"Of all foods that can be cooked for a wedding, the Gulas is the only non-negotiable. Even after her last supper with the family, the Hetad and Kvale, a woman still deserves a final send off no matter how many complain about making it."
The Ugane Empire's weddings are long and fraught with ceremonies, food and tireless work. Though traditionally wedding food involves mainly seafood (especially in costal regions such as Luze), the pride of a wedding feast is it's gulas. It is considered as the bride's family's sendoff to her, despite all the other rituals considered her final send off.
It is cooked by the extended family as they often don't have the right to be involved in the actual wedding inside the temple itself. Due to the time took to cook, making the gulas begins the moment the bride has left the house she's been residing in since the engagement. The recepies used are rarely written down, and even then vary from family to family. They are passed orally from mother to daughter.
When they are cooking, the oldest family member's recipe is used even if many family members have them. The act of cooking the gulas itself is a completely female affair, with male family members attending to other jobs such as preparing the other food for the feast.
It is primarilly cooked only for weddings, though closer to The Lichàstï Mountains, especially in Louti majority regions, it is cooked after the birth of a woman's firstborn. However, this time it is cooked by her husband's side of the family rather than her own.
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The recipe is my mother's for pure curiousity, though mine is edited to fit both the Empire's avalible cooking resources and the time period in which roughly the Empire's in.