Ham was a common food prepared and consumed in most regions of the Realms.
Description[]
Ham was usually made using a pig's or boar's leg (also called a hock[14]) that was cured in various sauces, spices, and herbs, similarly to pig's head, an Amnian delicacy.[15]
Usage[]
A piece of the famous Hin pineapple-glazed ham.
- Amphail's citizens often visited the Stag-Horned Flagon to purchase platters of biscuits. The tavern allowed them to bring their own fish fillets and slices of ham to make a meal out of the local favorite breads.[1]
- Baeranth were Tantran meat pies that were stuffed with smoked beef, goat, and ham.[16]
- Halflings were known for preparing ham honeyed with sweet pineapple gravy.[17][15]
- Morningfeast at the Yawning Portal often included ham served by itself or together with bisquits and eggs.[10] A typical breakfast at the Old Skull Inn in Shadowdale consisted of waffles, ham, fruit, and tea.[8]
- Iulutiun humans of the Great Glacier considered ham to be an exotic food and a precious commodity.[18]
- Potage was a soup, commonly served as a part of a full four-course dinner in taverns across the Realms. This soup was usually cooked using the previous day's leftover meats, such as ham, and various vegetables.[19]
- Smoked ham was a common food served in abundance during Glarth, a festival also known as Fullbelly.[20]
- Roast gammon pie was a Cormyrian delicacy that was made out of stuffed deboned ham wrapped in a pastry jacket.[5]
- In Tethyr, pies were cold stuffed pastries often filled with leftover cubed ham, minced meats, or fish, mixed with parsnips, potatoes, spinach, mint, hot peppers, and drowned in "summer sauce".[9] The posh Stag Triumphant inn in Mosstone offered salted and smoked ham as nightcaps.[21]
- Glazed ham was eaten in Amn at places like the Battlescarred Bard inn.[22]
- The Driftwood Tavern in Neverwinter served a special Anniversary Ham during the city's annual Protector's Jubilees in the late 1400s DR. Driftwood chefs hand-picked each piece, trimmed it, and slow-cooked it in a secret sauce, giving a unique, once-a-year taste.[12]
- Phontyr's Unicorn in Elturel was known for its boar hock soup.[23]
- Alzael's Cleaver in Immersea was famous for smoked hams aged and cured in cherry brandy.[24]
History[]
A street vendor in Baldur's Gate selling ham and poultry.
Ham was eaten at least as far back as ancient Netheril.[25]
The monks of the Great Mother's House in Berdusk often served ham, pheasant, and roast beef to their guests in the mid–13th century DR.[2]
In 1358 DR, Maela's boarding house in Immersea had a ham-stocked larder for guest service.[4]
In 1372 DR, the Ironhand Mines in Luruar were under control of an orc raider tribe. The orcs' main food storage was filled with dry cured meats, including ham.[6]
By 1374 DR, the farmers of the Grand Duchy of Shantal were known to raise pigs and export ham, among other local foods and drinks.[3]
In 1480 DR, the Cult of the Dragon's Skyreach Castle was heavily stocked with hundreds of crates of food, meat, ham, fish.[14]
Circa 1491 DR, Jalessa Ornra, a butcher from Red Larch, sold butchered and smoked meats, including ham, from her shop. The sign that hung above the entrance had a painted piece of ham being cut by a cleaver. Her shop had an adjacent smokehouse and a cold cellar.[7]
Trivia[]
- Catoblepas milk was as thick as syrup, had a color reminiscent of ripe cranberry, and smelled of baked ham.[26]
- Saurials of the Lost Vale exuded the smell of ham when they felt nervousness or worry.[27]
Appendix[]
Appearances[]
- Adventures
- Marco Volo: Journey • Hoard of the Dragon Queen • Princes of the Apocalypse
- Novels
- Azure Bonds • The Wyvern's Spur • Crusade • Tymora's Luck • Corsair
- Referenced only
- Song of the Saurials • Dangerous Games • The Black Bouquet
- Comic Books
- Converging Lines
- Video Games
- Dungeons & Dragons Online • Sword Coast Legends • Baldur's Gate III • Neverwinter
- Board Games
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Yawning Portal
Gallery[]
Shindia Darkeyes slices some ham in the lair of Xanathar.
