Michelle Darmody: On the right track with Halloween brack

Michelle Darmody

There are many traditional Irish recipes to celebrate the feast of Samhain on November 1.

It was once celebrated as a day when the spirits of those who had died the previous year could pass into the next world. A portal was opened between our world and the next, bonfires were lit, and gifts of food and drink provided so that the wandering spirits did not go hungry. Samhain marked the transition point between the autumn and winter season, and, over the years, it has been moulded into what we now know as Halloween.