/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>buying some mead

don't. commercial mead is universally swill.

meatbread

>>5380031
I actually looked up a few lembas bread recipes on youtube and one of them involves quinoa and a dehydrator. I love lord of the rings and I haven't tried mead, or have any clue where to find it.... so many dreams..... need sources!

>>5380035
Never really had more than a few sips of mead, I don't know.
Do you suggest that I make it myself?

>>5380035
oh no....

>>5380038
Please do elaborate!

>>5380040
maybe if your movie night is going to be like two years from now?
seems a little unrealistic.

Lembas you fool

>>5380031
Potatoes, of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXOc1_3jReM

>>5380031
Rabbit stew.

I'd probably just do a hearty beef stew in the slow cooker, and serve it with a crusty bread, a tomato or beet salad of some sort and a nice red wine.

>>5380045
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Meatbread

>>5380053
>europe
>middle ages
>potatoes

Fuck yes, LOTR marathon is great. I've never prepared food for one though. But I can help. When Skyrim first came out I'd have 10-12 hour gaming binges and I'd make Eldar Scrolls spreads for sustenance snacks while I played. What you want is a big wooden serving board. Buy lots of fresh baked crusty breads, different cheeses, apples, carrots, cured and smoked sausages, pickled vegetables, grapes, grape tomatoes, ale, wine, mead, etc etc and lay them all out on the tray with some knives. Its pretty much the spread you'll see in any medieval or epic fantasy movie, a bunch of finger foods. Everyone can just snack how they want to during the marathon.

Bonus points if you get a bunch of cheap pipes for everybody and some decent pipe tobacco. If you want to cook something, po-ta-to and rabbit would be appropriate.

>>5380081
>what is middle-earth?

>>5380081
>middle earth
>europe in the middle ages

Lembas always made me think of focaccia

>>5380084
>>5380074
>>5380059
Great suggestions so far!
>>5380051
How? I mean, sure there's recipes on the internet, but what would you do?

>>5380086
>>5380087
its not england guys

>>5380091
I always imagined it tasting semi sweet and buttery, sort of like a shortbread.

Anyone else start getting starving during the Bag-End dwarf dinner scene in the first Hobbit movie? He just has all this delicious food sitting around, and dat cupboard.

>>5380092
>sure there's recipes on the internet
>recipes on the internet
>recipes
I'd look up a recipe, on the internet, and follow it.

>>5380119
Have you read the rest of the line?

>>5380031
>My question for you is what should I make? Has anyone else here ever done anything like it?
For foodstuffs, I pretty much see the Hobbits as ren faire kind of food, stuffed little meat pies, fresh produce from the veggie patch, and like you said, mead or ale. They do sell mead (which is simply honey wine) at Total Wine and most big wine stores. Any fruit wine might do. If you have access to Flying Dog craft brews, some are based on old historical recipes. I'm sure you can doctor up any wine by fortifying with honey and a little grand marnier.
It might be a a fun idea to roll out courses/snacks for each individual theme, fitting for them. I'd think people on a long quest and journey might have some kind of dried fruits/trail mix or jerky. Cheese and bread.

>>5380094
>its not england guys
Sure it is. It's an english author inspired while on vacation in Iceland, listening to some of the sagas being told to his children by the local nanny, looking out at the stark lava field landscapes.

>>5380126
Maybe I should have added that I'm not American but German.
I'm sure I'll find some good strong beer or mead to fit.
The idea with the different "courses" sounds really good! For example some somehow made lembas bread right after they leave from Lothlorien or something like that.

>>5380126
its england retard

>>5380126
By your logic, no fantasy worlds exist.

>>5380124
The part about what I would do?

>>5380138
Nevermind

>>5380126
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/centralengland/739039/Sites-that-shaped-Tolkiens-Lord-of-the-Rings.html

>>5380145
there is actually an england tour that shows you the locations that show up in the books

Are there any recipes for Cram?

