A Doctor Who cookbook w/original recipes for every episode of series 1-8 + bonus chapters for Cocktails, Fish Fingers & Custard & More.
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Hey folks!
Now that I'm on the last leg of the rewrite I'm going to start updating the Kickstarter with weekly recipe posts from each chapter. By the time you've sampled every chapter the book should be at the printer.
The Doctor’s Wife
Series 6, Episode 3, Story 216
The bad news is Nephew’s going to drain your mind and your soul from your body. The good news is you’ll get a shiny new soul. A soul that can see all of time and space. A TARDIS soul that’ll bring House the Last of the Time Lords to feast upon. Before we get started, though, Nephew made you a last little something to remember us by. Not that you’ll remember. Really, Uncle and I just wanted a nice snack, and Nephew misses serving people. Eat up, love. You need practice biting. It’s like kissing, only there’s a winner.
Banana Scone Batter:
Fresh Whipped Cream and Topping
Garnish:
The Last Time Lord says you should always bring a banana to a party. Since House will be celebrating his meal, start by mashing up a large banana that’s as brown and mottled as Nephew’s skin.
Add the egg and whipping cream to the mashed banana and mix them together like you’re creating a minion from spare parts. When the separate ingredients merge into a paste, it’s time to move onto your next charge.
Once you have a nice paste, poke around the dump for whichever oven is working and preheat it to 425F/220C. You should also fetch your least stained parchment paper and stretch it over a baking sheet.
Grab a bowl and whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Auntie says that looks dry. Moisten it up by dropping in all those little butter cubes. Be warned. The cubes will make you angry. Using a pastry cutter does that to everyone.
Mash the butter cubes into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter until everything looks like the gravelly surface of House.
Pour your freshly made gravel into your banana paste. Mix it all together until it just barely forms a dough. Don’t get overenthusiastic. You want to barely make it work, not convince it you love it.
Grab fist sized lumps of dough (about ½ cup for Americans) and form them into ovals. These will be your Ood minion’s faces. You want a broader forehead and a narrower chin.
Moisten your hands and gently rub your fingers over the surface of the dough until Nephew’s complexion transforms from Edward James Olmos to Teenager On Proactiv. Arrange your minions 3 inches apart on your gently used parchment paper lined baking sheets then sprinkle each of their faces with a little coarse sugar.
Bake your Ood for 15 - 18 minutes, or until beautifully risen and golden brown on top.
Leave your Ood on the baking sheet to cool down while you prepare your cream and fruit topping.
Making fresh whipping cream is easier than summoning a Time Lord by scrawling, “Hello Sweetie” on a nearby ancient surface. Simply pour your whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla into a bowl and attack it with your cleanest mixer until it transforms from a liquid to a solid. If you have a stand mixer, you can walk away for a few minutes and come back to delicious scone filling. A hand mixer is a little more work - but not enough to wear out one of your hands. Be warned - if you walk away for too long your dairy might sullenly transform from cream to butter. Don’t let it get lonely.
When your cream is finished, cut your black plums in half and remove the stones. Carefully slice the meaty red flesh within to form both tentacles and eyes.
To serve, cut your fresh Ood scone in half. Stuff it with a decadent amount of cream - after all, you’re going to die soon. You might as well enjoy it. Arrange a couple of plum slices to form Red Eyes and the rest into mouth tentacles.
Use a paring knife to cut a thin slice of butter straight from the stick. Curl it from beneath the tentacles up to an empty corner of your serving plate. Finish the look with a dollop of whipped cream to create Nephew’s translation orb.
Serve to sexy immortals, doomed mortal constructs, or companions who remember Crimson, Eleven, Delight, and Petrichor.
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The top photo is in the cookbook. I thought I'd give backers a look at this alternate from the food photo shoot. It also gives you a nice peek at the Bad Wolf Cheesy Biscuits from Satellite 5 (which are really easy to make!)