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Soul Cakes
5 oz. butter (just over 1/2 cup)
5 oz. sugar (just over 1/2 cup)
2 C flour
3 egg yolks
1 TBS pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. allspice
3 TBS currants
2 tsp. milk
Preheat oven to 350-degrees F. In a bowl, sift flour and spices together. In another bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat egg yolks and add to the creamed mixture, beating well. Add flour and spice mix and stir in currants. Add milk to form a soft dough. Place dough on a lightly-floured surface and shape into flat cakes about two-or-three-inches in diameter. Transfer to a well-buttered baking tray and bake until lightly golden. Cool on a wire rack before serving.
*Soul Cakes image (C) Fuss-Free Flavors.
*Recipe source: Sacred Mists Wiccan College.
A soul cake is a small round cake which is traditionally made for All Saints Day or All Souls' Day to celebrate the dead. The cakes, often simply referred to as souls, were given out to soulers (mainly consisting of children and the poor) who would go from door to door on Halloween singing and saying prayers for the dead. Each cake eaten would represent a soul being freed from Purgatory. The practice of giving and eating soul cakes is often seen as the origin of modern trick-or-treating. In Lancashire and in the North-east of England they were also known as Harcakes. [Date Source: Wikipedia].
A soul! a soul! a soul-cake!
Please good Missis, a soul-cake!
An apple, a pear, a plum, or a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry.
One for Peter, two for Paul
Three for Him who made us all.
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