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# Cooking
Turn what you grow into something worth real money.
Stand at a kitchen, pick a recipe you know, and cook. Everything you grow, catch, gather and raise ends up here.
Cooking is also the fastest way to make food worth eating. Raw crops keep you going; a proper meal does a great deal more.
          
Early recipes take whatever you have. Later ones ask for specific things, and the best of them need meat, which means you kept an animal long enough to raise it properly.
Not everything you cook is a meal. Dough is an ingredient, and eating it is a waste of good milk.
## Where to cook
The Cooking House in town, the bakery ovens, your own farmhouse kitchen, and the old oven out on the farm.
## Learning recipes
Most open as your cooking level rises. A few are taught by villagers who think you are ready for them.
Cooking leans on farming and fishing, so it will stall if you only ever stand at the stove.
## What to do with a dish
Eat it, sell it, or hand it in. The kitchen pays the best rates on the delivery board, and the top end of the whole economy is a cooked meal.
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