This week, we’re celebrating the holiday of tricks and treats with Halloween scholar Lesley Bannatyne. She teaches us how to emulate the romping Halloween parties of the Victorian era, complete with matchmaking games and dinners for the dead. Plus, we discuss Cotton Candy Grapes and other new candy-inspired flavors in fruit breeding; Dan Pashman has a suggestion for your trick-or-treat offering this year; and we make a German-Style winter squash bread.

Questions in this episode:

"To what degree can one substitute one fruit for another in a recipe?"

"I am calling to get some advice on how to adapt recipes if you're going to make them at different size quantities."

"I have an issue with a caramel cake that I've made for my entire life. And I just recently started to have some issues with the caramel icing developing blooms."