Lembas Recipes
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Title: Lembas Recipes
Author: Anoron
Lembas Commonly known as "waybread." this flat, hard bread is perfect for traveling, as it stores easily and for great amounts of time without spoiling. not particularly flavorful, but it provides incredible amounts of stamina and energy for 7 days nutrition per wafer.
Tastes of honeyed bread. Loaf keeps for 14 weeks. (Only available in elven cities).
This food the Eldar alone know how to make. It is made for the comfort of those who had need to go upon a long journey in the wild, or of the hurt whose lives are in peril. Only these were permitted to use it. The Elves do not give it to Men, save only a few whom w love, and only if they were in great need.
History of Lembas
The Eldar first received lembas from the Valar in the days of the great journey. It was made of corn which Yavanna brought forth in the fields of Aman and she sent some to the Eldar by the hand of Orome for thier succour upon the long march.
The corn from which the Lembas was made had the strong life of Aman and it could impart it to those who had the need and the right to use it, it could be sown at any season save in frost and it needed only a little sunlight to grow. The Eldar grew it in guarded lands and sunlit glades, they gathered its great golden ears, each one by hand and set no metal o blade to it. From the ea to the wafer none were permitted to handle this grain, except those Elven-maidens who were called " Yavannildi " the maidens of Yavanna, and the art of making Lemba which they learned from the Valar, was a secret among them. This was done because the Eldar had been commanded to keep this gift as a secret for if Mortals ea often of this bread, they became weary of their mortality, desired to abid among the Elves and long for the fields of Aman to which they cannot come.
Since the bread came from Yavanna the Queen only the highest among the Elven-maidens of any people had the right to to keep and give the Lembas and for this reason she was called Massanie or Besain; the Lady, or breadgiver.
The Lembas was wrapped in leaves of silver, and the tread that bound it were sealed at the knots with the seal of the Queen, a wafer of white wax shaped as a flower of Telperion.
Lembas most definitely has Elf-magic among its ingredients. It feeds both mind and body. Lembas has the magic property of releasing more energy as its daily consumption decreases.
Lembas Recipe - Sindarin
Ingredients
3 cups of flour
½ cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
¾ cup of warm water
¼ cup of lard
Add flour, sugar and salt into a bowl, and mix. Stir in the lard, and pour the water into the bowl. Mix until the ingredients are all one color, and gummy.
Remove from the bowl, and knead by hand for 5 minutes. Separate the dough into disks, of any size, and bake for 20 minutes over a high heat source. let cool, and store. the bread will keep, if stored in a cool room, for over 3 weeks.
(this recipe is enough for about 6.)
Lothlorien Lembas
Ingredients
6 TBSP butter or margarine, slightly softened
2 cups self-rising flour
1 TBSP granulated sugar
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
1 egg, well beaten
1/2 cup milk
4 TBSP heavy cream
Mallorn leaves
With a pastry blender of fork, cut margarine into the flour in a mixing bowl until the mixture resembles cornmeal. Do this rapidly so the butter does not melt. Add the sugar and if desired, 1/2 cup of raisins. In a small bowl, beat the egg and milk together until mixed.
Reserve 1 TBSP of this mixture to brush the tops of the lembas. Add the cream and egg mixture to the flour and mix just until combined into a stiff, soft dough.
Knead three or four times on a lightly floured surface. Roll dough to a 3/4" thickness and cut with an oval or leaf shaped cookie cutter.
Place on a lightly greased baking sheet, leaving 1" of space between lembas. Brush the tops of the lembas with the reserved egg-milk mixture. Bake for 12 -13 minutes in a preheated 400 degree oven. For safe keeping, wrap each lemba individually in a fresh, clean mallorn leaf. If these leaves are unavailable in your area, store the lembas in a tightly closed container.
Makes about 1 1/2 dozen.
Lembas Recipe - Yavanna’s Maidens
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
8 Tablespoons cold butter (1 stick)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2/3 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
honey or maple syrup for dipping
Preheat over to 425 degrees.
Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
Add butter and mix with a fork or pastry cutter until mixture looks like fine granules.
Add sugar and cinnamon and mix.
Add milk and vanilla and stir with a fork until dough forms. (you can add a little bit more milk than the recipe calls for if it gets too hard to stir.)
Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet, mashing them out until they are about 1/2 inch thick and 3 inches across. Makes about 12 - 14. Bake for about 12 minutes or until insides aren't gooey.
- Wrapped in mallorn leaves they will stay fresh indefinitely.
Wrapped in plastic wrap they are good for about a week. Delicious dipped in honey or syrup.