[Sca-cooks] Re: Tolkien geekiness

[Christiane]

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:36:46 -0600
From: "Michael Gunter" <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Tokien geekiness 
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On a totally different thread. One of my fantasies is to produce a series
of meals based on Tolkein. Maybe not one as extravagant as Bilbo's birthday
but to try to reproduce such meals as at the Prancing Pony, Tom Bombadil's
dinner, the meal at the waterfall and such. I think it could be fun.

But I'm a geek.

Gunthar
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Back in high school in the mid-80s, I gamed with a group in which the game master was one of the biggest Tolkien fanatics on the face of the planet. In fact, Steve's ambition was to eventually attend classes at Oxford so he could hang out where Tolkien hung out.

But I digress. Steve collected Tolkien books obsessively. And one of the books was, "The Middle Earth Cookbook" or some such, with recipes inspired by the novels. My friend Mary and I, for the next game, made "Eyes of Mirkwood Cookies." They were simply a shortbread cookie made in two parts. Part one was the regular dough rolled into a rectangular, flattish piece. Part two was a rolled, long tube colored dark brown with cocoa powder. You wrapped part one around part two and sealed to form a cylinder, and then flattened the cylinder slightly into more of an oval or almond shape. You then sliced the cylinder into pieces, and you got almond-eyed shaped cookies. 

They were tasty!

Gianotta