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You probably want something very juniper-forward. I imagine The Botanist would be amazing in a brine, but I don’t think I could bring myself to use it that way.

As an addendum, if you see any recipes for “nitrate free” corned beef which use regular salt in the brine, it won’t work. Sodium nitrate effects a chemical change in the meat - making it delicious. If you’re going to use a regular brine it will just taste like salty pot roast.

You need pink salt - with sodium nitrate and/or sodium nitrite. It’s easy to get online. In the US there’s no problem with domestic use, but if you’re going to use pink salt commercially I think you need to jump through some hoops. I used it in a retirement home to make corned beef, which is...

Dragon Magazine #155 from 1990 had an article called The Folk of the Faerie Kingdom. Should plug into your game without too much modification:

Lamb Barbacoa Lamb Madras Incik (Turkish lamb shank) Roast lamb Lamb chops Lamb shish Lamb sandwiches Stilton

Space Oddity Killer Queen The Thing That Should Not Be Voodoo Child Evil Woman Riders on the Storm The Unforgiven Iron Man Black Dog Baba O'Riley War Pigs Not forgetting Whole Lotta Rosie, the giant shambling mound; perhaps a resentful, dispossessed Rose Garden

What @Paul Farquhar said.

Too bad they cancelled that show. I thought it showed real potential.

Coin weights in early editions were bonkers. An 18th Century 5 kopeks coin is 1.6oz, and it's copper. So 1cp in AD&D or B/X is this big compared to a modern US quarter:

According to the Paston Letters, the cost of a room in an inn in c.15th was around 8 pence. That's about 9g of pure silver. In D&D, there are 50 coins to a pound, which means a silver coin weighs about 9g. So, 1sp.

My attempt at levity failed miserably. My point was wouldn't it be funny if our heroes' swords routinely broke in combat. I probably shouldn't have included two swords which actually did break.

Stormbringer: Excalibur: Andúril: