What recipe did you use, and how did it turn out?
Ingredients:
- 20 loaves of bread
Instructions:
- Place in hydraulic press
- Compress to smallest size possible
A girl I was thinking about dating made lembas by making some slight modifications to shortbread cookies.
As for how it turned out, I married her.
Can confirm, modified shortbread is supreme lembas, we make it every year for our watchthrough.
Honey instead of sugar, ghee or danish butter (lower water content), and a little more baking powder.
Finish it off in the dehydrator for long term storage not that they ever last the next day lol.
You can get good fresh wrapping leaves at any asian food store.
We are now officially internet friends.
Is her name Rosie by any chance?
When last I looked, something akin to hardtack was what Tolkien had in mind. As for a recipe, I recommend looking to the Scandinavians
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German Stollen bread is delicious and filling, keeps for weeks if not months if well packed. It’s one of my favorite breads and what I thought was the real world thing that inspired Tolkien to write lembas as he did. Needless to say, I was very disappointed in the movie version of it.
Stollen bread
After googling some images I am kind of sure that Tolkien elves would only stare at that in horror.
Stollen is cake, not bread!
But I agree, the movie version was more what I imagined cram would be.
Oh we’re throwing wikipedia articles now? Well, it’s a german thing, so let’s look into the german article that says “bread shaped cake”.
I don’t know who fucked up the english article, but it’s cake.
Greetings from Germany, where we are most serious about bread and cake.I endeavor to say that kuche and cake aren’t directly equivalent, despite what the translation dictionaries might say.
Most of traditional leavened kuchen won’t be called cakes in Brazil and I suspect they won’t be called cakes in the U.S. either.
Now, given their nature, many states with strong German influence in Brazil won’t call them bread either, instead using the words cuca or cuque (which is really just a Portuguese friendly way of saying kuche). But most of Brazil just groups them together with other recipes of sweet bread.
Simply put, in English they are bread. If you got issues with that, strap your pitchforks to a few V-2s and have at it.
1 cup Bannock is basically lambas bread, and it’s delicious
I love Bannock! Good stuff.
Tried it, ate four loaves, not very filling.
New York bagels. Boiled, not baked. Super dense, not the airy stuff you can get frozen. So thick they barely fit in my slicer.
All bagels are baked. They are boiled before they are baked but they are definitely baked.
