Coffin Hop Day Two: Ghost Floats (and a new story)

Head over to Every Day Fiction to read "The Long Walk to Never" today. As always, comments and ratings are appreciated.

Here's another blast from the past, Coffin Hoppers: Ghost Floats, a fun drink with a spooky pedigree. I offer it word for word as it was in the original text, The Little Witch's Black Magic Cookbook by Linda Glovach.

20 minutes / 2 servings

You'll need a blender, measuring spoon, measuring cup, and glasses.

Ingredients:

1 cup prepared powdered milk (fresh milk won't work)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup diet soda

Ask your mother to get the blender out of the cupboard.

Put the milk and the vanilla in the blender. Slowly add the soda.

Blend at medium speed for two minutes. Pour into two glasses and put them in the freezer for ten minutes.

When you take the drink out of the freezer you will see the ghosts floating on top. This is a great drink fro mother witches on diets because it has only 57 calories*. And the little witches who are not on a diet can use regular soda.

*Yeah, I know. WTF? But the book was published in 1972. A whole helluva lot of witches were on diets back then. Or something like that.

Do you remember any recipes or special Halloween treats from your childhood?

Recipes for Kids

A dangerous post title for a guy who's been known to write horror and dark fantasy, but this is important.

Jodi Lee, an author/editor from Canada (I share The Black Garden TOC with her, and she has a story, "The Lion Roared" in Tainted's TOC) has a proposal.

Well, her daughter is looking for ways to raise money to replace the old handicapped inaccessible playground equipment at her school. They are putting together a benefit cookbook. So...(and I quote from http://www.jodilee.ca/?p=301):

"I was thinking of a “scratch our back, we’ll scratch yours” kinda thing. Any author, editor, reporter, actor, etc. that would like to byline themselves with their favorite recipe, for a good cause, let us know, and we’ll send a form out by email. I’m spam-guarding the email address, but you just have to remove the guard, and add the appropriate bits. recipes jodilee ca"

(That would be recipes(at)jodilee(dot)ca, with an @ and . in place of the parentheses and words)

What do you say folks? Let's see how we can help. I have a pile of delicious recipes, none of which calls for children. (I only write about the weird stuff.)