Bread was available in a number of forms on Toril. Every culture on the planet was known for producing one or more specific types of bread, which resulted in an enormous variety.[6]
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I like bread. Especially herb bread. Though I'm also very fond of sweet rolls with raisins. Herb bread is good with little bits of cheese baked into it. Though not necessarily with stew. With stew, you want a plain bread you can use to sop up the gravy. One with a lot of bite to the crust, but soft inside. Of course, berry pie is always good.
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History[]
The nomadic Bedine and the Nexalans were known to produce their own varieties of bread.[6]
Bread was often expensive in the nation of Calimshan due to their severe shortages of grain.[8]
Reputation[]
Bread was sometimes considered the staple meal of the gods, as much as wine was considered their nectar.[6]
Notable Breads[]
A half-elf commoner and her basket of bread loaves.
- Bagel
- A chewy roll from Greenfields with a hole in the middle and sprinkled with sesame or poppy.[9]
- Baguette
- Yet another type of bread from Greenfields.[9]
- Blackbread
- A tasty bread made from finely ground Wastel flour mixed with strong molasses from Amn. Four loaves cost about 10 silver pieces.[6]
- Butterbun
- A dinner roll from the Western Heartlands, often baked in a dozen.[9]
- Calimshan Knots
- A variety of sweet pastry from the bakeries of Calimshan and Baldur's Gate.[9]
- Cherrybread
- A sweet treacle bread made with alcohol-soaked cherries.[10][11]
- Cornbread
- A savory or sweet variety of bread found in the Dalelands, the Vast, and in the Cold Lands.[12][13][14]
- Crackers
- Either plain or flavored with herbs and spices from the Dalelands. Popular flavors included onion, garlic, pepper, and Savory. A 3-dozen piece package of flavored herb crackers cost about 5 silver pieces.[6]
- Donut
- A type of sweet handfood from Chemcheaux in Ravens Bluff, bur virtually unknown anywhere else on Faerûn.[15]
- Elven bread
- Made only in Evermeet. It was a light, sweet, fine-grained bread with extraordinary nutritional value. (The bread acted as very light-weight, double-strength iron rations.) A single loaf cost about 2 gold pieces.[6]
- Elvish seedcake
- A loaf or bite-sized handfood made with crushed aniseed, caraway, and coriander seeds. Some seedcakes possessed healing properties.[16][17]
- Fruitcakes
- Studded with dried fruits and nuts, and flavored with rum or brandy from the Pirate Isles of the Inner Sea. They could sometimes be found in decorative tins. A single tin of fruitcake cost about 10 gold pieces.[6]
- Gingerbread
- Made with ginger from Shou Lung. They could sometimes be found in decorative tins. A single tin of gingerbread cost about 1 gold piece.[6]
- Hangman's noose
- Fried sweet bread dusted with powdered sugar and spices found in the land of Halruaa.[18]
- Hard-tack
- Made from flour and water. It was dry and bland, but kept for a very long time, so it was good on long sea voyages. A dozen pieces of hard-tack cost about 10 copper pieces.[6]
- Helm's Hold Journeybread
- Simple and long-lasting hard biscuits from the citadel of Helm's Hold.[19]
- Honeyed bun
- A sweet treat from Arrabar.[20]
- Klarvel
- Also known as ring-loaf, was a type of lightly-sweetened or savory rye bread from the Lake of Steam and the Vilhon Reach.[22]
- Leek bread
- A staple of dwarven cuisine in areas where leek was readily available.[23]
- Noodles
- Normally found in Kara-Tur. Kozakuran Udon noodles were fat, white, and long; they were usually simmered with onion and bits of cooked egg. Soba was a fine, thin, vermicelli-like, buckwheat noodle from Wa; it was usually simmered in a broth made from green tea. Bean curd noodles were from Shou Lung; they were made from tofu. Ramen was a very curly noodle that cooks in minutes. Since noodles must be imported from Kara-Tur, a pound of any noodle type cost about 15 gold pieces.[6]
- Nutbread
- A cheap type of dark bread, often served with soups and cheeses, and most commonly seen in Cormyr and nations nestled around the Sea of Fallen Stars.[24]
- Poppyseed cake
- A type of bread found in the city of Phlan of the Moonsea.[25][26]
- Roundloaf
- A type of bread that was known to be served hard-crusted at the bakery of the same name.[27]
- Santrath
- A sweetened yeast and egg bread popularized by an Athkatlan gnomish baker of the same name.[29]
- Sourdough
- From the Pirate Isles of the Inner Sea. A 2‑pound (910‑gram), round loaf cost about 15 silver pieces.[6]
- Spread bread
- A simple type of food made with crusty rolls smothered in garlic butter and a fish paste of silverlings.[30]
- Sword Mountains spice cake
- Obnoxiously-spiced and glazed sweet cake from the hamlets of Sword Mountains.[19]
- Tortilla
- From Maztica. It was made of mayz, which was a grain native to Maztica. Any tortilla must be imported from Maztica; 2 dozen pieces cost about 25 gold pieces.[6]
- Upsidedown cake
- A type of sweet bread, topped with fruit, found in the city of Ravens Bluff and the Vast.[32]
Appendix[]
Appearances[]
- Novels
- The Sapphire Crescent • The Magehound • Beyond the High Road • The Fanged Crown
- Video Games
- Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford • Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter • Neverwinter • Baldur's Gate III
- Licensed Adventures & Organized Play
- The Forgotten Land
Further Reading[]
- Anthony Herring, Jeff Grubb (1993). Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms Campaign. (TSR, Inc.). ISBN 1-56076-695-6.
