Food

  • Anchovies (anchovies) Salt-packed small fish; intense savory depth, travels well in sealed jars.
  • Apples (apples) Firm orchard fruit; edible into winter when stored cool, sliced dried.
  • Apples, crate (applescrat) Straw-packed apples in wooden crate; heavy, protects fruit on long journeys.
  • Bacon (bacon) Salt-cured pork belly cold-smoked; keeps through summer, enriches bread or pottage.
  • Barley (barley) Hardy grain, ground into meal or boiled for broth and bread.
  • Beans, crate (beanscrate) Dried beans in bushel crate; reliable protein, keep for years dry.
  • Beef (beef) Fresh meat quartered or jointed; spoils quickly unless salted, smoked, jerked.
  • Berries (berries) Dried summer berries; tart, bright in winter cooking, keeps seasons.
  • Bread, Rye, loaf (breadryelo) Dense dark loaf; stays fresh for days, fills belly, peasant staple.
  • Bread, Wheat, loaf (breadwheat) Light golden loaf; finer crumb than rye, keeps shorter than peasant bread.
  • Buns (buns) Soft, round dough loaves; market fare studded with dried fruit or herbs.
  • Butter (butter) Pale yellow churned cream; enriches vegetables, fries meat, keeps better salted.
  • Cabbage (cabbage) Dense pale head; sweet fresh, soured pickled for winter larder.
  • Carrots (carrots) Orange root vegetables; sweet cooked, dried for long-simmering pots.
  • Cheese (cheese) Aged or fresh curd rounds; soft or hard, keeps weeks traveling safely.
  • Cherries (cherries) Tart dried cherries from summer harvest; flavor game, sweeten puddings.
  • Chicken (chicken) Dressed poultry; delicate white meat, spoils quickly unless preserved promptly.
  • Cod (cod) Salt-cured white fish; dried or salted for long trade voyages.
  • Crab (crab) Sweet firm crustacean meat; fresh at harbor, salted for inland trade.
  • Cream (cream) Rich pale cream; enriches sauces and custards, highly perishable, used fresh.
  • Curds (curds) Soft fresh curd drained from whey; eaten warm with salt or honey.
  • Duck (duck) Dark rich meat with fat layer; roasted whole, fat renders for cooking.
  • Eels (eels) Fresh freshwater fish; rich fat, distinctive flavor, preserves well smoked.
  • Eggs (eggs) Chicken, duck, or goose eggs; kept cool and eaten within days.
  • Feathers (feathers) Down and flight feathers; stuff quilts and padding, used for arrow fletching.
  • Flax (flax) Dried stalks; raw material of linen, seeds press for oil and meal.
  • Fleece (fleece) Raw wool sheared or combed; fine yields soft yarn, coarse felts.
  • Flour, Barley (flourbarle) Earthy pale flour; bakes flatbreads and thickens pottage when wheat scarce.
  • Flour, Rye (flourrye) Coarse dark flour; staple for peasant bread, cheaper than wheat flour.
  • Flour, Wheat (flourwheat) Fine pale flour; light breads and pastries, reserved for wealthier folk.
  • Garlic bulb (garlic) Papery-skinned bulb of cloves; sharp pungent seasoning, keeps for months.
  • Goat (goat) Fresh lean meat; pungent, stews or smokes well for travel stores.
  • Goose (goose) Plucked rich waterfowl; dark robust meat, rendered fat serves kitchen and lamp.
  • Grapes (grapes) Fresh plump in season; dried into raisins for merchant wagons and packs.
  • Ham (ham) Salt-cured smoked hog hind leg; sliced thin or diced, keeps months.
  • Hay (hay) Sun-dried grasses bundled; feeds horses and livestock through winter reliably.
  • Herring (herring) Small oil-rich fish; smoked or salt-packed, heavily salted lasts indefinitely.
  • Honey, jar (honeyjar) Golden honey sealed in clay jar; sweetens porridge and mead, keeps years.
  • Honey, pot (honeypot) Gallon pot of honey; winter household supply or merchant trade good.
  • Horsemeat (horsemeat) Lean meat from spent beasts; tougher, stewed or smoked for pallability.
  • Lamb (lamb) Tender pale meat; roasted whole or smoked into jerky for caravans.
  • Lard (lard) Rendered hog fat for cooking and food preservation, a kitchen staple.
  • Lentils (lentils) Dried legume staple, poor man's protein, survives long travel and damp.
