apres qq recherches sur google, voila qq recettes +/- plausibles:
(dsl pour la traduction mais je parle pas espagnol
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Ingredients:
· 1 and 1/4 pints of flour. Get your measuring jug. Fill it up.
· 1 tablespoon baking powder. Seems like a lot. Works out fine.
· 1/4 teaspoon salt. Just a little. Chuck a bit in. Feel smug if you're anally retentive enough to have those clinky set of plastic spoons with a 1/4 teaspoon measurement included.
· 8 tablespoons cold butter. Errr. We made this one up. Lacked a tablespoon, so used a dessert spoon instead. A level spoon rather than a heaped one. Just scooped it out the tub. And we didn't actually have butter, so it was low-fat tesco version of Olivio.
· 1/6 pint of caster sugar. That's whatever happens to look like it might be a third of the way to the 1/2 pint mark.
· 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Go wild. Really. Throw as much in as you feel brave enough to.
· 1/3 pint milk. For the non-mathematically inclined, that's somewhere in between 1/4 and 1/2. We used semi-skimmed. Because I'm a health nut.
· 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence. Same sort of mentality as works with the cinnamon, just not quite so extreme. But mainly because I have traumatic memories of McDonald's milkshakes.
· 1/6 pint honey. *snorts* (not in the honey) You think we measured this? You really think we measured this?
Recipe:
1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees Celsius. Remember to close door securely.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. *cough* largest saucepan available *cough* If feeling overly enthusiastic, sieve flour, although we are lacking conclusive evidence that this has any positive effect whatsoever.
3. Add butter and rub in with fingers (i.e. do the fun messy crumble thing.) Make sure you cut your nails beforehand. Should eventually resemble "fine granules."
4. Add sugar and cinnamon and stir. Attempt to get it looking whatever colour you feel like eating.
5. Make a well in the middle of this, and add the milk bit by bit, gradually stirring in the dry ingredients from the side of the bowl. Like you do when making pancakes. Then, once mixture is looking appropriately lumpy and thick, go and find yourself a wrist-brace to ensure no permanent tissue damage. Somewhere along the line add the vanilla.
6. Add honey and stir till well mixed. Get worried about the lumps. Whisk vigorously. Get annoyed at the lumps. Feel reassured that mine was also lumpy, and turned out just fine. Decide to spite lumps by resolutely ignoring the stubborn bastards.
7. Spoon into deep baking tray *cough* roasting pan *cough* lined with grease-proof paper. It should be about 1/2 an inch deep, and, errr, the shape of your "baking tray." Place in oven.
8. Feel free to take vital time to lick the "Bowl." If you've been paying attention you'll have noticed there was no egg added, so it should be perfectly safe. However, this is not an appropriate moment in which to discuss likely Elven etiquette. If in doubt, claim to be Sindar. Mutter about Kinslayings if questioned.
9. Check on it at regular intervals. Once it's stopped looking quite so gooey (about 7-8 minutes) remove from oven and divide into 6 pieces. Smoothe the edges down to create rounded biscuit effect as seen in movie. Return to oven. Bake for another 10-15 minutes, or until you get bored/starving hungry. They should be golden brown in colour, but this may depend on step 4.
10. Allow to cool for a while. Resist urge to prod. Remove from "baking tray" using a combination of spatulas, and leave to cool on cooling rack. *cough* oven shelf balanced on books *cough*
11. Wrap in mallorn leaves. Lettuce also works. Do not keep for long enough to find out how long it keeps for.
This Not-A-Cake is exceptionally filling, and very possibly does indeed fill the stomach of a grown man with but one small bite. However, Yours Truly does not recommend dipping the lembas in either Stupidly Hot Curry or Guacomole.