References[]
- ↑ Sean K. Reynolds (December 2000). “A Dwarven Lexicon”. In Dave Gross ed. Dragon #278 (Wizards of the Coast), p. 45.
- ↑ Robert A. Nelson (January 1987). “Dungeoneer's Shopping Guide”. In Roger E. Moore ed. Dragon #117 (TSR, Inc.), p. 24.
- ↑ David "Zeb" Cook (April 1995). Player's Handbook 2nd edition (revised). (TSR, Inc.), p. 90. ISBN 0-7869-0329-5.
- ↑ Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams (July 2003). Player's Handbook v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 129. ISBN 0-7869-2886-7.
- ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford (2014). Player's Handbook 5th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 158. ISBN 978-0-7869-6560-1.
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Jeff Grubb, Julia Martin, Steven E. Schend et al (1992). Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. (TSR, Inc), pp. 119–121. ISBN 0-5607-6327-2.
- ↑ Kate Novak, Jeff Grubb (December 1997). Tymora's Luck. (TSR, Inc.), p. 48. ISBN 0-7869-0726-6.
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- ↑ Ed Greenwood (October 2012). Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 83. ISBN 0786960345.
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- ↑ R.A. Salvatore (October 2005). Promise of the Witch-King. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 2. ISBN 0-78693823-4.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (1995). Cloak of Shadows. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 2. ISBN 0786903015.
- ↑ Lawrence Ramirez, Dave Wolin (California Writers Con 1998). Out in the Cornfield. Living City (RPGA), p. 10.
- ↑ Connie Rae Henson & Dale "slade" Henson (August 1992). The Magic Encyclopedia Volume One. (TSR, Inc), p. 8. ISBN 9781560764298.
- ↑ Ossian Studios (June 2018). Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford. Beamdog.
- ↑ Rosemary Jones (June 2009). City of the Dead. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 15. ISBN 078695129X.
- ↑ Elaine Cunningham (April 2000). The Magehound. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 11, pp. 162, 166. ISBN 978-0-7869-1561-3.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Liquid Entertainment (2011). Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter. Facebook.
- ↑ Thomas M. Reid (November 2003). The Sapphire Crescent. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 8, p. 170. ISBN 0-7869-3027-6.
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- ↑ Ed Greenwood (2022-11-03). “Dwarven Cuisine” (Tweet). theedverse. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2022-11-03. Retrieved on 2022-11-03.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (October 2012). Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 86. ISBN 0786960345.
- ↑ James Ward, Anne K. Brown (February 1992). Pools of Darkness. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 1-5607-6318-3.
- ↑ James Ward, Anne K. Brown (February 1992). Pools of Darkness. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 1-5607-6318-3.
- ↑ TheEdVerse on Twitter. (3-8-2020). Retrieved on 31-3-2022.
- ↑ Tom Prusa (1993). The Shining South. (TSR, Inc), p. 46. ISBN 1-56076-595-X.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (2022-12-09). Eggbread (Tweet). theedverse. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved on 2022-12-09.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (1993). Volo's Guide to the North. (TSR, Inc), p. 68. ISBN 1-5607-6678-6.
- ↑ Thomas M. Reid (November 2003). The Sapphire Crescent. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 1, p. 35. ISBN 0-7869-3027-6.
- ↑ Daniel S. Donnelly (December 1999). Lord of the Grapes. Living City (RPGA), p. 9.
- ↑ Thomas M. Reid (November 2003). The Sapphire Crescent. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 105. ISBN 0-7869-3027-6.
- ↑ Troy Denning (December 1999). Beyond the High Road. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 4. ISBN 0-7869-1436-X.