Ro: Hey guys, welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Ro: Today I have a special guest, Jared! Jared: What’s up guys!
Ro: Yes, he is a freelance writer and he works a lot with TGS, He's very funny, so I will put
Ro: his link below, definitely go check him out.
Ro: He’s a pretty cool guy! And, you guys might recognize him from the
Ro: livestream, this is Frodo! And since Frodo and Sam, us Hobbits-es
Ro: are hanging out today, I thought, let’s make something from
Ro: Lord of the Rings. Jared: Lembas!
Ro: Lembas Bread! Elven bread, AKA, shortbread! Let’s get started!
Jared: So what we’ve got here, a bit of flour, a little bit of sugar, some
Jared: butter, and lemon. Ro: Boom, ingredients!
Jared: Boom! Ro: Boom! Tools, pokey lollipop stick, if you don’t have 1 of
Ro: these you can use a toothpick. Cookie cutter, square.
Jared: Very important.
Ro: Big bowl, mixing, let’s put all that together and make some elf magic!
Jared: Do this! Ro: Yeah! Bringing Middle Earth to your kitchen!
Jared: Boom!
Ro: First we add the butter. Jared: Peschew! Ro: Pfft!
Ro: So you, you’re gonna do a cup of butter, so each stick of these is 1/2 a cup.
Jared: So you need one 1/2 cup sugar. Ro: Yep.
Jared: Ah, the kind of sugar that we just love out in Hobbiton, if you ever
Jared: get out there. I highly recommend it.
Ro: I’ve never been there, the Shire’s so big. Jared: It’s really not.
Ro: There’s so many different, like, towns. Jared: It’s towns, uh provinces.
Ro: I don’t go there a lot. Jared: Hobbit Provinces, so yeah you left
Jared: awhile ago. Things have changed. Ro: My mom’s an elf, so like, still
Ro: the height of a hobbit, but… Jared: First generation hobbit.
Ro: Yeah, I’m learning,
Ro: Now we need, 1 tablespoon of Lemon Zest, I don’t know what lemon zest is,
Ro: so… Jared: It’s the zest. Ro: I bought a lemon…
Jared: Inherent in each lemon. Ro: And we’re just, we’re gonna…
Ro: We’re just gonna make it zesty, with this!
Jared: That’s 1, 1 zest to rule them all!
Ro: We could have googled it, but I feel like I don’t want to!
Jared: No, alright.
Ro: No, no, we’ll just… Um…
Jared: How do you, how do you zest a lemon?
Ro: Someone told me it’s the outside.
Jared: Oh you have to scrape, that’s the zest.
Ro: Who wants to eat that, is that delicious?
Jared: Dude this is magical bread, you just gotta to go with it.
Ro: Now we’re gonna do 2-1/2 cups of flour.
Ro: There we go, there we go. Jared: Into the bowl, like that!
Ro: And then we just mix it all together!
Ro: This is what you want!
Jared: Oooh!
Ro: So you want it to be all crumbly, like this, and then, what keeps it
Ro: together, is you’re gonna take a handful, OK ready?
Ro: And, use your muscles, and push it together. Jared: My muscle?
Ro: To make it whole. Jared: Well I have a lot of it, so this is gonna be
Jared: real easy!
Ro: Nice. Jared: Yeah, I’ve been doing Hobbit workouts.
Ro: Yeah, us Hobbits-es. Jared: P-90H… Ro: Us Hobbits-es are buff!
Jared: Are, are they? Is it the Hobbit Warriors?
Ro: I feel like we’re buff enough to bake. Jared: Brave, brave hobbit warriors.
Jared: Dude, I’ve been in some battles. Ro: Yeah?
Jared: Yeah, I took out like, like an orc, like a goblin once, they’re,
Jared: they’re frisky man, they’re squirrelly. Ro: I believe it.
Jared: Alright so now what you’re gonna want to do, take this, cut out
Jared: little squares. Ro: Then I’m gonna gently place them on the cookie sheet.
Ro: You do not need to grease the cookie sheet, you can just stick ‘em
Ro: right on there. On the un-greased cookie sheet.
Jared: You’re gonna not want to have them in this pattern, because they’ll
Jared: get all stuck together, but uh… Ro: But we’re magic…
Jared: Yeah, we’re, we're magic. Ro: So, we can do it, but you might want to leave
Ro: a little more space. Jared: We’re enchanted middle earth hobbits, OK?
Jared: Now we’re gonna put our fancy elf X’s right here. Ro: Yeah!
Jared: Ah yeah! Ro: Perfect, using the lollipop stick, and remember, if you
Ro: don’t have a lollipop stick, you can use a toothpick.
Jared: So now that you have your X’s, on your way bread. What you’re
Jared: gonna do is, uh, heat your oven to 325, bake these for 20 minutes.
Jared: And then magic bread. Ro: Yum-yum-yum-yum-yum!
Jared: Hobbit style. Both: Boom!
Ro: Fist bumps for magical… Jared: Beings. Magical people, beings!
Ro: And while these are in the oven, we are gonna prepare the leaves,
Ro: in case you have a long journey, and you need to wrap them up.
Ro: So what I did, I cut out this shape, into a piece of paper, the,
Ro: the 3 leaves are identical size, the bottom 1 is just a little smaller.
Ro: And then I folded them on the crease, to fold them in 1/2 each way,
Ro: like that, and then to get the little leaf marks, I just first followed
Ro: the line, go like this. Er-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber!
Ro: Follow the 1/2 way fold crease line, and draw the little leaf creases
Ro: going out. Boop, boop! Easy-peasy!
Ro: Ta-da!
Ro: They’re done, they’re all ready, and they’ve cooled, make sure they
Ro: have plenty of time to cool before you wrap them.
Ro: Then we’re gonna take the leaf. Here, you take a leaf, I’ll take a leaf.
Ro: Take 2, and then fold the bottom. Jared: OK, fold the bottom… Yes
Ro: Then the right, then the left. Both: Then the top!
Jared: Aw snap! Ro: Oh, look how cute that looks! Oh! Perfect!
Ro: And then we’re gonna take the twine...
Raffia....
Ro: And, just tie it around the middle.
Both: Ta-da!
Ro: Doo-doo-doo-doo! Both: Doo-doo-doo!
Ro: We did it! We made elven bread! Jared: I made way bread!
Ro: Eeee! Cheers!
Jared: Oooh, damn. Ro: Which is really shortbread. And if you don’t like
Ro: shortbread for any reason, you can always make sugar cookies and just cut them
Ro: out as squares, so that they’re cookies. But I like shortbread.
Ro: We made it with wheat bread.
Jared: It’s more true to the ancient. Ro: Mmmhmm.
Jared: Thousands of years old recipe.
Jared: Cookies… Whatever. Ro: Yeah!
Ro: Thanks you guys for watching, um, again, I’ll put a link down below
Ro: to Jared’s Twitter! Go check him out, he is awesome. And if you have
Ro: and other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
Ro: leave me a comment and I will do my best to make it happen!
Ro: Thanks you guys, bye-bye!