Modern fantasy takes readers to another world other than our own or brings otherworldly creatures to the known world. Either way, it can take the reader on a fantastic journey with the imagination picturing dragons or the shire. Anything is possible in this genre as our minds briefly allow for the laws of nature or physics to be ignored while we read the story.
The book I chose is "The Great Redwall Feast" by Brian Jacques. His Redwall series is about woodland animals that live in a medival world much like our own medival times. His stories always has interesting dishes served up at feasts such as damson pudding, meadowcream, or strawberry fizz.
A fun activity would be to make up a list of ingredients for one of the dishes and gather all we need. Then come up with a recipe to make the dish and serve it while re-reading the book.
There happens to be a recipe for meadowcream online:
1/3 cup cream, 1/3 cup butter, 1/3 cup honey, 1/3 cup sugar. Whisk ingredients together and chill. Serve over everything. Amounts can be modified to individual tastes.
My sons and I did this when we first learned and read the books by Brian Jacques. We had a great time looking for the ingredients and even more fun making the stuff. Then ,of course, we had our own feast.
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