The Wanderer's Hot Meal

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[Agran Velion]

After a long absence, which despite rumours around the Compendium and its many workers was NOT a vacation, no matter who says me (Agran Velion) and my aide/assistant (Felix) spent a long amount of time wandering the world and spending a good deal of time in Bardavos. I would also like to say that no matter how many serving girls from said town say we were there and...met with them, we were not (and did not!...except maybe a few) and that all that was done in the absence was work and not a vacation!

On my journeys on my vaca buisness journey I found an old cook, Thomis Corme, who shared with me a good many recipes. One of which the Wanderer’s Hot Meal, the famed Helmondsshire Hobbit’s friendly meal,  struck me as a great idea of an entry, and I have brought it back to the Library as proof that what I did was not a vacation on which I simply found a of evidence that would hopefully serve as fake proof on what I did was not simply a vacation but a business trip.

                        Sincerely,
                           Agran Velion
P.S. IT WAS NOT A VACATION!

Name-Wanderer’s Hot Meal

Overview
The Wanderer’s Hot Meal is a saviour to the travellers on the road. Created by the friendly Halflings (or Hobbits if one prefers) of Helmondsshire. A plate stocked with hobbit-cooked food, the Hot Meal is sought after for the travellers heading north past the Thaelon Forest. The meal carries more meat than an average Hobbit’s meal, but it is meant for the travelers after all, and the halfings do not mind sharing. The meal is reported best, with fine company, and fine ale.

The meal is made unique not by the contents of its food, but by other factors. The meal is unique, not because of what you eat, but when you share it with the Hobbits. When you speak of your travels, of a song you learned from the elves, when in the company of fine people, the good memories of old return to you, and the warm slice of meat, the sweet mead, will be far more than food, it will be a memory of your time with the hobbits.

Description
The Wanderer’s Hot Meal is composed of several components, lamb, fresh bread from a baker of the Shire, sliced carroots and tuberroots on the side, and several mouth-watering pieces of freshly baked pie.

The meat is often cooked on a spit over the fire for several hours until it is a juicy golden brown colour. The lamb is tender, and one can see the juice and fat melting from the meat, it has been said that once the lamb was so appetizing that the roaring of the traveller’s stomach had scared away the taenish in the area, all of which had to be rounded up again. The meat is covered in thick gravy that spills into the tuberroots next to it.

The bread served along with the meal is, nearly always, bread baked fresh from the early morning. A light gold colour, the bread is either served in one large piece, or in several slices. Depending on the preference, the bread may either be soft and fluffy, or a tougher bit, to mop up the remains of the meal.

The carroots are boiled to soften them and then sliced into large pieces and placed separate from the lamb, beside several large boiled tuberrotsalong with several large boiled tuberroots. Some Hobbits, when serving, like to add some of the gravy on top of the tuberroots and carroots for extra flavour.  

To finish the meal there is a warm slice of pie. Baked alongside the rest of the meal, the type of pie depends on the traveller’s preference. Extra pieces are placed aside and wrapped up for the traveller’s journey for the next day.

The food is served along with a foaming tankard of mead, ale, or beer, and keeps the company of ones fellows enjoyable and able to last until the coals of the fire blow out.

All pieces of the meal, come together on the plate to create a delicious smelling, looking, and of course, tasting, plate of food.

Usages/Effects
The Wanderer’s Hot Meal is a delicious serving of food that any traveller near the Helmondsshire craves. The promise of a hot meal, served by some of the finest cooks, draws the wanderers to the Shire, and makes the bellies of many rummble with the very thought! The meal is sure to put a spring in ones step, a fire in one’s belly, and assure one that the tiring journey, is not so tiring after all.

Origin of the Food
The Wanderer’s Hot Meal has been around for as long as the Hobbits have been in the Santharian Alliance. Their hospitality to their Alliance kinsmen has always been warm, and what better way to prove it than with a mouth-watering plate of a Wanderer’s Hot Meal?

