by Smoopadoop » Sun Feb 05, 2017 8:01 am I found a page describing norse food, and found a few things that I think would fit well in the game. You can read the page Here. Notice that all the crops mentioned are already in the game, except beans.
- Beans. A good source of protein. STR feps, maybe.
- Beached whales were eaten, should they ever be found.
- Sea birds and wild eggs. Why should we have to harvest our own eggs, when we can steal them from the wild?
- Edible seaweeds/algaes. The algae pictured looks like one I get in my ramen often, and if that's true, I can say it's DAMN TASTY.
- Smoking and preserving. As food doesn't go off yet, maybe this can be an alternate method of cooking, giving different stats than normal.
- Boiling water by using hot stones. Sauna, anyone?
- Different breads. Baking bread in a big, built, brick oven is rather advanced. For a long time, breads were cooked in fires, or ground pits. Even then, small ovens were heated by hot stones.
- Different cooking methods. Quote from page: Food was also prepared by roasting in soapstone pots. While clay pottery was known in Norse lands, almost no broken potshards have been found, as in other parts of Europe.
- Similar things are in the game, but read this quote anyway, just in case. The bread dough shown to the right was made from stone ground wheat, barley, oat, and rye flours, mixed with whey, honey, and nuts. The dough would then be flattened and cooked on a flat pan over the coals of an open fire (left). The bread would have been eaten warm, since such loaves turn rock hard when cooled.
- Mead. Ale, made from malted barley, was the staple drink of all classes and all ages, although milk, beer, mead, and fruit wines were also known.
- Porridge. Stews, porridge, and similar items were served in wooden bowls and eaten with wooden or horn spoons (right).
- I remember in a documentary, once, a traditional viking fruit drink was prepared. The host said it tasted exactly like modern fruit juice, despite being an ancient recipe.
- In the same documentary, salmon was cooked by being placed on a wet board, and left in front of the fire.
Now I'm hungry! Read the page linked above, it is very interesting.
Anyway, what do you think of the suggestions?
Bonus suggestion:
The article also says this: Meats were served on wooden trenchers and eaten with one's personal knife.
Why not have knives as cutting tools, to be kept on our person like we normally do with axes? The above quote makes it seem as if that was done often. They could be more all-purpose than axes, and easier to hold, taking up less space. Maybe they can go on belts without taking a slot? Maybe they can add a quality bonus to things normally made or done with an axe, such as harvesting forageables or whittling wooden items? Idunno. It just sounds cool.
