Cooking Recipes (LoH)

In Harvest Moon: Light of Hope cooking plays an important role for both the main character and for the villagers of Beacon Town. =Synopsis=

Using Cooking Recipes

 * Activating the Stove in the player's Farmhouse (Home) will list all known recipes to the player, allowing them to cook various foods, drinks, desserts, and other consumables.
 * The player must have unlocked the recipe and have all required ingredients before they can cook a given item (from the recipe table(s), below).

Obtaining Cooking Recipes

 * cooking recipes can be purchased from Bastian at Bastian's Restaurant (some requiring storyline progression before they're able to be purchased).
 * cooking recipes can be unlocked (individually) as the player completes Villager Requests for Bastian, Elise, the Harvest God, the Harvest Goddess, and Gorgan.
 * cooking recipes are given to the player free of charge as they progress through the main storyline (Restoring the Lighthouse).

Required Cooking Recipes

 * Villager requests will often ask for specific cooked dishes
 * Storyline progression checkpoints which require specific dishes to be cooked
 * Strawberry Jam is required to be cooked and given to the Harvest Goddess in exchange for the fourth lighthouse stone tablet

Beneficial Cooking Recipes

 * Harvest Moon: Light of Hope starts the player off with five (5) stamina hearts stamina-hearts-five-full-loh.png (located at the top left of the in-game GUI, to the right of the clock)
 * full stamina heart stamina-heart-full-loh.png  points of stamina (need citation)
 * Respectively,  of a stamina heart stamina-heart-half-loh.png   points of stamina
 * Performing the most common in-game actions consumes stamina - Chopping trees, breaking rocks, tilling dirt, watering plants - even petting animals
 * Eating cooked meals restores stamina, allowing the player to perform more actions that they would be unable to perform (due to lack of stamina), otherwise
 * Seasonal cooking contests, which award points based on the difficulty of the cooked recipe which the player enters into the contest

= Cooking Recipes=