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Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Apr 18, 2018 16:23:25 GMT
Lately Taffeta has been letting people know that her husband Nerry is setting up business making and selling hearty and wholesome meat and vegetable pies, sausage rolls, and other assorted savoury pastries. The meat is all fresh and locally sourced (i.e. Taffeta and Aila catch it in the woods) and the vegetables mostly come from the family garden. At this stage Nerry can't afford a permanent shop so sales are made at market on market days and people wishing to buy at other times are welcome to drop by at the family home at any reasonable business hour.
(The pies are not magic and at this stage the business has no real game-mechanical benefit to anyone except me, in that it means I no longer have to remember to deduct 1gp per day to maintain Taffeta's modest lifestyle. But depending on what spells Taffeta gets at future levels, or perhaps with some kind of arrangement with Barden's garden for a supply of magic herbs, maybe in due course Nerry can start selling pies that give heals or buffs... We'll see what happens.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2018 16:29:18 GMT
Always shop local! *Lachlan surreptitiously kicks the 1,000 Tes'co carrier bags back under his bed* Do you have a menu of current wares and prices?
I like the sound of your future produce: I'll keep a special eye out for any health-based items. HPies, if you will.....
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Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Apr 29, 2018 9:31:05 GMT
Price-list:
—SAVOURY PIES—
CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM PIE
A classic puff pastry pie filled with chicken and mushrooms in a creamy sauce. Served hot or cold.
Full pie (serves four to five): 2sp
Single portion: 6cp
DOCKWARD TART
Not really a tart but a flaky pastry pie with a lattice top, filled with halibut, hard-boiled egg, and herbs. Named after the Dock Ward in Waterdeep, though it probably didn’t originate there. Served hot.
Full pie (serves two to three): 1sp 5cp
Single portion: 8cp
HOMITY PIE
A comforting open-topped shortcrust pie with potato, leek, onion, and cheese. Served hot.
Full pie (serves six): 2sp
Single portion: 4cp
KORINNISH PASTY
A crescent-shaped shortcrust pastry parcel filled with peppered diced lamb, potato, swede, and onion, originating from the pirate coves of the Korinn Archipelago in the Moonshae Isles. Served hot or cold.
Per pasty (serves one): 7cp
NERRY’S PODDINGER PIE
The proprietor’s own invention: a hot-water-crust pie filled with spiced minced beef, potato, and peas, made in a shallow concave shape like a bowl that can hold a choice of optional extras. Served hot.
Per pie (serves one): 6cp
Add cooked beans: 1cp
Add scrambled egg: 1cp
Add mashed potato: 1cp
Add grated cheese: 1cp
Add mushrooms: 1cp
Add chicken & sweetcorn mix: 2cp
QUIPPER PIE
Alive, quippers are rather dangerous flesh-eating fish. Baked into a puff pastry pie with bacon, peas, capers, and spices, they’re rather tasty. Served hot.
Full pie (serves four to five): 3sp
Single portion: 9cp
RAISED GAME PIE
A feast of a pie made of decorated hot-water-crust pastry filled with venison, pheasant, rabbit, pork, bacon, shallots, garlic, sage, and a generous glug of fine wine. Served cold.
Full pie (serves ten to twelve): 9sp
Single portion: 1sp
TAFFETA’S SPECIAL
A special pie devised to showcase whatever interesting game Taffeta has caught on her last hunting trip. Usually rabbit, venison, boar, or pheasant.
Full pie (serves six): 3sp
Single portion: 7cp
—SWEET PIES AND PASTRIES—
AILA’S SPECIAL
A lattice-topped pie made with seasonal fruit gathered by Nerry’s elder daughter Aila.
Full pie (serves six): 2sp 5cp
Single portion: 5cp
FEATHERDALE ROLL
A roll of filo pastry filled with spiced sweetened pumpkin and dusted with sugar. A Dalelands speciality. Served cold.
Per roll (serves one): 4cp
HAZELNUT PIE
An open-topped pie filled with hazelnut paste. Served hot or cold.
Full pie (serves four): 1sp 8cp
Single portion: 5cp
RAM’S HORN
A curled horn of stiff glazed pastry filled with diced dried fruit. Served cold.
Per horn (serves one): 3cp
WILL O’ WISP
A ball of choux pastry filled with a light sweet custard. Served cold.
Per ball (serves one): 2cp
—SPECIAL ORDERS—
Prices by agreement
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Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Apr 29, 2018 9:33:52 GMT
(I tried to make the prices plausible in light of the guideline prices for food and drink in the 'expenses' section of the PHB but they're quite vague (how much cheese is a 'hunk'?) so if anyone thinks these should be adjusted, let me know!)
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Post by Tugark (Retired) on Apr 29, 2018 11:28:53 GMT
1 of Taffeta's Special please. Full pie. I have a big appetite.
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Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Apr 30, 2018 23:03:29 GMT
1 of Taffeta's Special please. Full pie. I have a big appetite. Nerry looks up at the lofty half-orc and exclaims, 'Ah, an excellent choice, friend! Today the special is pheasant and mushroom with thyme.' He fetches the large pie and reaches up to bring it somewhere near the level of Tugark's hands. 'That will be three silver, if you please. And do come again!' |
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Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Sept 2, 2019 21:56:07 GMT
On 17 Flamerule 1496, customers found Nerry's shop closed without warning or explanation. This was unusual but not totally unheard of; but the shop remained closed and dark for the next two days as well. And then those few who came back on the morning of 20 Flamerule found a sign on the door in Nerry's hand, reading: Sorry, I have had to close the shop.I hope I shall be back soon.
No one in Daring Heights can recall seeing Nerry – or any of his family, for that matter – since then.
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Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Sept 25, 2020 18:25:50 GMT
Around the middle of the month of Ches 1497 the people of Daring Heights noticed that, without fanfare but with a decidedly pleasant aroma, Nerry's shop had re-opened.
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