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Martje's Peat Cake: a Southern Institution

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Martje's Tyfferim Baked Apples

An excerpt from Martje's Royal Cookery Book:
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Martje's Royal Lemon Cheese Pie

Baronous Hodge on cheese in Frewyn: "Dairy is an institution in Frewyn. Established in the time before Gods, dairy lived on the land and Frewyns merely came afterward. This I am determined about, for while there is a God of Plenty, there is no matron of milk, and every Frewyner was born with a piggin in one hand and cheese knife in the other. In Marridon, dairy products are treated as little more than necessities, but in Frewyn they are lauded as the cherished charm of the countryside. They...

Martje's Royal Mince: History and Recipe

The crowning jewel of the royal table at Ailineighdaeth is Martje's Royal Mince, a recipe for mince pie handed down from royal cook to royal cook across the clan dynasties. Mince was a bakemete in Marridon, where the pie originated, but something was misconstrued in the transmission, and the pie became a beloved wintertide dessert in Frewyn, as historian Baronous Hodge enumerates:

The Marridon method Baronous Hodge on mince pies in Frewyn : “Mince is a phenomenon in Frewyn, a thing begot in...

The Diamon Child: A Frewyn Fable now available!

The Diamond Child: A Frewyn Fable is now available worldwide! This is the second children's book in the series, and is a standalone short story of how one miner's good luck becomes his family's fortune.
"In the small mining town of Galaeshield, situated in an old river valley, nestled between the fields and furrows, where ploughs of plenty had carved out the landscape, lived a miner and his wife, a young couple of meager means and little fortune, whose affection had held up the crumbling foun...

Story for the Day: Lady Faoiltigherna

Lunas calls her Faoili, to obviate difficulties. It is not pronounced how you think it is. Neither is Fethenshaugh.
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Story for the Day: Lady Anaruyd's Legacy

Look to the garden.
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When the Gods Made Farmers: The Farmer's Prayer

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Story for the Day: Mule the Blacksmith

Legend in Frewyn tells of a Hallanys man named Mule, a strange and reclusive blacksmith who was said to make weapons imbued with magic. Though he lived before King Breian's time, Mule's legacy lives in a young smith from Galae named Lunas, one who not only bears a resemblance to Mule but also seems to have inherited some of his abilities...

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Story for the Day: Four Winds

Marridon's Bannantyne region is broken up into smaller municipalities, all of them with their own unique landscape and history. The Anaruyd Family have lived in the municipality of Four Winds for many generations, a small notch in Bannantyne Valley, famed for its green pastures and extensive national gardens :

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