Lembas

Today I walk into my kitchen, and I see my brother cooking😖 So I ask him what he's cooking and he says:"Lembas." 🤨
And he was...He was making lembas.

He found this recipe online...He used a cast iron skillet and he also baked some....the baked ones tasted beter...but I would hardly call the stuff elvish. 😆 😘

What Tolkien says about Lembas
-They contain honey
-they are light-colored on the inside and light brown crust
-they are thin and regular-shaped. This implies they were made on some kind of griddle iron. The closest modern equivalent is a Krumkake iron. I used a pizzelle iron

Some other things we can guess.
They contain the fruit and maybe the flower-water of the Mallorn tree. I substituted oranges, although kumquats or a hand of Buddha fruit might be better.
They probably had some kind of finely ground light-colored nut in them. I used almonds.
They contained some kind of nourishing flour. I used semolina flour, which is a more primitive flour, and also more nourishing.
Galadriel probably used some kind of grinder to refine the ingredients. I used a blender.

The recipe:
3 eggs
1 cup honey (preferably wild honey)
1 tablespoon grated orange peel or three kumquats or one large finger of a hand of Buddha.
2 teaspoons orange flower water (optional)
3 oz blanched almonds
1/4 cup melted butter
2-1/4 cups semolina flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

Place eggs, honey, orange peel or other fruit, orange flower water, and almonds in blender. Blend on high for 3 minutes. Add 1 cup of the flour. Blend for 1 minute. Scrape into a bowl and add remaining flour and salt. Whisk or stir until well blended. Bake lembas on a pizzelle or krumkake iron 15 seconds each or until lightly brown. You may substitute a waffle iron but add a teaspoon of baking powder. The texture will not be quite accurate in a waffle iron.

Lembas is great for long journeys... -for the purpous of the world's salvation.

mmm, lembas bread droolio
It would be cool if it was real.
In the movie, it kinda looked like hard tack, and hard tack tastes like blah

😆!
Sounds delicious drool

There's an essay called "On Lembas" among the "Teachings of Pengoloth" where Pengolodh answers Elendil's question 'Mana i-coimas in-Eldaron?' in vol XII of the HME with a little more information, but it's not too precise;

Quentë Quengoldo:
This food the Eldar alone knew how to make. It was made for the comfort of those who had need to go upon a long journey in the wild, or of the hurt whose life was in peril. Only these were permitted to use it. The Eldar did not give it to Men, save only to a few whom they loved, if they were in great need. *
The Eldar said that they first received this food from the Valar in the beginning of their days in the Great Journey. For it was made of a kind of corn which Yavanna brought forth in the fields of Aman, and some she sent to them by the hand of Oromë for their succour upon the long march.
Since it came from Yavanna, the queen, or the highest among the elven-women of any people, great or small, had the keeping and gift of the lembas, for which reason she was called massánië or besain: the Lady**, or breadgiver.
Now this corn had in it the strong life of Aman, which it could impart to those who had the need and right to use the bread. If it was sown at any season, save in frost, it soon sprouted and grew swiftly, though it did not rhrive in the shadow of plants of Middle-earth and would not endure winds that came out of the North while Morgoth dwelt there. Else it needed only a little sunlight to ripen; for it took swiftly and multiplied all the vigour of any light that fell on it.
The Eldar grew it in guarded lands and sunlit glades, and they gathered its great golden ears, each one, by hand, and set no blade of metal to it. The white haulm was drawn from the earth in like manner, and woven into corn-leeps for the storing of the grain: no worm or gnawing beast would touch that gleaming straw, and rot and mould and other evils of Middle-earth did not assail it.
From the ear to the wafer none were permitted to handle this grain, save those elven-women who were called Yavannildi (or by the Sindar the Ivonwin), the maidens of Yavanna; and the art of the making of the lembas, which they learned of the Valar, was a secret among them, and so ever has remained.

*> This was not done out of greed or jealousy, although at no time in Middle-earth was there great store of this food; but because the Eldar had been commanded to keep this gift in their own power, and not to make it common to the dwellers in mortal lands. For it is said that, if mortals eat often of this bread, they become weary of their mortality, desiring to abide amond the Elves, and longing for the fields of Aman, to which they cannot come.

**> In the story of Túrin it is dsaid of Melian's gift of lembas to Beleg the Bowman (The Silmarillion, p. 202) that it was 'wrapped in leaves of silver, and the threads that bound it were sealed at the knots with the seal of the Queen, a wafer of white wax shaped as a single flower of Telperion; for according to the customs of the Eldalië the keeping and giving of lembas belonged to the Queen alone. In nothing did Melian show greater favour to Túrin than in this gift; for th eEldar had never before allowed Men to use this waybread, and seldom did so again.'
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In using the word Lady here my [CJRT's 🙄] father no doubt had an eye to its origin in Old English hlæf-dige [with a lot of non-ascii diacritics over the letters 😛], of which the first element is hlaf (modern english loaf which changed vowel, and the second a derivative of the stem dig- 'knead' (to which dough is ultimately related); cf. lord from hlaf-weard 'bread-keeper' [lol 🤨]

i want some

Wow, i wonder how long it is before 'Chris Tolkiens Lembas Corporate Cash In' begins

Originally posted by Darth Sauron
Wow, i wonder how long it is before 'Chris Tolkiens Lembas Corporate Cash In' begins

😆
I'd buy it!😱

I make Lembas every week. yes its very addicting. and pretty filling. the only flaw is that it is BAD for long journeys because i found that its pretty dry and youd need a lot of water... not good for a long journey ... but extremely good otherwise... you ppl should try making it, its very easy and it tastes excellent.

ooooh....i would try and make it...but i cant cook...at all 😛

I am trying this. I think ill try baking them in an oven rather than a pizelle.

Originally posted by GCG
I am trying this. I think ill try baking them in an oven rather than a pizelle.

Good luck! Its really good at the end. And I used an oven too, not a pizelle.

ne1 tryed making it yet 😂

That's so cool...you can make Lembas!!!

🙂

Originally posted by SolLuna
That's so cool...you can make Lembas!!!

LOL 🙂 . Yep its actually really easy, and you dont need to be able to cook to make it. Theres actually an easier recipe that i also found and also tried, and it also tastes wonderful. I can post the recipe if anyone needs it... 😄

I want the recipe!!! But wait...this wont make me lose weight will it? I want to keep this fit weight of 395.

Originally posted by RvB]Tucker
I want the recipe!!! But wait...this wont make me lose weight will it? I want to keep this fit weight of 395.

ah ... rest assured; lembas makes you heavier. i got heavier eating lembas... 115 pounds to 120 pounds in one week of eating lembas ... 😄

geez...i aint eating it then 😛

Originally posted by Flying High
geez...i aint eating it then 😛

it really depends on how much butter you put in really ... butter is fattening. 😄

Baked them today. I left them in an oven for about 20 minutes on a gas mark 5. Taste is like almond cake and the interior is quite moist. I think I overdid the rosewater. So I added a touch of honey and crushed almonds on top.

i like butter 😛