Guide to Cooking

Most of this guide is stolen from the 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

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

1. Make a stone pot from 2 stones
2. Use it on a well or fill it with dirty murk water
3. Place it upon a hearth until it boils
4. Please 3 ingredients such as Potatos, Minced Meat, Cabbage, etc etc (doesn't have to be the same one! Mix and match!)
5. Wait a while
6. 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.
• Oven: You can feed ovens with wood 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.
• Bucket: You can use this to transfer water to powder, and to mix salt with milk.

Spoiling

Food items left on the ground will spoil, but if an item is inside of a chest or on a table it will not! If you want an item to spoil, such as if you want to age 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 Something smells good! 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

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	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

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. Add fresh cheese OR honeycomb. Bake in oven until finished. Slice to get cake slices.
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.

Pan Recipes

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 OR 1 truffle.

Combined Recipes

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.
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.

Drying Rack Recipes

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.

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