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zriviepotions · 9 months

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Superior Blizzard

2 oz sea buckthorn-inflused gin*

2/3 oz myrtle-calendula simple syrup**

1/4 oz lemon juice

3-4 dashes fee brothers foam OR 1 egg white

4-5 drops mossy mushroom bitters***

Pinch of blue spirulina

Pinch of green edible glitter

Tonic

Combine gin, simple syrup, lemon juice, fee foam, blue spirulina, and glitter in a shaker. Shake with ice for ~1 minute and strain liquid into glass. When there is only foam left in the shaker, add mossy mushroom bitters and shake for a few more seconds before straining the foam into the glass. Top with tonic.

*combine ~1tbsp dried sea buckthorn berries and ~8oz of your favourite gin in a jar. Let sit for 4-5 days, shaking occasionally.

**combine ½ c water and ½ c sugar in a small saucepan. 2-3 tablespoons dried calendula petals and 1-2 tablespoons dried myrtle leaves. Heat on medium-high until sugar is dissolved, then turn off heat and let it sit covered for a few hours.

***I don’t have exact measurements for this, but here’s the basic gist; Start with 151 proof spirit and add a 10-mushroom powder blend, oakmoss, usnea, and cedar wood shavings. Let it infuse for 2-3 weeks, shaking daily. Strain, bottle, and done!

I’m really excited about the way these mossy mushroom bitters turned out! For some reason I just love anything that tastes like a wet forest. The sea buckthorn and myrtle give this a nice bright flavor to balance out the wet forest undertone xx

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Enhanced Black Blood

1.5 oz vodka

2 oz pomegranate juice

1/4 oz butterfly pea flower simple syrup*

6-7 drops mushroom chai bitters**

*combine ½ c water and ½ c sugar in a small saucepan. Add 1/4c to 1/2c dried butterfly pea flowers. Heat on medium-high until sugar is dissolved, then turn off heat and let it sit covered for a few hours.

**I don’t have an actual recipe for this, I just sort of threw things together to see what would happen. I used a 151 proof spirit and added a 10-mushroom powder blend, cardamom, ginger, clove, cinnamon, coriander, anise, and allspice, and gentian (all dried). I let it infuse for a few weeks, strained it, and bottled it up.

To help get this as dark as possible, I used Blavod black vodka as the base spirit. The pomegranate juice stands in for ghoul’s blood (couldn’t get my hands on any of the real stuff, for some reason). Cranberry juice would also be really tasty in this! I cheated a little bit with the mushrooms and used a blend, but it does include mushroom of life, which I’m using for sewant. Enjoy! xx

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zriviepotions · 1 year

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Rubedo / Vermilion / Quebrith / Rebis / Vitriol / Aether

Edible glitters for some added flair~

Rubedo - red glitter, black glitter, beetroot powder Vermilion - gold glitter Quebrith - green glitter, gold glitter Rebis - green glitter, black glitter, green spirulina Vitriol - mint glitter, blue glitter Aether - blue glitter, black glitter

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zriviepotions · 1 year

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Superior White Honey

2 oz honeysuckle vodka

3/4 oz myrtle-date simple syrup*

1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

4-5 spritzes butterfly pea-lemon zest hydrosol**

Tiny pinch of blue edible glitter

*combine ½ c water and ½ c sugar in a small saucepan. Add in 1-2 dried dates and 3-4 tbsp dried myrtle leaves. Heat on medium-high until sugar is dissolved, then turn off heat and let it sit covered for a few hours.

**I used this guide to make a hydrosol with 3c dried butterfly pea flowers and around 1 tbsp fresh lemon zest.

My initial plan for this one was to infuse the vodka with butterfly pea, but here’s the problem - white honey is... not dark purple. Or blue. Or pink. Butterfly pea flowers are SO FULL OF COLOUR, y’all. I tried a very quick infusion but even then it was just too much. I do think I’ll end up with some recipes that don’t look like their in-game counterparts, but I want to find a way to avoid that as much as possible. So, infusing the vodka is out. Simple syrup also comes out very colourful. That’s out. I’ve been interested in trying to make hydrosols for a few years but it always felt intimidating. I happen to have an excess of butterfly pea flowers, though, so I decided to give it a go. It was honestly so easy! You’ll probably see hydrosols pop up again xx

