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Fruits
DIR By: Jinxed
Date: August 11, 2022, 6:46 pm
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A description of what they are, along with how served, and a
quote from the book
Some, may only contain a quote
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Fruits
Apricots:
as on earth, references exist of the fruit being sold in
marketplaces of the Tahari.
How they can be used:
a.) jams, tarts
b.) used as a meat glaze
c.) fresh, dried and pies
Quote:
I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. *Tribesmen
of Gor, pg 45
Here and there I heard vendors hawking goods. One had pastries,
another sweets. Another fellow, somewhere, was selling apricots.
*Witness of Gor, pg 422
Bar Fruit:
Quote:
One, too, dug him tubers, wild suls, and the other brought him
tree fruit, kernelled pods which dangle from the Bar tree,
native, as we understand it, neither to Earth or Gor. *Kur of
Gor, pg 183
Berries:
Quote:
A swallow of water from the flask and small, dry berries
gathered from the nearby shrubbery were our only sustenance.
*Tarnsman of Gor, pg 115
"I have fled from those men for six days," wept the girl,
"living on berries and insects, sleeping in ditches, hiding,
running." *Outlaw of Gor, pg 57
Blueberries:
very rare, smuggled to Gor from Earth. No actual reference in
the books, but could be placed under berries.
How they are used:
a.) used as on earth
Quote:
Smuggled to Gor from Earth. Very rare. (there is no actual
reference so far with Blueberries however there is a reference
to berries and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts
of melons. *Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37
Bush Fruit:
Quote:
But wines, as is well known, may be derived not only from the
clustered fruits weighting the branches of the ka-la-na tree in
the autumn, but, as on my former world, from vine fruit, tree
fruit, bush fruit, even from some types of leaves. *Smugglers
of Gor, pg 295
Cherries and choke cherries: Grown in Tyros. like earth
cherries. choke cherries mentioned in Blood Brothers of Gor pg
46, as an ingredient in Pemmican. No other specific description
nor indication of where they are grown
How they can be used:
a.) pies, jams, tarts and fresh
b.) used in pemmican
Quote on Cherries:
Some slave cosmetics are flavored. "Does Master enjoy my taste?"
she asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I know," she
said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said. *Beasts
of Gor, pg 349
Quote on Choke Cherries:
The current moon was Takiyuhawi, the moon in which the tabuk
rut. It is sometimes known also as Canpasapawi, or the moon when
the chokecherries are ripe. *Blood Brothers of Gor, pg 5
Dates:
from Tor. much like earth dates
How it can be used:
a.) cookies, cakes, salads
b.) fruit and nut platters
Quote:
The principal export of the oases are dates and pressed-date
bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet
high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They
will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree,
annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A
weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds. *Tribesmen
of Gor, pg 37
Dried Berries:
Quote:
She carried a bowl of dried berries. *Beasts of Gor, pg 301
Dried Fruit:
Quote:
In these first voyages I was content, quite, to carry tools and
stone, dried fruit, dried fish, bolts of rep-cloth, tem-wood,
Tur-wood and Ka-la-na stock, and horn and hides. *Raiders of
Gor, pg 138
The men are fed twice, once in the morning, once at night, when
the hood is opened, and thrust up some inches to permit eating.
Food is thrust in their mouths. It was generally dried fruit,
crackers and a bit of salt, to compensate for the salt loss
during the day's march, consequent on perspiration. *Tribesmen
of Gor, pg 226
Dried Larma:
Quote:
He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum.
*Kajira of Gor, pg 216
About the beasts' necks, and behind the saddles, hung panniers
of grain and sacks of woven netting containing dried larmas and
brown suls. *Mercenaries of Gor, pg 36
Dried Tospit:
Quote:
On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down
in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on
the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled,
yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which
grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the
drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but
edible. *Nomads of Gor, pg 59
Fried Larma:
Quote:
"Another bit of larma, Master?" asked the slave, kneeling behind
me and to my left. I turned and, from where I sat cross-legged
behind the low table, removed a small, crisp disk of fried
larma, with a browned-honey sauce, from the silver tray.
*Guardsman of Gor, pg 231
Fruit:
Quote:
The fruit grapes and peaches of some sort was fresh and as cold
as mountain snow. *Tarnsman of Gor, pg 26
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the
greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a
member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the
three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts
grain upon the stone and drops of a red winelike drink made from
the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. *Tarnsman of Gor, pg 68
Gim Berries:
Quote:
I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many
things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah,
parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants
whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat
ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron fruit whose
shells might be broken between rocks, and autumn gim berries,
purple and juicy, perhaps named for the bird, whose cast fruit
lies under the snow, the seeds surviving until spring, when one
in a thousand might germinate.. . .The berries are tasty. They
do mark the tongue and, if one is not careful, the mouth.
*Smugglers of Gor, pg 243
Grapes:
Quote:
The meal was completed by a handful of grapes and a draught of
water from the wall tap. The grapes were purple and, I suppose,
Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos
some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar. I had tasted some only
once before, having been introduced to them at a feast given in
my honor by Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna. If they
were indeed Ta grapes I supposed they must have come by galley
from Cos to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the Fair of En'Kara.
Port Kar and Cos are hereditary enemies, but such traditions
would not be likely to preclude some profitable smuggling. But
perhaps they were not Ta grapes for Cos was far distant, and
even if carried by tarns, the grapes would probably not seem so
fresh. *Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 45
Hard Fruit:
Quote:
There was the odor of food in the kitchen, and of spilled drink.
