Regional Cooking from Middle-Earth: Recipes of the Third Age (More randomness)

[radiantfracture]

Have you got a favorite in the genre of Literary Cookbooks?

Or -- though this is a separate genre and a bit out of fashion now -- Those Novels with Recipes in Them? (See Like Water for Chocolate.)

I have a cherished book produced two decades ago through the print-on-demand place, called Regional Cooking from Middle-Earth: Recipes of the Third Age.

The cookbook is divided regionally -- Shire, Bree, Regions of Rohan, etc., and also has an Index by Season. I think all the recipes are given both in English and in the local languages. It is the very exemplar of a labour of love.

I am almost certain I have never cooked anything from this book, but I feel happier knowing I could. There are three kinds of lembas. The recipes are simple and practical. There is a rabbit stew. Tarcoron, "high mound" is better know in this age as Yorkshire Pudding.

Why the question

I was thinking of trying to make batch cooking feel more appealing by making it literary-flavoured. I did once make a pretty passable Boeuf en Daube for a party.

(So the Surrealist Cookbook would be unhelpful in this instance. I want to make real food for my real body to eat. I just want to eat some ideas at the same time.)

--any edible and palatable crossover would do, really. Cheers!

(For example, I count New England Spider Cake as literary because I learnt it from a post by sovay .)

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Comments

[sovay]

Or -- though this is a separate genre and a bit out of fashion now -- Those Novels with Recipes in Them?

I had to excavate a lot of dead links to find this one, but it is one of my favorite pieces of fiction built around a recipe: Samantha Henderson, "Scones" (2004).

[edit] The same author's related "Hungry: Some Ghost Stories" (2008) contains no recipe, but the question structure made me think also of you.

My mother has a surprising number of mysteries that still come with recipes in. I once baked a Pernese bubbly pie from a published recipe that I would amend as an adult. rushthatspeaks and I have been trying for more than a decade to reverse-engineer a butter-pie from Diana Wynne Jones' Time City.

[edit edit] (For example, I count New England Spider Cake as literary because I learnt it from a post by sovay .)

It's an honor!