KLAH
Quotes from the DLG (2nd ed.)
A hearty plant with delicious pungent smelling bark passed the scientists'
toxicity test. An infusion of the bark proved to taste as good as it smelled,
like a cross between chocolate and coffee with a spicy aftertaste. To produce
a strong enough infusion to drink, they ground up some of the bark and brewed
it like coffee. In time, both the tree and the drink came to be known as klah."
(p. 7)
Klahbark was popular not only infused as a drink, but sprinkled on to dishes as a spice.
(p. 73)
This spicy drink is generally served hot, possibly with milk and/or sweetening,
sometimes with a splash of warming liquor. It is brewed from the bark of a
native tree. The taste is something like cinnamony chocolate, with a touch of
hazelnut and coffee. It can be drunk cold, but the preferred taste is warm.
Klah contains a stimulant like caffeine and is used as a morning drink.
(p. 78)
beer � vies with klah for the most commonly quaffed beverage in Benden Weyr.
(p. 103)
Everyone drinks klah which is brewed fro the bark of local shrubs.*
(p. 106)
The Hold (Benden) raises its own klah trees. Everyone but infants drinks klah.
(p. 109)
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*Actually, klah is a tree cropped at around 6� tall (2 meters) and
cultivated to �bush out� for harvesting ease and planting health.
