#neath cookbook

[that-giorgione]

Cookbook update

Apparently the old (wrong) link for the google doc is still going around and i get people putting requests for editor privileges.

If you wanna contribute or just snoop around, the correct link is the one pinned on my blog, the same in this post:

#fallen london #food for thought #neath cookbook

[pirate-poet]

alright i found my very short list of fl/ss food(canon and extrapolated from given data) and one of them is spore-toffee. apparently there ARE edible mushroom spores, but theres not a lot of information about them online past where to buy them. it also sounds like instead of being toffee with spores in it, spore-toffee refers to some kind of candied mushroom, which i guess makes sense? toffee is like a hardened caramel substance, where caramel has milk to make it softer, toffee is just sugar, salt, and butter. the butter would be hard to get, but probably not as hard as fresh milk because i am GUESSING that fallen london’s livestock situation is uh not the best. AND you can dry mushrooms to make a sort of mushroom jerky, so maybe they’re toffee-ing that? who knows

#someone help i have things i need to do today but someone said neath cookbook and im going apeshit #food for thought

[neathbound]

A Cookbook for the Culinarily (and Geographically) Adventurous!

The Radiant Architect has announced their latest publication: a cookbook, made especially for those with access to peculiar, rare, and dangerous reaches of the Neath! Featuring such recipes as:

Plated Seal Tartare with Drownie Effluvia Glaze

Constant Companion Croquette and Red Honey Mustard

Attar Sherbert, Chilled Over Lifeberg Ice

Moonlit Neither-Flesh Bisque

and more!

#maiserel #fallen london

[rubberymen]

17, 26 and 33 :D

17- What kind of books does he like to read?  Definitely non-fiction, peer-reviewed journals. Usually archaeological research, but he can enjoy philosophical, economical, political, and biological texts as well. Cookbooks too, provided they don’t try to tell too much of a personal story.

26- List his immediate family. How good is his relationship with them? He has an older brother, Edgar. His only true friend before coming to the neath. Edgar didn’t share the same passion for old coins and shards of pottery, but supported his brother, and was the one to inspire him to come to the neath and become a renowned archaeologist for studying the fallen cities.  His parents were alright. Educated, marxist, a bit pretentious. Edmund’s relationship with his parents was not unloving, only distant. They died when their apartment building caught fire and collapsed due to the lack of construction safety regulations. Edmund was 15 at the time, old enough, he says, for it not to have a lasting impact. 33- When confronted with danger, how would he react? Strategically. When it comes to matters of combat and danger, he is acutely aware of every being, every force in the surrounding area. He’s quite adept at analyzing escape routes and weaknesses, and determining the most efficient way to respond to any potential threat. When he’s cornered at a party and peppered with questions, he just sort of shuts down.

#fallen london oc #oc development #oc: the abrasive archaeologist

[believerindaydreams]

in which I get the cuisine in two fandoms hopelessly muddled

Wot I am currently reading: Scandinavian Comfort Food. Umpteen recipes for meatballs, check, lots of lovely Surface veg I can’t use because it’s not in the setting, check...I had no idea Denmark used so much rye in their cooking. So, that’s probably a secret ingredient in our hero’s amazing world-famous pancakes, then. 

(more MacGyver/Fallen London ponderings below the fold)

(The pancakes are a thing on the TV show. Or rather, it wasn’t a thing but rather a one-off joke but I am making it a Thing, because what fun’s fanfic if you can’t indulge in overextrapolation of the canon?

Have pretty much decided that he’s Scandinavian on his mum’s side. The TV series went for Mac having Scottish ancestry - given the name, I suppose that was the obvious choice - but in interviews RDA plays up to this whole Scandinavian-Minnesota stereotype that I previously hadn’t known existed, and that’s much more interesting to play with from a writerly perspective than More Hackneyed Scottish Jokes Everyone Knows Already. 

On that note, I am disappointed that TV Tropes has not got a page for “The Episode Where They All Go To Scotland,” becuase that is Quite Definitely a Thing.)

So, can I realistically have the Innocent Spy making everybody Neath pancakes? Not until I can figure out a source for eggs somewhere, and that’s probably not until they’re back in London...there was this IRC headcanon about the fake raven advisors actually being chickens. I liked that idea. 

(Interval in which I double-check the Taciturn Mynah card and boggle. Despite it being a very common pest bird, no one seems to have thought of eating their eggs yet. The extent to which Alexis did his homework continues to impress me. A non-productive, talking nuisance good only for telling you stories - how admirably suited for a Fallen London pet!)

