2 cups pumpkin seeds
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons melted butter
vegetable oil

1. Separate pumpkin seeds from the pulp but don't wash the seeds.
   
2. Mix seeds, butter, salt, and stir.
   
3. Grease baking tray with oil and pour on buttered seeds. Gently shake the pan to even out the seeds.
   
4. Bake seeds at 200 degrees F. for 45 mins.

Apples
Water
A deep pan or a half barrel
Lots of kids

You can blindfold the players or not. Put the water and apples in the barrel. Without using hands the players must pick up an apple with their teeth! (If you wear glasses then don't forget to take them off.)

Pumpkin Cake
This tastes like pumpkin!

1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
1/2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
3/4 c. dark molassses
3/4 c. milk
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda

Mix together sugar, butter, ginger, cinnamon, and salt. Add one egg and beat until fluffy. Add molasses and milk. Combine flour and basking soda and add to wet mixture. Bake in a round pan at 325 degrees F. for 35 minutes. When cooled frost with orange icing.

A Gruesome Brew

1/2 c. lemon juice
1 quart apple cider
5 cloves
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 cinnamon sticks
toads and salamanders

1. Mix lemon juice and cider in a saucepan.
   
2. Put spices in a tea ball and add to cider.
   
3. Bring mixture to a boil over low heat and simmer for 5 - 10 minutes.
   
4. Cool slightly, remove tea ball, and serve. Also good cold.

In a bowl combine 2 cups of washed and dried green grapes and 1/2 cup of sour cream. Pour into 1 prepared graham cracker pie crust. Right before serving sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.

Gory Hand - Presentation is everything.

This is both a yummy treat and a great decoration to scare your friends. Use a clean rubber glove. Make a strong cherry or other red jello by using 3/4 of the recommended amount of water. Hang the glove over the sink by using clothes pins attached to thin strips of wood. When the jello has cooled pour into glove and place in the deep freeze. Be careful not to have the hand pressing against anything or it will ruin the shape. When the jello is frozen cut the glove off using small scissors. Keep your masterpiece in the fridge until ready to display.

Eyeball Snacks

1 lb. icing sugar
1 egg white
peppermint essence
black liquorice
blue or green colouring

Beat the egg white lightly and blend with a small amout of icing sugar and a few drops of peppermint essence. Mix until you get a fine dry paste. Using your hands knead the paste adding small amounts of icing sugar until the paste will absorb it. Separate a small quatitiy to make the irises, adding a few drops of blue or green coloring and mix. Roll the white mixture into small round balls. Press a hole in the top of the ball with your finger and add some of the colored mixture. Cut a small piece off of the liquorice and place in the middle of the colored mixture for the pupil. Voila!

Spider Salad

1. Place one half of a canned peach on a plate, flat side down.
   
2. Cut eight curls off of a carrot with a vegetable peeler.
   
3. Tuck the curls under the peach to make spider legs.
   
4. Put raisins on top of peach for eyes.
   
5. Put a small piece of marachino cherry under the raisins for the mouth.

1. Melt a 6oz. package of butterscotch chips over low heat, stirring constantly.
   
2. Remove chips from heat and stir in 1 cup peanuts and 3 cups chow mein noodles.
   
3. Drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper and cool.

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Sara (yes, I can explain it all)
Sara@openhere.com

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