Verity's eventual research will tell her that kreyla is a type of Vulcan bread, often sweetened and used as a breakfast item. Jim's more comfortable baking than trying to do anything too complicated, but Earth-made ovens just don't tend to be as hot and dry as the desert stone ovens that they're intended to be baked in.

The captain doesn't interrupt or object, even if he couldn't see how serious this is to her, which he does. When she's done, he pauses a moment to make sure he's got all that, before he responds, truthfully, "I believe you. I've seen enough magic to know that it's real, and that's actually one of the more... straightforward curses I've heard of so far."