Mabel Castor's Guide to Culinary Ingredients, Where to Find Them , and How to Use Them
"Mabel Castor's Guide to Culinary Ingredients, Where to Find Them , and How to Use Them" is a comprehensive cook book, that does exactly what its particularly long title says. Written by renown adventurer and culinary enthusiast Mabel Castor, this book is a no nonsense compilation of various regional dishes and drinks, her notes about them and how to make them. At first this book seems like a normal cook book however as Mabel moved farther into the wilderness and encountered other cultures the dishes began including more obscure ingredients and she starts explaining more about where to find them and how to harvest them.
The recopies in the book vary wildly in complexity, skill required to make, and obscurity. From things simple things like a basic fried egg, to the 40 step Davastrelante that requires several obscure regional highland swamp tubers. While some authors might shy away from adding potentially dangerous dishes to their book for better or worse Mabel kept them in, merely placing a warning on them explaining how and why they are dangerous. These dishes range from Pollen Cakes , a type of fried dough cake sweetened with honey and nectar then dusted with the spicy pollen of the Glowing Kettle flower, which she has labled as "a potential allergen", to the now infamous Stannel Gombl , a sort of omelet like dish made with a particularly deadly mushroom known as Mortal Coils, named after their toxicity and coiled shape, that must be specially and precisely prepared to avoid killing the consumer. The latter dish is labeled as " High potential lethality is improperly prepared."
This book also features some dished of Mabel's own creation as well as her notes on possible substitutes for some of the ingredients and her opinions on the flavors of the dish. She also includes a section of possible hazards that may be encountered while sourcing some of the more obscure ingredients. Note is also made of any medicinal properties of the ingredients and has an entire section on folk remedies and other culinary style medicines. These last sections are particularly valued by explorers and similar people that spend long periods of time in the wilderness.
Rumor holds that Mabel is be gathering adventurers and culinary enthusiasts for an expedition to gather enough materials to create a second volume. Working title "Mabel Castor's Guide to Culinary Ingredients, Where to Find Them , and How to Use Them. Volume 2"
Type
Manual, Culinary
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