How Is Halloween Celebrated In Scotland?

[Jimmy]

it is the only night of the year my mother-in-law can go out and nobody gives her a second glance

[Spc. Scott]

it is the only night of the year my mother-in-law can go out and nobody gives her a second glance

[EHCAlum]

Whats wrong with Halloween? Its the only time women can dress up completely trashy and *not safe for family forum word here* and not get chastised.

[Urchurdan]

it is the only night of the year my mother-in-law can go out and nobody gives her a second glance

Nice wan Jimmy, can mine join yours coven???? LoL..........

[Pleater]

We didn't celebrate Halloween at all. Fifty years ago in Yorkshire, in the North of England we only knew about apple bobbing because we saw it in the movies.

One year my sister wanted to make a turnip lantern, I think because they had been told about them at school, and our mum was scandalised at the thought of wasting good food.

Now - Bonfire night, that was when the whole row got together and had a fire and fireworks, toffee apples, baked potatoes, hot pies and pease pudding - that was always a big event.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[EHCAlum]

One year my sister wanted to make a turnip lantern, I think because they had been told about them at school, and our mum was scandalised at the thought of wasting good food.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

I hated turnips (rutabega to us Yanks) until my stepdad made a really good mashed turnip recipe. What is a turnip lantern?

[piperdbh]

What is a turnip lantern?

A jack o' lantern made from a turnip or rutabaga instead of a pumpkin.

[EHCAlum]

That's more like a torch rather than a jack o lantern.

[skauwt]

That's more like a torch rather than a jack o lantern.

depends on the size of the tumsha used

[macwilkin]

I hated turnips (rutabega to us Yanks) until my stepdad made a really good mashed turnip recipe. What is a turnip lantern?

The auld Scottish equivalent of an American pumpkin "Jack O'Lantern".

T.