The first was made with lavender sugar (made by putting two Tbsp of culinary lavender in with the vanilla sugar and letting it sit for a week, then sifting out the lavender). So it was back to the drawing board.Įventually I came up with two good variations. That makes a good base, but I learned after a few trials that plain hard candy made this way will have a honeylike taste which tends to overwhelm the mildness of the vanilla. The resulting Moon Sugar(s) should be laden with subtle flavors which seem familiar but foreign to the average Nord, as if one can't quite put their tongue on just what they're tasting.Įarly recipes started with vanilla sugar and vanilla-cardamom sugar (vanilla bean pods and/or cracked cardamom pods scraped into a cup or two of sugar and left for a week to absorb the spices).
Masser is floral and sweet, while Secunda is dark and mysterious. There's plenty of in-game talk about Moon Sugar, but nothing specifically about which one, so it made the most sense to do a version for each moon. The land of Elsweyr is an exotic, somewhat mysterious desert land with a rich religious tradition, including some pretty hefty mythology about the moons of Tamriel: Masser and Secunda. Figuring that nobody really wants to wait a whole week for traditional rock candy to crystallize, eventually we found this easy microwave hard candy recipe, upon which we based the recipe below. It reminded us immediately of rock candy. The in-game picture shown above depicts pale but not colorless lumps or chunks of various sizes. It's illegal in much of Tamriel: in Morrowind many shopkeepers won't even do business with you if you're carrying the stuff (not so in the more lawless land of Skyrim). It has magical properties, can be used as an alchemy ingredient, and is a strong narcotic. Moon sugar is described as a crystal made from the canes of certain grasses in Elsweyr.
Here you can buy and sell goods many merchants in town will avoid, including the less-than-licit moon sugar. These clusters of tents are temporary trading posts set up by the nomadic Khajiiti, a feline race from the exotic desert land of Elsweyr. Wander the roads and byways of Skyrim, and eventually you're bound to run into a rough encampment by the side of the road on the way into town.
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