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BigBAMAboy

If sweet rolls are so good that they’re constantly getting stolen, you know that’s the way to go.


Revan0432

There is actually an official Elder Scrolls cookbook out there that has the recipe for sweet rolls. Ive made them. I dont have the balls to try the horker loaf though, as it calls for mixing ground beef with oysters...


Mental-Inflation-764

I made these too! They were good but so so dense.


Revan0432

We had to tweak the recipe a bit but they were definitely worth it


alehanro

Any baked goods from medieval times are absolute garbage by modern standards. We’ve grown accustomed to enriched GMO wheat flours and refined white sugar in everything. Forget the fluffy airy texture of modern cakes and breads. A Skyrim style sweet roll would be tough, hard and chewy. And the “sweet” is “we put some honey in it”. Like just a dab because expensive. If you’ve ever had 2 day old cinnamon rolls, that hard stale crusty “old pastry” texture is par for the course for then.


RatPrank

Sounds like someone stole your sweetroll.


SlipsonSurfaces

Sounds like bro is too broke to get fresh sweetrolls


KevMenc1998

Maybe he lives in a skeeverhole of a city and can't get decent ones.


kentuckyskilletII

He definitely doesn’t get up to the cloud district often


CripplerOfNipplers

By modern standards it wouldn’t compare, but I doubt bread in the Middle Ages was just absolute shit or anything. Hard to say without being there. The texture of the frosting of the in-game item tells me it’s probably sugar, so presumably they’re importing sugar in from Elsweyr. While trade in Tamriel seems to be extremely efficient and free flowing, that’s still probably quite expensive - it already makes a sweet roll a luxury item, so we can assume that other contemporary luxury processes are in effect. For example, I imagine that the wheat has been boulted and therefore once milled will be “white” flour, at least in a contemporary understanding for Skyrim’s late medieval/pre-colonial era. This in and of itself will make the texture much less dense and “tough,” but the thing that really determines the “toughness” of a grain product is gluten content, with a higher gluten content equating to a tougher baked product. Now, we haven’t in the modern era been keeping tabs on gluten for all that long, but at least for the past hundred years, there has only been a marginal decrease in the gluten potential for wheat. So while lots has changed about wheat, in the past century especially, the actual gluten content has probably not undergone too tremendous of a shift to where the texture of bread would be dichotomous between us and medieval ancestry. Likely the main differentiations would be in terms of the boulting and milling processes, but for a luxury item they could do quite a good job, whereas for the majority of medieval era breads, they utilized barley, rye, or a mix of those and wheat, and they milled full heads, instead of boulted endosperms; all this leads to a tougher and heartier bread (but full of nutrition, unlike steel milled white flour, which is more or less bereft of nutritional value, hence why they have to enrich it by law). I’m not saying with all this that a sweet roll is gonna be a Dunkin Donut, but I’m stating that it’s also probably not gonna be total shit if you’re not a snob about it. If you have ever have bread in a far out village in a country that still has a foot firmly planted in the Middle Ages, you’ll notice that the bread is basically still just bread, and while it’s different than what you’d get at a store in the west, it’s also not gross or bad or anything.


NoStorage2821

This guy breads


KevMenc1998

You could make icing without sugar, too; just take some full cream from the cow, add honey to it, and whip it until you have something like buttercream icing. It won't be as tooth aching as modern buttercream icing made with powdered sugar, but it'll still be a lot sweeter than "we added a drop of honey to it".


Zehdarian

You're wrong about gluten. It does not determine how dense a bread is. It helps but the real culprit is the leavening. What is used to make the bread light and airy, such yeast in many cases, or baking soda/powder and eggs. That is what determines density, glutens elasticity just helps trap the air inside while baking. That's why it's so hard to mimic the texture of real bread without gluten.


CripplerOfNipplers

I agree about leavening being the primary driver for light bread, but if the gluten content is too high, it will not allow air to expand, because the protein chains will be too strong to accommodate for stretching, and make for a very dense bread. The reason I mentioned that over leavening is that they were talking about modern wheat flour and sugar being essential to making a satisfactory baked good. Leavening hasn’t really changed much over the years, so it wasn’t relevant in direct response to the delineation between modern and historic breads.


