Dichlorin Cake

Dichlorin cake has a mythology around Grayton's Lot. It is known as a traveler's or wayfarer's travel food, made in route, from any of a number of local ingredients. It has many different recipes, and is often created with no recipe at all. Using whatever flour is available, either in stores or made from local sources such as wild grass seed, grain, or even pounded cattail flour. From there, any number of other ingredients can be added, from eggs, sugar, honey, local fruit, or dried fruits for sweet versions of the cake. For savory cakes, their might be ground meat, plants such as spinach or dandilion, or even more exotic but edible foliage. The cake is often cooked on the side of a plank near a fire, but might be baked in a cast iron oven, or directly on hardwood coals.
  The name of the cake has been lost in time. Either it comes from someone's name, Dichlorin, Dick Lorien, or from the bad taste of chlorine in a water source that made it doubly bad. It could even stem from a lost meaning in an older language as dichlorin cake has been around much longer than the Displaced have been in Plane of Karenth.
  The cake can also be found in inns and taverns throughout the Known World. These recipes are much more formal and are often staple food items served alongside any dinner or meal in which bread is used as a side.
  Some taverns have begun to change the name to be more suiting of the ingredients and are where the bread is made. Sometimes it's raspberry cake or raspberry waybread. Other times it's called tavern rolls or tavern loaf.

Cover image: by Elena Ivashchenko

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