To return to the cookbook... a nice recipe for brine. Vinegar, sugar, peppercorns, cloves, cardamom, bay. There must be a lot of uses for brine in the Underzee - come to think of it, spices must occupy much the same position in London as they would have done back in the Age of Exploration. Expensive, obtainable only by long zee voyages (even longer if the Elder Continent doesn’t grow any, though they must have some, right? Maybe not ones familiar to Surface Dwellers though). And a useful component for spicing up what must otherwise be a rather tired and familiar diet. 

Should the Clipper have a sourdough starter? Or maybe you don’t need a starter in the Neath, with the amount of fungi and so forth floating around. In all probaility it’d just be ship’s biscuit, but I like these recipies for anise and cardamom flavoured breads. Wonder if you could cultivate einkorn wheat in Frostfound. It’s old enough, it could have been floating around the Neath since the First City. And there’s certainly a lot of light. 

Skorper: “kind of a savoury biscotti that we like to make and keep in tins”. Needs buttermilk. Well, presumably you could use sheep buttermilk...I may save this for the sequel. 

Caramel potatoes. That should translate to caramel mushrooms very nicely, assuming I invent a source of sugar that isn’t solacefruit. A lot of these recipies seem to involve *lots* of sugar. Second-guessing my decision to make solacefruit a stand in for stevia now. I want my Iron and Misery Golden Syrup, dash it. 

Say, if trees near Adam’s Way only live one day, you’d be able to do sugaring *every single day*. Only problem is you’d have to finish the whole extraction in five minutes. That seems...annoying. And hilarious enough for the Neath. All it’d take is some brash Surfacer with a few maple cuttings and you could have teeth-rotting concotions for Urchins across the Underzee.

Dessert buttermilk soup. With cardamom biscotti, known rather more awesomely as kammerjunker. Detecting a theme here. 

Oh, a recipe for the correct spicing of mushroom tea! That’s the kind of thing that makes this all worthwhile.

#currently reading #fic #macgyver #fallen london

[that-giorgione]

Neath Cookbook update

I may be on the verge of having a recipe to try for the Peplery fish broth, so stay tuned to see how it turns out!

I’m trying to make it as accessible as possible while still making it a bit interesting, (and palatable while still keeping the neath’s ingredient limitations as much as possible, hopefully i can archieve that.

If you want to contribute to the effort with historical sources/recipes, ideas, modern recipes for inspiration or some neathy delicacy you would like to see, feel free to add to the document!

I may add a “contributors section” where you can put your name (or pseudonym or in-game name) so when it is all over, you will be properly credited.

#fallen london #food for thought #neath cookbook

[that-giorgione]

Neath cookbook update

I have been chipping at it a little bit at the time, putting down ideas and references, and i thought it was going pretty well until i started reading the “Fine Dining” Exceptional Story.

Things kinda snowballed from there, including neathy spices, more recipes, more neathy ingredients to consider/replace, and more echoes to save.

Thought it IS a lot of work, especially in organizing the document to have information less spread out, i am happy i got into this project as it is interesting to explore more extravagant and unique cooking ideas. I also plan to have more basic version for the average joe that just wants to experience a neathy luncheon without needing exotic ingredients or 15h of prep time.

So i ask, to whoever may so desire a hand, to at help collect echoes, mentions of avaiable ingredients or historical references for recipes and tecniques.

As always, if you want to help or snoop around, the main document is always this one! If you want to contribute remember to put your name at the top so you may be credited!

I am planning to add link to all the future external refences and additional folders, so that it may be easier to look stuff up and eventually save it.

#fallen london #food for thought #neath cookbook

[that-giorgione]

Greetings, and welcome to my Fallen London sideblog!

Feel free to send a calling card to That Giorgione if you wish, apologies in advance if I won’t respond immediately, I am a busy scuba and usually caught in long grinding sessions.

This is my art tag and my blorbos are:

Giorgione, scuba entrepreneur.

Just a tiny italian man, Vake killer, Railway owner and exquisite cook! OC tag -> oc: Giorgione. Reference sheet -> 🚧 under construction 🚧

Astrid.

A nebulous backstory apparition, will reveal more details as time go on, patience is a virtue. OC tag -> oc: Astrid. Reference sheet -> 🚧 under construction 🚧

Currently working (very slowly) on a community fueled Neath cookbook! Feel free to contribute/snoop aroundif you please! Food For Thought is the tag for the cookbook related discourse.

Asks and questions and any kind of interaction is more than welcomed! Also I love your blorbos always, please show me your blorbo like a puppy shows you their favourite toy!

#pinned post #fallen london #oc: giorgione #my art #oc: astrid #food for thought

[that-giorgione]

Neath cookbook update

Turns out i put some Google docs setting wrong, this shuould not only work, but not doxx myself.

it should not require the request for editor access, if it does just send the request and i'll accept it asap.

#fallen london #food for thought