Last summer we reminded the masters of the second city so in revenge they're getting rid of us????

masters at london right now

opportunities that personally i find slightly more threatening with the context of certain recent events

while I was sad at first that my 11 year streak of no boatman was finally broken, there is something really fucking funny about sitting on this crowded boat full of other dead people and realizing that you can just like. sneak away. and the boatman would not even notice

feeling the right level of emotional about this section from FL

If this happens I'll eat my hat, ok like this would never happen on such a short time limit RIGHT? but what if the roof is unstable and light is gonna be a problem

They teased the full sunlight thing at the garden.

I really think it's unlikely but all bets are off at this point!

I HAVE TO EAT MY DAMN HAT AKSHSLSHDKDHF

so-called white chess players when the Law comes home to roost

Lmao get fluked

Historical Stoves References Too:

I think my favorite thing I see people do with the Masters in fic is "Some of them are in a shouting match, and one thats uninvolved, feeling left out, begins to scream"

They really are just a dysfunctional bat colony

I really wish I could eat the taper-nut cake. not with the concentrate of self because that's a waste, but... it sounded yummy okay

okay I was brave and scoured the internet for clues. shout out to Wikipedia for holding my hand

I thought it sounded a bit like a walnut cake, but I'd misremembered the description. it actually seems more like a pound cake. assuming it is reminiscent of an Ancona family recipe (“I've had this before, [...] I think”), consider aiming for a ciambella with hazelnut cocoa spread on the middle (ie. ciambellone marchigiano), then missing. don't be afraid to use Nutella. even Italians seem to use Nutella for this nowadays

@esteemed-excellency, ANCORA RAISING OUR (irl) HERITAGE PROUD

uh thought i might also recommend a couple vids of youtube series i absolutely love

^This is the first part of a 4 part series in which modern day bakers reennact bread making processes throughout the different points of the victorian era

the one where they get to the post industrialization time and start talking about the horrible 'fllers' that was put into bread to cut costs.... oof... good series

(theres also a part in i think either the second or third part where they talk about ppl freakin out over bread using yeast after people learned what bacteria is lol)

And this series is on the victorian farm ^ (they also have another one on the edwardian farm too if u want later era stuff!) in this one historians go and recreate life on a victorian farm and show how hard it was/the processes of home keeping

its really neat and i enjoy videos like these.

Still can’t get my head around the fact that there isn’t a fallen london cookbook yet

There SHOULD be

Great, now i have found yet another side project.

Who would like to contribute/help

Well I am bad at organizing things but if not obvious I am def down if anything ends up happening lmao

wait wait ok ive had two people in my notes mention zzoup and i SWEAR i remember a zzoup recipe somewhere. i dont know if it was on the forums or somewhere else

oh! in addition, there's all the soups and snacks from Mrs. Chapman's!!

I'd also be very willing to help with recipes of this ever ends up happening! Especially baked stuff or various soups, or fun drinks, I've already had a (non-alcoholic) curatorial cocktail on my "to make" list for a few months now lmao

Welp, that's it, i'm making a google doc to share, so if anyone wants they can help.

Will slowly tacke each element and see ho doable it is but is is gonna be a really slow process (good thing i'm on vacation rn so i can get a head start).

knock yourselves out!

also also on the topic of food during one of the times you capture the pirate-poet in sunless sea you can dine with her and apparently the captain has FUCKING SORBET

HOW

you can actually make sorbet during part of the railway arc in fallen london lol, it requires a memory of discordance and being moonlit tho so im not sure how readily avaiable it would be on a ship…..

my captain doing secret not language things to make sorbet for the clay woman corsair

OH i already know this! refrigeration during the victorian era was using ‘refrigerators’, which were basically devices that used chunks of ice to keep things cool (after electric refridgerators were invetned, the old ones began being called ice boxes)

an example ^

a type of job existed in the time of transporting ice to places, often a job done by ‘ice men’.

and in my own thinking i figure since theyre are Def cold places with ice… albeit, questionable quality… i see no reason why the same system wouldnt be used in the neath. and could probably have one on a ship for storing things if need be?

sorbet (and also ice cream) was actually quite common in the victorian era (just took a bit more work and ofc rich people had more acces to it), and i imagine it would still be in fallen london.

(article of victorian ice cream here. sorbet is mentioned)

so funny situation during the railway aside, i think its perfectly feasible with a stretch of the imagination

HUH. i wonder where ice comes from then? like do they transport it down from whither or the avid horizon? is there someplace they manufacture it through secret london crimes? i bet sorbet is more popular than ice cream if only because its probably more readily available, i somehow doubt dairy products are very common in the neath

oh for sure on sorbet being more popular then ice cream. i mean ive had previous conversations with folks and i still think animal keeping is possible in the neath so there would still be access to dairy, but its not gonna be as easy as on the surface. sitting here thinkin of the wack flavours neath sorbet could have.

i figure ice would come from multiple places (maybe competing companies delivering it on different locations? variable quality of the matter?) the trade would probably be monitered by Stones too because ice is a mineral

I was also thinkin that the railway from fl could also do it, because it goes to The Hurlers station which is also a place full of snow and ice. (and could also be where station vii’s own food storage gets it from being on the same railway line.)

INTERESTING. man i really need to learn more about the railway stuff, i completely missed that on my several-year-fl-hiatus.

in my food notes i have written “London doesn’t have great livestock“ with no source so thanks past me, which makes sense, but i agree that they probably have SOMETHING. if nothing else they can pay exorbitant prices to import it down through the travertine spiral or the cumaean canal. i wonder if the weird law stuff affects food preservation? like does the treachery of clocks make food spoil faster or slower at whims? does canning still work?

also i think its funny that stones does ice, because im sure theres been some squabbling about whether or not it counts as food. like does stones also preside over the trade in salt? wouldnt put it past it tbh

Jonathin Doe and Darcy Lastname are getting married because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Would anyone like to be invited

zzoup post

so a whole bunch of people have made zzoup/made recipes for zzoup and im gonna compile the list here so you can pick which one you want and/or mix and match to make your own

the original recipe as it is in fallen london’s item description: Winewound chanterelles, exile’s rose, paprika, pork stock, lament-onions, hanged men’s tears, salt.

this one by the gluttonous geek uses two types of paprika and takes inspiration from hungarian mushroom soup

this one from the reddit by u/Franklin_Bancroft apparently burns all the way down

this one on tumblr includes bacon

this one on the forums that i distinctly remember and also goes all in on the roses

enjoy your zzoup adventurez, delicious friends!

Still can’t get my head around the fact that there isn’t a fallen london cookbook yet

There SHOULD be

Great, now i have found yet another side project.

Who would like to contribute/help

Well I am bad at organizing things but if not obvious I am def down if anything ends up happening lmao

wait wait ok ive had two people in my notes mention zzoup and i SWEAR i remember a zzoup recipe somewhere. i dont know if it was on the forums or somewhere else

here thay are, courtesy of @beansprouts!

original under the cut

Question for people who are smarter than me: when you ship your own ocs what is that called

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