S T O N E K E E P's

There is a marketplace in the City of Paranor

and in the outlying areas there are ranches and farms.

The woods team with wildlife.

Food of the Day:

Bread, (hit your back button to return here after viewing information) rice, pasta, other grains. No potatoes or sweet corn.

Animal fats most common: lard, suet, dripping, tallow.  Olive oil widely used.  Few other vegetable oils.

Most commonly: chicken or capons, beef, salt pork, lamb and mutton (very common), game meat, all available seasonally.  No turkey.

Fauna - (hit your back button to return here after viewing information)

Variety but NO new world vegetables, i.e: zucchini, pumpkin, green beans, tomatoes, chili peppers, bell peppers.  What was available was locally and seasonally variable, unless dried.

4/5 of milk was obtained between April and September, butter does not keep indefinitely, some cheeses but local varieties would be used more frequently, limiting variety.

Use of many imported spices in cooking, including many not often used today.  A typical household could be expected to have: cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, galangal (a root similar to ginger), saffron, pepper, long pepper, cubebs, nutmeg, coriander and mustard.  No all-spice.

Pecans and peanuts are new world foods and were not used.  Almonds were very heavily used, both to make milk and in many savory dishes.  Walnuts and filberts were also occasionally used. 

Vegetation and Flora

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Pottery

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Herbs