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Commodity illustration: Sesame

Category:Provisions

Sesame from Turkey

Standard price
125 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
80 pieces of eight
Scarcity
150 pieces of eight

Export regions

Sesame consists of small, flat, oil-rich seeds, pale or dark according to the kind. They are shipped dry, ready to be used whole, ground or sent to an oil press.

Cooks add them to food, including cakes described in seventeenth-century China. The seeds develop in capsules on the plant, then are gathered and sorted after harvest. A merchant's lot still contains the whole seed, leaving its buyer to choose between food and oil making.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 529, 530.

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.