Twelve Days of Christmas: #2

 

On the second day of Christmas, my stories gave to me...

two chestnuts soaked,

and a blue crab in a scrap tree.

Today we have The Last Phoenix. Or, I suppose, Myleck in general.

For several hundred years, Myleck's landscape has been dead and rotting, and the trees are all very moist as a result of the never clearing smog, so fires are very rare, even for cooking.

Because of this, the "Christmas" tradition includes chestnuts, although they are not roasted over an open fire. They get soaked in water for several hours --less if it's hot water, very rare-- then the shell gets peeled off and the nuts get soaked again in some kind of flavored brine.

Perpetua's favorite flavor of brine I believe is basically making pickled chestnuts, which sounds dIsGuStInG to me, but she refused to send me any other kind of nut that wasn't saturated with vinegar, salt, and so. much. pepper. Kalleb, thankfully, sent a much sweeter nut with honey and cinnamon. 

So it's an interesting meal choice, but not as weird as some of the others...