Eustace mentions it when they're in the tower in LB, and I want to say it shows up a couple of other places...maybe on Coriakin's island in VODT is one of them?
@marmota: Yes, with chocolate! 😀 In my cookbook, the hot chocolate is under "Drink from Trufflehunter the Badger" and it says that Trufflehunter gave Caspian something sweet and hot to drink. The book is recipes inspired by The Chronicles. 🙂
I got to visit Turkey in 2012 and 2014 and enjoyed the multitude of varieties of yummy, chewy, Turkish Delight (rahat lokum) there both times. In the picture I believe the flavor is pistachio (I turned some pieces on their side so you can see what it looks like without the dusting of confectioner's sugar), but there are many, many varieties with different kinds of nuts and colors (e.g., rosewater - pink). In America rahat lokum is sold as Applets & Cotlets and usually has walnuts in it. Not to be promoting sales of this candy, but if you want to get a sample of Applets and Cotlets, you can get a sampling for a nominal fee ($2.95) with no shipping charges. They taste just like what you would get in Turkey (except they are dusted on all sides to avoid sticking).
http://www.libertyorchards.com/product/640
I've had Turkish Delight, but never from Turkey! That looks yummy.
I've never had it, but I once read a blog post by someone who actually made some! Inspired by Narnia. 🙂 I might be able to trace it back eventually...
Okay, found it, and Ariel approved it: http://teacupsinthegarden.blogspot.cz/2014/06/cooking-turkish-delight.html
Looks so yummy! I don't suppose it's as gooey as Edmund's in the movie? (I seriously starting to wonder at the legitimacy of that Turkish Delight, haha.)
To be honest, the whole thing was a revelation for me, because the Czech translation refers to what would probably be called nougat in English! "Turkish honey" in Czech... Cloyingly sweet and sticky, a rare treat because originally usually sold on travelling fairgrounds (so that makes it a once a year occasion); but a very different thing nonetheless.
Which reminds me, I think there are a few other occasions where "cultural translation" shifts the food a little in reader perception. The green / blue cheese was one example, and I seem to recall something similar going on with their dreams of food in Prince Caspian, or maybe the sandwiches in The Last Battle... well, if nothing else, Czech bread is different.
I wonder what English bread looked like in the 1940s, though?
Here we are... I've got us some potential data on bread. 😉
https://the1940sexperiment.com/2009/08/08/return-to-the-1940s-wartime-loaf/
https://the1940sexperiment.com/2012/01/15/traditional-irish-soda-bread/
https://the1940sexperiment.com/2012/01/22/eggless-pancakes/
https://the1940sexperiment.com/2012/09/27/anzac-biscuits-93100/
https://the1940sexperiment.com/2013/11/30/small-cottage-tea-loaves-recipe-no-129/
http://www.cooksinfo.com/british-wartime-food
Period recipes used in the UK, and ingredient rationing data.
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Thanks!
Funny how, with the bread, she uses quick-rise yeast and comments it's difficult to get hold of the regular... It's still the other way round here in Czechia - the little almost-cubes are our default. And eggless pancakes...! For some reason, that's the hardest to wrap my mind around.
Well, guys. Today is National Chocolate Cake Day. And because my life is Narnia, my mind hastened to recall a rich loam that looked so much like chocolate, that Edmund tried a bit (though he didn't end up liking it). So taking that as my inspiration, I made cupcakes with some appearance of the four soils Lewis specifically mentions the Trees in PC eating. The cupcakes themselves are Swedish kladdakaka (sticky mud cake). Yes, "mud cake". Too right for this theme. 😛 (The feature that earns the "mud cake" name is the sticky, purposely undercooked center.)
Soil #1: Loam. I dipped this one in darkened crumbs from another cake to simulate a rich, dark soil.
Soil #2: Somerset pink. I toasted crumbs from another cupcake (but over-toasted them... 😳 ) and patted them into a pink buttercream.
Soil #3: Chalky. I remembered being on an archaeological dig in Israel and coming across these soft chunks of white a lot, so I mixed little bits of white marshmallow fondant into leftover crumbs.
Soil #4: Fine gravels mixed with silver dust. This one has ground almonds patted into the surface, then topped with some silver luster dust.
Wow. This sort of visual cooking is something I wouldn't dare to attempt!
Thanks, marmota! 😀
......dang, now I'm hungry. 😆 These look amazing.
Guess you know how Edmund felt now. 😆