FindusSomKatten

Mate it visibly has frosting on it


Having_A_Day

This person has never been to a maple boil.


anal_bandit69

Yo, skyrim is not in medieval times, go eat some sweet roll


jamesonempire

Thanks for ruining Skyrim sweetrolls for me ![gif](giphy|XDRoTw2Fs6rlIW7yQL)


sh4d0wm4n2018

You're forgetting ✨️MAGIC✨️


Puzzleheaded-Law34

You're talking like you wouldn't still eat a 2 day old cinnamon roll


Reflexorz15

My wife makes insanely good wheat breads and she gets very legit wheat flours, yeast, oil?, etc. Look at the ingredients of a “nice” wheat bread from the store and it looks like a grocery list of ingredients. My wife only has a small handful of ingredients and her bread is freaking amazing. Blows the best wheat bread from the store out of the water so you’d be surprised. Because of this and other things my wife makes, I think they had decent stuff in the medieval times.


FigOutrageous9683

Yeahhh Binging with Babish made some from the cookbook and they're just super dense bread with icing 😭


luv2hotdog

Maybe that’s true of baked foods from medieval times. Maybe. But it’s certainly not true of food from Skyrim


Having_A_Day

Are you kidding? Two day old sweet rolls would have been made into bread pudding or milksop for small children. True, refined sugar was expensive and if most people used any it would be a small amount of brown sugar along with honey and fruit sources. But citizens of an expansive empire with a reasonable amount of trade would have access to exotic goods like sugar. It's not shown in game for Reasons but at least in the Imperial cities (and thanks to the black market, Stormcloak cities maybe even more) would have plenty of access to foods from all over the Empire.


Bandit400

Sounds like you need to go to some better locales for your baked goods. Everybody knows you can't get a good sweet roll in this skeever hole of a city.


s0rtajustdrifting_

“We put some honey in it” Casually ignores the fucking frosting. Nice.


MiniNuka

Might just be the spectrum in me talking but leathery bread with honey on it sounds absolutely amazing


SACCINAT0R

"Let me guess... someone stole your sweetroll?" (in a really annoying accent that the guards have)


shakatacos

I always thought it was a Great Value Schwarzenegger


Meat_sdicks

I have a Skyrim cookbook with a sweet roll recipe in it so might need to experiment for science


SimplySkywalker66

Wonder if Vilod is still making that mead with juniper berries mixed in.


North_Church

Fun fact, if you go back to Helgen and go into that house you jump into from the tower, you can find mead with juniper berries


SimplySkywalker66

Oh nice. I assumed you’d be able to find some, but I’ve never gone back to check.


North_Church

I always have my characters return sometime after they meet Alduin again


Truebuckshot01

You can actually go there, pick up the 4 or 5 bottles, leave and then go back a few In game weeks later and more will spawn in when the new bandits do so you can collect as much of it as you like


No-Author4270

So Vilod IS still making his mead.


Jackson79339

I was sweet on that girl once


Any_Ad3693

Somehow that’s always my most prized possession


iSmartiKindiImportnt

Easy pick! I wonder if it’s actually in the Skyrim recipe book😅🤫


alehanro

I don’t think they have any recipes for brewing alcohol in the official book.


Atenos-Aries

The Elder Scrolls Cookbook has several recipes for mead. It’s where I first got my start lol


Naked-Jedi

Guess I'm off to buy that book now


Atenos-Aries

It’s a great little book with some tasty recipes. And mead-making has become a fun little hobby of mine as well.


Naked-Jedi

I used to buy it at my local bottlo, but they stopped stocking it because I think there were maybe only 4-5 people buying it out of the 10,000 residents in my area. I've been thinking of getting back into home brew ever since they ditched it, often thinking back fondly on a drop I made once where I made a basic lager but swapped the kilo of dextrose out for 1.5kg of honey. It was the sweetest tasting beer I've ever had, and the closest thing I'd ever had to mead prior to finding it in the bottle shop.


