Cooking Recipes (AP)



Recipes found in Harvest Moon: Animal Parade.

Your first house will have a basic kitchen, but it does not come with any cooking utensils. Before you can start cooking you will need to buy some cooking utensils from the General Store in Garmon Mine District.

The size of your house will determine how many cooking utensils you can have placed as active in the kitchen. The beginning level 1 house can have 3 utensils out in the kitchen, the level 2 house can have 4, and the level 3 house can fit all 7 utensils. You can place them in your kitchen by using the diary next to your bed. Besides the 7 utensils, there is a box of Matches (utensil #8) that does not require the use of a kitchen. The Matches are an item you can buy from Barbara's shop for 480 G. Lighting a bonfire allows you to roast fish and a few different kinds of vegetables. When you're done, do not forget to put out your bonfire with your watering can. Hamilton does not like it when people leave their fires unattended, and you will get a stern lecture the next morning if you do so.
 * Knife Set - Used for basic recipes like sandwiches and salads
 * Pot - Useful for making soups, candies, and jams
 * Frying Pan - Sautes, spaghetti, and egg-based dishes
 * Oven - Make cakes, pies, bread, and other treats
 * Mixer - You can create drinks as well as perfume with this utensil
 * Aging Pot - Used for fermenting items into yogurt, pickles, and cocktails
 * Ice Cream Maker - A new Harvest Moon utensils that only makes ice cream

Cooking utensils will come in different styles such as Cute, Chic, Normal, and Gorgeous. The style of the utensil only affects its looks when it is set out in your kitchen. All of the utensils work exactly the same no matter what style they are.

The Dyepot used to make colored yarns is also an item for your kitchen, but it is not used for "cooking" and can only combine yarns and flowers/herbs together.

How To Cook
The ingredients you need for cooking recipes can be produced on your farm, found growing wild around Castanet, or purchased from the many shops available. All ingredients must be in your rucksack if you want to cook with it. There is no way to swap between your rucksack and any storage furniture (refrigerators, toolbox, etc.) you might be storing spare food in.

To start cooking, walk up to the utensil in your kitchen and press the A button. You will then get two sets of panels; the panel on the left displays the contents of your rucksack, and the panel on the right are the ingredients that will be cooked together in your chosen utensil. To select an ingredient, scroll through the rucksack panel and then select it (press A) to move one over. You can cook more than one of the same type of item in a single recipe.

At the bottom of the right-side utensil screen are 3 buttons: If all of your chosen ingredients combine to make a successful recipe, you'll receive the results in a few moments. If they don't combine you will receive a Failed Dish instead.
 * Start - Once you have up to 6 ingredients selected, choose this to start cooking them together
 * Cancel - Exit out of the utensil screen. The items that were in the utensil will be returned to your rucksack
 * Recipes - This option will open your list of recipes so you can simply look at the cooking recipes you already know. Once you leave your recipe book, the list of ingredients you were looking at goes away. You will have to remember what the ingredients were, or go back to the Recipes menu and look at the recipe again if you forget.

New recipes you discover will be automatically written into your list of recipes. You can also access your known recipes by looking at your Bookcase instead of directly through a selected cooking utensil.

The Dyepot does not have a recipe list. The item does fit in your kitchen as a utensil (instead of inside the barn in Tree of Tranquility) but there isn't a list of recipes for it. The Dyepot is very simple to use; take 1 yarn (silk, flax, or wool) and 1 flower or herb (any kind), and the results will be a colored dyed yarn. The Dyepot only takes 2 ingredients and it will not accept ingredients that can not be combined to produce dyed yarn.

When cooking, the quality of the item only matters for certain dishes that also have a quality associated. Most of the time you can use a Decent item or a Perfect item and end up with the same result. If a cooking recipe calls for an egg, any type of egg will do whether it's a chicken egg, a duck egg, or ostrich egg unless the recipe specifically calls for a certain type. The same is true for Milk, butter, and Mayonnaise.

Learning Recipes
You can get recipes by making the cooked dish yourself, buying the recipe from shops or festivals, and watching Maya's Exciting Cooking show on the TV every Monday and Thursday.

The last place you can find recipes is in other villager's kitchens. Once a season or so you'll find a recipe in their houses if you walk inside and start pressing the A button over and over when you are standing next to the house's kitchen. If you don't find any more recipes then you've found all that were available from that villager's kitchen.

When you collect all 287 recipes you will be rewarded with the cooking trophy for your house.

Cooking Recipes
When cooking, you can choose up to 5 ingredients. You cannot add any extra ingredients to a recipe. The majority of recipes can either be learned by watching Maya's cooking show on TV and then making the dish, found in villager's kitchens, or bought at stores and festivals. There are 235 recipes that use the kitchen, and an additional 50 recipes that use the bonfire you can create with Matches from Barabara's shop.

The quality of the ingredients does not matter except for with a few recipes that return a quality-based dish, such as Sushi or Grilled Herb Fish. The quality of the resulting dish will be determined by the shipping price of the combined ingredients. For example, if the total ship price of the ingredients used for Herb Grilled Fish is 250 G or less, then the resulting dish would be Decent quality. If higher-profitable ingredients are used, then you will get a higher quality of result.

There are many recipes that will require an item from a particular "group". Any of the items will work unless the recipes says otherwise:
 * Eggs, Milk, Cheese, Mayonnaise, and Butter: Any quality and type will work in a recipe. If the recipe calls for Milk, you could use Goat Milk or Cow Milk; either one will work.
 * Bread: Corn Bread, Bread, Herb Bread, Curry Bread, or Onion Bread
 * Fish: Any fish you can catch excluding those in the Shrimp group.
 * Herb: Red Herb, Yellow Herb, Orange Herb, Green Herb, Blue Herb, or Purple Herb
 * Mushroom: Common Mushroom or Mushroom. Fugue Mushrooms and Toadstools are not tasty ingredients!
 * Shrimp: Freshwater Prawn, Crawfish, or Rock Lobster
 * Shellfish: Oyster, Clam, or Mussel
 * Vegetable: Your typical crops such as Tomatoes, Potatoes, Onions, Yams, etc.

Ice Cream Recipes
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