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Post by lucyg on Aug 16, 2018 4:39:07 GMT
Soylent green? Oh wait, that’s from a movie... My first thought was butterbeer from Harry Potter. I imagine it tastes like a rich butterscotch holiday drink. The worst would be the Bertie Bots Beans that taste like vomit. You know you can actually get Bertie Botts beans, right? Including the "bad" flavors like vomit and dirt and boogers. My DGS has tried them but I won't. I stick to cherry and orange.  Jelly Belly makes all the Harry Potter candy (I live about 15 minutes from the factory). There are also chocolate frogs (includes the trading card) and a few others that I can't think of right now. I'm sure they sell them at the Wizarding World sites. |
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Post by camcas on Aug 16, 2018 6:12:12 GMT
Soylent green? Oh wait, that’s from a movie... My first thought was butterbeer from Harry Potter. I imagine it tastes like a rich butterscotch holiday drink. The worst would be the Bertie Bots Beans that taste like vomit. Ha...my first thought...no soylent green! |
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 16, 2018 8:34:18 GMT
Harry Potter's butterbeer sounds delicious. I'm not quite sure why, because I can't stand butter and I'm not a massive fan of beer either, but somehow together they sound very toothsome. I've always been intrigued by manna and ambrosia as well. ETA: they mention seed cake from the Hobbit as a fictional food, but that's not fictional. It's been around for generations, and would have been around in Tolkien's time and place - vanilla cake with caraway seeds in it. I make my own. We love it. would you mind sharing your seed cake recipe please? Well my version is specially adapted to be wheat-free, sugar-free, dairy-free. It's just rice flour, 5 eggs, olive oil, agave nectar, baking powder and caraway seeds. I can give you the recipe if you like, but it's drier than "normal" cake. Still delicious though. I just Googled "seed cake recipe caraway" and there are lots to choose from made from normal ingredients like flour, butter and sugar. Those would have been the recipes that my grandma would have used when I was little. |
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Post by wellway on Aug 16, 2018 9:07:58 GMT
Soylent green? Oh wait, that’s from a movie... My first thought was butterbeer from Harry Potter. I imagine it tastes like a rich butterscotch holiday drink. The worst would be the Bertie Bots Beans that taste like vomit. We tried butterbeer at the HP Warner Studios. It was super sweet for my taste. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 16, 2018 10:56:55 GMT
The book Maniac Magee described a favorite snack. It was a commercial cake. I found a recipe that was similar and baked it for the kids in a reading group that was reading the book.
Found the name of the treat: Tastykake butterscotch Krimpets
Anyone here ever eaten those? The book takes place in Philadelphia.
They're a favorite of Stephanie Plum from the Janet Evanovich series based in Trenton, NJ. The description sounded really good so I goggled them, they're available for purchase online. I was disappointed that they seem to be very similar to the Little Debbie snack cakes line so haven't tried them. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 16, 2018 11:02:01 GMT
Another book series that has a lot of food mentions and a cookbook crossover is the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell. I've made her lasagna (meh) and her marinara sauce which was quite good. This is the first thing that popped into my mind as well. It's my favorite series and some of the food she describes sounds so good! Will have to check out the recipe book, I'd forgotten about it. |
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Post by jenjie on Aug 16, 2018 13:23:37 GMT
The book Maniac Magee described a favorite snack. It was a commercial cake. I found a recipe that was similar and baked it for the kids in a reading group that was reading the book.
Found the name of the treat: Tastykake butterscotch Krimpets
Anyone here ever eaten those? The book takes place in Philadelphia.
Tastykake brand is local to Philadelphia and surrounding areas. When kids go away to college, their care packages often include tastykakes. Butterscotch krimpets are a favorite. You have to rub the package, icing side down, on a surface like a table or your pants leg before you open it. Otherwise the icing sticks to the package. Mil used to love krimpets so much she named her dog Krimpet. |
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Post by imsirius on Aug 16, 2018 14:46:32 GMT
While not made up, I’ve always wanted to try the grilled cheese toast that the grandpa made in the book Heidi, and the little cakes with cinnamon sugar on top that the kids only got at Christmas described in the Little House on the Prairie books. Oh tons from Little house! I forgot..thanks for reminding me! |
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Post by jenjie on Aug 16, 2018 14:54:00 GMT
While not made up, I’ve always wanted to try the grilled cheese toast that the grandpa made in the book Heidi, and the little cakes with cinnamon sugar on top that the kids only got at Christmas described in the Little House on the Prairie books. Oh tons from Little house! I forgot..thanks for reminding me! I got this book for Christmas one year when I was a child. I wonder if I still have it! It was the best. They include sections from the books where a particular food was talked about and then share the recipe. I can’t remember what I made from it but I enjoyed reading through it. It has Johnny cakes, and snow candy and all kinds of things. |
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Post by jenjie on Aug 16, 2018 14:58:11 GMT
The book Maniac Magee described a favorite snack. It was a commercial cake. I found a recipe that was similar and baked it for the kids in a reading group that was reading the book.
