The followers of the saga created by JK Rowling they have in their minds great banquets that students usually taste at Hogwarts. A kitchen that despite seeming haunted, has much more to do with the reality what it seems like. We tell you all the details about what we are going to call Harry Potter food.
a historical foundation
The doors of the Great Hall open before the eyes of the students while trays with all kinds of food begin to sprout from the tables. kilos and kilos of strange recipes they flourish so that young people can taste such delicacies. What the reader may not know is that behind those recipes there is a actual historical basis.
JK Rowling has managed to combine traditional English cuisine with fantasy elements, in keeping with the magical world created. And it is that Hogwarts and the real world are united through the folk cuisine of the United Kingdom, which is not well known precisely for its subtlety, rather for being overwhelming y heavy to digest.
Food in Harry Potter
Throughout the entire saga, a multitude of recipes of all kinds are detailed: chocolate frogs, sprinkles of all flavors, meats, soups, drinks, etc. All of them groceries in the real world, with a few exceptions. This is the case of stone and chocolate cookies. This confection, created by the giant Hagrid, guardian of the Hogwarts grounds, is a baked paste of stone dust and chocolate. nothing appetizing.
On the other hand, among what you can eat, there are foods that are better known than others. The most famous, without a doubt, is the butter beer. This concoction, which we have already talked about before, is a mixture of beer, egg, butter and spices. Very similar to Butterbeer, a very popular English punch, which is first described in a writing of 1596.
A trip to the countryside
As we have already said, Harry Potter food is deeply british, without forgetting its rural roots. Aside from butterbeer, there are other foods with a very rural base. Impossible not to talk about haggis, a dish that students taste the night of the dead. This dish is very popular in Scottish cuisine. Similar to our blood sausage from Burgos, is a pie of meat, blood and spices wrapped in lamb casing.
Another of the traditional dishes that are not lacking in the tables of the Great Hall of Hogwarts is the Steak and kidney pie (meat and kidney pie). Although its name does not invite you to taste it, it is a typical recipe of the rural england, based on flour dough, meat in sauce and lamb kidneys. Like all rural gastronomy, a harvest plate with the ingredients available in the environment.
A cookbook made into a book
Any fan of the saga would like to taste Harry Potter food. And he can do it. In the year 2020, Duomo published a recipe book with the title 'Cooking with Harry Potter'. It is a volume of 368 pages, in which the 150 recipes appearing in Rowling's work. From the giant blueberry muffins to the pumpkin pie, passing through the chocolate frogs and the bubble juice.
The chef Dinah Bucholz has been in charge of making this extensive cookbook based on the rich universe created by JK Rowling. The book has been a bestseller, with more than twelve million copies sold. And all this despite the fact that the book has been published without the express authorization of the writer or Warner Bross, which exclusively owns the film rights of the work.
As we have explained in this article, within the world of Harry Potter there is a place for magical food and also for food muggles, that is, the one that ordinary humans eat. A fantasy world with royal touch, with a very interesting gastronomic base. Would you dare to cook any of these delicacies?
