The Heat Soup (also known as Corusdeer Soup or Magical Soup) was the first magical dish prepared by Erin Solstice with her [Wondrous Fare] Skill, when she stayed at Octavia's shop.
Ingredients[edit | edit source]
Necessary ingredients include a non-specified liquid as base for the soup - these preparations involve at least pepper[1] and water. Cooled-down carrots (either with cryo-magic, another cold agent, plain ice or cold gelatine, etc.) have to be added before following up with pulverized Corusdeer horn. Wheat flour as a binding agent is then added, ensuring a thicker soup.[2][3]
Some seasoning is optional - Erin used thyme once. Too many different spices ruin the mix.
Much later, Erin intuited another recipe that yielded the same effects: Adding into a milk-and-butter base, several hot or spicy ingredients are added, among them peppers, fermented pepper base, a tiny bit of chocolate, dedem roots. The heat element in this recipe is represented by salamander skins, while Sage’s Grass also plays a role.[4] This later recipe involved no Corusdeer horn, nor carrots, apparently.
Effects[edit | edit source]
The thick, orange soup stays warm for a long time. It is not only safe to eat (and tasting okay[3] at least) but able to warm people up from inside and magically stabilize their enhanced body temperature so that they emit heat: Ryoka was then able to run barefoot and lightly clothed in winter for hours with no ill effects, aside from melting the snow wherever she touched it. Erin could thin the recipe: too much carrots and not enough pepper would lessen the duration of the effects.[1]
Usages[edit | edit source]
After Erin devised the recipe in Ch 2.47 with some helpful hints from Teriarch,[2] Ryoka used the soup to warm up in the following chapters as well: Ch 2.48, Ch 3.03, Ch 3.09... <list to be completed>. In Chapter 7.28, Erin re-invented the recipe.