A cookbook personally curated by a renowned Okheman gourmand. Every Titans' disciple will be able to find a recipe to their liking in it.
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"Fate Season"
Month of Gate: Janus' Double-Sided Pancake Ingredients: 500g of Okhema earthen wheat flour, 100ml of olive oil, 10g of rock salt, 100ml of Phagousa's fine brew, 300g of cloudsheep mince (marinated with vanilla and chopped beforehand), 300g of vegetable filling (chopped leek, celery, and dill)
Directions: 1. Mix flour and salt in a clay pot, then slowly add olive oil and warm water into it. Use your hands to knead into dough. Cover with a wet cloth, and let it rest for half a day. 2. Prepare two types of fillings: One is fresh cloudsheep meat, marinated with vanilla and chopped up prior, then add salt for a bit of seasoning. Next is finely chopped leeks, celery, and dill, which are stirred with a little olive oil. 3. Cut the dough into two and flatten each into a circular shape. 4. Brush olive oil over a clay baking tray, place one circular dough on it, then spread meat and vegetable filling on each half. 5. Place the other circular dough over the first one as a cover, then seal the sides tightly. 6. Brush olive oil over the surface, place in a preheated stone kiln, baking for about four quints, till the surface is crisp and golden. 7. After taking it out, pour a little honey over the surface.
The double-sided pancake symbolizes Janus's connectivity — one side faces the past, the other ushers in the future. On the first day of the Month of Gate, family members will gather around the dining table, then the eldest member cuts open the pancake, after which they take turns to taste it. The vegetable filling representing the past is eaten first, to reminisce on memories. Then the meat filling representing the future is eaten, to welcome the new year. After finishing the dish, the youngest member will speak their new year wishes aloud as the representative, to pray to Janus to open the gate to a wonderful future.
Month of Balance: Scale Soup of the Day of Reflection Ingredients: 200g of white beans, 200g of black beans, 200g of lima beans, 200g of Georios roots (cut into small pieces), 200g of tear onions (chopped), 200g of celery (cut into small pieces), 50ml of olive oil, 3 bay leaves, salt to taste, black pepper to taste, 2 liters of rockspring water
Directions: 1. After washing the beans, soak them one day in advance. 2. Add olive oil to a large copper pot, then add tear onions when it's heated, then sauté until transparent. 3. Add all other ingredients (beans must be drained first), and add water until they are just submerged. 4. Boil over a large fire, then reduce to a small fire, add bay leaves, cover the pot and simmer for two hours, until the beans and vegetables are soft and cooked. 5. Add salt and black pepper to taste, use a wooden spoon to mash up some of the beans to thicken the soup.
The second month is the Month of Balance that Talanton watches over. Before them, all food ingredients must weigh exactly the same to maintain balance over the scale. During dinner on the Day of Reflection, drinking Scale Soup is a most important ritual to be observed. Before eating, everyone must speak out loud their own reflections of their past actions in unison before partaking in the Scale Soup.
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"Pillar Season"
Month of Cultivation: Georios' Seven-Grain Bread Ingredients: 500g of earthen wheat flour, 500g of cloud wheat flour, 50g of wet oats, 50g of millet, 30g of flax seeds, 30g of sesame seeds, 20g of chia seeds, 15g of yeast, 10g of salt, 30ml of honey, 400ml of Phagousa's warm brew, 30ml of olive oil
Directions: 1. Grind all grains into powder in a stone pestle and mortar, then mix all dry ingredients in a large clay bowl. 2. Dissolve the yeast in a little warm water, then add honey and stir well. 3. Make a hole in the middle of the flour, pour in the yeast and honey mixture, the remaining water, and olive oil. 4. Knead into dough with your hands till a smooth ball is formed, which will take about 1 to 2 quints. 5. Cover the dough with linen cloth, then leave it out in a sunny spot for half a day to rise, till it doubles in size. 6. Knead into dough again, release the air bubbles, and after shaping it into a ball, score the surface with wheat-ear patterns, then let it rise again for 5 quints. 7. Preheat the kiln, use the peel to place the bread in it, and bake for about three quints, till it makes a hollow sound when you tap the bottom.
This is a classic Amphoreus dish: In the Lucid Hour of the Sowing Festival, farmers will gather in the wheat fields, tear the baked seven-grain bread into pieces, and distribute them to everyone on the farm. Everyone will chew on their bread, savoring the seven flavors gifted by Georios. In the village, farmers still have the tradition of scattering their leftover bread in the fields, a prayer to Georios for a bountiful harvest of the seven grains in the new year. In Okhema and other cities, the residents have modified this custom, tossing their leftover bread into their potted plants instead. Regardless of their practices, the sowing work can only officially commence once this ritual ends.
Month of Joy: Phagousa's Laughter Ingredients: 2 fresh fish (cleaned and sliced into pieces beforehand), 500g of Spiraleye tentacles (cut into pieces), 500g of starshells (cleaned), 2 tear onions (chopped), 4 cloves of garlic (chopped), 100ml of olive oil, 4 wolfpeppers (peeled and chopped), 2 bay leaves, 1 sprig of rosemary, salt and black pepper to taste, 500ml of Phagousa's fine brew 500, 1 liter of rockspring water
Directions: 1. Heat olive oil in a large copper pot, sauté the tear onions and garlic till softened. 2. Add wolfpeppers and simmer for 1 quint. 3. Add a whole bottle of Phagousa's fine brew, then add bay leaves and rosemary. Cook till the fine brew evaporates. 4. Add water, then wait till the broth boils before adding the Spiraleye tentacles, then cook for 1 quint. 5. Add fish chunks and starshells, cook over low fire for 2 quints, till the fish is fully cooked and the starshells have opened. 6. Add salt and black pepper to taste, then serve.
During the revelry in the Month of Joy, many in Okhema will gather in the city's public spaces and stew this giant pot of fish soup together. When the soup is done, remember to pour the first spoon of the soup onto the ground as thanks to Phagousa. When the appreciation ritual is completed, you can enjoy the fish soup. During this time, remember to blow hard on the surface of the fish soup, to ideally imitate the sound of laughter. It is said if Phagousa hears enough merriment, they will infiltrate the crowd and bask in the feast with everyone else, bestowing their mysterious graces upon all present.