Lembas
 

I found a Lembas site but it is in German. Can anyone tell us about it?Lembas

I also found a
Lembas Cafe.


And a

Lembas Restaurant.


And of course, you can't leave out this amusing

Lembas Poem.

[ December 15, 2002: Message edited by: Raefindel ]

Raefindel, I looked up that German site. It is a university student's cookbook, recipes that have nothing to do with Middle-earth. They have been collected to be simple to prepare and nourishing to eat, hence the title "Lembas" for the cookbook. Unfortunately, no lembas recipe is included! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Thanks, both of you, for the interesting links!

The cafe looks more like the Shire, and lembas are great for the Shire!

Thanks Estelyn, I was hoping you'd come and tell us all about it. My curiosity is sated. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

All in all... Lembas rule!

My friend made lembas for one of her parties, using one of those online recipe things. I thought them to be very good!

My Lembas always taste great put are very full of sugar and genrally look like cinammon cookies(which my parents tried to ice - you DON'T ice Lembas)

What do you think the rcipe was that they used in the films. My sister said it was probably just toast put I don't think it was any ideas?

Thanks for the lembas recipe, my friend will love it!

Cool!Is it just as filling? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

What about wheat-free, gluten-free lembas? No, I'm not kidding... seriously, this is a plea for help. I'm allergic to gluten and wheat and dairy. I've been hankering for a while now to find a good bagel substitute. (I **really** miss bagels. Like Bolco does.)

So... Breadlike products can be baked with a combination of bean flour, corn starch, and tapioca flour, with xanthan gum. I've made bread before, with reasonable results. And I look at those Lembas in the movie, and my mouth waters. Can it be done? Which recipe would you use? I'm not interested in raisins, exotic fruit, whatnot. Just a basic, simple, enjoyable bread. Honey would be good to add. But I have NO idea where to begin.

Does anybody have any suggestions? (please...?)

Mark12_30 aka Helen aka Daffodil Furrow aka ***REALLY MISSES BAGELS wants lembas***

That's classic, dude -
cracks me up, I love this forum.

I dunno what they made it out of in the film, but I think it may have contained traces of nuts - watch out if you're the allergic type. Tell ya what, though, they were a LOT bigger than I thought they would be!

I am just curious, what are mallorn leaves? I would like to make lembas for New Years.

Hellen, You're gonna make me cry!
I have no idea what I'd do if i was forbidden to eat certain foods! I'd go NUTS!

What do you usually use in place of wheat flour? Rice flour? does it measure the same? You might try searchingALLrecipes.com to see what you can come up with. I'm afraid I really bite it at attempting to convert recipes until I have a really good understanding of the dietary boundaries. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] As far as Lembas goes, I've always just used one of my won recipes and called it Lemabs.

I did find a recipe for eggnog bread that sounded good.


eggnog bread

I also found lots of Bagle recipes , if it helps you at all.

King Turgon, Mallorn leaves do not exist in todays world. If you are attempting to wrap slices of bread in leaves, Giant maple leaves would probablly work well, as they are so large. However, I have no idea what is available in your area. Here the leaves are all off the trees, anyway.

[ December 31, 2002: Message edited by: Raefindel ]

hmmm...I always thought that lembas was pretty decent of a size. About the same size as your average oak leaf! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] And then the mallorn leaves were humongous. But in the movie, they were...toast size...interesting...anybody else think differently?

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Nev'

This is a really odd song parody I just thought of. I have no idea if its any good or not... oh well. Oh, and it's song to the 'Chiqita Banana' song. The ch-ch sounds are not me frothing at the mouth, they're maraca sounds. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I'm Chiqita Lembasa,
And I'm here to say
That you must eat lembas in a
Certain Way.

When you feel hungry,
And your stomache does too,
A bite of lembas is the best for you.

You don't put them in a salad,
Ch-ch ch-ch,(maraca like sound)
They'd make a really weird pie-aiya-aiya

But if you just nibble and eat them,
Ch-ch ch-ch,
It's impossible to beat them,
Ch-ch ch-ch.