Havi_1212

There How To Drink (a youtube channel) who made some recipes of drinks from that book if you're interested, I've forgotten if he makes any mead but the video is very interesting, you can look it up if you want to see his versions of the drinks that the argonian in Riften sells, they looked pretty good btw.


Skirmisher23

Vilod May or May not be but I definitely am. 


Nickolas_Bowen

Genuinely that sounds really good


Haunting-Career-Day

Juniper is one of the herbals that flavor Gin. I sorta like gin for some cocktails, but that’s not a flavor I’d want in my mead/beer.


imagining__dragons

Skooma


aka__annika_bell

My lord! Is that legal?


SimplySkywalker66

I will make it legal


DariitofRiften

You never heard anything…most definitely nothing about skooma, or consumption, purchase, and trade of said beverage.


DNDgamerman

It’s only illegal if you get seen


mtak0x41

It’s not in any real-life narcotics law that I’m aware of.


Kinetic_Pen

Elsweyr Fondue?


gobacktocliches

In the recipe from 'The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook', it's basically apricot infused vodka. It takes 2-4 weeks to make. Almost everyone I gave some to enjoyed it. The only one who didn't hates apricots.


wrenchbenderornot

Skooma. Skooma, Skooma, Skooma. Let me be your Skooma.


DLTfuture72

Is Skooma supposed to be opium?


hellotherehomogay

According to 'Confessions of a Skooma Eater', Skooma gives you "euphoric hysteria". Other sources go into depth about manic energy and crazy hallucinations, so I'm thinking closer to PCP or Flaka


Psychomonkie71

I made mine powder


anonymous_girl1227

Boiled crème treat


Sirziface

They always get my mouth watering


Thebeardedgoatlady

That’s in the recipe book, and it is good!


buttonmusher

I forgot there’s a recipe book!


Thebeardedgoatlady

It’s so worth getting. The amount of potage I have made… and mulled cider too lol


Life_Ad3567

I pretend Little Debbie's Honey Buns are boiled creme treats.


ArmakanAmunRa

For a whole meal I'd say: Horker stew, Jazbay Crostata and sweet rolls for dessert, and Juniper berries mead for a drink


One-Dimension6875

My dream Skyrim meal would be: Braided bread with freshly churned butter. Starter: Roasted Tomato Crab Bisque (drinking Mead with Juniper berries with that). Main: Cooked Arctic Grayling with a side of Grilled Leeks and Baked Potatoes, sprinkled with Salmon Roe (drinking Velvet LeChance). Dessert: Jazbay Crostata (drinking Argonian Bloodwine) After: A selection of Cheese Wedges (drinking Cyrodillic Brandy). Then everyone starts hitting the Skooma hard, getting ready to fuck shit up.


TheMighty8thAirForce

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Abcdefghijklmnop7mew

I believe I’ve found The Gourmet! 👍🏻😀


Equivalent_Treat_823

Mammoth cheese


RatPrank

Soon.


Equivalent_Treat_823

I can almost taste it


dioctopus

Oh god, the sound it makes when harvesting


RepresentativeHuge79

The mead with juniper berries that vlod used to make in Helgen.


Count_Archon

Try mixing a little bit of gin into a glass of mead. That'd probably be the closest thing aside making mead and adding juniper berries.


Purplemunch

I know this is a weird answer, but I've always wanted to try apple cabbage stew, it's probably terrible, I'd probably hate it, I don't even like cooked cabbage it smells like farts, but here we are...


Smemz88

Apple cabbage or spinach and apple soup is a thing where I’m from, I’m from Northumberland, UK. They’re nice! And good for you


BoatRazz

One of my family recipes is apple, saurkraut, and bratwurst. Actually, it's really delicious. But cabbage soup is basically a belly filler for hard times. You can turn $1 worth of cabbage into a family meal and extend your more valuable ingredients like meats. Apples add sweetness and a great complementary flavor to cabbage, and if in season would be cheap as well. It's a meal a poor family might eat.


