Cooking for Orube, or how to make Gnuzal (graphics alert!)

[buckmana]

This was just a crazy idea I had one day and I finally got around to doing it.

In the Orube special, there's a scene that refers to her favorite dish Gnuzal:


So, I thought it would be interesting to try and make one, seeing as they listed our equivalents of the ingredients.

I'm not a really great cook, so it wasn't professional or anything, but I did manage to make one.


The ingredients, 1 white onion, mint leaves, raw dough, strawberries and sour cream.

Cut the onion, mint and strawberries into pieces, then add to the sour cream and blend into a paste.


Next, roll the dough into a flat rectangle or sheet.


Then spread the paste over the dough.


Then roll the sheet into a tube, making sure to seal the ends tightly.


Allow to cool in the fridge for 2 hours, then bake at 180 degrees celsius for 30 minutes and this is what should result:


Unfortunately, the paste was too liquid, I used too much yeast in the dough and couldn't seal it up properly.

But aside from these problems, I did manage to make Orube's favorite meal.

And yes, I did eat it!
Well, not all of it, it was a bit large, but I'll finish it off eventually.

And it was quite nice actually!

Anyone else got the courage to try and make one? And if you do, you have to taste it afterwards!

[anitrain]

That's pretty cool!

[RWB]

I'd really like to try this, but my dad is allergic to strawberries. Anyone know a good substitute?
EDIT: I looked on the internet, and the best substitutes are seemingly raspberries, guava or kiwi.

And I'm technically intolerant to sour cream(or, rather, to milk products), so I'll take the non lactose variant.


Also, how did you make the raw dough?

Actually, write down the whole recipe, please.

This is GREAT! I've been trying to look up strange recipes for quite some time now- my focus have been Apicius "cookbook" from 500 after christ or so.

BUT NOT TO RAIN ON YOUR PARADE... IT DOESN'T SEEM THAT RECIPE IS ABOUT THE GNUZAL. PERHAPS THE CLOSEST EQUIVALENT TO ANOTHER BASILIADE RECIPE. WHY? BECAUSE THE GNUZAL IS SEEN IN THE PICTURE AND IT SEEMS TO BE AN ANIMAL- SEEMS TO BE A SMALL PIGLIKE CREATURE, AND SINCE IT IS ONLY EXISTANT IN BASILIADE, I CAN SEE WHY ORUBE DOUBTS SHE'LL FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

There's also the fact that you used sour cream when the picture only says cream...

[buckmana]

Well, dough is pretty easy to make, if you have a breadmaker machine..

I'll attempt to write down the ingredients though.

For the dough
4.5 cups of flour.
1.5 cups of water.
2.25 teaspoons of yeast.
1 tablespoon salt.
1 teaspoon sugar.

Make sure to put those last two in close to the yeast, it's something to do with the rising process. And put the water in first, because the last three have to remain dry during the mixing process.

As for the rest of the ingredients, I didn't have any set amounts, seeing as this was a first attempt.

1 white onion, diced.
3 strawberries.
5 leaves of mint.
A small bowl of cream (like a mini dessert bowl, as shown in the picture). I didn't measure it.

It's not necessary to use strawberries, I was just using the specified ingredients from the comic page. Any sweet tasting fruit will do.

Likewise, use of sour cream is also not necessary, but a strong tasting cream is.

I was guessing it was sour cream, because Orube says the last one was "too sweet".

This is to achieve the sweet&sour taste contrast that Gnuzal has.

And yes, you're right about the picture, it is a pig.

But after looking closely, I realized that the preparation I made could have been applied to a meat dish. If you rolled up the pig in the dough and paste, it would have created the dish you see in the picture.

But I'm vegetarian, so I didn't attempt this.
And where would I get a whole pig anyway?

[irmalover]

Looking at the picture a gnuzal is a very small kind of pig. What Earth animal could be a good substitute for that? It should be a small animal as well, but its taste has to be close to that of a genuine gnuzal. Hmm, a rabbit, or a guinea pig? Or a squirrel?

[anitrain]

I've heard that rabbit is actually quite good.

Not that I have any desire to try it.

[buckmana]

Rodents aren't like pigs.

And as a somewhat private joke, rodents are so similar to humans, eating them is practically cannibalism.

A Vietnamese pot bellied pig would be your best choice. But that's more of a pet animal then a food source. I'm not sure if the Vietnamese eat them......

[RWB]

I guess six decently big raspberries are a good substitute for those three big strawberries.

But strawberries are a little sweeter than raspberries. Perhaps I should take half a teaspoon sugar, too?

[buckmana]

That's confusing.

Is it possible for someone to be allergic to strawberries and not raspberries?

Although they share the same name, I don't think they're related.
A strawberry is hard and large, a raspberry is small, segmented and soft.

And they're not even berries at all......
Sometimes, you gotta love the strangeness of the english language!

[RWB]

Swedish...

Strawberry= Jordgubbe(earth "old man". Gubbe (Old Man) is also dialectal term for a small knob.
Used to be a nickname for Parksmultron (Muskstrawberry), but since the strawberry completely replaced the muskstrawberry that were grown to be sold. Originally, the Strawberry was called Ananassmultron(pineapple-Woodland Strawberry))

Worth noting is that the strawberry family is named after the smultron(Woodland Strawberry) over here.
Smulta means "melt" since the berries seem to melt in your mouth , very outdated term though- "melt" today would be Smälta.

Raspberry= Hallon(Hill berry-Hall is another spelling of häll, an older word for hill(now we use kulle, most of the time). on does not mean berry, but it's a very usual ending of words that means berry- lingon(lingonberry, inspired by the swedish word XD), hjortron(cloudberry) are other examples ).

[FroztByte__Herald]

I gotta say...it looks as good as the portal cake.=P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3W5ctl6hA