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This story originally ran in the baiduhai on Oct. 23, 1938.

There’s another week left in which to cook up a Halloween party with spooks and goblins, gray witches and black cats. Cider and doughnuts are standby Halloween refreshments, but if you want to be a little different this year try goblin salads, apple sauce cake and punch.

Goblin salads are made from baked oranges filled with fruit. The facial features are pieces of candied cherries, and a bit of angelica or green pepper is stuck into each cover to look like a pumpkin handle.

These are the main ingredients that were used to make the Gooey goblin fruit salad recipe, which originally published in the baiduhai in 1938.
These are the main ingredients that were used to make the Gooey goblin fruit salad recipe, which originally published in the baiduhai in 1938.

Gooey goblin fruit salad

Ingredients:

4 seedless oranges (to make four goblins)

1 cup sugar

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1 cup water

6 tablespoons white corn syrup

1 diced apple

Bunch of seedless grapes cut vertically in half

1 cup raisins

Maraschino cherries or licorice (to create a face on the side of each orange)

1 handle from a small pumpkin or a piece of angelica or green bell pepper (to place on top of the orange)

Directions:

Select four nice seedless oranges, grate the rinds slightly to break the oil cells and cook the oranges until tender, about thirty minutes, in boiling water. Drain.

Mix 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, and 6 tablespoons white corn syrup. Boil five minutes, then pour this syrup over the cooked oranges in a casserole.

Cover and bake in a slow oven, 300 degrees, for thirty minutes. Cool.

Slice off the tops of the oranges and fill with diced apple, raisins, and halved seedless grapes mixed with mayonnaise into which has been folded a little of the sirup left from baking the oranges.

Make features on each goblin with candied cherries and replace the tops.

Insert a piece of angelica or green pepper to make a handle in each. Serve on crisp lettuce and garnish with sections of apples and grapes.

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