But Lembas like the climate
Of the temperate Golden Woods
So don't put them in a fridge,
With other Elven food goods,
Oh no no no!

Cha cha cha!
notnull

Rae,

Thanks for responding! You're so cheery, it does my soul good. And thanks for the links; I will check them out.

What I normally use for flour is this: (ready? it's wierd but it works really well...) One-third corn starch, one-third bean flour (soy, garbanzo...) and one-third tapioca flour. And then you add "some" xanthan gum to make up for the lack of gluten.

Last Saturday I made the recipe for "Journey Cake" (posted by Lostgariel) using the above flour mixture for the all-purpose-flour, a quarter teaspoon xanthan gum for good measure, (and I think I added a teaspoon of Molasses; also I used butter instead of shortening...) I baked it in an iron skillet. And----- YEE HAAAAH! it's EDIBLE! (Glory to the Living God who endures Forever, I have a ***working edible recipe***!) And, thank you, Lostgaeriel!!!

So... next time, I'll try it in thinner "cakes" (This was about as thick as cornbread; it tasted like cornbread too, but sweeter, and it toasts nicely, so I'll try it sort of "cookie" style and see if I think it's like Lembas. (In my dreams? Why not...)

In the meantime-- I think I do need to try bagels. I wonder if you could make a lembas, wafer-ish-style, and still boil it, bagel-style. (I love the outside of bagels. Bagels rule breadland...)

Thanks again, Rae. And Lostgaeriel if you're out there still, thanks again, too! (The funny thing is, the recipe you posted is from Rhode Island-- and so am I. Not very many things are from Rhode Island, so you can understand my amazement. )

well i thought that mallorn leaves were roughly the size of banana leaves, and the lembas in the movie was about the same size as i imagined. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Update from most recent dairy & wheat & gluten free lembas baking session:

Pouring the batter thinly (about pancake thickness, 1/4 to 1/3 inch max) works very nicely. I used cast iron frying pans (I have four of various sizes) and I also used a pizza stone which worked quite well. (My lembas therefore comes out in pie-sized rounds which get cut into pie-shaped slices.)

They come out on the moist side. I loosen them from the pans (butter pans well), cut them, cool them on racks and put them in tins, and when I want one, I toast them in the toaster oven til the edges turn golden-brown.

I'm hooked. Breakfast, lunch, dinner... bedtime snack...

(them Rhode Island elves knew what they was doin'...)

Here's the (Rhode Island Journey-Cake) recipe I'm using:
2 cups corn meal
1 cup flour (normally all-purpose; but I use 1/3 cup bean flour, 1/3 c tapioca flour, 1/3 c. cornstarch, plus 1/4 tsp xanthan gum)
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
2 cups milk (I use vanilla Silk soymilk, works great)
1/4 cup butter, melted

...Then I add one teaspoon molasses (not in the orig recipe.)

Also, enough butter to grease the skillets/ pizza stones.

I suppose you could try to be healthy and use ... olive oil or something, but these are so sweet it seems silly.

I do think I'll try this again with less corn meal and more "flour", and then maybe I'll use oil and play with the recipe some more, and shoot for something more bread-like and less cookie-like, for variety's sake.

[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]

I saw a documentary on The Two Towers the other day- apparently the lembas bread they used was pita bread. Elijah and Sean got really sick of eating it. It can get kinda flavourless after awhile, I suppose.

[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: Lindril Arvilya ]

I'm glad you found something that works, Helen. I usually use either a coffee cake recipe and slice it, or use a white cookie recipe (both of which I've posted before). I have also served shortbread as lembas, though there aren't too many lembas-eaters here.

Rae, could you tell me where you posted those? "white cookie" intrigued me... might work with my particular substitutions, maybe. But I searched in M-E Mayhem and in Books, no luck? Thanks, --Mark12_30

They are really good but are actually a poor "Lembas" as they have cornflakes and coconut in them. Party Planning


Arda Recipe Book
I have a whole bunch of recipes posted on this page so you may have to look for it.

[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: Raefindel ]

I've made Eggnog Bread before, Raefindel, and it would make a good Lembas.

I hate lembas.