Found the name of the treat: Tastykake butterscotch Krimpets
Anyone here ever eaten those? The book takes place in Philadelphia.
They're a favorite of Stephanie Plum from the Janet Evanovich series based in Trenton, NJ. The description sounded really good so I goggled them, they're available for purchase online. I was disappointed that they seem to be very similar to the Little Debbie snack cakes line so haven't tried them. You’re right. Tastykake isn’t something I look forward to, it’s convenient. If I’m going to eat snack cakes I’ll choose a little Debbie nutty bar. Entenmann’s donuts - powdered or chocolate coated - are a guilty pleasure of mine. That reminds me. I’ll say no thank you to the donuts from Flowers in the Attic. 😂 |
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Post by jenjie on Aug 16, 2018 15:01:23 GMT
I was horribly disappointed when I found out that Turkish Delight was a real food, and that it Did not sound delicious as I had imagined while reading The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. Me too. I’ve seen it in candy shops and to me, it looks like the most unappealing thing in the case. |
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Post by questioning on Aug 16, 2018 18:21:13 GMT
The orange marmalade cake in the Mitford series. The publisher actually hired someone to invent that recipe after the fact and it's become the very special occasion cake for our family and it's delicious but I still think it's missing something. That was the first item I thought of, although I have the recipe to make it real. Thank you for reminder and review, I've wondered if it was worth the effort. |
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Post by bbkeef on Aug 16, 2018 18:27:26 GMT
I sometimes wish the "chocolate" pie from The Help was real...but only if it was delivered to someone else. I don't want to try it. Mwah ah ah ah ah!
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Post by grate on Aug 16, 2018 18:30:51 GMT
haha, before opening I thought about all the desserts flying around the dining hall at Hogwarts!
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Post by weedeepea on Aug 16, 2018 21:25:49 GMT
I had butterscotch krimpets for breakfast this morning. I'm not proud.  We bought them in Delaware when we there not long ago on vacation. They didn't have all the flavours I remember from when I was a kid visiting Trenton, but it doesn't matter, because Butterscotch Krimpets were always my favourite. Nothing like Little Debbie....bite your tongue!! Ok, maybe a little like Little Debbie. But they have something about them that just sets them apart. I also love their Chocolate cupcakes. I will probably have Krimpets for breakfast tomorrow, too. And all too soon, they'll be gone. I have a Butterscotch Krimpet Christmas ornament we hang on the tree every year. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 21:36:37 GMT
I was horribly disappointed when I found out that Turkish Delight was a real food, and that it Did not sound delicious as I had imagined while reading The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. Me too. I’ve seen it in candy shops and to me, it looks like the most unappealing thing in the case. I bought some Turkish Delight last Christmas and we didn't like it at all. I think it was rose flavored. |
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Post by questioning on Aug 16, 2018 22:03:37 GMT
Me too. I’ve seen it in candy shops and to me, it looks like the most unappealing thing in the case. I bought some Turkish Delight last Christmas and we didn't like it at all. I think it was rose flavored. I'm in the US and my mother used to buy us Aplets and Cotlets, I think they have mixed flavor called Turkish Delite. Has anyone had these? Are they similar? I used to like aplets and cotlets. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 16, 2018 22:37:23 GMT
Oh tons from Little house! I forgot..thanks for reminding me! I got this book for Christmas one year when I was a child. I wonder if I still have it! It was the best. They include sections from the books where a particular food was talked about and then share the recipe. I can’t remember what I made from it but I enjoyed reading through it. It has Johnny cakes, and snow candy and all kinds of things. It’s been decades since I read those books, but IIRC the little cakes were store bought which was why they only got them at Christmas. I like to think they must have been similar to the Little Debbie cinnamon streusel coffee cake squares. And now I want one, LOL! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 1:09:28 GMT
I bought some Turkish Delight last Christmas and we didn't like it at all. I think it was rose flavored. I'm in the US and my mother used to buy us Aplets and Cotlets, I think they have mixed flavor called Turkish Delite. Has anyone had these? Are they similar? I used to like aplets and cotlets. I'm not sure. I found the Turkish Delight in the candy section at World Market near Nashville. |
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Post by yodutchess on Aug 17, 2018 19:34:58 GMT
The book Maniac Magee described a favorite snack. It was a commercial cake. I found a recipe that was similar and baked it for the kids in a reading group that was reading the book.
Found the name of the treat: Tastykake butterscotch Krimpets
Anyone here ever eaten those? The book takes place in Philadelphia.
