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Most of this guide is stolen from the [https://wiki.stonekeep.xyz/index.php/Guide_to_Cooking Stonekeep Wiki] as the cooking system in Ratwood is from there! 

== Basic Interactions ==
Some food items, such as raw steak and fish, can be left-clicked with a knife to mince into chunks. These are useful for then making anything other than cooked steak.

== Wilderness Survival ==
In the wild, you may not have a frying pan or stone oven. It is useful to know that in order to cook raw steak over an open flame such as campfire, you must hold a knife in one hand, then click the fire with the meat in your other hand.

If you'd like to get fancy, combine either ''2 minced meat'' or ''1 minced meat + 1 fat'' into sausage at a wooden table, then heat it the same you would a raw steak: knife in one hand, left click campfire with sausage in the the other. Enjoy wilderness cuisine!~

== Stew: The GOAT ==
'''After 91 days. Stew has been fixed. Praise the Ten.'''

An easy to make food that requires zero knowledge or skill and feeds a LOT of people!

# Make a stone pot from 2 stones
# Use it on a well or fill it with dirty murk water 
# Place it upon a hearth until it boils
# Place 6 ingredients such as cut Potatos, Minced Meat, cut Cabbage, etc (doesn't have to be the same one! Mix and match!)
# Wait a while
# You now have a massive soup that can fill six bowls!

== Equipment ==
In a kitchen, you will need several items:

* '''Table:''' Sounds basic, but foodstuffs need to be sliced on a table. You can't do it on the ground, or in your hand. (But you should be able to do it on a tree stump)
* '''Oven:''' You can feed ovens with wood/cloth or coal and light it with a flint like any other furnace.
* '''Pan:''' Ditto as ovens, except you can fry things over a fire.
* Pot: Fill a pot with water, set it on a hearth, and wait for it to boil - it will make the sound of bubbling water when it's boiling.
* '''Cleaver/knife:''' What you use to cut foodstuff up.
* '''Spoon:''' Used to mix milk and make butter with.
* '''Fork:''' Used to eat food without your hands.
* '''Bucket:''' You can use this to transfer water to powder, and to mix salt with milk.
* '''Platter:''' Used to plate foods (gives small reagent buff currently), you can remove items from a platter with right click.

=== Spoiling ===
Food items left on the ground will spoil eventually, but if an item is inside of a chest (do not leave it in a sack) or on a table it will not! If you want an item to spoil, such as aged cheese, you will have to leave it on the ground.

=== Knowing When It's Done ===
If, for example, you have made a pie and add it to the oven to bake, it will take a brief amount of time to be finished baking. Don't leave the room while something is cooking. You will know when your food item is done by the chat notification <code>Something smells good!</code> and a subtle change in the food sprite in the oven.

If you don't take the food out of the oven (or pan) fast enough, your item will turn into a '''burned mess'''. This is not edible by anyone! Make sure to watch your cooking food! Seriously, burned mess is more potent than POISON.

== Basic Ingredients ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Powder || Flour. Grind grain from wheat on a millstone.
|-
| Dough || Add water to 1 flour. Click on unfinished dough to knead. Add 1 flour.
|-
| Butterdough || Add 1 slice of butter to 1 dough.
|-
| Butter || Add 1oz salt to 4oz milk. Stir with spoon. Slice with cleaver/knife to create sliced butter.
|-
| Fresh cheese || Add 1oz salt to 4oz milk. Strain through 1 cloth up to 3 times.
|-
| Cheese wheel || Add 4 fresh cheese to 1 cloth. Wait.
|-
| Aged cheese wheel || Allow cheese wheel to age.
|-
| Mince meat || While holding cleaver/knife, set intent to '''CHOP''' for red meat or raw bird leg, '''CUT''' for a plucked bird. Double-click on raw bird '''OR''' raw meat '''OR''' raw fish. A plucked bird will require one '''CUT''' to get bird legs, and then '''CHOP''' to get mince.
|}

