Day 3 Today was uneventful other than our templar complaining relentlessly about eating meat all the time. While I am also tired of the horse meat, I do not think I could ever go vegetarian. The horse meat tastes fine with barbeque sauce and spices. I cannot see what
| she is complaining about. It works with the other sauces that we normally carry to cook meats in. Horse meat is a bit gamey, but with food so scarce it works, and using the different sauces gives some variety.
Day 5 Ok, I am tired of her
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complaints. Today I am going to try this soft fleshy center I found from a treant. It seems to be edible, and rather flavorful. It should work as well in all of the sauces we have on hand.
Why did they choose to make me cook anyway? I wish they would all stop
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Day 7 Our ranger shared some of his taelosian flour with me today. I have found it makes a really good basic dough and pastry dough. For basic dough, simply mix it with egg batter. This can be done in one batch or two, just double your
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ingredients. The pastry dough, just like with normal flour, is a bit more delicate and you will only be able to make one batch. Simply mix the flour with egg batter and a measure of butter.
At least someone else is contributing today, and not just complaining.
| Day 8 I found some apples today, and decided to try and make some tarts with them. I mixed the apples with cinnamon sticks and a cup of sugar. I then took three measures of pastry dough, three portions of the apple filling, and put it in a muffin tin and came
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out with six nice and tasty tarts. While still hot I immediately topped them with frosting. Even my group did not complain about this. I wonder how the filling would be if I used, two marr cherries, two lemons, a lemon and an orange, or wild blueberries and wild crimson berries. I will have to try a few
| different ones and see how my group likes them. I bet this will also work great with different pastry dough.
Day 13 All of those fillings worked well, though our wizard complained about the tartness of the lemon filling. I guess you
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cannot satisfy everyone.
I decided to make a pie. I simply used four portions of filling and put it in the standard pie crust of flour, two egg batters, a cup of sugar and a bottle of milk. It seems to work well with normal flour and either of the taelosian flours. I found that the
| whole pie was a bit much to eat for everyone but our barbarian friend, so I sliced it up in pieces.
Day 15 Since he complained about my lemon pie, I decided to try a lemon meringue pie. For this I had to separate the eggs. I did this by carefully separating an egg
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over a mixing bowl. The base is lemon filling with egg yolks, and a half cup of sugar. The meringue is egg white, dried vanilla beans, and the other half cup of sugar. I put all this in the basic pie crust, though I sometimes replace the basic flour with the taelosian flour.
| The wizard seemed to like this much better. At least he did not complain while he was eating it like it was his last meal.
Day 18 We are running short on normal flour, so today I tried to make bread out of the taelosian flour. I mixed three cups of the
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flour with water, butter, a cup of sugar, some rock salt, a bottle of milk, and some yeast in a bread tin. The group liked this better than the normal bread. I will have to make it more often.
I wager that I could replace the salt with a garlic and butter mixture
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It seems that being the cook for the group is not as bad as I expected.
Day 19 The tomatoes I got the other day will go bad if I do not use them. I think boiling three minced
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tomatoes in a pot with water and spices will make a good sauce. That will taste good on some flat bread of taelosian wheat and egg batter with cheese melted on top.
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