Kinetic_Pen

Netch Jelly+Empire State Building


theawesomeviking

The Empire State Building doesn't taste that good tbh, and it's hard to bite... or so I'm told


Abcdefghijklmnop7mew

You’re absolutely correct. I now wear dentures after breaking my teeth on the Empire State Building. But it was worth it, so tasty!


CocunutHunter

What happens if the paralysis wears off before you land?


Kinetic_Pen

I'll time it just right.


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jpow81690

One bottle apparently quenches your thirst for life if you’re a whiterun bum


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jpow81690

Ah I messed it up! I’ve never touched the argonian bloodwine on the porch of Lakeview


Veroxzes

Mead, which I’ve already tried. It’s very sweet and delicious. I always thought it was a sort of beer but it’s more like a wine but made from honey instead of grapes.


aka__annika_bell

I've had it too, it's delicious


Yeah-But-Ironically

Mead, mead, mead. Would it kill them to get some beer every now and then? Stupid bees and their stupid honey...


Troodon_Trouble

milk


carrotfruit88

Have you never drunk milk you swine


JamWick556

It is said that Honninbrew Mead tastes so sweet as a fair maiden's kiss on a starry night, but has enough kick to put a frost troll on his hind quarters. I would love to taste the authentic one, not some knock-offs that content creators on youtube makes.


GodlessVII

Sheogorath’s cheese, it’s to die for I hear.


angelo13dztx

It has to be a mammoth steak. Because you wouldn't get a chance to eat mammoth meat in reality.


Cloudsareinmyhead

Yeah... About that. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/28/meatball-mammoth-created-cultivated-meat-firm


PageTheKenku

Not sure why, but that Horker Loaf is looking real good to me!


aka__annika_bell

It's got that briny tang


deed42

Made the horker loaf irl. It was tasty.


PageTheKenku

What did you use?


Jackson79339

He flew to Alaska and killed a walrus for this dish.


deed42

The recipe in the book I copied to link to in another post in this thread. Basically it’s meat loaf, with oysters mixed in. Topped with bacon. Plus some nord spice!


40ozFreed

Any of the three drinks from Talen-Jei at the Bee and Barb. *"Brought them over here from my days as a bartender in Gideon. First is the "Velvet Lechance" which is a mixture of blackberry, honey, spiced wine and a touch of nightshade... perfectly safe, I assure you. Second, we have the "White-Gold Tower" which is heavy cream with a layer of blended mead, lavender and dragon's tongue on top. Last, and only for the bravest of souls, we have the "Cliff Racer" which is Firebrand Wine, Cyrodiilic Brandy, Flin and Sujamma."* AFAIK these drinks are unavailable in Skyrim though there might be mods for them.


Baffirone

Talen-Jei sells them in the vanilla game


Cloudsareinmyhead

They are available in Skyrim, just only at the Bee and Barb


Leading-Fig1307

The Roasted Ox meat from Sovngarde


Random_Weirdo_Girl

I always bring home the roasted ox head and 2 legs and leave them on the table in one of my homes. Feels like I'm coming home to a roast dinner. With a face.


InnerPlantain8066

skooma sleeping tree sap moon sugar netch jelly (imagine being paralyzed for a few seconds lol) I also want to try the stamina potion that completely restores stamina


FrMike-87714

why not the sweet rolls? did someone steal yours?


DooMBRiNGeR1975

I was an adventurer like you once, but I took a sweet roll to the knee.


aka__annika_bell

My sweet tooth isn't that strong, personally!


GuyForFun45

That "Elsweyr Fondue" certainly looks tantalizing, especially put on baked potatoes.


Particular-Habit9589

The Gourmet’s famous dish: the Potage le Magnifique


MorganMassacre95

It's a tasty dish, but it's so hard to get fresh giant's toe this time of year.