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zriviepotions · 1 year

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Killer Whale

1 oz vodka

1/2 oz date + sea buckthorn simple syrup*

2 oz fresh-squeezed mandarin juice**

*combine 1/2 c water and 1/2 c sugar in a small saucepan. Add in 1-2 dried dates and 1-2 tbsp sea buckthorn berries. Heat on medium-high until sugar is dissolved, then turn off heat and let it sit covered for a few hours. **I just happened to have mandarins, but any orange citrus fruit could work just as well, as long as it’s fresh!

I’m really excited to have all my research done so I can start MAKING things. Killer Whale is the simplest recipe. I used vodka as our base Dwarven spirit (though this could work with just about any other clear spirit), and for the balisse fruit and buckthorn I made a simple syrup. I don’t have specific replacements for most of the fauna ingredients, so taking some creative license, I decided to use mandarins for the drowner tongue, because.. if you peel them they’re slimy and gross... and they’re orange xx

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zriviepotions · 1 year

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Index

Ingredient List

Potions

Enhanced Black Blood

Killer Whale

Superior White Honey

Superior Blizzard

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zriviepotions · 1 year

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Sewant mushroom → Almond mushroom

Not a real type of mushroom as far as I can tell. Interestingly, in-game it looks a lot more like a puffball mushroom than the in-game puffball mushroom.

In-game Polish “szytnaćce,” which doesn’t seem to be a real thing.

For this one, I just grabbed a random edible ‘shroom, Agaricus subrufescens, aka almond mushroom or mushroom of life.

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Ranogrin → Horsetail

I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what this could be. It looks kinda like a small evergreen shrub/the harvested version looks like a pine bough, but when you pick the plant in-game it looks like multiple plants, not just one shrub. Eventually ended up going through a photo album of native Polish plants and decided that the game version looks a lot like horsetail (specifically Equisetum arvense).

In the Polish books, it’s called “ra-nog” and in the english translation it’s “scarix” (could they be thinking about carex/sedges?).

“The modest yellow-gray brushes peering from chests deeply sunken into the ground revealed scarix, a root with powerful and universal medicinal qualities.” (The Voice of Reason 6).

The only sedge/carex I can find with medicinal properties is sand sedge.

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Crow’s eye → Crowberry

In Polish, it’s called “wronie oko.” As far as I can tell, that literally translates to crow’s eye, but “Kulczyba wronie oko” is Strychnos nux-vomica (the strychnine tree). The fruit is edible, the seeds and bark contain strychnine.

This is a weird one because it’s described in several different ways, and the plant in the games doesn’t match the plant on the gwent card.

It seems that when we collect it, we’re collecting the bulbs, based on the photo and this line from The Last Wish: “He could see the feathery moss of pond-blood clinging to the stone lumps, glistening bulbs of a crow’s eye...” (The Voice of Reason 6).

In the game, it’s a small cypress-like bush. The harvested version looks like a seed or nut (looks a lot like a chestnut in particular, but could potentially be meant to represent a strychnine seed?).

The plant on the gwent card is Paris quadrifolia (which is toxic).

There’s also crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), which is a low evergreen shrub.

I decided that crowberry would be the best option for making something both edible and delicious.

(Pictured L to R, first row: in-game harvested crow’s eye, strychnine seed, chestnut. second row: gwent crow’s eye, Paris quadrifolia. third row: in-game crow’s eye, crowberry).

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zriviepotions · 1 year

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Pringrape → Globe gilia*

Not a real thing, but the flowering part looks a bit like globe gilia (Gilia capitata).

In Polish, “Siężygron,” which doesn’t seem to be a real thing either.

English book: “Not far from them grew reachcluster, an antidote to every known toxin and venom.” (The Voice of Reason 6).

If we’re talking natural venom remedies, onion and garlic both have globe-like clusters of blooms and have historically been used as a treatment for snake bites.

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Longrube → Cremini

In Polish, “Niezmiar.”