== Oven Recipes ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Pies || Slice butterdough. Roll both butterdough slices to make pie dough. Place 1 pie dough in oven until it has become a pie shell. Add 3 minced bird/meat/fish OR jackberries OR cackleberries OR apples. Add the other pie dough to the unfinished pie. Bake in oven until finished. Slice to get pie slices.
|-
|Cakes
|Add cackleberry to butterdough. Bake in oven until finished. Slice to get cake slices.
You can bake it plain or add the following for different cakes:
- Cheese for cheese cake
- Spider Honey for Zybantine cakes
- Berries for Venus cake
- Apple + berries (hold in both hands and click on cake) for fruit cake
- Sugar for iced cake.
|-
| Field pie || Bake 1 pie dough slice and 1 minced bird/meat OR apple OR cheese.
|-
| Bread || Bake 1 finished dough. You can use a knife or cleaver on it to get bread slices. You can combine fried cackleberries with slices to make eggtoast, a butter slice to make buttered toast, and sliced salumoi to get salumoi bread.
|-
|Raisin bread
|Add 3 raisins to 1 finished dough and bake. You can slice the loaf to get raisin bread slices.
|-
| Bun || Bake 1 smalldough.
|-
|Cheese bun
|Add 1 slice of fresh cheese to 1 smalldough. Bake.
|-
|Hardtack
|Roll 1 finished dough and bake.
|-
| Honeybun || Add 1 honey to 1 bun and bake.
|-
| Frysteak || Bake 1 raw meat. Can also be cooked in the pan.
|-
| Frybird || Bake 1 raw bird. Can also be cooked in the pan.
|-
|Baked potato
|Bake 1 potato.
|-
|Bird-roast
|Bake 1 plucked bird. You can add pepper to make it a spiced bird-roast.
|-
|Sweet Roll
|Bake a small butterdough slice. Grind a beet to get sugar and sprinkle on top of the dough when cooked.
|}
== Pan Recipes ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Fryegg || Fry 1 cackleberry. You can add another fried cackleberry to create fried cackleberries, and add pepper to create spiced cackleberries.
|-
| Fried onions || Slice 1 onion and fry.
|-
| Fried cabbage || Slice 1 cabbage. Fry 1 sliced cabbage.
|-
|Fried potatoes
|Slice 1 potato and fry.
|-
|Frybread
|Fry 1 butterdough slice.
|-
|Handpie
|Roll 1 butterdough slice. Add 1 meat mince OR 1 jackberry
|-
|Pancake
|Fry one flat dough.
|}
== Combined Recipes ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Onion steak || Add 1 fried onion to 1 frysteak.
|-
| Peppersteak || Add 1oz pepper to 1 frysteak.
|-
|Tatos and bird
|Add frybird to baked potato.
|-
| Sausage on a cabbage bed || Add 1 cooked sausage to 1 fried cabbage.
|-
|Wiener on tato
|Add 1 cooked sausage to 1 fried potato wedges.
|-
|Wiener and potato and onions
|Add 1 fried onions to wiener on tato.
|-
|Wiener and fried onions
|Add 1 cooked sausage to 1 fried onions.
|-
|Scalloped Potatoes
|Add 1 fried potatoes to 1 cheese wedge.
|-
|Pancake stack
|Combine 2 pancakes together.
|-
| Biscuit || Add 1 butter slice to 1 smalldough.
|-
|Dogroll
|Add 1 cooked sausage to 1 bun.
|-
|Cackleberry bread
|Add 1 fried cackleberry to 1 slice of bread.
|-
|Salumoi bread
|Slice salumoi. Add 1 slice of salumoi to 1 slice of bread.
|-
|Sausage roll
|1 flour and 1 mince meat. Cook in oven.
|}
== Drying Rack Recipes ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
| Raisin || Hold 1 jacksberry near drying rack. Raisins made from poison jacksberries are still poisonous.
|-
| Copiette || Hold frysteak and salt while near drying rack.
|-
| Salumoi || Hold raw sausage and salt while near drying rack.
|-
| Salo || Hold fat and salt while near drying rack.
|-
|}

== Shell-Fish Based Seafoods: ==
These meals are made using shellfish caught using Fishing cages.
{|
|Lobster Meal
|Slice of butter and a Cooked Lobster
|-
|Shrimp Gumbo
|Two cooked shrimps, some cabbage and an onions slice with a bowl (Use the Crafting Menu)
|-
|Crab Cake
|Raw crab, cover it with small dough, and then throw it on the oven or fry it for a bit.
|-
|Oyster Chowder
|One opened oyster, some powder (flour), and a sliced onion with a bowl.
|}

== Prison Wine ==
Wines and ciders are very simple in practice, and only require two things: the fruit being used and a barrel.

The barrel may have water in it, but be aware that the end product '''will''' be diluted.

To start the fermenting process, simply click to insert the fruit into the barrel, then wait for the bacteria to do the work!

* Wine - Jacksberries.
* Cider - Apples.
* Ale - Wheat or Oat grains.

Each addition of fruit or grains will make 4oz of end product