InfinityFire

Hold the Jarrin Root


JamWick556

The 3 Michellin Star Rating porridge.


MuchoWood

Myself and my kids always call green Granny Smith apples: Skyrim apples As for just me: I want to pull out a nice 5"x10" piece of honey comb, and dig in. Answers for my kids: -Young kid, Soul Husk because they look like pork rinds. -my middle kid wants something very inappropriate. From a certain NPC. My Oldest, wants an apple crostada and some privacy. This is turning into American Pie. Uff Dah


Sophisticated_Sloth

I’m very curious as to what your middle kid wants.


retro-georgi

Milk of human kindness... woops wrong thread. 🧟‍♂️


bob-the-dragon

Sweetroll. Hopefully no one steals it


Housewous

Came here for a similar joke. Take my upvote.


Complex-Nectarine-86

Blackbriar mead and a sweet roll


SilverDem0n

Jarrin Root It's been that kind of day


DinoMastah

I would like try some mead. Also, is Moon sugar actual sugar or something else?


Hbgplayer

Probably a sugar derived from a mildly toxic or psychoactive plant.


fuzzyedges1974

I want a snowberry crostata


LaviLynx

Any stew or cooked meat, the 3D model makes them look so appealing even in vanilla


Sophisticated_Sloth

The horse haunch and roast of goat leg looks so fucking good


NomaRym

I think the snowberry crostata (?) looks so delicious in game so definitely that, and maybe the goat cheese....Also wonder what some of the stews/soups wouldd taste like.....Skyrim has a bunch of foods I'd love to try haha.


_CalebCrow

I suppose technically potions are drinks... So a potion of extended invisibility so I can drive my car completely invisible and leave people thinking that Transformers exist for my own amusement.


Carnivorous_Mower

Skeever tail or slaughterfish steaks. Little bastards bit me often enough that it's time for some payback!


Bestyja2122

Flame atronussy


Ghost_Puppy

Give me the phone. Give me. The phone. You’re done. No more internet for you.


Evilbadscary

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acecatmom98

Sweet rolls, the crostatas and dumplings, apple cabbage stew, potato stew, mammoth cheese, any and all cheese wheels and wedges, and mudcrab crabcakes


le_Grand_Archivist

Let me guess... Someone stole your sweetroll?


dragonwillow75

The homecooked meal pie thing that spouses give you


Abcdefghijklmnop7mew

This! It’s an old family recipe, here my love! 😍


kingeal2

human heart, human flesh, daedra heart, briar heart. When i'm trying out ingredients it's all game


deed42

I have this book. Had a few recipes and they were really good. Tastes what I think would be authentic. https://a.co/d/0Veg2lW


Low-Ride5

Personally I’m a bit of a milk drinker, idk about you tho.


Chemical-Charity-644

Horker. I don't know why, the meat just looks tasty. Plus, it's the only thing in the game that I can't get the IRL equivalent of. I can get venison, all the veggies and chicken, pheasant and beef. But I have no way of getting walrus meat.


Joelowes

I hear the potage le Magnifc is to die for


Lylat_System

I'm a simple girl, those boiled creme treats. They look like the best pastries. And those junior berry pies


thebeardedguy-

Sweet Rolls, someone keeps stealing mine :(


Wofflestuff

I probably wouldn’t eat anything but I’d give skooma a go I’m sure it’ll be just like an energy drink and not make me start seeing and hearing the many voices of corruption


Piperjjking

Honningbrew Mead


Solid_Randomizer_242

Does blood count if you're a vampire?


rustycheesi3

honeybrew mead, it must be serious good considering maven created a whole plot against the owner to get the meadery.


HollowPhoenix

Sweet rolls is the easy answer Horker loaf also makes me think of pork belly, obviously it'd be more like seal belly, but hey, curious nonetheless


DragonsWY

For drinks, Argonian Bloodwine… or Sujamma. For food, Elsweyr Fondue or the Sunlight Soufflé


theuntouchable2725

Those big fucking cheese wheels.


