The Art of Cooking

By Lady Aalia, August 2009

Magical Fish Pies

So you wish to tackle culinary arts?

Very well…

All you have to do in order to gain cooking is cook. Cook, cook and cook until you never want to cook again.

You can buy cooking skill from Bakers, Cooks and Herbalists.

Before you start training make sure your character has everything you need on him. For many of the preparations you must me near a heating source like:

• Oven
• Forge
• Campfire
• Heating stand
• Fireplace

You will need a tool: The rolling pin The flour sifter The skillet

Many of the ingredients needed to cook you can buy from:

• Cooks sell the all-important cooking tools (flour sifters, skillets and rolling pins) as well as bread, pies, cakes, muffins, cheese, cooked birds, legs of lamb, chicken legs, misc. vegetables in bowls, soup, stew, roast pigs, sacks of flour, and honey.
• Bakers sell bread, pies, cakes, muffins, French bread, cookies, pizzas, honey, sacks of flour [20 uses ea], and bowls of flour [1 use ea].
• Beekeepers sell honey
• Butchers sell bacon, bacon slabs (sometimes), ham, sausage, raw chicken legs, raw birds, raw legs of lamb, and raw cuts of ribs.
• Farmers sell pumpkins, eggs, pitchers of milk, apples, pears, peaches, and other misc. fruit/vegetables.
• Innkeepers sell misc. beverages, glass pitchers, bread, cheese, cooked birds, legs of lamb, chicken legs, cuts of ribs, misc. vegetables in bowls, soup, stew, pies, apples, pears, and other misc. fruit/vegetables.
• Provisioner sells bread, legs of lamb, chicken legs, cooked birds, misc. beverages, apples, and pears.
• Ranchers sell apples, pears, peaches, pumpkins, eggs, and other misc. fruit/vegetables.
• Tavern keepers sell misc. beverages, glass pitchers, bread, cheese, cooked birds, legs of lamb, misc. vegetables in bowls, soup, and pies.
• Waiters/Waitresses sell misc. beverages, glass pitchers, bread, cheese, cooked birds, legs of lamb, misc. vegetables in bowls, soup, stew, and pies.

Others you can gather on your own:

• Sack of Flour: Using wheat, and a cooking toolTo do this, you will need wheat, obtained from a farmer’s field (eg. those outside Britain & Skara Brae). Place the wheat, and a cooking tool in your pack, and while standing next to a flour mill (either one placed as a house add on deed made by a player carpenter or one in public NPC bakery), double click the cooking tool, and use the Ingredients, sack of flour option in the menu.Grinding wheat interactively with the flour millTo produce flour by this method, you must have at least 4 sheaves of wheat in your pack. Stand next to a flour mill. Double click the wheat in your pack, and then click on the “hopper” of the mill to add it. It loads 2 sheaves at a time. It requires 2 loadings (i.e. a total of 4 sheaves) to make a sack of flour. After you have loaded 4 sheaves of wheat, double click the crank wheel portion of the flour mill. It will spin around a few times, and a sack of flour will drop out of the chute. (If you have not added enough wheat, it will give you a message asking for more).
• Vegetables:You can gather vegetables like turnips, lettuce, cabbage, carrots and onions on Britannia’s farmer fields (Cove, Skara Brae)
• Vegetables, Meats & Fruits: You can steal a lot of cooking ingredients from crates in provisioner and farmer shops if you have stealing on a character.
• Fruit: Apples and Peaches can be gathered off the heritage token trees
• Meat:Most of the animals in UO will drop uncooked meat when killed and skinned
  • Sheep: leg of lamb
  • Cow: cut of raw ribs
  • Chicken: raw bird
  • Hind: cut of raw ribs
  • Boar: cut of raw ribs
  • Fish: raw fish steak
• Milk:Double click an empty pitcher and then a cow
• Honey: the Spring Cleaning reward Beehive will give you 1 honeypot a day
• Water: Water pitchers can be filled from the sea (at certain locations, i.e. off a bridge), water barrels, water troughs and pools of blood (yuck!).
• Chocolate Ingredients:Cocoa can be grown from Cocoa trees and the other ingredients come off paragon Monsters in Ilshnar

