How Is Halloween Celebrated In Scotland?

[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.

[Lallans]

I thought the turnip thing was Irish? They certainly get credit for bringing the celtic holiday to the Americas.

[macwilkin]

I thought the turnip thing was Irish? They certainly get credit for bringing the celtic holiday to the Americas.

Nope, it's Scottish as well.

T.

[artificer]

Nope, it's Scottish as well.

T.

So it's a Celtic Scots-Irish holiday that WE get blamed for exporting to Scotland??!

Typical.

Next we'll get blamed for Haggis.

JK/ I'm well aware of the ACTUAL holiday, and what America has done to it, but it seems a bit unjust, all the same.