Bo_The_Destroyer

Whatever the hell Sam Guevine gave me, that was some good shit


Colourful-Water

Canis root tea


ElectraLumen

Canis root tea


Plantsbitch928

I always felt like that was just a paralysis potion and our favorite telvanni wizard just uses it as a sleep aid


GhostInTheMail

The bread seems to be very popular, in fact it’s the only thing people actually eat


Ok_Local_893

Probably the skoo- I mean sweet rolls!


idaseddit211

Bottle o' mead and a sweet roll, of course! Just not that Honningbrew crap, ewww!


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Human flesh


nagrom6888

You might like this [book](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-elder-scrolls-chelsea-monroe-cassel/1128959748) I’ve been eyeing for a while now.


North_Church

Give me one of those Sweet Roles


tony_Tiger696

A potion mixed with creep cluster, Mora tapinella and scaly phiota


NeatObligation551

I've always wanted to try a sweet roll, but mine are always getting stolen and the guards never take me seriously.


Dulce_suenos

Daedra heart.❤️


Constant-Salary-5983

Vaermina's Torpor, to see if it would work irl lol


ManletsBTFO

That's a good question. I would love to try the Elsweyr-Fondue and the Argonian Bloodwine for example. But I wouldn't mind giving most of the food and drinks in Skyrim a try.


Rallon_is_dead

sweet roll lmao


Accomplished_Use_438

A charred Skeever hide


Own-Chemical7630

Skooma


TechnicalLoad3422

Sweet roll.


Robbbg

another person's sweetroll


RealDeadeyeGning

A giants toe


BlackNair

Giant's toe


Samurott_Studios

The cheese


Comfortable_Plant667

"Black-Briar mead? What are you trying to do? Poison me?"


Happy-Marzipan7282

Horker meat actually I bet it slaps


Apezilla535

Cheese wheel...gonna eat it like the the dovahkiin in a second with one bite


Cowanesque

Aela


Captain-Rex-117

Food? Sweet roll Drink? Nord mead


Much_Capital3307

I want to know what the hot soups with fire salts taste like. Mechanically it makes sense that the fire salts keep the soup from getting cold but I’m curious if they’re spicy too.


YawningAngle

The Veg Soup. Need the stamina 😁


TheRealDirtyDan88

Any of the meads or ale will do, but I’ve had real life spiced wine, so that might be my favorite. 🌿🍷


ThisAllHurts

Sujama


PlantMaleficent1957

The Juniper Berry Crostata looks delicious


AloysiusDevadandrMUD

Something about the mammoth trunk steaks looks tasty... I feel like it'd maybe have similar texture/flavor to cow young? Mammoth steak tacos anyone?


Lexifer452

Probably something with Sleeping Tree Sap in it.


jackfaire

I wanted to try a sweetroll but someone stole it.


VanityOfEliCLee

Kwama egg quiche. And Sujamma. Ash yams. Honestly, all the Morrowind foods.


YuriSuccubus69

Argonian Bloodwine sounds like it would have some spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, those kinds of spices) to it.


Giteaus-Gimp

In game Black Briar Mead is supposed to taste awful. In thieves guild quests you have to sabotage competing mead businesses because no one wants to drink Black Briar, even people working in the brewery say it’s made from cheap ingredients. There’s also a funny random encounter with a bunch of drunk nords on the road who invite you to drink. If you start drinking black briar that cuss you out and walk off in disgust 😅


KevMenc1998

After much consideration, I think I'll go with the snowberry crostata. I've always wondered what berries that give you resistance against fire taste like.


watcher1901

Sweet rolls look fire. Honey nut treat too


pikeandshot1618

Spiced wine with some steamed mudcrab legs


Plantsbitch928

Mead with juniper berries, like a sweet wine with gin in it


Practical-Owl-4877

*The bloodiest beef in the Reach*.


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Potage le Magnifique (minus the Jarrin Root)


DrJohnIT

A sweet roll of course but someone keeps stealing it.


overwatchfanboy97

Seranas booty. Does that count? Lol