One thing that really helped me to imagine the fantasy worlds created in epic fantasy books like The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (sorry, I tried reading the Lord of the Rings, I really tried, but it didn’t make any sense, was too slow going, and I couldn’t read the back to find out what was happening because…it didn’t make any sense) was the food and drinks that were described. And the Hobbit had a lot of food described there because Bilbo Baggins like to eat. This book was probably the first time I heard of that fascinating drink called cider (check out that recipe here). And while I can’t remember exactly, I’m sure there were plums, oh yes, plums that were eaten to abundance in the Shire, Bilbo Baggins hometown, and plums that flowed over tables when Bilbo and his dwarf companions were trapped in an elven forest party. Was plum juice involved? I wouldn’t be surprised since Bilbo liked delicious drinks and was very concerned that those dwarves that entered his pantry not take his special ‘sherry’. So maybe Bilbo Baggins made some plum juice, some plum cider, or some plum sherry. So take yourselves on a fantasy journey to the beautiful Shire by making yourselves some plum juice that Biblo Baggins would love to taste.
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