Janet Wilder wrote:
>
> On 10/30/2010 11:35 AM, koko wrote:
> >
> > I made some Pan de Muerto.
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/koko181/5123836447/
> >
> > It is a dense sweet bread that is typically made for the Day of the
> > Dead celebrations Nov 2nd.
>
> I thought that was November 1. It's the Mexican celebration of All
> Saint's Day, isn't it?
>
>
1 Nov is All Saints Day (Todos los Santos), 2 Nov is All Souls Day (and
Dia de los Muertes). Celebrated with the bread and sugar skulls.

I make the bread
(http://notecook.com/bread/pan-de-muerte-bread-of-death, for another
recipe) and have made salt dough skulls, rather than sugar skulls