What recipe did you use, and how did it turn out?
When last I looked, something akin to hardtack was what Tolkien had in mind. As for a recipe, I recommend looking to the Scandinavians
Ingredients:
- 20 loaves of bread
Instructions:
- Place in hydraulic press
- Compress to smallest size possible
A girl I was thinking about dating made lembas by making some slight modifications to shortbread cookies.
As for how it turned out, I married her.
Can confirm, modified shortbread is supreme lembas, we make it every year for our watchthrough.
Honey instead of sugar, ghee or danish butter (lower water content), and a little more baking powder.
Finish it off in the dehydrator for long term storage not that they ever last the next day lol.
You can get good fresh wrapping leaves at any asian food store.
Tried it, ate four loaves, not very filling.
German Stollen bread is delicious and filling, keeps for weeks if not months if well packed. It’s one of my favorite breads and what I thought was the real world thing that inspired Tolkien to write lembas as he did. Needless to say, I was very disappointed in the movie version of it.
Stollen is cake, not bread!
But I agree, the movie version was more what I imagined cram would be.