Medevial candy and the fantasy setting
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Napftor
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Hmm, well I'm not sure what they had in the historical sense, but I can tell you where to buy them in your game--Flavour Country! It was the first place winner way back when it came out inside Foul Locales: Urban Blight in 2002. A candy store like none other, I assure you. 
Edit: In fact, here's a "taste" of what the shop offers!
...The merchandise room of the first floor showcases the race-themed lollipops for which the shop is named. Claiming each flavor is “extensively researched” (the proprietress is a prostitute), the major humanoid races are represented here as 3-inch figures topping thin white sticks. The races and their corresponding flavors are:
HUMANS – strawberry
ELVES – lime
HALF-ELVES – peach
DWARVES – lemon
GNOMES – blueberry
HALFLINGS – cherry
ORCS – sour apple (new flavor)
HALF-ORCS – banana (new flavor)...
...Beside each race’s lollipop display rest small baskets of crudely sculpted white mints. Each mint type is similarly racially specific:
HUMANS – star
ELVES – leaf
HALF-ELVES – circle
DWARVES – axe
GNOMES – wheel
HALFLINGS – weed pipe
ORCS & HALF-ORCS – too new to have a mint shape. Block-shaped mints are available in the baskets. Customer suggestions are being taken. Across from each candy display on the wall is a map picturing the homeland of each race. For those races without a designated country, an area where they are most commonly encountered is shown. The maps are woven tapestries of average quality. Above each map on a running board (which runs the length of each wall) is a labeled bottle of a drink the race is best known for. The bottles are empty and for decoration only.
Edit: In fact, here's a "taste" of what the shop offers!
...The merchandise room of the first floor showcases the race-themed lollipops for which the shop is named. Claiming each flavor is “extensively researched” (the proprietress is a prostitute), the major humanoid races are represented here as 3-inch figures topping thin white sticks. The races and their corresponding flavors are:
HUMANS – strawberry
ELVES – lime
HALF-ELVES – peach
DWARVES – lemon
GNOMES – blueberry
HALFLINGS – cherry
ORCS – sour apple (new flavor)
HALF-ORCS – banana (new flavor)...
...Beside each race’s lollipop display rest small baskets of crudely sculpted white mints. Each mint type is similarly racially specific:
HUMANS – star
ELVES – leaf
HALF-ELVES – circle
DWARVES – axe
GNOMES – wheel
HALFLINGS – weed pipe
ORCS & HALF-ORCS – too new to have a mint shape. Block-shaped mints are available in the baskets. Customer suggestions are being taken. Across from each candy display on the wall is a map picturing the homeland of each race. For those races without a designated country, an area where they are most commonly encountered is shown. The maps are woven tapestries of average quality. Above each map on a running board (which runs the length of each wall) is a labeled bottle of a drink the race is best known for. The bottles are empty and for decoration only.
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Mark Plemmons
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kirinke said:
Shameless plug...
"Goods and Gear: the Ultimate Adventurer's Guide" - chapter 9 (IIRC).
http://www.kenzerco.com/rpg/Goods_Gear_preview.pdf
Hopefully this will hit the stores in 2-3 weeks.
Phineas Crow
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Pastries, pies, and tarts. Filled with fruits, nuts, and/or cheeses.
Sweetmeats, fruits preserved with sugar, was a more upper-class delicacy.
Jams, jellies, marmalades, and preserves.
Gingerbread, cakes, puddings, and sweet breads.
Sweetmeats, fruits preserved with sugar, was a more upper-class delicacy.
Jams, jellies, marmalades, and preserves.
Gingerbread, cakes, puddings, and sweet breads.
In a "real midevial" setting? Not much that we would be used to when we think of sweets. Cocca is new world and they didn't have the know-how to refine sugar so all things choclate, hard candy and sugar-added baked goods are out. IIRC sugar beets were old world and were loved for just that reason (even if they couldn't refine sugar from them). Most treats would revolve around fruit (including jam and pudding) cream and whatever spices they had depending on time period, roasted nuts too. Think a whole lotta fruit pies, heavy cakes (fruit cake anyone?) and cream. I'm sure other people can be more detailed than me.
As for "midevial fantasy"? Anything you want of course
A wacky wizard who invented a "candy cantrip" for the children? Go nuts.
As for "midevial fantasy"? Anything you want of course
A wacky wizard who invented a "candy cantrip" for the children? Go nuts.
Torm
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Rock candy has been around forever, and can even form naturally under certain rare conditions. It has been sold as a treat, and as an "aid to digestion" up until the early to mid 20th century.
I also concur with cakes, pies, and pretty much any other non-Hostess pastry treats. Also, bear in mind that without high-fructose corn syrup everywhere, certain other things might be regarded as sweet treats that we consider healthier stuff, now, like sweet jerkies and such.
I also concur with cakes, pies, and pretty much any other non-Hostess pastry treats. Also, bear in mind that without high-fructose corn syrup everywhere, certain other things might be regarded as sweet treats that we consider healthier stuff, now, like sweet jerkies and such.
jerichothebard
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Maple candy has been around for hundred of years - take the boiling liquid froma maple syrup distillery, pour it into snow. Instant chewy sweetness.
Torm
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Also, I'm not sure how close Bunny World is to Branson, MO or Wisconsin , but if you've ever been to Silver Dollar City or Old World Wisconsin or any place like that, you'd get a pretty good idea, as most of the treats they actually make there (as opposed to the stuff in the plastic bags on racks they also sell) rely on centuries, if not millenia, old technology.
, but if you've ever been to Silver Dollar City or Old World Wisconsin or any place like that, you'd get a pretty good idea, as most of the treats they actually make there (as opposed to the stuff in the plastic bags on racks they also sell) rely on centuries, if not millenia, old technology.
alsih2o
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Phineas Crow said:
Prized by gourmets throughout the world, sweetbreads are the thymus glands of veal, young beef, lamb and pork. From- http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/food/index.ssf?DEF_ID=4143
(pardon me phineas crow, laughing with you, not at you. If you are rural I think this is funnier.)here- http://www.bow.k12.nh.us/cyberbus/medieval faire/medieval recipes/recipes.htm are a bunch of recipes, including 2 for medievally accurate candy
and here- http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wittie/sca/food/dessert.html is a great page on sweets in "the period."
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Phineas Crow
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alsih2o said:
Never heard of sweetbread, though I tend to stay away from eating thymus glands....
By sweet bread I meant, as you probably know, the precursor to cakes... bread with ingredients like honey, sugar, cinnamon, fruits, and/or nuts.