  • Mackerel (mackerel) Oily fish gutted fresh or salt-packed; substantial meal, keeps indefinitely.
  • Milk, cow (milkcow) Fresh dairy, curdles into cheese and butter by afternoon daily.
  • Milk, goat (milkgoat) Tangy dairy curdles quickly into sharp cheese, richer than sheep's.
  • Milk, sheep (milksheep) Silky dairy yielding fine cheese treasured in southern markets and temples.
  • Mutton (mutton) Dark meat of aging sheep, stronger than lamb, suits hearty dishes.
  • Oatcakes (oatcakes) Thin griddle rounds, traveler's bread keeping months bundled and dry.
  • Oatmeal (oatmeal) Coarse porridge filling bellies cheaply, stores dry indefinitely for soldiers.
  • Oats (oats) Northern staple grain feeding both livestock and humans, years of storage.
  • Oil, Cooking (oilcook) Golden neutral vegetable oil for frying and lighting, gallons at markets.
  • Olives (olives) Pickled brined relish, luxury trade good, keeps indefinitely under brine.
  • Oysters (oysters) Briny shellfish fresh at harbor or preserved in salt and smoke.
  • Pears (pears) Dried autumn fruit, hardened sweet traveler's treat and childhood prize.
  • Peas, crate (peascrate) Dried legume bushel, stretches meat into thick nourishing pottage for garrisons.
  • Pheasant (pheasant) Prized game bird, delicate meat roasts well, smokes into jerky.
  • Pie, Fruit (piefruit) Hand-sized pastry with sweet apple or berry filling from baker.
  • Pie, Meat (piemeat) Baked dough with minced spiced meat, feeds one hungry traveler daily.
  • Pigeon (pigeon) Mild tender meat from trapped cotes, small carcass rich with fat.
  • Pike (pike) Freshwater predator with firm white flaky flesh, salts and smokes well.
  • Plums (plums) Late-summer dried fruit, chewy nuggets sustaining soldiers through cold winter.
  • Pork (pork) Fatty rich swine meat, salts and smokes excellently, garrison staple.
  • Rabbit (rabbit) Lean pale meat cooks quickly, jerked for campaigns, fur for furriers.
  • Raisins (raisins) Dried grapes, chewy and portable, quick energy for soldiers and travelers.
  • Rations, Iron (FRtns) Compact military bundle of hardtack and salt pork, sustains one day.
  • Rations, Standard (StdRtns) Bread, dried meat, cheese, fruit bundle for traveler's day of moderate labor.
  • Rye (rye) Hardy grain thriving in poor soil, grinds to dark bread flour.
  • Salmon (salmon) Rich orange-fleshed river fish, firm and oily, smoked or salted.
  • Salt, bag (saltbag) Coarse sea-salt crystals, preserves meat and fish, seasons cooking daily.
  • Salt, rock (saltrock) Mined rock salt, pure and dense, grinds fine, stores indefinitely.
  • Salt, sack (saltsack) Bulk coarse crystals, preserves a dozen fish or full ham.
  • Scallions (scallions) Young onions with tender greens, fresh or dried, early spring crop.
  • Scones (scones) Wheat flour rounds lightly sweetened, bakery luxury keeping several days.
  • Seaweed, Dolce (seaweeddol) Dried coastal fronds rehydrating in broth, iodine-rich food and umami.
  • Sugar (sugar) Luxury cane crystals from distant tropics, sweetens pastries and preserves.
  • Swan (swan) Dark gamey waterfowl meat, reserved for noble tables, substantial yield.
  • Tea (tea) Distant leaf brew stretched across days, sharpens mind and warms.
  • Tomatoes (tomatoes) Round soft garden fruit, cooked in soups and stews, preserved dried.
  • Trout (trout) Swift stream fish, delicate pink flesh, best cooked whole or smoked.
  • Veal (veal) Pale tender young calf meat, fine-grained, favored by wealthy households.
  • Venison (venison) Lean dark gamey deer meat, roasted fresh or smoked into jerky.
  • Vetches (vetches) Small legume seeds, peasant porridge when simmered, enriches exhausted soil.
  • Water, 1pt. (Wtr1pt) Fresh-drawn well water, sustains traveler for light day, precious rationed.
  • Wheat (wheat) Golden grain for fine bread and pastries, stores years when sealed.
  • Wool, Raw (woolraw) Freshly sheared fleece, carded clean, traded by weight for spinning.