Moonfrost Cooking Guide: Every Recipe and Ingredient

Cooking in Moonfrost happens at Walter’s Cooking Station in the Village. The station lists 15 recipes, and Walter teaches you 14 of them one at a time as you help him out, from a simple Veggie Salad up to Battered Fish. Dishes restore your stamina and health. Most of them sell for next to nothing, so cook those for requests and for yourself. The fish dishes are the exception and sell well.

How Cooking Works

Walk up to Walter’s Cooking Station, pick a recipe and hand over the ingredients plus 5 Sil. Sweet Dough and Batter cost only their ingredients. Walter does the cooking, and each dish takes 3 seconds.

The station has a queue with three slots, all open from the start. Each slot holds one recipe, up to a full stack of that dish, and you pay for every dish in it up front. Walter cooks them one after another and moves on to the next slot when one is done, so you can queue a big batch and go do something else. Open the station to collect what’s ready. You don’t have to wait for the whole slot: finished dishes can come out while the rest are still cooking.

Queued a dish by mistake? Take it back out before it starts cooking and you get every ingredient back, the 5 Sil included. The dish Walter is already cooking stays in.

Recipes unlock through Walter’s requests (see Unlocking Recipes), and none of them has a level requirement. Cooking doesn’t give experience by itself. The experience comes from handing the dishes in.

Eat a dish to restore the stamina and health listed in What Each Dish Restores. Stamina is what your tools burn through: every swing of a hoe costs 0.3 stamina, so the 15 stamina from one Fish Soup covers 50 swings.

Two recipes need Uncommon produce, marked with a green tag below. Fish Soup takes an Uncommon Radish, and the second Veggie Salad recipe takes Uncommon Radishes and Carrots. To start either one, you need that many Uncommon-or-better Radishes (and Carrots for the salad) in your bag. Common ones don’t count, so set the Uncommon ones aside when you harvest.

Every Recipe

Each row is one recipe: what you hand over, then the dish you get, in the order the station lists them. Green tags mark ingredients that have to be Uncommon.

1. 2 Radish
2. 2 Carrot
3. 5 Sil
4. Veggie Salad

1. 2 Radish Uncommon
2. 2 Carrot Uncommon
3. 5 Sil
4. Veggie Salad Uncommon

1. 10 Blueberry
2. 1 Sugar
3. 5 Sil
4. Blueberry Jam

1. 1 Flour
2. 1 Butter
3. 1 Sugar
4. 3 Egg
5. Sweet Dough

1. 1 Sweet Dough
2. 1 Blueberry Jam
3. 5 Blueberry
4. 5 Sil
5. Blueberry Pie

1. 3 Carrot
2. 3 Turnip
3. 3 Corn
4. 5 Sil
5. Veggie Soup

1. 10 Tomato
2. 2 Onion
3. 1 Butter
4. 5 Sil
5. Tomato Sauce

1. 1 Sweet Dough
2. 3 Rhubarb
3. 5 Sil
4. Rhubarb Pie

1. 3 Perch
2. 1 Radish Uncommon
3. 1 Turnip
4. 5 Sil
5. Fish Soup

1. 3 Minnow
2. 5 Sil
3. Baked Fish

1. 2 Bullhead
2. 5 Sil
3. Grilled Fish

1. 1 Flour
2. 6 Egg
3. 1 Salt
4. Batter

1. 1 Carp
2. 1 Batter
3. 5 Sil
4. Battered Fish

1. 3 Carrot
2. 3 Turnip
3. 3 Potato
4. 5 Sil
5. Veggie Cream

1. 5 Egg
2. 5 Sil
3. Boiled Eggs

Sweet Dough, Blueberry Jam and Batter go into other recipes, so cook those first. A Blueberry Pie takes one Sweet Dough and one Blueberry Jam on top of its own five Blueberries.

What Each Dish Restores

Stamina and Health are what one dish restores when you eat it. Everything it takes adds up every raw ingredient, including the ones that go into Sweet Dough, Blueberry Jam and Batter, plus the Sil the station charges.