Butterscotch Krimpets, and all Tastycakes don’t taste the same to me since they moved the bakery from the original site on Hunting Park Avenue to the Navy Yard. I am old enough to remember them costing 12 cents! So I have eaten my fair share. My Grandmom used to pack them in my Grandpop’s lunch box for work, and Mom packed them for us for school, and I packed them for my kids. I mailed them off to my daughter as she went to school around the country. Her favorite and mine are peanut butter kandy kakes. Now I will bring up some Maniac Magee trivia. The setting is based on Jerry Spinelli’s childhood in Norristown’s PA. He got those krimpets and zeps (a hoagie without lettuce and NEVER mayo on a round roll) at Lou’s on East Main Street. The Bread was baked at Wonder Bread, on the corner of Main and Markley, no longer there. It was wonderful to smell baking bread in the day! The zoo is real, the Elmwood Park Zoo. There is more, it has been years since my son read it. After he did, I drove him on the tour and we ate at Lou’s. |
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Post by jenjie on Aug 17, 2018 19:43:25 GMT
We just had lunch at a place with a large selection of homemade milkshakes. On the menu are butterscotch krimpet, jelly krimpet, and tastykake coffee cake flavored milkshakes.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 18, 2018 0:07:48 GMT
I've always wanted to try Pop Biscuits and Google Buns from the Magic Faraway Tree. Yes!! Those are the first things I thought of too. Google Buns Pop Biscuits and don't forget the Toffee Shocks! |
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 18, 2018 0:21:48 GMT
I was horribly disappointed when I found out that Turkish Delight was a real food, and that it Did not sound delicious as I had imagined while reading The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. Me too. I’ve seen it in candy shops and to me, it looks like the most unappealing thing in the case. I bought some Turkish Delight last Christmas and we didn't like it at all. I think it was rose flavored. Oh my goodness girls, Turkish Delight is AMAZING!! Especially the rosewater flavoured variety. Perhaps you didn't have have "real" Turkish Delight. I love it, but I have had certainly had my fair share of dud stuff before. The best Turkish Delight is from a Greek, Turkish or Lebanese deli or restaurant, definitely NOT the stuff you find in a supermarket or grocery store. I eat it straight from the box and I also use it in desserts: This is one of my all time favourite desserts - Turkish Delight Creme BruleeI usually make this pav for my nephew's birthday - Turkish Delight PavlovaCan you tell I'm a fan?!  |
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Post by cindosha on Aug 18, 2018 0:57:28 GMT
The novel The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand opens with a rundown of the bistro menu. I want to eat there! 😄 I actually found/devised a recipe for the Parmesan crackers. They were amazing!! cindy |
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Post by valincal on Aug 18, 2018 2:16:27 GMT
The novel The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand opens with a rundown of the bistro menu. I want to eat there! 😄 I actually found/devised a recipe for the Parmesan crackers. They were amazing!! cindy Cool! Please share! 😄 |
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Post by questioning on Aug 18, 2018 20:57:08 GMT
I'm in the US and my mother used to buy us Aplets and Cotlets, I think they have mixed flavor called Turkish Delite. Has anyone had these? Are they similar? I used to like aplets and cotlets. I'm not sure. I found the Turkish Delight in the candy section at World Market near Nashville. I'll look there, thanks. |
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Post by jess on Aug 19, 2018 22:49:06 GMT
I was horribly disappointed when I found out that Turkish Delight was a real food, and that it Did not sound delicious as I had imagined while reading The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. Me too. I’ve seen it in candy shops and to me, it looks like the most unappealing thing in the case. I bought some Turkish Delight last Christmas and we didn't like it at all. I think it was rose flavored. Oh my goodness girls, Turkish Delight is AMAZING!! Especially the rosewater flavoured variety. Perhaps you didn't have have "real" Turkish Delight. I love it, but I have had certainly had my fair share of dud stuff before. The best Turkish Delight is from a Greek, Turkish or Lebanese deli or restaurant, definitely NOT the stuff you find in a supermarket or grocery store. I eat it straight from the box and I also use it in desserts: This is one of my all time favourite desserts - Turkish Delight Creme BruleeI usually make this pav for my nephew's birthday - Turkish Delight PavlovaCan you tell I'm a fan?! Have you ever eaten/made the Turkish Delight donuts by chef Shane Delia? They're like a greek donut with a piece of Turkish Delight inside, so it's warm and oozes out when you cut the donut open. Topped with rosewater syrup and chopped pistachios. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! |
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 20, 2018 8:12:43 GMT
Have you ever eaten/made the Turkish Delight donuts by chef Shane Delia? They're like a greek donut with a piece of Turkish Delight inside, so it's warm and oozes out when you cut the donut open. Topped with rosewater syrup and chopped pistachios. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! OMG that sounds divine! Where can I get one? Do I need to duck down to Maha in my lunch break one day? |
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Post by jess on Aug 20, 2018 22:39:15 GMT
Have you ever eaten/made the Turkish Delight donuts by chef Shane Delia? They're like a greek donut with a piece of Turkish Delight inside, so it's warm and oozes out when you cut the donut open. Topped with rosewater syrup and chopped pistachios. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! OMG that sounds divine! Where can I get one? Do I need to duck down to Maha in my lunch break one day? YES! I've been there just for the donuts. You can sit at the front near the bar. Then look up the recipe and try to make them. They're not difficult - except getting the shape right. There are videos showing the correct technique, but ours consistently looked like poo-shaped logs rather than nice round balls. They still tasted great though! |
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