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Halloween, Halloween in Italy, Halloween recipes, Pirates, recipes, Romance, Shehanne Moore, The Unraveling of Lady Fury, writing
Dudes, can we kindly stop arguing, so you can get ready for the special Halloween party that will be the culmination of all your work? You know the business of asking each of my fictional couples about Halloween where they are from?
We are blogging Italy today because Lady Fury lives there for most of the book.
Fury and Flint hero and heroine from the Unraveling of Lady Fury are here, so how about you roll with the questions?
Lady Fury : I thought you said they were funny, sweetly articulate creatures who would make every effort to ask us interestingly worded questions?
Captain Flint : I have been known to lie.
Lady Fury : And you said they weren’t aggressive?
Captain Flint : If I told you the reason I’m down to nine fingers and they bite worse than you, you would never have agreed to this.
Shehanne : Okay, dudes…. Before she strops off can we maybe have a question? Or better still an answer?
Lady Fury : Putting aside the fact that there is trick and treating, and talking historically, Italy celebrates All Saints on November 1st and All Souls on November 2nd.
It’s an ancient tradition that can be traced back to Ancient Greece and it is celebrated differently from region to region. In some they leave an empty chair, in others, they light bonfires……
That is a picture of The Beans of the Dead biscuits, fave dei morti, an Italian biscuit, eaten at this time. But since it involves using your pointer finger to make them and you are likely to have eaten those, I am giving you this other recipe instead because there are rules about these things.
My recipe card is, of course, so much better than these other trashy heroines of Shehanne’s brought along to bore you with.
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 100g (4 oz) whole almonds
- 1 tube red decorating icing
- Combine the butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Beat together with an electric mixer; gradually add the flour, baking powder and salt, continually beating; chill for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 160 C / Gas mark 3. Lightly grease baking trays.
- Remove dough from fridge in small amounts. Scoop 1 heaping teaspoon at a time onto a piece of greaseproof paper. Use the paper to roll the dough into a thin finger-shaped biscuit. Press one almond into one end of each biscuit to give the appearance of a long fingernail. Squeeze biscuit near the tip and again near the centre of each to give the impression of knuckles. You can also cut into the dough with a sharp knife at the same points to help give a more finger-like appearance.
Arrange the shaped biscuits on the baking trays.
- Remove the almond from the end of each biscuit; squeeze a small amount of red icing into the cavity; replace the almond to cause the icing to ooze out around the tip of the biscuit.
Captain Flint. Of course we will be. Here’s the lanterns. Fury here sculpted them with her teeth,
Captain Flint : That’s a pity, I was going to leave them for your party. This one kind of reminded me of you guys.
If it had ears that is.
Lady Fury. Why don’t you shut up? You can see they don’t think it looks anything like them. We want to get back to the children, alive.
Captain Flint : This here’s the napkins.
Sorry. You know, next to Fury, you’re my favourite critters. Of course I meant….
Lady Fury : And here’s something else from me. A little spell…..
Lady Fury :You know, I think I did that rather well. Now, do we have any spare boxes?
Tips on dating lady hamsters! I strongly recommend the book ‘My Time as a Hamster Gigolo’ Al Bino-Hamster the 3rd…book available from all good Poundland stores.
My goodness…I will look into that straight off Mike . Did you write it? x
Al also wrote ‘Hamsters Prefer Moist Seed’ and was top hamster in the right wing UKHP Party yet sadly met his demise when crossing the Champs Elysees when a passing owl ate him
Gracious. I missed the obituary. Must go search. Bobby Bub would got on well with him.
Scary stuff!!! Those wicked witches’ fingers will give cute Bobby Bub nightmares. Love Lady Fury’s spell – gonna give it a whirl on a few people I know! Thanks, Shey.
I don’t know that the hammies liked it but I guess thy will be back. I am gonna try it too. Lovely to see you x
Oh my, I forgot how I missed these little critters. Happy Halloween to all. I love the recipe.
I hope you will make it my dear. Lovely to see you as aye, oh Mighty Aubrey. Happy Halloween to you. xx (Don’t fly too high on the broomstick
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Bella ricetta. Terrific recipe. …. ringraziamo.
Aw, grazie. Hugs to you Rinaldo. Have a lovely weekend. The dudes are heading with me to Glencoe.
Bene. Questa è una bella cosa. Love to all of you by Rinaldo from Venice Italy. 💚
Love to you from all of us x
Superb post ,these creatures deserve an award through their inventor. Happy Halloween .
Jalal, you are too kind. I may give them an award yet…. Happy Halloween to you. I am going to enjoy it in a favorite place.
My pleasure.Have a fantastic time.
Aw thank you Jamal. x
Oh,those naughty dudes,they never stop chatting and revealing interesting stories and secrets behind the “pages” … And then,you allowed Lady Fury to talk and connect culture with tradition that goes back into time … “It’s an ancient tradition that can be traced back to Ancient Greece and it is celebrated differently from region to region … ” And,how smashing the “Little Spell of the Unraveling Lady Fury … ” You and your dudes have so magically set it all up,dear Shey!As for the recipe,I find the finger-biscuits so inventive!Here’s to wishing you a happy Halloween,dear friend 🙂
PS:I’d love to see your shortbread recipe too,in one of your posts.
Doda! . Been away for Halloween and just back. SO glad you liked. I thought of Greece and YOU when I did the bit about the Ancient Greek time, my lovely Greek friend. I hope you had a nice time tpp. I will get you a shortbread recipe. That is a promise and I will get it soon too for you my darling x.
Shey,my lovely Scottish friend,can’t thank you enough for the promise!Off to check out your recent posts,I am rather late … 🙂 xxx
Oh I am sure it will be more than one recipe xx
As it is Pirates are scary enough.. The thought of .Ghost pirates can give anyone the creeps. This post is a visual treat in all. I loved the ship lantern and the spooky napkins.
I did like the spooky napkins. I used to have a lovely stencil for cutting out a napkin pattern but I have lost it. I hope you had a lovely Halloween my darling.! Lovely to see you and looking forward to more of your amazing recipes.
xxxxx Happy Halloween
Bless their furry little paws! 😀
Yes…Their vanished little furry paws/……. Lovely to see you. Glad you are feeling better.
Thanks Shey, feeling much better, just waiting on test results. now. Been working on a couple of other projects as well. 😉
Glad to hear it Kev. We can’t do without you x
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Hugs Rinaldo. Hope you’ve enjoyed the weekend.
Not sure I’d like to try one of the Witch’s Finger biscuits…. But a great insight into your heroines’ culinary delights. 🙂
Now Noelle, do not give that heroine any ideas or we will NEVER hear the end of it!!! Lovely to see you x
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Happy new week to you & to the cute critters! ☺
Aw, the very same to you Rinaldo. Sure the critters will be back with capers by the middle of this week and that they haven’t gone for good.
Oh thanks grazie my friend . ! .
Grazie Rinaldo x
Awesome post, dear She… The recipe is hilarious… and I bet Yummy as well . Very neat…
By the way … I thought of you for a Blogger Interview Tag
You can check out further details on my lastest post— Join only if you want or have time. Sending love and best wishes. Aquileana 💫
My darling angel, you are too kind to think of me. I would love to join.Hheading straight over once I finish this pile of emails to see this !! Lots of love to you
Happy day afternoon.
Happy Afternoon to you Rinaldo. I hope your weather is nicer than here x