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Once upon a time, there was a magic recipe . . . | Ask Metafilter
We've been invited to party where everyone brings a dish based on food from a children's book.
Does anyone have any good suggestions and, better yet, recipes?
As Harry Potter was on everyone's brain, Pumpkin juice and Cauldron Cakes have been spoken for.
The only other idea in my brain is writing "EAT ME" in icing on cupcakes (and then trying not to giggle too much).
This should be a fun dish to brainstorm, but I've got a million other tasks cluttering my head, so I need to outsource my inspiration.
Oh, and the food would need to appeal and be familiar to U.S.
Kids between 4-10.
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Turkish Delight from The Chronicles of Narnia
Green Eggs and Ham
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Do you want something really simple, like Bread and Jam ?
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Anne of Green Gables' ultimate drink was Raspberry Cordial.
You could try making it with ingredients like Cran-Raspberry juice, Grenadine syrup and soda water, maybe.
Hansel & Gretl- a candy-covered gingerbread house.
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Morning cake from In the Night Kitchen !
"I'm in the milk and the milk's in me!"
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Absolutely Green Eggs and Ham.
Use a melon baller on a honeydew to make the yolks.
Wrap small pieces of prosciutto around the balls, secure with toothpick if necessary.
Takes no time to make, cheap as hell, tastes like a million bucks.
Jars of Attack Jelly would be awesome.
(50 points to whoever gets the reference without Googling).
omg...
Toast and marmalade and tea.
(Paddington Bear).
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Strawberry shortcake (from both the Poky Little Puppy, and I suppose the greeting card character "strawberry shortcake) or rice pudding from Poky Little Puppy as well.
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Honey from Winnie the Poo
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Three Billy Goat cheeses Gruff?
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Bread and jam, from Bread and Jam for Frances
Mush, from Goodnight Moon
Apples, from Ten Apples Up on Top
Hard boiled eggs, marshmallows, applesauce, fries/burgers, all from the Ramona books
Anything at all from The Little House Cookbook
Ice cream, from Frog and Toad All Year
Chicken soup with rice, from the book of the same title
Bread and milk and blackberries, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit
(You'll have to figure out how familiar some of the stories are to the kids, and what they might want to eat.)
I love the "Eat Me" idea!
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You could make a loaf of bread in homage to The Little Red Hen .
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A lot of the stuff from The Little House On the Prairie Cookbook would be perfect for a party...
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Easy:
Pancakes from Where the Wild Things Are.
Porridge from The Three Bears.
Raspberry cordial from Anne of Green Gables
Peter Rabbit: Parsley, carrots, gooseberries, bread and blackberries, chamomile tea
Apples from Snow White
Cake from In the Night Kitchen
Harder:
Pick up a few Amelia Bedelia books - off the top of my head I know there are incidents with sponge cakes (using real sponge) and date cakes/bread (using dates from a calendar), both of which could be accomplished with some creative marzipan/fondant work.
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly Poly Pudding (Beatrix Potter): Make pigs in a blanket with mini hot dogs and put a cat's face in dough on each of them.
Cookbooks to look for:
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes (includes Bruce Bogtrotter's Chocolate Cake) *recommended
The Little House Cookbook (Little House on the Prarie)
Mary Poppins in the Kitchen
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For that matter, there's also an Anne of Green Gables cookbook, called...um...The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook.
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You could do all the fruits from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, with caterpillar bites taken out.
No recipe required.
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Jane Brockett wrote a lovely cookbook called Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: a Golden Treasury of Classic Treats , a collection of recipes based on (mostly British) childrens books.
It is more geared towards British literature (I had never heard of Enid Blyton!), but she cooks from Little House on the Prairie, Roald Dahl, Anne of Green Gables and the Narnia books, among others.
I flipped through a copy once and it seems to be fairly accessible to Americans.
what a fun party idea!
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Oh! - and muffins, from If You Give a Moose a Muffin .