	Dish	Stamina	Health	Everything it takes
	Veggie Salad	+1	+10	2 Radish, 2 Carrot, 5 Sil
	Veggie Salad Uncommon	+2	+12	2 Radish Uncommon, 2 Carrot Uncommon, 5 Sil
	Blueberry Jam	+5	+5	10 Blueberry, 1 Sugar, 5 Sil
	Blueberry Pie	+7	+10	1 Flour, 1 Butter, 2 Sugar, 3 Egg, 15 Blueberry, 10 Sil
	Veggie Soup	+5	+15	3 Carrot, 3 Turnip, 3 Corn, 5 Sil
	Tomato Sauce	+3	+15	10 Tomato, 2 Onion, 1 Butter, 5 Sil
	Rhubarb Pie	+7	+20	1 Flour, 1 Butter, 1 Sugar, 3 Egg, 3 Rhubarb, 5 Sil
	Fish Soup	+15	+5	3 Perch, 1 Radish Uncommon, 1 Turnip, 5 Sil
	Baked Fish	+10	+1	3 Minnow, 5 Sil
	Grilled Fish	+12	—	2 Bullhead, 5 Sil
	Battered Fish	+30	—	1 Carp, 1 Flour, 6 Egg, 1 Salt, 5 Sil
	Veggie Cream	+2	+15	3 Carrot, 3 Turnip, 3 Potato, 5 Sil
	Boiled Eggs	+1	+7	5 Egg, 5 Sil

Which dish to cook depends on what you’re short of:

• Battered Fish restores 30 stamina, twice as much as anything else. It’s also your best seller at 250 Sil, and its Batter takes 6 Eggs, which are slow to collect (see Eggs), so save it for when you really need the refill.
• Fish Soup is the best everyday stamina dish: 15 stamina and 5 health, and since it sells for only 3 Sil, you give up nothing by eating it. It does need an Uncommon Radish.
• Grilled Fish (12 stamina) and Baked Fish (10) only need fish, but each one you eat is 90 or 70 Sil you didn’t make selling it.
• For health, Rhubarb Pie tops the list at 20. Veggie Soup, Tomato Sauce and Veggie Cream restore 15 each and need no eggs.

If you want Sil, cook fish. Baked Fish sells for 70 Sil, Grilled Fish for 90 and Battered Fish for 250, far more than the fish fetch raw: three Minnows sell for 15 Sil and two Bullheads for 20. Every other dish sells for just 3 Sil. The two Radishes and two Carrots in a Veggie Salad would sell for 160 Sil on their own, so never cook vegetables to sell.

Where to Get Ingredients

The table lists every ingredient the recipes use and the dishes it goes into. Crops come from your farm (see the Crops and Farming guide), and the fish locations follow the lake numbers in the Fishing guide.

	Ingredient	Where to get it	Used in
	Carrot	Grow it from Carrot Seeds (5 Sil)	Veggie Salad, Veggie Soup, Veggie Cream
	Carrot Uncommon	9% of Carrot harvests come up Uncommon	Veggie Salad Uncommon
	Corn	Grow it from Corn Seeds (25 Sil)	Veggie Soup
	Onion	Grow it from Onion Seeds (30 Sil)	Tomato Sauce
	Potato	Grow it from Potato Seeds (25 Sil)	Veggie Cream
	Radish	Grow it from Radish Seeds (2 Sil)	Veggie Salad
	Radish Uncommon	9% of Radish harvests come up Uncommon	Veggie Salad Uncommon, Fish Soup
	Rhubarb	Grow it from Rhubarb Seeds (30 Sil)	Rhubarb Pie
	Tomato	Grow it from Tomato Seeds (80 Sil)	Tomato Sauce
	Turnip	Grow it from Turnip Seeds (10 Sil)	Veggie Soup, Fish Soup, Veggie Cream
	Bullhead	Catch it in Lake 1 (24% of the fish there)	Grilled Fish
	Carp	Catch it in Lake 2 (15% of the fish there)	Battered Fish
	Minnow	Catch it in the Neighbourhood river (50% of the fish there)	Baked Fish
	Perch	Catch it in the farm river (78% of the fish there)	Fish Soup
	Blueberry	Pick them from the blueberry bushes around your farm	Blueberry Jam, Blueberry Pie
	Egg	Interact with the 2 wild Chickens in the Village: 1 each, every 2 minutes	Sweet Dough, Batter, Boiled Eggs
	Butter	Buy it at the Vending Machine: Seeds (10 Sil)	Sweet Dough, Tomato Sauce
	Flour	Buy it at the Vending Machine: Seeds (10 Sil)	Sweet Dough, Batter
	Salt	Buy it at the Vending Machine: Seeds (10 Sil)	Batter
	Sugar	Buy it at the Vending Machine: Seeds (10 Sil)	Blueberry Jam, Sweet Dough
	Batter	Cook it at Walter’s Cooking Station	Battered Fish
	Sweet Dough	Cook it at Walter’s Cooking Station	Blueberry Pie, Rhubarb Pie
	Blueberry Jam	Cook it at Walter’s Cooking Station	Blueberry Pie

Eggs

Eggs are the slowest ingredient to gather. The two wild Chickens in the Village each drop one Egg when you interact with them, then need two minutes before they drop another, so you can collect about one Egg a minute at best. That adds up fast: Batter takes 6 Eggs and Sweet Dough 3. Check on the chickens every time you pass through the Village and keep a stock.

