Both “raspberry” and “jam” have made it onto our list.  Word fans, don’t hesitate to share your favourite raspberry recipe!  To be honest, around here they don’t often make it home from the farm stand.

• 01.053 And raspberry jam

I am delighted to learn that both ales and lagers can be porters, the classification depends on whether the beer is bitter from browned, or possibly charred, malt.

• 01.046 and some for porter,

“porter, n.3.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 13 May 2015.

When one is king, one can get eggs exactly the way one likes.

• 01.141 fried not poached,

Shout-out to Heath Dill, fabulous Renaissance caterer and Tolkien chef, who provided the provender at a recent Mythgard Movie Marathon (keep your eye on the “Activities” tab for future events).  There were cold chicken and pickles, oh yes there were!

• 01.057 and pickles!’
• 02.080 A nice pickle they were all

The only pantries, alas, are Bilbo’s.

• 01.002 cellars, pantries (lots of these),
• 01.022 as he went to the pantry.
• 01.036 and then to a pantry
• 01.057 as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries.
• 01.065 Pour the milk on the pantry floor!
• 08.074 with its beautiful pantries.

Trolls need sustenance, too!

• 02.059 “He wouldn’t make above a mouthful,”

The only use of the generic “meat” is from the spiders, referring to the dwarves.

• 08.090 the meat’s alive

As a bee-keeper, of course Beorn would brew a fine mead.  It’s a word found in northwestern Europe from Irish to Old English to Gothic since the earliest written records.  It is etymologically very different from this kind of mead.

• 07.096 with their wooden drinking-bowls filled with mead.
• 07.116 and drunk at least a quart of mead –

“mead, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 13 May 2015.

It’s mentioned only as foliage along the route.

• 06.040 and the marjoram,