Ingredients:

Combine		With		Create
	Wheat		Mill		Sack of flour
	Water		Flour		Dough
	Dough		Honey		Sweet dough
	Sweet dough		Flour		Cake mix
	Sweet dough		Honey		Cookie mix
	Flour		Raw Fish (8)		Fish Oil Flask
	Flour	+	Water & empty bottle		Wheat Wort

Preparations:

Combine		With		Create
	Dough		Egg		Uncooked quiche
	Dough		Raw meat		Unbaked meat pie
	Dough		Sausage		Uncooked sausage pizza
	Dough		Cheese		Uncooked cheese pizza
	Dough		Pear		Unbaked fruit pie
	Dough		Peaches		Unbaked peach cobbler
	Dough		Apple		Unbaked apple pie
	Dough		Pumpkin		Unbaked pumpkin pie
	Water		Green tea		Green tea
	Water		Bowls of peas (3)		Wasabi clumps
	Water		Raw Fish (10)		Sushi rolls
	Water		Raw Fish (10)		Sushi platter
	Heat Source		Board		Charcoal
Please Note: Green tea requires the proximity of an oven, the only ‘preparation’ other than charcoal to need a heat source

Baking:

Combine		With		Create
			Dough		Bread loaf
	Heat Source		Cookie mix		Pan of cookies
			Cake mix		Cake
			Sweet dough		Muffins
	Heat Source		Uncooked quiche		Baked quiche
			Unbaked meat pie		Baked meat pie
			Uncooked sausage pizza		Sausage pizza
	Heat Source		Uncooked cheese pizza		Cheese pizza
			Unbaked fruit pie		Baked fruit pie
			Unbaked peach cobbler		Baked peach cobbler
	Heat Source		Unbaked apple pie		Baked apple pie
			Unbaked pumpkin pie		Baked pumpkin pie

	Heat Source		Water		Raw Fish		Miso Soup
			Water		Raw Fish		White Miso Soup
			Water		Raw Fish		Red Miso Soup
			Water		Raw Fish		Awase Miso Soup

Barbeque:

Combine		With		Create
	Raw Bird		Heat Source		Cooked Bird
	Raw Chicken Leg		Heat Source		Chicken Leg
	Raw fish steak		Heat source		Fish steak
	Eggs		Heat Source		Fried Eggs
	Raw Leg of Lamb		Heat Source		Leg of Lamb
	Raw ribs		Heat source		Cut of ribs

Training:

Cooking raw fish steaks and Meat are a good way to level up since you can cook an entire stack at a time and collect multiple gains while doing so. Another good way to gain in skill is making bread. It will take you from 0 to Gm without having to go out and hunt for ingredients. There are 4 different types of cooking that have different requirements for cooking: Ingredients – Can be done anywhere, does not require the presence of a heat source Preparations – Can be done anywhere, does not require the presence of a heat source Baking – Requires the presence of an oven Barbecue – Requires the presence of any heat source on the floor.

The cooking skill is quite useful with the ability to make enchanted foods, smoke bombs and tribal paint plus you can make a bit of extra money selling the food you cook on a vendor. Plus, eating food, particularly filling foods like ribs will recover a portion of lost stamina, much like a refresh potion. Being full also allows stamina and life to recover at a faster rate on its own. Once you have become a GM Chef you can put your makers mark on any of your dishes you create. Experienced chefs are able to create “enchanted” foods that have various potent effects. Some other foods may have unusual effects, such as alcoholic beverages. Also, remember what your mother told you – don’t eat too many sweets, or you’ll ruin your teeth!

