Confectioneries

[Yllyrryon]

Idea: a candy shop or candy vendor offering a variety of chocolates, candies, and other pastries to adventurers with sweets tooths or sweeties to woo.

I thought of this recently while Ael was buying some roses from the flower shop in Fort Hope for Sahala.

Perhaps more recipes for more indulgent foods and candies similar to the ones offered at the confectionery could be added to the crafting options for baking, etc.

[lonnarin]

I like this idea.  Also, we do have Licorice, Peppermint, gum, maple syrup and sugar all as CNR resources, not to mention a plethora of berries and fruits that can be juiced.  Honestly you could make most of it out there if we just had cocoa! (mmmm, milk chocolate...) The only downside is that when you combine sugar crystals with hickory arrow shafts and raspberry juice, the end product lollipop would look eerily like the GM-NPC Tool, which might be accidentally eaten as a result.

Here are a couple ideas for recpe templates...  Keep in mind this is candy, so each charge will be about as nutritious as a single berry... nature's candy!

Berry Flavored Lollipops: sugar crystals + arrow shafts + berry juice (comes in one variant per berry type, 2 "licks"/charges)

Salt Water Taffy- Salt, Bucket of Water, stick of butter, sugar crystals, fruit juice (for regular taffy just remove salt.. 1 charge/piece)

Peppermint Sticks- Sugar Juice, bucket of water, peppermint (2 licks/serving)

Dark Chocolate- Roasted + Ground Cocoa Beans, sugar crystals, butter

Milk Chocolate- Roasted + Brown Cocoa Beans, Sugar Crystals, Butter, Milk

Brownies!- Raw Cocoa, 1 Butter, 2 Milk, 4 Sugar Crystals, 1 Salt, 2 Wheat Flour, 2 Eggs (makes a tray, 6 servings that come off like pie slices, can make a variant with nuts)

Tarts- Identical to Pies but without a lid and smaller

COOKIES!-  Wheat Flour, Butter, Milk, Eggs, Bakers Yeast, Sugar Crystals + either Chocoloate pieces,  extra butter or extra sugar for Chocolate Chip, Butter Cookies(which don't use yeast btw), and Sugar Cookies respectively.  Can also add berry juice for cranberry, blueberry, cherry and raspberry, and raw cocoa with extra sugar for straight chocolate cookies.  Vanilla wafers are nice too... each batch yeilding about a half dozen cookies.  Oatmeal cookies?  use the basic template and add oatmeal and raisins!

Hot Cocoa- Raw Cocoa, sugar crystals, bucket of water, flasks... makes about 4 cups with 2 charges each, may also restore the freezing meter each sip, as per camping near fires in arctic terrains

[Gulnyr]

lonnarin - 6/29/2006  2:37 PM

Salt Water Taffy- Salt, Bucket of Water, stick of butter, sugar crystals, fruit juice (for regular taffy just remove salt.. 1 charge/piece)

Salt water taffy isn't actually made with salt water.  It's just called that.  The most common reason given is that taffy was being sold at a beach somewhere, a storm blew in and the shop was flooded, the storm ended, customers came asking for taffy, and the shop owner told them all he had was "salt water taffy," since it had been covered in sea water.  People keep calling it that as a tradition, I guess, which is yet more proof that tradition is a stupid reason to do anything.

[lonnarin]

ah, wikipedia said it did use salt to alter the pulling process of the taffy.  I'll keep looking into this for accuracy, being a hour's drive from St Augustine, I wouldn't doubt that those tourist shops are messing with us though... it didn't taste very salty anyhow

[Yllyrryon]

Hhhm..... use the chocolate recipes, above, and add your favorite roasted nuts for chocolate nut clusters, yum!  

I've seen plenty of people eating pie, but no cake.  So a chocolate cake recipe would be nice.  I'll review the recipe cards on this.

Apple bread would be great - it's more of a cake, without yeast.  It also has walnuts in it.

Take arrow shafts, put apples on them and dip them in caramel for caramel apples.  Now all we need is the caramel recipe.  Any ideas?

[Gulnyr]

Caramel is basically sugar and milk.

[Yllyrryon]

Thanks, Gulnyr.

[Rowana]

rice pudding= rice + milk + sugar (+ vanilla). this pudding is served hot or cold so no reason to worry about cooling methods, just serve hot or room temp.

chocolate covered fruits = (ex. cherry cordial = cherries + final version of the chocolate + milk + sugar) or (ex. chocolate covered blueberries = dried blueberries (salt + blueberries)+ final version of the chocolate + milk)

chocolate alcoholic drinks = (ex. creme de cocoa = cocoa beans + brewers yeast + vanillia + bucket of water) or (lorindar coffee = will-o-wisky + sugar + coffee/coffee beans + milk)

creme de menthe = peppermint + bucket of water + sugar + grain wort (not sure which grain is commonly used)

just a few ideas.