Cooking

Attributes: .................Intellect & Wisdom

Level: .........................DF: 3 BCS 40%; 500 Exp

The character has experience or training in preparing cooked food. Table - Cooking Results shows the quality of the meal. This is of course a required skill for all cooks and innkeepers, who make a monthly check to find the overall quality of the food they have prepared.

The character can have skill in five of the areas listed below, additional areas of expertise cost 100 experience points each to learn and add to one’s cooking skill. The DF remains at DF3 (BCS 40%; 500 Exp;) when improving the overall cooking level regardless of the number of specialities the character has trained in. Cooking is a single broad skill with all areas checked at the same success percentages once they are added to a cooks repertoire.

• Camp Cooking: Spit cooking, baking bannock, simple stews or soups.

• Baking Bread: Fresh bread, rolls, bannocks, hard tacks.

• Baking Pastries and Making Desserts: Fruit pies, pastries and confections.

• Casseroles: Making posh stews and soups with mixed meats and vegetables.

• Butchering Fresh Meat: Slaughtering animals, skinning, cleaning, boning, preparing meat into cuts, steaks, chops, roasts etc. includes poultry.

• Cooking Meat: Roasting, braising, frying and boiling of meats and fowl.

• Banking Meat Pies: The preparation and cooking of meat pies and meat pastries.

• Preserving Meat: The skill of smoking, spicing, curing of hams, bacon, sausages, salting pork, beef or fish. The prevention of meat being spoiled over time.

• Cooking Seafood: Freshwater and salt-water fish, clams, mussels, oysters, shrimp, lobster and scallops.

• Herb Spices & Seasonings: The character has been trained in the subtle balance of cooking with herbs and spices to enhance the taste of foods. The sub-skill adds +1 to the crit die when preparing meat and seafood dishes.

• Haut Cuisine: As a prerequisite for this sub-skill, a character must first have at least six of the other sub-skills under cooking and one of these must be Cooking with Herbs Spices and Seasoning.