Method of Preparation
Material’s Needed

Flint, matchbox, something to light a fire.
Spit, or any object to cook meat over a fire.
Plate
Knife
Pot and water (if boiling carroots)

Ingredients
The meat you would like to eat can be done using whole animal or just part of meat you wish to cook.
(If using a domesticated animal, make sure to feed many herbs to help taste of lamb. There have been reports of people using Fireweed to ‘clean out’ the animal, as the salty taste has ‘helped’ stomach movements.)
Spice
Several carroot sticks
Several slices, or one large chunk of bread (Loibl bread or biscuits from breakfast are handy if fresh bread is not available)
Freshly baked pie

Method of preparation

1: Light a fire
2: Place Spit, with animal/meat over it
3: Chop Carroots
4: Remember to rotate Spit so fat can melt into lamb
5: Wait till meat is golden-brown, or darker if you prefer
6: Place lamb on plate(s) with the carroots, bread, and pie
7: Boil carrots and tuberroots.
8: The meal is best with several tankards of mead shared among friends




Myth/Lore
The Meal was first credited however, to a Hobbit by the named of Grenin Alrmo around 16 A.S. Grenin was a Hobbit Farmer who found an unconcious traveller not far from the Shire. With difficulty, he managed to place the man on his cart and bring him back to his home, where he nursed the man back to health. Apparently the man had passed out from hunger, he merely said that he had not packed enough for the journey, and had failed to make stops to replenish his supplies of food. Grenin, a man who loved his food and would have no mention of anyone close to hungry near his home, immediately formed a large plate of lamb, bread, sliced carrots and tuberroots, and a fresh pie his wife had baked earlier that morning.

The traveller, who left several days after, reported the incident to his friends, along with the great food the Hobbit had supplied him. Several weeks later, Grenin found several travellers at his door asking to trade for a meal. Grenin found the incident hilarious and gave them meals for free, but the story spread, and several times a week Grenin found travellers at his door. Before long, most of the Shire was catering to these travellers, and the Wanderers Meal at the Helmondsshire became a great reason to stop at the shire. Never once however, did the gracious hobbits charge a coin for the meal, however, it is custom that if the wanderer wishes a meal, a song, or an interesting tale is ample payment.

[Valan Nonesuch]

It's not a meal if it's just meat as I've often been told. And a recipe where 90% of the ingredients are optional seems rather paltry.

A receipt (or recipe if you prefer), my handy dictionary tells me is:

a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
and also
Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.

Let's see, this reminds me of a stripped down "travellers' stew" if you'd like an example of an on site food item. It's neither practical (why bother to cook just meat) or healthy (lacking any other sort of nourishment) and we do understand enough to say that you should be eating vegetables and fruit (see scurfy ). I suppose what I'm getting at is, why would someone bother with writing down what amounts to "Boil some meat. You can add other stuff if you want." ?

That aside, I've enumerated what I can find wrong here.

1.Why boil the meat? If you've got fresh meat, you could simply cook it over the fire (or in it) you're going to make anyways. That's one less thing you need to be lugging around (the pot). Effort (carrying a pot, filling it with water, boiling the water when you won't be eating it.) over returns (some cooked meat which could be acquired elsewise) is important. Stewing (the process of cooking meat in a broth) is designed to turn odds and ends (things like necks and otherwise dry, inedible meat) into something edible (and often delicious) but it does use other ingredients (potatoes, onions, carrots and what have you).

2. Ingredients. Two ingredients and some water (since it's not eaten I don't consider an ingredient but part of the preparation, much like greasing a tray) do not make a recipe in my book.

3. Meat. Why catch fresh meat to boil. This seems better suited to salted meat than to a fresh kill. (Effort over returns)

[Agran Velion]

Hmm, point is taken Valan. I suppose I was trying to go with an idea that sounded great. (A hot meal) but in reality was pathetic. After all, a hot meal sounds great for a traveller, but it says under importance that the wanderers hate it. Two things that contradicted each other, like Sordoc the Great. Sounds wonderful, but the material is...well you know what I mean. I'll get to repairing the Hot Meal tommorow, actualy changing it from a pathetic meal to an actual thing someone wants.

[Agran Velion]

Hmm, close examination shows me the that Wanderer's Hot Meal can only be saved by starting from scratch. You're right Valan, it realy is useless, unforunately, cooking is not my speciality, so I'm going to direct my attention to other matters while I try to find a way to save the Hot Meal. Although, perhaps it is better to simply delete it.

[Altario Shialt-eck-Gorrin]

Hello, Agran.  Welcome to Santh.

