Subject: It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!
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Posted on: 2013-07-17 15:50:00 UTC
I don't this is a new idea. I seem to recall such a thing being compiled before. I believe Neshomeh supplied a Klah recipe.
I'll see if I can find that, since I do like this idea.
-Phobos
For a while now I've been thinking we should do a PPC cookbook, which I have tentatively dubbed the Multiverse Masterchef.
I'm sure the more culinarily-inclined of us have had a go at making World One versions of fictional foodstuffs (e.g. I made a version of lembas a few weeks ago, and I have been perfecting my version of ryshcate (a whisky-and-nut cake from Corellia in the Star Wars expanded universe).
The cookbook could combine dishes from the multiverse (Lembas? Dibblers Pies? Klah? Blue Milk? etc) plus some recipes from HQ (Generic Cupcakes? Sue Souffle?).
Has anyone else tried their hand at fictional cuisine? Did it work out well? Share your recipes below, and hopefully we can put together a virtual cookbook for the PPC.
Elcalion, culinary
I have had this idea of making the food from particular worlds in our own, mostly Equestria. I am a meat eater, but trying to work with vegetarian cuisine might be interesting. Besides, what does Zap Apple Jam taste like? Hay fries? Printworthy's favorite, daisy sandwiches? We may yet find out.
In the mean time, I will leave you all a tumblr I found that has food from Tamriel: http://sunderlorn.tumblr.com/tagged/Food-of-Tamriel
Not exactly a step by step guide, but it does point you down the right direction.
I found a wonderful guide to a Harry Potter party a couple of years back. I kept the link, it still works (for me at least).
http://www.brittablvd.com/wizards/recipes.html
Lots of ideas in here, including a recipe for Butterbeer!
We used this site to make a huge party meal that we ate while watching the LOTR several months ago.
http://recipewise.co.uk/tea-in-the-hobbit
We especially loved the seed cake. We'd never had anything like it before. The plum heavies were a hit, especially considering how simple they were, and the porter cake was also a favorite.
Thanks for sharing this. It's very interesting, and I'll definitely have to try some of the recipes out myself.
Also, if it was "chicken and tomatoes" in an early edition of The Hobbit, does that make Denethor's meal in the Movies a really weird homage? O.o
~Neshomeh
I have curried oats recipe. It's rather spartan, but you won't find oats to be disgusting later. Unless you hate the taste of curry.
... this cookbook? It isn't multiverse-themed (though it does have my klah recipe in it), but it is the beginnings of a cookbook with recipes donated by PPCers... oh, some years ago. I don't remember exactly when. I just collected them and stuck them in a fancy Gdoc with the hope of expanding it in the future, and then never got around to it.
I love the idea of trying to make PPC foods in the Real World, though. Could be fun. Dangerous, perhaps, but fun. *g* I bet you could make Sue Souffle glitter with some kind of sugar... I wouldn't try my hand at that one, though. I've never done a souffle before, and I suspect my oven is too crappy.
~Neshomeh
One day I'll publish my my list of fanfic/PPC-themed mixed drinks. Sue blood is on the list. It is disgustingly sweet and sparkly.
I saw the other day on Pinterest a little homemade glitter recipe. It was salt and food coloring mixed and then spread the salt out and bake it to dry it back out from the food color. If you aren't opposed to food color (or if you used something natural like beet juice) then it is edible and could be used on food.
It might even be a neat trick that it is salty instead of sweet, as Sue's aren't really what they seem to be.
Of course the same trick would work with sugar if you wanted it to be sweet. The original was for something you'd glitter and leave lying around and wouldn't want sugar to attract ants.
... is... hot-chocolate-coffee-cinnamon-nutmeg?
Huh.
Um.
Huh.
That actually sounds nice enough to make me do it. And I don't put coffee in things, er, ever.
I think you get a round of applause for that.
hS
And it's adapted from the official recipe in The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, so it has that going for it, too. If you're curious, this is the original, which makes a big batch:
Mix together:
* 2 tablespoons sweet ground chocolate
* 1/2 cup dark cocoa
* 3/8 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon dark instant coffee crystals, ground to powder
* small pinch of nutmeg
Use two to four teaspoons of the mixture per cup of boiling water. Stir well. The klah should be thick, much like hot cocoa.
I personally found it too bitter to drink without dumping a lot of sugar and milk in it, being mostly cocoa powder and coffee, so I tinkered and fiddled and adjusted and scaled it down for one cup at a time in the process. I normally don't put coffee in things, either, but in the end it really works well to round out and enrichen the flavor. {= )
~Neshomeh
The entire 'sweet' content of that is the tiny amount of actual chocolate in each cup... no, I think your version sounds better.
hS
I don't this is a new idea. I seem to recall such a thing being compiled before. I believe Neshomeh supplied a Klah recipe.
I'll see if I can find that, since I do like this idea.
-Phobos
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It appears that the recipes for that one were submitted from the cookbooks of agents.
-Phobos
...what the ingredients to Sue Soufflé would look like.
Ow about Urple cake with purite bledangle frosting?
I can put it into an eBook when weve eventually finshed it...
I've never tried to make anything from scratch (well, not since I knew what cookery actually meant), but I do remember making Dwarf Bread from Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. Oh, no, actually I tell a lie - for a very long time we've made chocolate versions of the melt-in-the-middle cookies from the Faraway Tree books (and it's been too long for me to remember what those're called or who made them. :() They're very nice - but not very PPC-y, I admit.
I also doubt I'd ever make anything from the PPC Cookbook - purely because we don't cook a whole lot of things. That said, the idea amuses me immensely.
(How's the ryshcate coming along? Have you managed to make it sweet enough? I always did like the descriptions in the books...)
hS
I'll post a proper recipe later, but my version of ryshcate is something between a date loaf with delusions of grandeur and a fruit cake.
I use walnuts to substitute for vweilu nuts (my local grocer just can't seem to get vweilu nuts in stock). Other than that, my version is basically a fruit cake with dates, raisins, crystallised ginger, plus cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg and allspice; a bit of brown sugar for sweetening and then I mix in a glass of whisky into the cake mix to give it some fire (again, my local liquor store can't seem to stock Whyren's Reserve so I usually go for a lighter single malt that's been finished in a sherry cask for a bit of honey/spice flavour).
I've made this version of ryshcate three or four times now and it works pretty well.
Elcalion, culinary