Note: This information is based on the "Cookbooks" available from most Dereth scribes.

Cooking allows you to make many of the foods that can be found in Dereth. Each heritage group has some recipes that are special to them.

There are different ingredients and different tools necessary to make specific recipes.

Baked Goods

To make dough, use flour on water.

To make plain batter, use dough on an egg.

To make cookie dough, use dough on honey.

To make cake batter, plain batter on more flour.

To make bread, use a baking pan on dough.

To make a cake, use a baking pan on cake batter.

To make three cookies, use a baking pan on cookie dough.

To make a pie, use dough on meat, a mushroom or apple.

To make Viamont toast, an Aluvian delicacy that is often eaten in the morning, use batter on bread.

To make "pizza", a Roulean peasant's dish, use dough on cheese.

To make raw (uncooked) noodles, a Sho specialty, use a noodle cutter on dough.

Cheese

To make cheese, use rennet on milk to curdle it.

Meats

To prepare meats for use in cooking. First butcher a fish, side of beef, chicken or rabbit carcass by using a carving knife on it. This will give you three pieces of fish, steak, chicken, or rabbit meat.

To fry foods, use a frying pan on meats, mushrooms and eggs.

To make "qababs", a Gharu'ndim specialty (in Aluvian, "kebabs"), use a skewer on a piece of meat or mushroom.

Noodle & Rice Dishes

To make rice dishes, use uncooked rice on a piece of meat or a mushroom.p>To make stuffed grape leaves, a Gharu'ndim delicacy, use rice on grapes.

To make "sushi", as it is known in the ancient Sho land of Iiwah, use rice on fish.

To make noodle dishes, a preferred way to eat meats by the Sho, use raw noodles on a piece of meat or a mushroom.

Stew

To prepare meats for use in cooking. First butcher a fish, side of beef, chicken or rabbit carcass by using a carving knife on it. This will give you three pieces of fish, steak, chicken, or rabbit meat.

To fry foods, use a frying pan on meats, mushrooms and eggs.

Pickled Foods

To make coleslaw, an Aluvian dish, use a carving knife on a cabbage.

To make pickled eggs of fish, use brine on eggs or fish filets.

To make "kimchi", a Sho delicacy, use brine on a cabbage.

Oils

Oils can be used on some to make them more potent. These special oils are made by alchemists. When used on certain foods (cakes, pies, pizza, and stews) these oils can make food that heals or restores mana instead of stamina. If Victual Oil is used on food, it will increase the amount of health, mana or stamina that food restores.