Random worldbuilding: there's a region in the country with a strong culture of offering homecooked dishes as gifts for all occasion. And over time, they have accumulated an entire category of dishware that aren't any particular individual's property - they are constantly in rotation, being gifted and re-gifted as the dish holding a pie, a casserole, loaf of bread, the list goes on. Once a gift dish is in your possession, you need to make something in it as a gift in return - not necessarily to the one you received it from, but to someone nonetheless.
They're called lovers' dishes, but not for any romantic reasons. The name was adopted after people started deeming the previous name, courtesan bowls, inappropriate. The term courtesan bowl was also a slightly more cleaned-up term replacing a previous one, as the dishware were originally known as slut cups. As they, you understand, they get around.
I firmly believe this should be a thing.
Make food for people. Give it to them and ask them to pass on the container with food to someone else.
Bonus points if it's chili.
I'd be tempted to make this a thing myself. Compose a little poem that instructs the reader to do exactly that - get the dish as a gift, give the dish as a gift, keep it in rotation, don't leave it on your shelf <3 - and get some oven dishes from goodwill or something, have them professionally engraved (do they do that? is that a thing you can do?) and then put them into rotation. The dishes I cook are dogshit at best but I want them into rotation.
I am stealing this so hard, it seems so violently Midwest but would fit in any medieval setting