A plate of ham sits on a windowsill in Mosstone.
A bugbear and his sliced ham.
A grand feast featuring a ham.
Pineapple ham served in Sigil.
External links[]
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Roughly-Cut Ham article at the Baldur's Gate 3 Community Wiki, a community wiki for Baldur's Gate 3.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ed Greenwood (1993). Volo's Guide to the North. (TSR, Inc), p. 18. ISBN 1-5607-6678-6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anthony Pryor (1994). Marco Volo: Journey. (TSR, Inc.), p. 16. ISBN 1-5607-6869-X.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd (March 2006). Power of Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 139. ISBN 0-7869-3910-9.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jeff Grubb, Kate Novak (February 1990). The Wyvern's Spur. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 13, p. ?. ISBN 0-88038-902-8.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ed Greenwood (July 1995). Volo's Guide to Cormyr. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 29. ISBN 0-7869-0151-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ed Greenwood and Jason Carl (July 2002). Silver Marches. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 157. ISBN 0-7869-2835-2.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Richard Baker, et al. (April 2015). Princes of the Apocalypse. Edited by Michele Carter, Stacy Janssen. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7869-6578-6.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Jeff Grubb, Kate Novak (October 1988). Azure Bonds. (TSR, Inc.), p. 197. ISBN 0-88038-612-6.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ed Greenwood (October 2012). Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 86. ISBN 0786960345.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Michael Witwer (October 2020). Heroes' Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook. (Ten Speed Press), p. 48. ISBN 978-1-9848-5890-0.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (September 1989). “Converging Lines”. In Elliot S. Maggin ed. Forgotten Realms comics #02 (DC Comics) (02)..
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Cryptic Studios (June 2013). Neverwinter. Perfect World Entertainment.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb, Julia Martin, Steven E. Schend et al (1992). Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. (TSR, Inc), p. 118. ISBN 0-5607-6327-2.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Wolfgang Baur, Steve Winter (August 2014). Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Edited by Miranda Horner. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 80. ISBN 978-0786965649.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Larian Studios (October 2020). Designed by Swen Vincke, et al. Baldur's Gate III. Larian Studios.
- ↑ n-Space (October 2015). Designed by Dan Tudge, et al. Sword Coast Legends. Digital Extremes.
- ↑ Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Michael Witwer (October 2020). Heroes' Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook. (Ten Speed Press), p. 135. ISBN 978-1-9848-5890-0.
- ↑ Rick Swan (1992). The Great Glacier. (TSR, Inc), p. 38. ISBN 1-56076-324-8.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood on Twitter. (17-11-2020). Retrieved on 17-11-2020.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (October 2012). Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 29. ISBN 0786960345.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (July 2000). Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II. Edited by Duane Maxwell, David Noonan. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 106. ISBN 0-7869-1626-5.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (July 2000). Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II. Edited by Duane Maxwell, David Noonan. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 63. ISBN 0-7869-1626-5.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (1994). Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast. (TSR, Inc), p. 100. ISBN 1-5607-6940-1.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (July 1995). Volo's Guide to Cormyr. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 155. ISBN 0-7869-0151-9.
- ↑ Clayton Emery (November 1996). Dangerous Games. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 9. ISBN 0-7869-0524-7.
- ↑ James Butler, Elizabeth T. Danforth, Jean Rabe (September 1994). “The Settled Lands”. In Karen S. Boomgarden ed. Elminster's Ecologies (TSR, Inc), p. 20. ISBN 1-5607-6917-3.
- ↑ Darrin Drader and Sean K Reynolds (2004-07-17). Saurials: More Lizardkin for Serpent Kingdoms (PDF). Wizards of the Coast. p. 3. Retrieved on 2018-11-03.