Silkhorn Parcel

A Silkhorn Parcel is a traditional silkfarmer’s breakfast named for the Silkhorn District of Okahn, where it is a local specialty. Its humble single-person origins have since evolved into a more lavish, larger, and more expensive meal typically designed to serve a group.
The ‘parcel’ comes from the box-with-cloth presentation, wherein a hearth-warmed slab or stone is placed in the box beneath the cloth, the food placed in the cloth, and the cloth tucked closed before the box is lidded – silkfarmers would prepare this in the early hours of the morning and the stone would keep the food warm for the breakfast following the initial work of the morning.
At its simplest and historically, it contains a dried meat (traditionally fish), a vegetable omelet, and a prepared fruit. In more recent renditions it consists of sweetened bachal dumplings (half of the breakfast’s expense is due to the wheat flour a rolled omelet with tasselhead squash flowers, bitter tomato and mushrooms; a sliced dried fish fillet; and a berry compote (traditionally ikerua berries) with fried sweetened pastry strips.

Item type

Consumable, Food / Drink

Rarity

Common