King's quiche
Every year in Lamedon during the hot month that follows Midyear's Day, people cooked a pepper quiche, in hope that the king would come back. After Elessar's coronation, this tradition continued but Gondorians added red pepper to picture the renewal of the white tree.
Ingredients :
*Shortcrust Pastry :
-200g of flour
-100g of butter
-water and salt
*Filling :
-3 eggs
-25cl of liquide crème fraîche
-salt, pepper and nutmeg
-a clove of garlic
*Main ingredients :
-2 sweet peppers (yellow and red if possible) (reffered in the recipe as peppers)
-2 big tomatoes (rustic if possible, the modern varieties have less flesh)
-12 small sardines
-fresh basil (optional)
*Tools :
-Tarte tin
-Several dishes
-A whisk
Recipe :
*Paste :
-Put together flour salt and diced butter in a dish.
-With the tips of your fingers, mix swiftly the ingredients until a semoulina-like paste is obtained.
-Make a well and add water gradually while still using your hands to mix the whole.
-Stop when a homogenous pastry is obtained.
*Fillings :
-Preheat the oven at 180°C.
-Put in a dish and stir together with a whisk the ingredients for the filling.
-Wash and dry the peppers, wash the sardines.
-Halve the peppers and remove the seeds and the interior membranes.
-Put them in the oven for about 10 minutes, the peppers should be slightly blistered.
-Meanwhile, halve the fishes and remove the bones.
-Cook them for 2 minutes in a dry pan, on the flesh side, and store them in a plate.
-Roll the pastry out, put it in the tarte tin.
-By this time, the peppers should be ready, remove them from the oven and let them cool.
-Put the tarte tin in the oven until the pastry inside is slightly coloured.
-Put in boiling water the tomatoes for one minute, peel them and dice them.
-Cut the peppers in lashes.
-Take the tarte tin out.
-Add some pepper slices on the pastry and 2/3 of the tomatoes.
-Add the sardines on top of it.
-Add the remaining peppers and tomatoes.
-Pour the filling and put everything in the oven for about 30 minutes.
-Once cooked, remove the quiche from the oven and let it cool.
-(optional) Add the basil.
Traveller's biscuits
It is also said that among the people, some baked small sugary biscuits for their meal, and they would offer it to the travellers who went through their village during that month. That's right, Hobbits! Afterlithe is the perfect month for you to visit Gondor!
Ingredients :
-1 egg
-250g of flour
-70g of cane sugar (if possible straight from Umbar)
-125g of butter
-Flavouring ingredient,
take something natural : ginger, cinnamon, zeste of lemon/orange, rhum, anise...
Recipe :
-Stir with a wood spatula the sugar, the egg and the flavouring ingredient. The mixing should be twice as big as it was originally.
-Add the flour in one go and mix with the tip of your fingers.
-Add the diced butter and mix with your fingers until a homogenous pastry is obtained.
-Roll the pastry out and cut whatever shapes you want for you biscuits.
-Put the pieces on a floured plate and put in a 180°C hot oven for about 20 minutes.
-You can add some icing (a drop of white egg, icing sugar and colouring) when the biscuits are cooked.
Here, now you can enjoy your second breakfast Pippin! But do not forget that if you act nastily, you will only get that apple of yours.