Not a real thing, but it’s a mushroom and kinda looks like cremini, which is easy to acquire.

English book translation, “[...] the crimson-golden ovals of measure-me-nots.” (The Voice of Reason 6).

There are a lot of red/crimson mushrooms, some edible and some not, but I’m going to stick with the game’s representation.

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Han fiber → Celosia*

Not a real thing, but it looks kinda like celosia, which is edible.

(Pictured: Celosia argentea)

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Ginatia petals → Sandspurry OR Peony*

Not a real thing, but when looking for any plants with similar names (in Latin or Polish), I found Spergularia marginata, or sandspurry. It’s kinda close?

Sandspurry does sort of look like the plants in-game.

The picked in-game petals look like peony to me.

Since I couldn’t find a ~perfect~ match, I’ll be using peony because although there is a similar-looking sandspurry (Spergularia rubra) that grows in my state, its range is just a bit too far north for me to be during its bloom season.

(Pictured clockwise: in-game harvested ginatia petals, peony petal, sandspurry, in-game ginatia.)

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Bloodmoss → Irish moss

Not a real thing

Irish moss (Chondrus crispus) is a red algae that grows along the Atlantic coasts.

In game bloodmoss is found in Skellige, which is partially based off Ireland, where.. Irish moss grows!

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Balisse fruit → Dates

Not a real thing, but they look like dates.

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Real & Toxic

Bryonia → Ivy gourd OR Kudzu

Bryonia is a toxic plant in the Cucurbitaceae family.

There are plenty of edible plants/edible flowers in the same family, but ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis) has edible fruit and leaves, and flowers that look very similar to bryonia.

It’s also vine with a growth habit similar to kudzu, which is edible and readily available.

(Pictured: ivy gourd blossom).

Celandine → Calendula* OR California poppy

Celandine is toxic, probably not a good idea to use it. I do have some celandine leaves because it’s fairly common in folk medicine (like most herbs) but decided to be safe and not use it.

Apparently in Devon, celandine is sometimes called St. John’s wort? I can only find one source for that but they are visually similar.

Calendula just sounds similar, and looks similar :)

Celandine is in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). Most poppies are not edible, BUT, the California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) has edible flowers.

(Pictured: in-game celandine, calendula, california poppy).

Ergot seed → Rye grain

Ergot is a toxic fungal disease, most often found on rye.

Fool’s Parsley → Hedge Parsley*

Fool’s Parsley (Aethusa cynapium) is toxic.

I was planning to use Queen Anne’s Lace, because imo it's the easiest to identify and distinguish from hemlock and giant hogweed. But, I wasn’t able to find any and instead came across hedge parsley (Torilis japonica), which is edible.

Hellebore petals → Butterfly pea

Hellebores are part of the Ranunculaceae family. They’re highly toxic.

Petals are purple and used to make purple armour dye, so I decided to use butterfly pea flower (Clitoria ternatea), whose blooms range from blue to pink and can be used as a natural dye.

Mandrake root → Burdock root

Mandrake is toxic, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family.

I just chose burdock because it’s also a root and feels kinda spooky.

Mistletoe → White currants

Mistletoe is toxic.

It has little white berries, which kind of look like white currants!

Creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) is another edible white-berried plant, but I was a little too late to forage them this year.

Wolfsbane → Sage Salvia* OR Lavender*

Wolfsbane is also in the Ranunculaceae family. Extremely toxic.

There are a lot of plants that look similar, I just chose some I had access to. I grew Blue Monday sage salvia and always have lots of lavender on hand.

(Pictured clockwise: in-game harvested wolfsbane, lavender, salvia, in-game wolfsbane).

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Real & Edible

Allspice → Allspice

Pimenta dioica, aka allspice

In the game we use the root, IRL we use the dried fruit.

Arenaria → Sandwort

Literal translation (arenaria = sandwort)

There are tons of arenaria species with flowers that look exactly like the ones in the game (Arenaria montana pictured).

Berbercane fruit → Barberry

Berberis vulgaris, aka barberry

Beggartick → Bidens OR hibiscus

Literal translation (beggartick = Bidens)

In the game the flower doesn’t really look like beggartick, even red cultivated types, but I’m going to stick with the literal name on this one.

