Bread and Dairy

BreadsBiscuits: Flat, pressed biscuits made from sa-tarna flour and kailiauk fat and baked. Black Bread: A type of bread often served to enslaved crews on ships. Generally described as a slave food. Rence: A water plant whose grain and pith is eaten. Similar to Earth rice. Sa-tarna Bread: Bread baked from sa-tarna grain. It is yellowish in color and usually split into eight wedges. It is baked as a round, flat loaf. Sa-tarna Grain: Specifically, yellow wheat. Described as yellow shafts growing in rows in a field. It is a staple of Gorean diet. Sa-tarna means, literally, “life-daughter.” Similar to Earth wheat. Sa-tarna Porridge: Made of sa-tarna meal, it is similar to cream of wheat. Slave Porridge: Cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, extremely nourishing though very bland and made for consumption by slaves. In Torvaldsland, it is called bond-maid gruel and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.  DairyButter: Churned from the milk of the bosk or verr. Cheese: Cheese made from the milk of the bosk and verr. Bosk cheese has a lighter taste than verr cheese. They are sharp in taste and travel well, resisting molds in their hard rinds. Eggs: Vulo eggs, the most common eggs on Gor, come from the pigeon-sized vulo. Arctic gant eggs are from a migratory bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the polar north. When frozen, their eggs are eaten like apples. Milk: Milk from the bosk is a staple of life for the Tribes of the Wagon Peoples. In some areas, it is available in powdered form. Sand kaiila milk is used by the peoples of the Tahari as verr milk is used elsewhere, it is reddish with a salty, strong taste due to the content of ferrous sulfate. Verr milk is sometimes sold in open markets from a brass container carried on a strap and served in tiny brass cups.