Cooking Essay
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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
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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: Originally from paragon Monsters in Ilshenar the ingredients can now be obtained from plants, Cocoa can be grown from Cocoa trees, Sugar from Sugar Cane and Vanilla from Vanilla plants. Seeds to grow these plants can be found on various monsters, listed here
Ingredients:
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Wheat |
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Mill |
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Sack of flour |
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Water |
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Flour |
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Dough |
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Dough |
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Honey |
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Sweet dough |
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Sweet dough |
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Flour |
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Cake mix |
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Sweet dough |
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Honey |
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Cookie mix |
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Flour |
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Raw Fish (8) |
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Fish Oil Flask |
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Flour |
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Water & empty bottle |
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Wheat Wort |
Preparations:
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Dough |
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Egg |
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Uncooked quiche |
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Dough |
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Raw meat |
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Unbaked meat pie |
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Dough |
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Sausage |
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Uncooked sausage pizza |
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Dough |
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Cheese |
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Uncooked cheese pizza |
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Dough |
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Pear |
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Unbaked fruit pie |
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Dough |
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Peaches |
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Unbaked peach cobbler |
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Dough |
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Apple |
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Unbaked apple pie |
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Dough |
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Pumpkin |
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Unbaked pumpkin pie |
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Water |
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Green tea |
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Green tea |
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Water |
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Bowls of peas (3) |
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Wasabi clumps |
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Water |
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Raw Fish (10) |
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Sushi rolls |
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Water |
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Raw Fish (10) |
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Sushi platter |
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Heat Source |
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Board |
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Charcoal |
Baking:
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Dough |
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Bread loaf |
Heat Source |
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Cookie mix |
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Pan of cookies |
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Cake mix |
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Cake |
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Sweet dough |
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Muffins |
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Uncooked quiche |
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Baked quiche |
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Unbaked meat pie |
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Baked meat pie |
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Uncooked sausage pizza |
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Sausage pizza |
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Uncooked cheese pizza |
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Cheese pizza |
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Unbaked fruit pie |
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Baked fruit pie |
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Unbaked peach cobbler |
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Baked peach cobbler |
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Unbaked apple pie |
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Baked apple pie |
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Unbaked pumpkin pie |
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Baked pumpkin pie |
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Heat Source |
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Water |
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Raw Fish |
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Miso Soup |
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Water |
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Raw Fish |
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White Miso Soup |
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Water |
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Raw Fish |
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Red Miso Soup |
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Water |
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Raw Fish |
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Awase Miso Soup |
Barbeque:
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Raw Bird |
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Heat Source |
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Cooked Bird |
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Raw Chicken Leg |
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Heat Source |
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Chicken Leg |
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Raw fish steak |
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Heat source |
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Fish steak |
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Eggs |
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Heat Source |
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Fried Eggs |
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Raw Leg of Lamb |
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Heat Source |
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Leg of Lamb |
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Raw ribs |
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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.
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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
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Flour |
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Tribal Berry |
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Savage Kin Paint |
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Flour |
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Eggs |
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Smoke Bomb |
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Sweet dough |
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Fish |
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Parrot Wafer |
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Dough |
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Honey |
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Food Decoration Tool |
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Apple |
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Greater Heal Potion |
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Enchanted Apple |
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Grapes |
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Greater Strength Potion |
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Grapes of Wrath |
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Banana |
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Pear and |
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Apple |
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Fruit Bowl |
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Sack of Sugar |
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Cocoa butter |
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Cocoa Liquor |
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Dark Chocolate |
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Sack of Sugar |
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Cocoa butter |
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Cocoa Liquor |
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Pitcher of Milk |
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Milk Chocolate |
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Sack of Sugar |
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Cocoa butter |
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Pitcher of Milk |
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Vanilla |
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White Chocolate |
Magical Fish Pies:
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Doughgreat barracuda steakzoogie fungusMento Seasoning |
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great barracuda pieEat to increase hit chance: 8 |
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Doughgiant koi steakbowl of peasMento Seasoning |
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giant koi pieEat to increase Defence Chance: 8 |
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DoughFire Fish SteakcarrotsSamuel’s Secret Sauce |
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fire fish pieEat to soak fire damage: 5 |
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Doughstone crab meathead of cabbageSamuel’s Secret Sauce |
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stone crab pieEat to soak physical damage: 5 |
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Doughblue lobster meatTribal BerriesSamuel’s Secret Sauce |
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blue lobster pieEat to soak cold damage:5 |
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Doughreaper fish steakPumpkinSamuel’s Secret Sauce |
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reaper fish pieEat to soak poison damage: 5 |
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Doughcrystal fish steakApplesSamuel’s Secret Sauce |
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crystal fish pieEat to soak energy damage: 5 |
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Doughbull fish steaksquashMento Seasoning |
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bull fish pieEat to increase melee damage: 5 |
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Doughsummer dragonfish steakonionsMento Seasoning |
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summer dragonfish pieEat to increase spell damage: 5 |
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Doughfairy salmon steakear of corndark truffle |
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fairy salmon pieEat to increase casting focus: 2 |
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Doughlava fish steakcheesedark truffle |
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lava fish pieEat to increase Soulcharge ability: 5 |
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Doughautumn dragonfish steakPearsMento Seasoning |
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autumn dragonfish pieEat to increase meditation skill: 10 |
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Doughspider crab meat1 head of lettuce1 Mento Seasoning |
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spider crab pieEat to increase focus skill: 10 |
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Doughyellowtail barracuda steakbottle of wineMento Seasoning |
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yellowtail barracuda pieEat to increase Hp regeneration: 3 |
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Doughholy mackeral steakhoneyMento Seasoning |
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holy mackeral pieEat to increase mana regeneration: 3 |
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Doughunicorn fish steakFresh GingerMento Seasoning |
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unicorn fish pieEat to increase stamina regeneration: 3 |
Special recipes:
- Gingerbread Cookie Recipe:
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Cookie mix |
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Fresh Ginger |
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Gingerbread Man |
- Rotworm & Blackrock Stew:
Last modified: September 25, 2013
where get fine fish steaks at and how make them ?
1catch fish, cut them with a knife/sword/other sharp weapon into fish steaks.
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