There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; canisters of
flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and
condiments. Two large wine jugs in one corner of the room. There
were many closed pantries lining the walls, and a number of
pumps and tubs on side. Some boxes and baskets of hard fruit
were stored there. *Assassin of Gor, pg 271
Hard Larma:
Quote:
I took a slice of hard larma from my tray. This is a firm,
single-seeded, applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the
segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps more
aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone.
*Players of Gor, pg 267
Iron Fruit:
Quote:
I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many
things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah,
parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants
whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat
ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron fruit whose
shells might be broken between rocks, and autumn gim berries,
purple and juicy, perhaps named for the bird, whose cast fruit
lies under the snow, the seeds surviving until spring, when one
in a thousand might germinate. *Smugglers of Gor, pg 243
Ka-la-na:
sweet red fruit from the ka-la-na tree of the plains. used to
make wine and garnish drinks.
Quote:
"Over there," I said, "are some Ka-la-na trees. Wait here and
I'll gather some fruit." *Tarnsman of Gor, pg 96
Larma:
like an apple, single seeded with a hard shell, sweet juicy
fruit center. sometimes called pit fruit because of the large
single stone. two varieties mentioned in the books. onced called
the hard larma (Pit fruit) and the other called the juicy larma.
It is said that if a slave girl offers a larma to her Master,
she is silently begging him to use her sexually.
How it can be used:
a.) fresh
b.) fruit trays or fried with honey sauce
Quote:
He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with
a sound that seemed partly crunching as he went through the
shell, partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented
endocarp.. . .Harold tossed the emptied, collapsed shell of the
larma fruit into a corner of the room and whipped one of the
scarves from his belt. *Nomads of Gor, pg 220
Melon and celane melon:
yellow red striped sphere. different varieties are mentioned in
the books, though there is only one description of melons. they
are also mentioned as being one of the fruits grown in the
Schendi area.
celane melon - similar to honeydew melon
How it can be used:
a.) served fresh and chilled like on earth
Quote:
At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted
to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans,
berries, onions tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated
leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such
as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder
varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick-skinned,
sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the
interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
*Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37
Pears:
similar to pears on earth.
a.) served as on earth
Quote:
In her hand there was a half of a yellow Gorean pear, the
remains of a half moon of verr cheese imbedded in it.
*Explorers of Gor, pg 62
Pit Fruit:
Quote:
I took a slice of hard larma from my tray. This is a firm,
single-seeded, applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the
segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps more
aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone.
. . .
I broke off a piece of the pit fruit and handed it to him. He
ate it quickly, watching me. *Players of Gor, pg 267-268
Peaches:
similar to earth peaches.
How it can be used:
a.) served as on earth
Quote:
On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down
in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on
the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled,
yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which
grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the
drier valleys of the western Cartius. *Nomads of Gor, pg 59
Plums:
similar to earth plums
How it can be used:
a.) served as on earth
Quote:
I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle
stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even
looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out,
protecting her merchandise. *Tribesmen of Gor, pg 45
Pomegranate:
orchards of pomegranate are found growing at the Oasis of Red
Rock. similar to earths.
How it can be used:
a.) served as on earth
Quote:
From outside I could smell date palms, pomegranates. *Tribesmen
of Gor, pg 115
Pumpkin:
Quote:
"Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to
exist within their domains," she said. "The individuals in these
communities are bound to the son and owned collectively by the
tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live. They grow
produce for their masters, such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize, or
corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash. *Savages of Gor,
pg 233-234
Raisins:
for any who do not realize this, raisins are dried grapes. as
the grapes on Gor might not have the exact taste of earth
grapes, raisins might be slightly different than what we're used
to.
How it can be used:
a.) dried grapes
b.) added to stews, baked in cookies and breads
Quote:
I had, had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod,
with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with
raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and
nutmeg, hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine.
*Tribesmen of Gor, pg 47-48
Ram berries:
small red fruit native to Gor.
How it can be used:
a.) used in tarts, pies, cookies, cakes
b.) served fresh, and ram berries and cream
Quote:
A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our
leather buckets with ram-berries, a small, reddish fruit with
edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small
seeds. I had picked such berries before, with Targo's caravan.
Indeed, the first fruit on Gor I had eaten had been such
berries. *Captive of Gor, pg 305
Ta-grapes:
purple grapes grown on the terraces from the Isle of Cos. like
earth grapes.
How it can be used:
a.) used to make wine and fruit trays
Quote:
The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower
vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred
pasangs from Port Kar. *Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 45
Tospit:
Small yellow peachy fruit bitter tasting and holds a large
number of seeds. Because of the bitter taste they are served
candied or sliced dipped in honey.
How it can be used:
a.) served candied, dipped in honey
b.) use the juice with butter over foods
c.) thin slices to garnish.
Quote:
On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down
in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on
the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled,
yellowish-white peach like fruit, about the size of a plum,
which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous
to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but
edible. *Nomads of Gor, pg 59
Tree Fruit:
Quote:
But wines, as is well known, may be derived not only from the
clustered fruits weighting the branches of the ka-la-na tree in
the autumn, but, as on my former world, from vine fruit, tree
fruit, bush fruit, even from some types of leaves. *Smugglers
of Gor, pg 295
Vine Fruit:
Quote:
But wines, as is well known, may be derived not only from the
clustered fruits weighting the branches of the ka-la-na tree in
the autumn, but, as on my former world, from vine fruit, tree
fruit, bush fruit, even from some types of leaves. *Smugglers
of Gor, pg 295
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