Cooking
| Anyone may learn the cooking trade skill. If you are a resident of a city or commune, you will automatically be a member of the cooking cartel in that location and able to use the unique recipes of that cartel. Generally, as your skill in cooking increases, you will be able to create more complex and tasty meals. Eventually, you'll be able to infuse foods with a variety of beneficial effects, or even poison food. Ultimately, you will be able to host a hero fete, the ultimate in gourmet celebrations. You may only cook in kitchens with a oven.
To light an oven, you need to first put a piece of coal in the oven and then FIRE OVEN. |
| Tasting | Inept | Your taste buds will improve as does your cooking skill. |
| Baking | Inept +50% | Simple baking methods for breads and muffins. |
| Brews | Novice | Brew teas and other beverages, including ales. |
| Soup | Novice +50% | Piping hot and steaming or cold and delicious. |
| Sleep | Apprentice | Slip morphite into someone's soup for a few laughs. |
| Dishes | Apprentice +33% | Some basic dishes that are quite appetizing. |
| Botulism | Apprentice +66% | The only way to serve culinary critics. |
| Fortify | Capable | Fortify food and increase its nutrients with flax. |
| Pastries | Capable +33% | These confections are redolent in culinary sin. |
| Feed | Capable +66% | Use your scraps to whip up a sack of feed for beasts. |
| Spirits | Adept | When ale isn't enough, you can distill the finest liquers. |
| Portions | Adept +50% | When you cook, you may create extra portions of food. |
| Cakes | Master | Wonderful creations to celebrate birthdays or weddings. |
| Piping | Master +50% | Embellish your cakes with frosted messages. |
| Preserve | Gifted | Preserved food won't spoil so quickly. |
| Love | Gifted +50% | People will fall all over you with these cakes - literally! |
| Wine | Expert | The secrets of mulling fine wines. |
| Cuisine | Expert +50% | These dishes make the mouth water just by the aroma. |
| Miniatures | Virtuoso | Cook miniature meals. |
| Speed | Virtuoso +33% | Infusing quicksilver in your cuisine helps dexterity. |
| Delicacies | Virtuoso +66% | Prepare meals that are exquisitely exotic. |
| Death | Fabled | Obviously, it does not pay to cross a master chef! |
| Gourmet | Fabled +50% | Not just great meals, but works of culinary art. |
| Constitution | Mythical | Infusing allheale into gourmet dishes helps constitution. |
| Dietician | Mythical +50% | By mastering your diet, you eat less often. |
| HeroFete | Transcendent | A rare feast to send off a group of adventuring heros. |
Tasting
| Syntax: |
| TASTE <food> |
As your skill in cooking improves, your taste buds will acquire greater and greater skill to determine the quality and nutritional value of food. You will also acquire the ability to discern if food is infused with poisons or potions.
Baking
| Syntax: |
| BAKE <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to bake simple breads and muffins.
Also see RECIPES BAKING.
Brews
| Syntax: |
| BREW <recipe number> |
Brew up ales and beer. You must be in a proper kitchen and have an empty bottle in your inventory. To fill individual glasses with your brews, set the glass on the ground and POUR <brew> INTO GLASS.
Also see RECIPES BREWS.
Soup
| Syntax: |
| COOK <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to cook soups.
Also see RECIPES SOUP.
Sleep
| Syntax: |
| INFUSE <soup> WITH SLEEP |
You may infuse soups to make those who eat it fall sound asleep. You must have a vial of morphite with at least 5 doses.
Dishes
| Syntax: |
| COOK <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to cook basic dishes.
Also see RECIPES DISHES.
Botulism
| Syntax: |
| INFUSE <dish> WITH BOTULISM |
You may infuse dishes to give botulism. You must have a vial of botulinum with at least 5 doses.
Fortify
| Syntax: |
| FORTIFY <food> |
You can fortify food and increase its nutrition. You must have some flax commodities.
Pastries
| Syntax: |
| BAKE <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to bake mouth-watering pastries.
Also see RECIPES PASTRIES.
Feed
| Syntax: |
| COOK FEED <MEAT|GRAIN|FISH|VEGETABLES|EGGS|FRUIT> |
Using 3 food commodities, you may cook up a bag of food which certain mounts may find delicious and, more importantly, nutritious.
Spirits
| Syntax: |
| DISTILL <recipe number> |
You may distill alcoholic spirits in your kitchen. You must have an empty bottle in your inventory. To fill individual glasses with your liquor, set the glass on the ground and POUR <spirit> INTO GLASS.
Also see RECIPES SPIRITS.
Portions
You have honed your cooking skills to the point where there is little waste and you can use your ingredients with such economy that you may double the portions of the food you create. Very rarely, you will even be able to triple the number of portions. This has no effect upon liquids like ale, spirits or wine.
Cakes
| Syntax: |
| BAKE <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to bake elaborate cakes.
Also see RECIPES CAKES.
Piping
| Syntax: |
| PIPE <cake> <message> |
You can pipe words onto cakes with frosting.
Preserve
| Syntax: |
| PRESERVE <food> |
Wrapping your food in a colewort leaf in a special manner will preserve it against spoilage for longer than it might otherwise. You must know how to prepare the food in order to preserve it.
Love
| Syntax: |
| INFUSE <cake> WITH LOVE |
You may infuse cakes to make others fall in love. You must have a love potion with at least 5 doses.
Wine
| Syntax: |
| MULL <recipe number> |
Mull fine wines. You must be in a proper kitchen and have an empty bottle in your inventory. To fill individual glasses with your wine, set the glass on the ground and POUR <wine> INTO GLASS.
Also see RECIPES WINE.
Cuisine
| Syntax: |
| COOK <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to cook haute cuisine.
Also see RECIPES CUISINE.
Miniatures
| Syntax: |
| COOK MINIATURE MEAL |
You must be in a proper kitchen to cook miniature meals. It will take 1 grain and 1 fruit.
Speed
| Syntax: |
| INFUSE <cuisine> WITH SPEED |
You may infuse cuisine to increase dexterity. You must have a quicksilver potion with at least 5 doses.
Delicacies
| Syntax: |
| COOK <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to cook delicacies.
Also see RECIPES DELICACIES.
Death
| Syntax: |
| INFUSE <delicacy> WITH DEATH |
You may poison delicacies to cause death. You must have a vial of crotamine with at least 5 doses.
Gourmet
| Syntax: |
| COOK <recipe number> |
You must be in a proper kitchen to cook gourmet dishes.
Also see RECIPES GOURMET.
Constitution
| Syntax: |
| INFUSE <gourmet> WITH CONSTITUTION |
You may infuse gourmet food to enhance constitution. You must have a vial of allheale with at least 5 doses.
Dietician
You have mastered your control of your diet to such an incredible degree that your need for food is lessened, and attacks that prey upon your nutrition will be only half as effective.
HeroFete
| Syntax: |
| HEROFETE |
This banquet is only held to celebrate the lives of great heroes. There must be at least 10 people in attendance, and the cook must have more than enough food to allow everyone a sumptuous feast. After the herofete, all in attendance will be under a variety of blessings.
| Additional Notes: |
| An artisan's banquet table and chairs will reduce the number of people and amount of food required. |