls of the died visit the former houses to get warm at fire. They wander around, collecting donations of food and drink at other members of a family. Souls of the died could accept different appearances-malicious were installed in animals. Together with them other powers of darkness are also: demons, house, witches. All evil spirit goes down on the earth. Because of fear, people extinguished the centers in houses and dressed up as it is possible more terribly-in animal skins and heads, hoping to scare away evil ghosts. At the end of XIX century a Halloween have tried to transform it into a public holiday, and many superstitious traits of a Halloween were dissolved in the history. Now Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the United States children wear costumes and masks and go trick-or-treating. Many of them carve jack-a-lantens out of plump kinds. Fortunetelling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities. People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people do not believe in ghosts and witches but they like to tell stories about them on Halloween.
Cornish Pasty is a traditionl round or oval pie, made of wheat or wheat-rye flour. It can be stuffed with beef, pork or chicken and vegetables, such as carrots, potatoes, cabbage. Usually Cornish Pasty is seasoned with spices and greenery, including parsley and parsnip. They can also cook this kind of pies with fruits, for example with apples. Actually, there are dozens of varieties of Cornish Pasty, differing from each other in dough, filling or shape.
Cornish Pasty is a traditional dish for the south-western regions of England, mainly Cornwall. This kind of pies considered to be a distinctive feature of local food, although sellin this kind of tasty and nutritious food has spread throughout England at present. Cornish Pasty can be purchased for a very modest fee (from 50 pence to 2 pounds) in a variety of specialty pastries from York in the north of the country to Windsor in the south. In addition, this type of hot snacks can be bought now in many countries outside the United Kingdom, from Australia to Mexico.
Under the official version, Cornish Pasty was a meal-lunch for the Cornish mines who mined tin in local mines in the Middle Ages. These pies were baked by miners' wives. Miners had no opportunity to was their hands in mines, and they threw away the crust of the pie to protect themselves from harmful metal. So the legend was born that the pie crusts were left for underground gnomes to appease them.
At the same time, the author of the "Official Encyclopedia of Cornish Pasty" Les Merton argues that the recipy of Cornish Pasty had been passed from generation to generation for the last 10 thousend years, soit can be said that the recipe dates back to the beginning of times.