>>5380152
Yeah it's called spam

http://www.britainexpress.com/articles/Food/index.htm
just cook what tolkien grew up eating

Lembas in the films reminds me of biscotti.
Make a batch of appropriately shaped ones and they'd make a good snack. I think the actual prop Lembas was shortbread.

Maybe use some rosewater to make it taste a bit more unusual?

If you are German get some good strong beer. The poms make

>>5380074
le teegee obese maymay food

>>5380091
It always made me think of rusk, but an extremely nutrition packed one and slightly less dry.

I heard lembas has some lemon peel in it

>>5380081
>europe
>middle ages
>elves

Here's a list of everything eaten at Bilbo's house in the Hobbit:
http://recipewise.co.uk/tea-in-the-hobbit

It turns out it's all real food. Not TLotR, but essentially the same.

>>5380031
My friends have a D&D night once a month. We get wasted on ale and bitter while we feast on the biggest turkey legs, various meat pies, meat, bread & cheese. It's great fun.

>>5380038
Is that like the Indian flatbread that has spiced minced meats baked inside of it?

>>5380059
A good stew is pretty authentic for that style of food. Easy to make a massive batch for everyone too.

>>5380031
Pies, and lots of them.

Get one big wheel of cheese, a knife and a crusty loaf for each person.

>>5380117

>>5382176
Rabbit specifically, because it was in either the hobbit or lotr. (Books)

>>5380031
It sounds like a ploghmans lunch would work for you op.

>>5382204
Gollum caught a rabbit in one of the LotR books/movies, the stew Sam made is what triggered the talk where he explained to Gollum what taters are.

>>5380134
How about cooking what they have on screen as they are having it? The bacon and sausages during the Weathertop scene, an apple food during the "what about second breakfast?" scene, dear during the Aeagorn with hunted deer scene, pub snacks during the Prancing Pony scene, a Lambas substitute as they eat it, rabbit stew as Sam makes it. A tapas style thing of lots of smaller snacks all through the day. It would be hell to time everything to match with the correct scene, but would be pretty memorable if you pulled it off.

>>5382220
That's right. Thanks.

>>5380152
>Appearing in The Hobbit and mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, cram is a biscuit-like food made by the Men of Esgaroth and Dale, which they share with the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain. Very nutritious, it is used for sustenance on long journeys. It is not as appealing as and less tasty than the similar Elvish bread lembas; Tolkien describes it humorously as "more of a chewing exercise" than enjoyable to eat. Like lembas, it is probable that Tolkien modelled cram on hardtack, a biscuit that was used during long sea voyages and military campaigns as a primary foodstuff. This bread was little more than flour, water and salt which had been baked hard and would keep for months as long as it was kept dry.[1][2]

>>5382244
I made this before. Shit is great.

Here's what you want to do if you were making a meal for large group of people: http://recipewise.co.uk/tea-in-the-hobbit

If you're making it for a smaller group of friends, little themed foods like lembas, stewed rabbit if you can get it, cooked mushrooms, a kingsfoil garden salad, etc.

I have a couple of my own recipes for ent-draught if you'd like those too.

>>5382314
I sure would, thank you!

>>5382360
The first draught was described as a green-tasting, healing sort of drink, so I put together an infusion of dandelions, ginger root, and lemon juice. For 1/2 gallon, use 20 very well-cleaned dandelion heads, juice from three lemons, and one whole ginger root, peeled and chopped. Let it sit for at least 1 hour and up to 12, sweeten with honey.

Second was described as filling and earthy-tasting, so I used a nut milk as a base (either almond or cashew is good). For 1/2 gallon use 1 cup coconut water, 2 cups nut milk, a couple tablespoons (or to taste) of rose water, and fill the rest with filtered water. Flavor with honey or agave syrup.

>>5382397
Neato, thanks!

Salted pork and ale

Honeycakes with blackberries