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ajqtrz
Chef - Loquacious One
Here's my entry, if you are curious. AJ
Dwarves and Fairies Dry Donut Pie
There’s always something left behind when beings move. Dwarves left donuts. Cake donuts, to be exact. Boxes and boxes of them. So when the fairies arrived they found boxes and boxes of dried cake donuts they were surprised, to say the least. They had no idea if the dwarves just left them because they were, after all, just dwarves, or as some strange gift. So many donuts! Now of course, the two races don’t always get along so it was fair to ask if it was some kind of joke or really a strange gift? And, then, what to do with them? They could have just tossed them in to the garbage and chalked up to bad manners (“after all they are dwarves,” they could have told themselves), but if it was a gift, well, it would get back to the dwarves and things between therm were bad enough already. “And besides,” as one fairy pointed out, ‘waste not want not.’”
In the end they put the best face on it they could and just assumed it was a sincere gift. “After all, they do like their food rock hard,“ the Head Chef of the Fairies pointed out. Which was true. But what to do with the sweet hardened round bricks -- that was the question.
At first they tried using them as inner-tubes. You can guess how that went. Have you ever dunked a cake donut in coffee?
Next they tried using them for fences. After all, they were rather solid things and if you sawed them in half, turned them on sides and stacked them, you could get a rather nice effect. Which, they found, would last until the ants found them. Battling ants is not a fairy’s favorite pastime.
So the donuts sat there and sat there, until one day the head chef of the Fairies couldn’t take it any more and vowed he would find a use for the now, rock hard, sweet round bricks.
No one knows how came up with idea, or maybe it’s a secret, but after a couple days he came out of his office and declared, “We are going to make pies!
Somebody asked, politely of course, but with some skepticism, “Pies, you say? How will we do that?”
“Yep, pies,” he answered, grinning. “After all, these donuts may be dry but they are quite sweet, and that’s half the battle in making a pie.”
“But they are hard, and we don’t really like hard things much,” a small, impertinent fairy noted, and added, “we like it light and fluffy.” But our intrepid chef was undaunted. “No worries, my friends, just give me some time and I will make a great pie.!”
For days the Head Chef worked. He tried the old coffee trick, but have you ever tasted soggy donut coffee pie? Yuk!
He tried baking them with marshmallows. The donuts just got harder and the marshmallows burned, stinking up the kitchen.
Finally, he thought and thought and thought and, in the end, came up with recipe! A recipe that honored the giver of the gift and made it quite palpable for the receivers. He called it, Dwarves and Fairies Dry Donut Pie
He began with a crust. In honor of the Dwarves created one that is a bit “rocky”. Or at least more substantial than the typical graham cracker one.
12 Gram Crackers
2 TBS Brown Sugar
1 Cube Room Temperature Butter
½ cup Quick Cooked Oats (You can use the “old fashioned” to get a “rockier” crust if you like)
Crumble crackers in a zip lock bag. Crumble until the crumbs are about the size of uncooked oatmeal. (I put mine through a strainer and just keep putting what won’t go through back in the bag and crumbling some more.)
Place crumbs, sugar, and oats in bowl and mix.
Put butter in bowl and cream all ingredients together.
Press into 9” round pie pan.
Now for the fun part. The filling.
4-6 Cake dry cake donuts ….yep, dry as in been laying around for a few days. Not hard dry but nearly so (not that it matters much, it’s just easier to crush nearly dry donuts vs really dry donuts).
12 eggs, separated (you won’t be needing the yolks but can use them in a great pudding(.
1 tps vanilla
Put donuts in zip lock bag and crumble. Keep going until they are the consistency of uncooked corn meal. Again, a strainer is nice for this since you are after consistency in the size of the particles. Strain through wire mesh strainer.
Beat egg whites and vanilla until very stiff. The stiffer the better since this what holds the whole thing together.
Carefully fold crumbled donuts into egg whites. Fold until reasonably distributed but do not go too far. You don’t want the egg whites to lose their airiness.
Pour donuts and egg white mixture into pie shell
Bake in a very low oven (225 degrees or less) for 8 – 12 hours (more or less depending on a lot of things like humidity, egg white consistency and other things). Just bake until firm. Cool and enjoy the rockiness of the Dwarves and the lightness of Fairies.
When the fairies tasted the new creation they were astounded. Dry Donut Pie, (as they eventually began to call it) was quite successful even if the crust was a bit hard for their taste. Soon all those boxes and boxes of really dry cake donuts were a thing of the past. But as a gesture of good will, they sent a few of those pies to the dwarves who, upon tasting them, had to admit they were pretty good. “Especially the crust,” they said.
AJ
PS. The recipe is original AND I’ve made it before. My children loved it.
Dwarves and Fairies Dry Donut Pie
There’s always something left behind when beings move. Dwarves left donuts. Cake donuts, to be exact. Boxes and boxes of them. So when the fairies arrived they found boxes and boxes of dried cake donuts they were surprised, to say the least. They had no idea if the dwarves just left them because they were, after all, just dwarves, or as some strange gift. So many donuts! Now of course, the two races don’t always get along so it was fair to ask if it was some kind of joke or really a strange gift? And, then, what to do with them? They could have just tossed them in to the garbage and chalked up to bad manners (“after all they are dwarves,” they could have told themselves), but if it was a gift, well, it would get back to the dwarves and things between therm were bad enough already. “And besides,” as one fairy pointed out, ‘waste not want not.’”
In the end they put the best face on it they could and just assumed it was a sincere gift. “After all, they do like their food rock hard,“ the Head Chef of the Fairies pointed out. Which was true. But what to do with the sweet hardened round bricks -- that was the question.
