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Beetroots was as type of root vegetable produced by the beet plant, common throughout Faerûn.[1]
Description[]
The vegetable was a sweet and nutritious root of blood-red color.[1][8]
- Sugar beets: the species of beets used to produce sugar and often used to make candy and potables.[2]
Availability[]
- Berdusk's Chauntea monastery, the Great Mother's House grew numerous types of produce, including sugar beets.[2]
- Daggerford's Chateau Elite served Beef Sharburg with a side of Marsember Beets and followed by a bowl of eldritch berry custard in the late 14th century DR.[1]
- High Moor's human tribes gathered wild produce from the moors and the Misty Forest. These plants included sugar beets, wild berries, and bluecaps.[7]
- Marsember in Cormyr was known to cultivate beets and sport them through the Sword Coast. The dish known as Marsember Beets was an expensive ice dish served with beef.[1]
- Moon Mountain Brewery in the Savage Frontier grew their own crop of sugar beets used for alcohol-making.[4]
- Red Larch markets in the Savage Frontier often sold pickled beets from the previous year's harvest.[3]
Trade[]
- Chessenta-grown produce, including beets, were sold across the Sea of Fallen Stars and during especially harvest-rich years, sent via Shar-traversing caravans and into the ports of the Lake of Steam.[5]
- Mistledale's Ashabenford was a trade town that allowed farmers from across the Dalelands to sell their produce of beets, hay, vegetables, potatoes, and grains to Cormyr and the Moonsea.[6][9]
Usage[]
- Beetroot relish was sold through Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue for five silver pieces per quart.[10]
- Blood-drops, a food made of thinly sliced and fried beets, covered with sweet or spicy dusting.[8]
- Pickled beets were a staple of inns in the West Faerûn, between Dragonspear Castle and Daggerford,[11] as well as Red Larch's markets.[3] A quart was sold for four silver pieces.[10]
- Spruce beer of the human tribes of High Moor was brewed with sugar extracted from wild sugar beets, spruce tree, and molasses.[7]
Appendix[]
Appearances[]
- Adventures
- Marco Volo: Journey • Princes of the Apocalypse
- Novels
- Waterdeep • Realms of Magic: "The Wild Bunch"
- Referenced only
- Cormyr: A Novel
- Video Games
- Neverwinter
- Referenced only
- Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ossian Studios (June 2018). Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford. Beamdog.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Anthony Pryor (1994). Marco Volo: Journey. (TSR, Inc.), p. 14. ISBN 1-5607-6869-X.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Richard Baker, et al. (April 2015). Princes of the Apocalypse. Edited by Michele Carter, Stacy Janssen. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7869-6578-6.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ed Greenwood (September 2002). “Elminster's Guide to the Realms: Moon Mountain Brewery”. In Jesse Decker ed. Dragon #299 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), p. 80.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ed Greenwood, Julia Martin, Jeff Grubb (1993). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 2nd edition (revised), Running the Realms. (TSR, Inc), p. 23. ISBN 1-5607-6617-4.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Richard Baker (1993). The Dalelands. (TSR, Inc), p. 35. ISBN 978-1560766674.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Tim Beach (October 1995). “The High Moor”. In Julia Martin ed. Elminster's Ecologies Appendix II (TSR, Inc), p. 24. ISBN 0786901713.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ed Greenwood (October 2012). Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 83. ISBN 0786960345.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (January 1996). Volo's Guide to the Dalelands. (TSR, Inc), p. 173. ISBN 0-7869-0406-2.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Jeff Grubb, Julia Martin, Steven E. Schend et al (1992). Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. (TSR, Inc), p. 116. ISBN 0-5607-6327-2.
- ↑ Troy Denning (July 2003). Waterdeep. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 13, p. 244. ISBN 0-7869-3111-6.