In Polish, it’s “Kwiat dwugrotu” which doesn’t seem to be a real thing, but translates to “two-headed flower.”

In the English translation of The Voice of Reason (pt 6) - “Glass reservoirs full of gnarled rhizomes of the hallucinogenic bitip.” Bitip also does not seem to be a real thing. Based on this it’s a swamp plant.

In the first Witcher game, the beggartick looks a lot like a hibiscus. Hibiscus tea has also been said to cause dizziness and hallucinations.

(Pictured clockwise: Witcher 3 beggartick, Bidens ferulifolia, hibiscus, Witcher 1 beggartick).

Bison grass → Bison grass

Hierochloe odorata/alpina, aka bison grass, aka sweet grass.

Debatably edible, contains coumarin which is supposedly a blood thinner and can cause liver damage in large quantities. It’s banned from foodstuffs in the USA.

Blowball → Dandelion*

“Dmuchawiec” in Polish, literally dandelion.

Buckthorn → Sea buckthorn

Grows in water in the game, so I assume it’s supposed to be sea buckthorn (which doesn’t actually grow in water, but.. close enough).

In Baptism of Fire, it’s referenced as being in the forest, so it’s probably the tree in the books (brilliant deduction skills). The tree berries, bark, and roots are toxic.

Cortinarius → Cortinarius caperatus

Cortinarius caperatus, aka gypsy mushroom

There are tons of species in the genus Cortinarius, but Cortinarius caperatus is edible and looks like the game version.

Honeysuckle → Honeysuckle*

Lonicera periclymenum and Lonicera japonica are two types of honeysuckle with edible flowers/nectar.

In the game, it looks more like Lonicera sempervirens (coral honeysuckle, pictured).

Hop umbels → Hops

Humulus lupulus, aka hop plant.

Moleyarrow → Yarrow*

Is it mole yarrow or moley arrow? The great debate. Yarrow is real and edible.

In Polish “mysichwost” or “storczyka mysichwosta.” English book translation is the "mouse-tail orchid.”

“[...] and the tiger-striped petals of the mouse-tail orchid.” (The Voice of Reason 6).

There IS a mousetail orchid, Oberonia myosurus, but it’s very tiny and doesn’t look like the game version, nor does it have striped petals.

Orchids are edible!

I’ll be using yarrow because it grows where I live and orchids are more difficult/more expensive to obtain.

(Pictured clockwise: in-game harvested moleyarrow, yarrow, yellow orchid, in-game moleyarrow).

Nostrix → Sweet clover

Nostrzyk in Polish = melilotus (sweet clover)

In the game, it looks like ivy. Most ivy are not edible. Ground ivy (creeping charlie) is edible, but I think that conclusion requires more steps (Nostrix looks like ivy → ivy isn’t edible → ground ivy is edible vs nostrzyk → melilotus).

English book translation, “He saw stretches of star-leafed melilote.” (The Voice of Reason 6). Melilote is still sweet clover (though it certainly doesn’t have star-shaped leaves).

Puffball → Puffball*

Puffball mushrooms encompass several genera, including Calvatia, Calbovista, and Lycoperdon. The majority of true puffball mushrooms are edible.

In the game, they don’t look like true puffballs. In polish they are “purchawka” which = puffball.

(Pictured: Lycoperdon perlatum, or common puffball).

Ribleaf → Ribwort*

Plantago lanceolata, aka ribwort.

Verbena → Verbena*

All verbena is generally safe to eat (flowers/leaves)

I’ll be using a mix of Verbena hastata (blue vervain), Verbena bracteata (bigbract verbena), and Aloysia citrodora (lemon verbena).

Blue vervain and lemon verbena are common for use medicinally, and I found bigbract verbena in my yard.

White Myrtle → Myrtle

Fruit, flowers, and leaves of most myrtles appear to be edible.

"White Myrtle” can refer to either Hypocalymma angustifolium (a shrub) or Auranticarpa rhombifolia (a tree).

I wasn’t able to find petals, so I’ll be using leaves from Myrtus communis, the common myrtle.

#ingredients #the witcher

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