At first they tried using them as inner-tubes. You can guess how that went. Have you ever dunked a cake donut in coffee?
Next they tried using them for fences. After all, they were rather solid things and if you sawed them in half, turned them on sides and stacked them, you could get a rather nice effect. Which, they found, would last until the ants found them. Battling ants is not a fairy’s favorite pastime.
So the donuts sat there and sat there, until one day the head chef of the Fairies couldn’t take it any more and vowed he would find a use for the now, rock hard, sweet round bricks.
No one knows how came up with idea, or maybe it’s a secret, but after a couple days he came out of his office and declared, “We are going to make pies!
Somebody asked, politely of course, but with some skepticism, “Pies, you say? How will we do that?”
“Yep, pies,” he answered, grinning. “After all, these donuts may be dry but they are quite sweet, and that’s half the battle in making a pie.”
“But they are hard, and we don’t really like hard things much,” a small, impertinent fairy noted, and added, “we like it light and fluffy.” But our intrepid chef was undaunted. “No worries, my friends, just give me some time and I will make a great pie.!”
For days the Head Chef worked. He tried the old coffee trick, but have you ever tasted soggy donut coffee pie? Yuk!
He tried baking them with marshmallows. The donuts just got harder and the marshmallows burned, stinking up the kitchen.
Finally, he thought and thought and thought and, in the end, came up with recipe! A recipe that honored the giver of the gift and made it quite palpable for the receivers. He called it, Dwarves and Fairies Dry Donut Pie
He began with a crust. In honor of the Dwarves created one that is a bit “rocky”. Or at least more substantial than the typical graham cracker one.
12 Gram Crackers
2 TBS Brown Sugar
1 Cube Room Temperature Butter
½ cup Quick Cooked Oats (You can use the “old fashioned” to get a “rockier” crust if you like)
Crumble crackers in a zip lock bag. Crumble until the crumbs are about the size of uncooked oatmeal. (I put mine through a strainer and just keep putting what won’t go through back in the bag and crumbling some more.)
Place crumbs, sugar, and oats in bowl and mix.
Put butter in bowl and cream all ingredients together.
Press into 9” round pie pan.
Now for the fun part. The filling.
4-6 Cake dry cake donuts ….yep, dry as in been laying around for a few days. Not hard dry but nearly so (not that it matters much, it’s just easier to crush nearly dry donuts vs really dry donuts).
12 eggs, separated (you won’t be needing the yolks but can use them in a great pudding(.
1 tps vanilla
Put donuts in zip lock bag and crumble. Keep going until they are the consistency of uncooked corn meal. Again, a strainer is nice for this since you are after consistency in the size of the particles. Strain through wire mesh strainer.
Beat egg whites and vanilla until very stiff. The stiffer the better since this what holds the whole thing together.
Carefully fold crumbled donuts into egg whites. Fold until reasonably distributed but do not go too far. You don’t want the egg whites to lose their airiness.
Pour donuts and egg white mixture into pie shell
Bake in a very low oven (225 degrees or less) for 8 – 12 hours (more or less depending on a lot of things like humidity, egg white consistency and other things). Just bake until firm. Cool and enjoy the rockiness of the Dwarves and the lightness of Fairies.
When the fairies tasted the new creation they were astounded. Dry Donut Pie, (as they eventually began to call it) was quite successful even if the crust was a bit hard for their taste. Soon all those boxes and boxes of really dry cake donuts were a thing of the past. But as a gesture of good will, they sent a few of those pies to the dwarves who, upon tasting them, had to admit they were pretty good. “Especially the crust,” they said.
AJ
PS. The recipe is original AND I’ve made it before. My children loved it.
DeletedUser25352
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You should be able to see the section now!
DeletedUser13313
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I almost didn't enter.. glad I did. 
Sunnydae
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Countess Morninglight
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ajqtrz
Chef - Loquacious One
It just showed up in my inventory. I didn't know I'd won anything until I saw it there and asked, "where did that come from?" I've noticed that the forum doesn't send you any notice if you've won. I once won 3rd place in a festival suggestion contest and didn't know for weeks.
AJ
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Deleted User - 4739469
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I'm curious to know if I'm in the running for that bonus Gravity Inn. Will a list of some sort be published that lists who qualified for a chance at the bonus?
Enevhar Aldarion
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Everyone who entered all three parts automatically qualify for a chance to win one of the bonus Inns, even if you did not win any of the other prizes.
C-Nymph
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Addition: anyone that entered all three parts and answered the second part correctly.
Deleted User - 4739469
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I did enter all three, and am petty sure my answer for the second episode would be classified as correct - although I didn't find any concrete answer, I did write out the name "Bastet" - but, due to the file being too large to upload directly here, whether or not my third episode entry was considered valid is a mystery.
Deleted User - 4739469
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I'm on my smartphone and, surprisingly, resizing to make it smaller made the file size larger!
C-Nymph
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@Nightguest When may we expect the announcement of the winners of the Gravity Inn? Still sitting on the edge of my chair here! 
Sunnydae
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SHOOT..i been practicing weighlessness just in case...@Nightguest When may we expect the announcement of the winners of the Gravity Inn? Still sitting on the edge of my chair here!
PreciousShasta
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I did get the 2nd part correct, now wondering if my entries even went in??
DeletedUser26553
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@Nightguest When may we expect the announcement of the winners of the Gravity Inn? Still sitting on the edge of my chair here!
Deleted User - 1625920
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This was posted Thursday but I didn't actch the bonuses if they've been posted.