(Similarly, pancakes, from If You Give a Pig a Pancake , but I prefer fuzzbean's pancakes from Wild Things .)
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Welsh rarebit is mentioned in The Wind in the Willows , and I think "bangers and mash" is also the name of a book and/or TV show for kids.
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Geez, sorry, things keep coming to me -
Donuts, from Homer Price .
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Night Kitchen themed gingerbread men.
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Also: hard boiled eggs, from The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet .
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Peas, honey, chocolate coins wrapped in a five pound note.
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Dnab - attack jelly!!!....oh, it's coming back to me!
It is a Gordon Korman novel about the kid that swindles while on a cross-country camping trip But what is the name of that novel!!!
I can't remember but I loved it when they got the toaster and they ate toast all night.
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Stinky cheese... REAL stinky cheese.
Just a platter of Limburger, Tilsit, beer cheese, etc with crackers.
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Cornbread from Jan Brett's Annie and the Wild Animals
Hot Chocolate from The Polar Express
Pancakes from Nate the Great
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Sushi, from Rosemary Wells' Yoko -- California or other vegetable/cooked seafood rolls if the kids are squeamish about raw fish.
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Typewriter: No Coins, Please.
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You could bring mince pie
"They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon"
- The Owl and the Pussycat.
Good luck finding a runcible spoon though.
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Creamed Angleworms on Toast , from a book by the same name.
Pork Chops with Paper Panties and Bullet Peas from The Alligator Case by William Pene Du Bois.
Sorry for the crappy links.
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A fat, wicker luncheon-basket containing any or all of the following: cold chicken, coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater.
A lot of leeway there.
(From The Wind in the Willows in case you didn't recognize the reference.)
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These may be a little more esoteric/ hard to create, but there are a host of great foods from The Phantom Tollbooth, like "Subtraction Stew," cookie punctuation marks and parts of speech, eating one's own words- literally, and Half Baked Ideas from the Half Bakery.
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Ahh, ilana beat me to it!
I second The Phantom Tollbooth...
I remember there being descriptions of the flavors and textures of different letters - sweet, dry, etc.
Maybe you use alphabet cookie cutters to make an assortment of letter-shaped foods - cookies, Jello, toast, etc.
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Astrid Lindgren's books are full of traditional Swedish food.
Okay - Pippi Longstocking does her own little things with some of the recipes, but otherwise there's everything as should be: freshly caught crayfish, a whole Christmas buffet, cakes, sweets and candy etc.
Etc. And soup. Emil (no idea what name the English translation uses) gets his head stuck in a soup bowl.
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The food from Alice in Wonderland would be easy to do.
Mushrooms or pieces of cake that say "eat me."
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Thunder Cake from the book Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco.
The recipe is in the back of the book.
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Oops, some of those are books aren't geared towards young readers.
Suggested reading levels, from Amazon...
Canning Season: Grade 6-9
Graveyard Book: Ages 9-12
Hunger Games: Young Adult
Percy Jackson: Ages 9-12
Twilight: Young Adult
Wind Singer: Ages 9-12
Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe (Bunnicula), ages 9-12, is another one that came to mind.
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First chapter of the Graveyard Book is pretty harsh.
Good though.
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Yes, good point. Hunger Games deals with material for young adults, and while I'd love some merlot about now, it's definitely not for US kids between 4-10.
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Wow. Judging by the aftermarket prices, I should have bought 50 when it came out, but: Narnia Cookbook .
It's a fave.
Best price at BookFinder : $120 (ouch!)
Inter-library loan?
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The can of dog food from Sally Goes to the Beach.
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Watercress sandwiches with the crusts cut off from The Trumpeter Swan
Sasparilla from Stuart Little
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Popcorn, from one of the Amelia Bedilia books (?).
Most kids like popcorn....
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Thank you all so much for these great suggestions.
I made these h alf baked ideas from The Phantom Tollbooth as suggested by ilana.
They were a hit, and once some letters were missing, we had fun rearranging the remaining letters into words like "snot." Good times.
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