Gonna bake this weekend.

Baronial populace meeting is a holiday party and a cookie contest this month.  I’ll let my wife make the cookies (she does pizzelles up a treat); what I’m going to do is some seed cakes.  I cannot conceive of a SCA gathering that will turn its collective nose up at Tolkienesque seed cakes.  I simply cannot.

Note: for this particular recipe I am going back to using orange zest and poppy seeds; I’ve done it up both ways, and I like it better without caraway.  Caraway seed cake is not bad, mind you.  It’s just not what I want in a seed cake.  Although I do admit that the shire had neither poppy fields, nor orange groves.  Be interesting if it did, no?

9 thoughts on “Gonna bake this weekend.”

  1. Can we just say in the Fourth Age they started importing produce from southern Gondor, and a culinary revolution was started by those who loved food best: the Shire.

    1. Or, we could re-imagine Middle Earth with the Shire in a Floridian climate. I’m imagining hobbits with floral print beach shirts, unbuttoned to show that their chests are no less hairy than their feet.

      1. I have something in the back of my head involving a North Jersey guido hobbit found dead in the back trunk of his IROC, along with about half a kilo of cocaine and some bloodstained cash. And nobody’s surprised in the slightest.

  2. Dear Lord, stop, STOP!
    It’s Christmas.

    How did we get from Christmas to poppy fields, sub-tropic citrus stands and hairy-chested hobbit henchmen?

    Although it does tie in rather nicely with my El Borak/The Shadow/Call of Cthulhu campaign…

    hmmm? oh, yes,well…carry on.

    PS: seed cake recipes?

    2. Oranges for Christmas used to be a legitimately real thing.
      They get ripe a bit before then, and the transportation infrastructure wasn’t nearly what it is.
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      Growing up, I got an orange in the toe of my stocking because “it’s tradition”. But for my grandfather at a similar age, it was a seriously big deal to get the special treat of an exotic fresh fruit in the dead of winter.

      1. Not to mention the health benefits .. stave off scurvy without turnin’ ya limey.
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        Both sides of the cat fam had older relatives who kept up the tradition for years .. I think it’s finally died out in favor of picking up a can of frozen concentrate ..
        .
        Mew

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