Recipes of the Wild

Dream Bough Sweetened Tea

Ah, Dream Bough! Its inclusion makes any recipe decidedly elven in origin, unless you want fall prey to its sap's intoxicating sweetness. However, all is not lost for us all other races! Eating it raw might be dangerous, but it can be used safely in cooking under some conditions, just be very careful when manipulating the raw stuff. Oh, and definitely no eating the raw cookie dough!
Anyway, regarding the tea itself, it isn't anything that special, they simply sweeten it with the sap instead of honey like other races would. It is, unfortunately, not a way to consume the sap that is safe for non elves, but still. It's fascinating enough to warrant writing about it here! Have you seen the sap? The tea smells divine, and its surface seems to perpetually be reflecting a rainbow, once the sap is put in. Oh, how I wish I could taste it. Just a sip! But alas, the world needs its food ambassador, and I am not going to deprive it of me!
Steeling my resolve, I can still tell you about some of the properties the tea supposedly has: the Elves affirm that it strengthens their bond to the Feywilds, and helps clear their minds. As for any part of the plant, they also claim it can fortify one's arcane or natural magic, but since that's only an option for those of elven heritage, well... Still, it's apparently the most potent version of the effect, appart from eating the sap directly (which even Elves are not prone to do, it seems).

Dream Bough Cookies

And now comes the fun part that everyone can enjoy! Again, I'm warning all of you.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INGEST ANY RAW SAP, BE IT BY LICKING THE BACK OF YOUR THUMB OR EATING RAW DOUGH, OR JUST COLLECTING IT.
Ok, I could have started with the bread. But who wants bread when you can have cookies?!
[Reading further, you discover the wonders of Dream Bough sap enhanced cookies and bread - which can be found in the "Read the Document" section.]

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Recipes of the Wild

Dream Bough Sweetened Tea

Ah, Dream Bough! Its inclusion makes any recipe decidedly elven in origin, unless you want fall prey to its sap's intoxicating sweetness. However, all is not lost for us all other races! Eating it raw might be dangerous, but it can be used safely in cooking under some conditions, just be very careful when manipulating the raw stuff. Oh, and definitely no eating the raw cookie dough!
Anyway, regarding the tea itself, it isn't anything that special, they simply sweeten it with the sap instead of honey like other races would. It is, unfortunately, not a way to consume the sap that is safe for non elves, but still. It's fascinating enough to warrant writing about it here! Have you seen the sap? The tea smells divine, and its surface seems to perpetually be reflecting a rainbow, once the sap is put in. Oh, how I wish I could taste it. Just a sip! But alas, the world needs its food ambassador, and I am not going to deprive it of me!
Steeling my resolve, I can still tell you about some of the properties the tea supposedly has: the Elves affirm that it strengthens their bond to the Feywilds, and helps clear their minds. As for any part of the plant, they also claim it can fortify one's arcane or natural magic, but since that's only an option for those of elven heritage, well... Still, it's apparently the most potent version of the effect, appart from eating the sap directly (which even Elves are not prone to do, it seems).

Dream Bough Cookies

And now comes the fun part that everyone can enjoy! Again, I'm warning all of you.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INGEST ANY RAW SAP, BE IT BY LICKING THE BACK OF YOUR THUMB OR EATING RAW DOUGH, OR JUST COLLECTING IT.
Ok, I could have started with the bread. But who wants bread when you can have cookies?!

Ingredients

3 tablespoon of Dream Bough sap (handle with extra care)

1/4 cup of sugar

2 tablespoon of plant-based oil

1 egg

1 cup of flour

1/4 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon salt

Preparation

# Beat the sugar and oil together, then beat in the egg followed by the Dream Bough sap. # Combine the flour baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a separate bowl. # Gradually add dry ingredients to the beaten mixture. # Cool down either in a cool area for 2 hours, or find yourself someone to do so magically in an instant. (Elves usually have it easy here, I had to guess a bit to do it without magic) # Cook! I prefer using a stone by the fire to cook my small lumps of dough, but that's very adaptable, so have fun! # Enjoy those safe heavenly cookies. I might have taken a few pounds, writing this book. They should also boost your magic abilities, if you have hem, though in smaller effects than the tea.

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Based on this recipe, the sap replacing both honey and vanilla. Sorry for the otherwise lack of fantasy named ingredients.

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