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[erissian]

Therefore males make better cooks than females.

Any dwarf, man or woman, that doesn't have a mighty beard capable of mincing ale and meat doesn't deserve a place in the mountainhomes.

[zehive]

*looks at fort overview
*4,000 meat, 2,500 drink, 200 plant, 1800 other (cheese?)
my dorfs like meat and cheese and booze

Do you buy all the meat-n-cheese fast food and cheap booze off the caravans?


Is anyone else bothered by how dwarven cooks mince everything, including liquids?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_mince
Note that minced meat is known as ground meat in north america. The lazy dwarven cook tosses all of the ingredients into a blender or grinder, and then bakes/stews the results into biscuits, stew, or roasts.

yes, but i currently have about 1600 elephant meat, and various other types of meat. i have like 6 hunters and 4 butchers. i butcher all the stray animals immigrants bring and then my hunters bring in whole elephants. also, i have a legendary brewer and a few stills i usually just keep running.

[CriticallyAshamed]

This is an exceptional quality turkey tallow roast. The ingredients are exceptionally minced turkey tallow, exceptionally minced turkey tallow, exceptionally minced hen tallow, exceptionally minced hen tallow.

Damn birds.

[Noodz]

I am actually eager to get recipes for cooking (someone on the forum mentioned toady would get onto it eventually). I also fully expect the most extravagant meals to be a byzantine recipe, requiring several different components such as an entire wood log, a bucket of fresh water from the well, a unit of lye, rock salt, a barrel of booze, plus the actual food.

[Elisebambi]

Hickory smoked, steamed, basted and marinated dwarf-infant tallow roast?

[Satarus]

That is one heck of an omelet.  Bonus points for the cook who made it having a preference for dwarven sugar.

[orrey]

I did some cooking for this thread:

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[PalladiumDawn]

I sampled some cooked cow brain a few months ago, and it wasn't half bad. Consistency was soft and reminded me of liver.

Brain is something that I tend to avoid, both for my dwarves and in real life, since nerve tissue tends to be the medium for transmitting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.  However, I have heard of many cultures that eat brain, so I imagine it can't be that bad tasting.

As far as cooking goes, I try to adapt real-life recipies as best I can by restricting supply access.  For instance, biscuits are generally made of flour and some kind of milk.  Roasts are alot of fun to plan, since a well managed roast can be made to resemble almost anything.  For instance, a recipie I like is combining tallow, flour, and either sugar/honey and fruit, or fruit and meat for dessert and savory pies, respectively.  Stews are almost too easy to justify for my tastes, though an idea I've had (But never tried) is to combine milk, honey or sugar, and some kind of fruit togeather, and have it stored in a nether-cap barrel...Ice-cream anyone?

[Jelle]

I once had a meal made from dwarven sugar, cave wheat flour, elk bird egg and crundle tallow.

If only I had purring maggots for dwarven milk instead of that tallow. I could have made dwarven pancakes!

[noah22223]

Mmmmmmmmm. Doren would Luuuuv that Sea Serpent Heart.

[Casp]

I once had a cook that churned out epic level biscuits to the point where I was thinking I'd have to disable the masterpiece announcement. Mostly made of sugar and plump helmets. In honor of his biscuit accomplishments, I named him Totalbiscuit. Yeah.

During the downfall of that fortress he punched a troll in the face and smashed his brain, then broke a goblin's arm.
Just thought I'd share that while we were talking about cooking...

[Lytha]

Frozen milk + rock nut paste + honey + honey

I thought "ice cream with nut flavour" immediately and actually got a bit hungry when I read it.

[Gruntathon]

The most intersting I have is: Prepared cave dragon instestines stew. The ingredients are minced crundle tallow, well-minced giant jaguar tallow and superiorly minced prepared cave dragon intestines.

I sampled some cooked cow brain a few months ago, and it wasn't half bad. Consistency was soft and reminded me of liver.

Reminds me of the Glutton Bowl Challenge! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxTO3dFDfM Warning: Bizarre and Gross