Table of Contents
Welcome to Middle-earth! 8
Breakfast
Millet Gruel 12
Beorn's Honey Cakes 14
Beren's Bread Flower 16
Breakfast Patties 18
Pancakes 20
Second Breakfast
Hobbiton Pumpkin Rolls 24
Cram 26
Fruitcake 28
Rivendell Fig Treats 30
Spud Cakes 32
Sam's Second Breakfast 34
Elevenses
Lembas 38
Farmer Maggot's Mushroom Ragout 40
Elvish Bread 42
Beorn's Baked Cheese 44
Home-Canned Peaches 46
Crickbollow Apple Cakelets 48
Túrin Turambar's Tarragon Chicken 51
Pumpkin Pastries 54
Bannock Bread 56
Luncheon
Oven Spuds in Chive Sauce 60
Smoked Beans Skillet 62
Ranger-style Quail 64
Brandywine Fish Casserole 66
Pippin's Lunch Snack 68
Garlicky Mussels from the Grey havens 70
The Prancing Pony's Tater Soup 72
Bilbo's Famous Seed Cake 74
Fish in Bread Dough 76
Fluffy Mashed Potatoes 78
Pork Meat Pies 80
Afternoon Tea
Bilbo's Crunchy Cookies 84
Sweet Mini Bundt Cakes 86
Filled Oven Pears 88
Gandalf's Nut Pudding 90
Bilbo's Eleventy-First Birthday Cake 92
Sweet Chestnut Soup 96
The One Ring 98
Dinner
Haradrim Tagine 102
Root Vegetable Stew 104
Herbed Trout on a Stick 106
Sam's Coney Stew 108
Hobbit Shanks 110
Bimli's Salted Pork 112
Rosemary Lamb Skewers 114
Númenórean Bilthead Sea Bream 116
Juniper Roast Lamb 118
Orcish Hobbit Roast with Maggot Holes 120
Supper
Orcish Stick Bread 124
Tater Salad 126
Mirkwood Batwings 128
Dwarf-style Beetroot 130
Hobbit Head Cheese 132
Drinks
Beorn's Honey Milk 136
Ent Potion 138
Miruvor 140
Athelas Tea 142
The Old Cook's hot Chocolate 144
Miruvóre 146
Orc Brew 148
Old Winyard's Mulled Wine 150
Acknowledgments 152
About the Author and photographer 155
Recipe Index 156