Redwall Feasts Bot

Several bustling hedgehogs served them a breakfast of fresh gooseberries, newly baked bread full of beechnuts an' hazelnuts, and cool rosehip an' almond-blossom cordial.

Toasted almond scones with a smear of honey on 'em, now that's my choice, with a good beaker of cherry cordial.

The most spectacular single offering on the table was a wide diamond of sweet arrowroot shortcake, with all the fruits of the summer piled on it, fixed there by stiff comb honey blended with a puree of apple and raspberry.

Celery soup provided by the otters; a large flagon of coltsfoot an' honey cordial; Brother Melilot's famous apple crumble; fruit biscuits; roast apples filled with berries, nuts, and honey; and cask of mixed berry cordial brewed by the hedgehogs.

Don't start talkin' about scoff, you'll have everybeast goin' on about feasts they were at seasons ago. All that ripe fruit an' crumbly cheese an' acorn salad, aye, an' fizzy dandelion cup. Look, you've got me at it now!

Loaves with shining fresh crusts—seeded, patterned, farls, cobs, and batons—ranged between cheeses of white and yellow. Pies and tarts, apple, bilberry, damson, and cherry, latticed or open, twinkled as their fillings caught the candle and lantern lights.

Redwall's golden cider, finest in Mossflower. Try it with some chestnut and barley bread an' yellow cheese studded with roasted chestnut flakes.

Half an hour before dawn the young mouse was roused by a shrew who gave him an acorn cup full of blackberry juice, a loaf of rough hazelnut bread, and some tasty fresh roots he could not identify. By first light they were on the move again.

Cellar supplies all up an' waitin'. First barrel of last October's ale tapped, rosehip an' daisy cordial, coltsfoot an' comfrey tea, dandelion an' burdock fizz, oh, and a small firkin of plum'n'beetroot wine, to keep out the chill.

From end to end the trestle tables groaned under the array of fresh breads, salads, cheeses, and pasties at the outer edges. Further in, there were platters of biscuits, tarts, cakes, and pies, each with a different filling, most topped with whipped honey or whiterose cream.

Never had she tasted such marvelous things. Alternating between chestnut and barley bread, apple and damson pie, streambank salad, cheese and leek flan, plum cakes, and honey-glazed preserved fruits, she held her own with the best trencherbeasts.

There was meadow cheese with beechnuts and hazelnuts, apple and plum dumplings, a latticed fruit tart with yellow meadowcream, golden-crusted bread hot from the ovens, and a choice of pennycloud cordial or rosehip an' dandelion bud tea.

Currant and berry pie, latticed apple and blackberry tarts, rye biscuits, and fourseason plumcake—everything needed for a lovely celebration.

On the banquet table, mugs of mulberry brandy and coltsfoot an' burdock tea vied for place with barley biscuits, hazelnut cream junket, and pear and redberry tart.

The food was good, but not fancy: grapes and russet apples, nuts and strawberries, hot oatmeal, soft dandelion bread, cheeses, and motherwort tea, with flagons of cordial for those who wanted it.

The two otters elbowed their way in beside the Badger Lord and began helping themselves to his wild oat scones. The big badger pushed a hot hazelnut cream pie and comfrey an' dandelion tea in their direction.

Lattice-topped honeynut tarts sat alongside damson pies and summercream pudding. To refresh the palate there was plum'n'apple cider, October ale, cellar-cooled rosehip an' mint tea, fizzy mixed berry cordial, and whortleberry cup.

Under the Abbott's instructions, the kitchen crew had made a substantial afternoon tea. Ice-cold rosebay willowherb tea from Redwall's famous cellars, trays of acorn scones, with meadowcream and cherry preserves.

A large platter of button mushroom and parsley turnovers stood steaming in the center of the board, surrounded by acorn salad, along with yellow cheese studded with chestnuts and celery and hazelnut bread.

The young hares set food and drink before their guests. 'Enough tuck to kill a duck here.' 'Harvest salad an' a beaker of October ale.' 'How about freshbaked cheese and onion turnovers?' 'Some scones with blackberry jelly, very good y'know!'

Under the Abbott's instructions, the kitchen crew had made a substantial afternoon tea. Ice-cold pennycloud an' violet tea from Redwall's famous cellars, trays of wild oat scones, with meadowcream and redcurrant preserves.

I could do a spot o' damage to a honeynut tart with arrowroot sauce right now. Wouldn't mind if it was hot or jolly well cold...

Fresh-baked breads vied with vegetable salads, cheeses, tarts, and flans, plus a huge cauldron of the moles' favorite deeper'n'ever turnip'n'tater'n'beetroot pie. There were hot herbal teas, cordials of all types, and a barrel of special mulled nettle ale on tap for the Elders.

I want a slice o' that big cake, the one with meadowcream an' candied pear slices all over the top!

Fresh-baked breads vied with vegetable salads, cheeses, turnovers, and pies, plus a huge cauldron of the moles' favorite deeper'n'ever turnip'n'tater'n'beetroot pie. There were hot herbal teas, cordials of all types, and a barrel of special dark ale on tap for the Elders.

They sipped Gurjee's fizzy pear cider and munched hot wild oat scones that contained chunks of candied pear. The elders drank special dandelion'n'burdock beer and cut slices of hawthorn and buttercup cheese to go with it.

Wild garlic pasties, cheese'n'beechmast bake, or maybe some freshly-baked crusty wheat bread? Heat up some of that wild onion and leek soup we had for dinner last night.

You a-comin' in for summat to eat? There's shortbread biscuits, almond tart, an' cold maple cordial.

He found the others breakfasting by the wall. He sat down to join them, helping himself to rye toast, redcurrant jelly, and a beaker of cold herbal tea.

Golden loaves of elderflower bread shone in the candlelight; tureens of steaming mushroom, cress, parsley, dandelion, and green acorn stew were placed at intervals, between wedges of dandelion, acorn, and celery-studded cheese and a button mushroom and cress salad.