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Blue Slaad Cobbler
When I came to the Summoning Grounds it was to clear a debt, not for the love of serving drunk patrons and especially not for baking. Nevertheless, one day a stool pigeon bet me an 8-crease that I couldn’t make something edible out of his most recent procurement while traveling somewhere near Lanarin. Or was it some thorpe with a forgettable name out beyond Gloamingwood? It doesn’t matter. It wasn’t pride that made me accept the bet. No, it was a desire to clear my debt and get the hell out of my service. I didn’t expect the traveler to produce a sizable pouch of blue slaad tadpole, but produce them he did. To my surprise, they didn’t look all that unlike the blueberries I serve with certain cocktails. Thinking of days gone by (my misspent youth), I recalled the cobblers that the village baker made back home. Thus was born the Blue Slaad Cobbler, and my first attempt ever at baking.
Blue Slaad Cobbler
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup self-rising flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 4 cups fresh blue slaad tadpoles
Instructions
- Get your oven heated to 350° F.
- Once the oven is at temperature, put your butter into a baking dish (8-inch square works best...the one pictured is 6" x 8" and I ended up with excess batter).
- Stir all of the ingredients except the tadpoles together in a bowl. Pour the batter over the butter once it's melted. Then sprinkle your tadpoles all across the top.DON'T MIX!Return to oven.
- Bake for about 1 hour, ensuring that a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. I admit, this step seems pretentious, but it works.
- Serve hot or at room temperature.
Notes
Blue Slaad Cobbler
I’m not gonna sit here and moralize on whether you should or shouldn’t eat slaadi or their immature youth. All I can tell you is that people request this dish often enough that now I even sell it to local establishments for them to supplement their own offerings. Umrick gives me a cut of the profit, albeit a small one. The vegetarian version isn’t as popular, but it’s requested regularly enough. That’s good for us because the chap who wagered I couldn’t make something worth eating with the tadpoles never paid up. Make people show their coins before you accept a bet. Anyway, sourcing blue slaad tadpoles ain’t cheap.
If you ever hear of a scraggly vagrant bragging about fleecing ol’ Jäckel out of a gold coin, do me a solid and gimme those details. There may be a whole cobbler in it for ya. Last I heard he was evading the Plums out by the Cliffs of Despair on some unrelated charges. I don’t care if the guy is guilty or even if justice is served except for the money he owes me. I figure he’ll eventually get what’s comin’ to him one way or another. But I don’t want it happening before I get paid you see. Umrick won’t give me leave to pursue the vagabond myself. He threatened to turn my debt over to collectors if I skipped town again. Problems I just don’t need right now.
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