Special Foods:

• Tribal paint has gotten a lot of success due to Baracoon the Piper, the Champion boss of the Vermin spawn. Wearing tribal paint prevents your character from being turned into a rat so it is perfectly understandable why champion hunters would want to be wearing some. Since the paint wears out upon death, there is a good demand for it.It also keeps savages at bay since they won’t attack you when you wear it, try not to attack them while wearing paint though, it will burn of your skin and cause a good amount of damage to you.
• Enchanted Foods give you small bonuses:
  • Enchanted apples:Enchanted apples remove curses from your character14 sec timer
  • Grapes of Wrath:When eaten, you’ll receive this message:The grapes of wrath invigorate you for a short time, allowing you to deal extra damage.You get 10% damage increase for 20 seconds. This shows up in your Status Bar under the weapon damage range. It will increase when you eat the grapes and decrease when their effect expires.2 minute timer
  • Fruit Bowls:Fruit bowls give a temporary bonus of about +5% to your character’s stats when eaten, similar to the effects of the Bless spell. This lasts around two minutes.
• Egg bombs are a must for any real ninja
• Parrot wafers for the bird fans
• Then for the romanticist in you, there is the art of Chocolatiering
• With the Food Decoration Tool you can mark your masterpieces with little messages; works on:
  • Exeptional cakes
  • Exeptional cookies
  • Exeptional pizza

Combine		With				Create
	Flour		Tribal Berry				Savage Kin Paint
	Flour		Eggs				Smoke Bomb
	Sweet dough		Fish				Parrot Wafer
	Dough		Honey				Food Decoration Tool
	Apple		Greater Heal Potion				Enchanted Apple
	Grapes		Greater Strength Potion				Grapes of Wrath
	Banana		Pear and		Apple		Fruit Bowl

Combine								Create
	Sack of Sugar		Cocoa butter		Cocoa Liquor				Dark Chocolate
	Sack of Sugar		Cocoa butter		Cocoa Liquor		Pitcher of Milk		Milk Chocolate
	Sack of Sugar		Cocoa butter		Pitcher of Milk		Vanilla		White Chocolate

Magical Fish Pies:

Combine				Create
	Heat Source		Dough great barracuda steak zoogie fungus Mento Seasoning		great barracuda pie Eat to increase hit chance: 8
			Dough giant koi steak bowl of peas Mento Seasoning		giant koi pie Eat to increase Defence Chance: 8
			Dough Fire Fish Steak carrots Samuel’s Secret Sauce		fire fish pie Eat to soak fire damage: 5
			Dough stone crab meat head of cabbage Samuel’s Secret Sauce		stone crab pie Eat to soak physical damage: 5
			Dough blue lobster meat Tribal Berries Samuel’s Secret Sauce		blue lobster pie Eat to soak cold damage:5
			Dough reaper fish steak Pumpkin Samuel’s Secret Sauce		reaper fish pie Eat to soak poison damage: 5
			Dough crystal fish steak Apples Samuel’s Secret Sauce		crystal fish pie Eat to soak energy damage: 5
			Dough bull fish steak squash Mento Seasoning		bull fish pie Eat to increase melee damage: 5
			Dough summer dragonfish steak onions Mento Seasoning		summer dragonfish pie Eat to increase spell damage: 5
			Dough fairy salmon steak ear of corn dark truffle		fairy salmon pie Eat to increase casting focus: 2
			Dough lava fish steak cheese dark truffle		lava fish pie Eat to increase Soulcharge ability: 5
			Dough autumn dragonfish steak Pears Mento Seasoning		autumn dragonfish pie Eat to increase meditation skill: 10
			Dough spider crab meat 1 head of lettuce 1 Mento Seasoning		spider crab pie Eat to increase focus skill: 10
			Dough yellowtail barracuda steak bottle of wine Mento Seasoning		yellowtail barracuda pie Eat to increase Hp regeneration: 3
			Dough holy mackeral steak honey Mento Seasoning		holy mackeral pie Eat to increase mana regeneration: 3
			Dough unicorn fish steak Fresh Ginger Mento Seasoning		unicorn fish pie Eat to increase stamina regeneration: 3

Special recipes:

• Gingerbread Cookie Recipe:

Combine		With				Create
	Cookie mix		Fresh Ginger				Gingerbread Man