q16

[dubdobdee]

q16.

i: day shares with Bridget?
ii: did Ramsay combine with Turtle Soup?
iii: was named after Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid?
iv: was inspired through an invitation to see Elsa of Brabant?
v: was Tom’s intended fate prior to his rescue from beneath the attic?
vi: according to the Captain, always ate better if it did not scald your gullet?
vii: is a sweetened combination of egg yolk and a Sicilian wine?
viii: creation formerly had the sobriquet “solognotte”?
ix: do Margrethe’s subjects use as a shibboleth?
x: moistens the lip and brightens the eye?

INCOMPLETE: we need vi and viii, and a confirm on i!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v: possibly Tom Kitten's fate at the hands of Samuel Whiskers and his wife, viz to be made into a roly-poly pudding

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They do all sound quite pudding-ish!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Could i) be pancake day? I don't know if any saints days are moveable feasts but there's definitely a St Bridget...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pancake day = shrove tuesday :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

If I was a saint I would want to jump on a memorable day that already had something tasty going on.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

St Brid is 1st feb. That's also the pre-christian festival of spring - Imbolc - and the Official First Day Of Spring in civilised places eg ireland.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Although i can't think of a pudding connection.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

isn't there a thing called a bridey cake? or something like that

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Not that i remember! Essential accessory of la le brid is a cross made of rushes.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

bridie cakes, do you mean? But they are Scottish

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

maybe so! but bridie is a diminutive of bridget and the theme is puddings or cakes or whatever -- irishness may be a (civilised) red herring introduced by marna

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this still hasn't quite unravelled for me but (googling a bit)

a) there is both BRIDE CAKE and FORFAR BRIDIES (not actually the same thing)
b) St Bridget's Day, 1 Feb, marks the beginning of the Celtic Spring (so-called bcz the coldest/wettest/iciest bit of the year is about to begin :D
c) diminutives of Bridget include BRIDE *and* BRIDIE

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't rødgrød med fløde a pudding unpronounceable except by Danes (ix)?

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

This was me, logged out. Sorry!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Puddings/desserts, yes.

iii: Sounds very much like Norwegian and/or Danish royalty. We have something called prinsesseterte, ie princess tart or cake, which could be named after this lot.
vii: I think this is zabaione / zabaglione (sp etc).
ix: Danish phonology is infamously difficult for foreigners, with its complex of vowel glides, semi-stopped throat sounds etc (nb possible misuse of technical language). See for instance wikipedia's phonetic rendering of the name of composer Per Nørgård (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd)! The term "rødgrød med fløde", ie thick red fruit soup/pudding with cream, is the classic test for this. Here is a video where Nikolaj Coster-Waldau demonstrates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpGwQggj_g).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is iii) that luminous green Swedish Princess Cake that was on Bake Off then?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It is!



The original recipe first appeared in the 1948 Prinsessornas Kokbok cookbook, which was published by Jenny Åkerström, a teacher of the three daughters of H.R.H. Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

KOKBOK

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Hm ddd it seems a comment I entered was marked as spam, could this be fixed?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

x. is Pumpkin Pie (from an ode to pumpkins by some yankee poet, will need to google the name)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Vi sounds like something emma's grumpy father would say.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Googling ii) gives the following:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

iv) Googling Elsa of Brabant reveals she is the main lass in Wagner's Lohengrin - played by Nellie 'Peach' Melba in 1892.

" The Duke of Orléans gave a dinner party to celebrate her triumph. For the occasion, Auguste Escoffier created a new dessert, and to display it, he used an ice sculpture of a swan, which is featured in the opera. The swan carried peaches which rested on a bed of vanilla ice cream and which were topped with spun sugar. "

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

vi. is this year's compulsory question relating to the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. In this case, comes from the book 'The Reverse of the Medal', and the answer is treacle pudding. The captain is Jack Aubrey.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

viii) I would say is Tarte Tatin

"the tarte Tatin was created accidentally at the Hotel Tatin in Lamotte-Beuvron, France ... by two sisters, Stéphanie and Caroline Tatin."

"Historians and gourmets have argued, whether it is a genuine creation of the Demoiselles (sisters) Tatin, or the branding of an improved version of the "tarte solognote", a traditional dish named after the Sologne region which surrounds Lamotte-Beuvron."

google/wikipedia