It sure would be a shame to see this abandoned.  Santharia needs more receipts.  (Bard Judith's many scrumptious contributions in this regard not-with-standing )

The problem, as I see it, is that you have left it far too generic.  Instead, find a certain type of meat, tack in onto a specific tribe, put distinctive vegetables and spices into it.  Forgive me, but what I see here is an attempt to create something with very little deep digging on your part, and as such, will discourage you in every endeavor you attempt here.  Keep this entry.  Pick a race that interests you, then a tribe.  Read up on them.  Find out where they live.  What animals live there?  Pick one that sounds yummy (very technical term).  What spices and vegetables can be found in this area? You may need to make some up in this regard, but research first.  Then you may throw it all in a pot, and stir it into an interesting entry.  Don't forget to spice it up with a legend, myth or origin if possible.  The more exotic the meal, the crazier the legend can be.  I created a generic shark fin soup for an entry that came about because a chieftan could not impregnate any of his 73 wives.

Here is an excellent example of a receipt entry.  This was Jenna's All-Year Pie, a wonderful entry full of Hobbity goodness.  Not only does she create a mouth watering receipt, but gives us insight on the Hobbits as well.  A truly excellent entry.  And there are more examples, if you but look around.

Good luck with this.

[Agran Velion]

Thanks Alt, the reason I hadn't dug in, was because I was aiming for a generic entry. The Wanderer's Meal struck me as something that truely would be generic, a simple thing to cook up on the go. But, you've inspired me Alt, too work! Uhh, after my stomach settles, I had too many Doch Nuts.

[Agran Velion]

Edited.

COMPLETELY Redone. The Wanderer's Hot Meal is now an excelent meal that the Hobbits of Helmondshire have given to travellers. I didnt' do colors because...well, everything except the name is different.

[Valan Nonesuch]

One thought, since I'm only on here for a bit. Hospitality does not have a price, but the food cost something. Halflings traditionally have a great love of story and song, so perhaps the "price" would be a story or a song, news from the road perhaps, or something to sweeten the pot? Perhaps the traveler could provide the meat even, or some of the work for the cooking.
They're not completely altruistic after all, and welcoming doesn't mean that every Tam, Dek and Harrol is welcome to put their feet up without something. I think they might refuse money, the scrupulous ones anyways, but any of those seems a particularly hobbit-y thing to ask for.

[Altario Shialt-eck-Gorrin]

The Meal was first credited however, to a gnome by the named of Grenin Alrmo around 16 A.S. Grenin was a Hobbit Farmer who found an unconcious traveller not far from the Shire.

You know that Gnome and Hobbit are not interchangeable, right?  They are two distinct races.

All-Years Pie (Or other form of dessert)

Or that All-years pie is a meal and not a dessert?  I quote from the entry:

[At family meals, it is normally served hot from the oven, each family member receiving a piece-size suitable to their age and appetite, and without any accompanying foodstuffs, as the pie contains so many./quote]

[Smee]

It's definitely looking much better, Agran. Keep it going - my mouth is beginning to water.

But reading through the comments, I see we've progressed from meat, to meat covered in carroots with bread. Progress, but not quite a tasty meal I don't think.

Have a look at the entries for neeps and tuberroots, research a little into some herbs (I think there's one called the Arv, which (whilst addictive and can cause problems), in small amounts has caffine in it, and boost the energy of those who eat it. Sounds like it could be popular on a traveller's meal?), and maybe consider some form of gravy to provide something for the bread to mop up, and make the whole thing a little less dry.

Just some thoughts,

Happy Dreaming

[Valan Nonesuch]

The Arv entry is currently sorely lacking in details so, perhaps avoid that particular plant. It's not really developed. (*Glances over at his work on it*)

[Agran Velion]

Alt: For the gnome, that was a mistake I'll fix that up.  I'll change the pie as well, for some reason I had it mixed up with something else.

Smee: I'll look into the tubberroots and the gravy.

Valan: I'll mention the song or tale as payment, guess I was thinking that if you eat with the hobbits, that comes with territory.

[Valan Nonesuch]

Well, we don't want to mislead folks. After all, some of them have never even seen a hobbit, much less talked with one.

[Agran Velion]

Edited, fixed the Gnome, added Tuberroots and mentions of gravy, and changed the All-Year Pie to Butterball Delight Sweet.

Edits in blue

[Seeker]

Agran thank you for inviting me for a taste of this wonderful Wanderer's Meal.  While I find the meal wonderful I am finding myself quite thirsty.  Can that be remedied?

The entry is looking really good.  I imagine we may getting to the end of the comments.  However it has only been up in its new form a few days.  So lets keep it open for a week or so to allow others who may not have seen it yet a chance to comment.  If nothing pops up we can blarrow it.

Well done, and thank you for responding to comments so graciously.  You are doing well in that area which is as much a receipt for success in Santharia as the creativity.

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