Uncommon Radishes

Only 9% of Radish harvests come up Uncommon, roughly one in eleven. Every Fish Soup needs one Uncommon (or better) Radish in your bag before Walter starts it, and every Uncommon Veggie Salad needs two. Radishes grow in 40 seconds from 2-Sil seeds, so plant a big patch and keep every Uncommon one you pull.

Store-Bought Ingredients

Sugar, Butter, Flour and Salt cost 10 Sil each at the Vending Machine: Seeds, the same machine that sells your seeds. Each one appears there when a lesson with Walter unlocks it, and its price comes on top of the Sil shown in the tables on this page.

Bought too much? The machine on your farm takes back anything you bought from it before you close its menu, for a full refund, as long as it’s still in your bag. The seed machine in the Village doesn’t.

Blueberries

Blueberries grow on the bushes around your farm. A Blueberry Jam takes 10 and a whole Blueberry Pie 15, so pick every bush you pass.

Unlocking Recipes

Walter teaches the recipes in a fixed order across his quests, and most lessons end with him asking for the dish you just learned. Here’s the sequence:

1. In Cooking 101, Walter shows you his Cooking Station and teaches Veggie Salad right away. Give him the first salad you cook, and he unlocks Blueberry Jam and adds Sugar to the vending machine.
2. Bring him the Blueberry Jam for the Copper Hoe and Copper Watering Can blueprints. Craft both tools to learn the Uncommon Veggie Salad.
3. Hand him an Uncommon Veggie Salad for Sweet Dough. Butter and Flour reach the vending machine at the same time.
4. Cooking your first Sweet Dough unlocks Blueberry Pie. Give Walter a pie and he adds Turnip Seeds to the vending machine.
5. In Farming Away, Walter asks for 10 Turnips, 10 Broccoli and 10 Corn. The Corn earns you Veggie Soup. Hand him a Veggie Soup, then 9 Copper Wires to keep his Cooking Station running.
6. Once you’ve finished Fishing 101, the fish dishes come next in Sea Food. Bring Walter 2 Perch and then 2 Minnows for Fish Soup. Each fish dish you cook for him after that unlocks the next: Baked Fish, then Grilled Fish, then Batter, Battered Fish and Salt together.
7. After the FHA Exams go badly, talk to Ash in The Pity Party. Walter then picks up where Farming Away left off: he teaches Tomato Sauce, adds Onion and Tomato Seeds to the vending machine and asks you for a Tomato Sauce.
8. When you pass the exams on your second try in A Second Chance, Walter celebrates by teaching Rhubarb Pie and adds Rhubarb Seeds.

Veggie Cream comes from another story. Walter teaches it, along with Potato Seeds, while you restore Lemmon’s, his store, in Fixing Lemmon’s: bring him two Birchwood Industrial Long Shelves and the recipe is yours.

Boiled Eggs is the one recipe you can’t learn yet. Walter teaches it during New Manchester, and that quest doesn’t start in the current version of the game, so Boiled Eggs stays locked at the station.

Cooking Requests

Walter, Ash and Alba ask you for dishes along the way. Everything it takes covers the whole request, including the ingredients for any Sweet Dough, Blueberry Jam or Batter, so you can stock up before you hand it in. Store-bought ingredients cost 10 Sil each on top.

Ash’s order is for A Picnic with Ash, which opens up as your friendship with her grows. Keep a Rhubarb Pie and two Veggie Salads ready for it.

Daily Requests

The FHA Requests board also has four daily requests: one easy, two medium and one hard. Each row lists the cooking requests that tier can ask for, with what it pays. A request only asks for a dish once you’ve learned its recipe, and every tier can ask for fish instead (see the Fishing guide).

Keep a couple of Veggie Soups on hand: the medium and hard requests ask for just one or two, and they need no eggs. The Moonfrost Shards and Star Tickets section of the Furniture guide covers what both currencies buy.

Meals Collection

The Collection Album has a Meals collection with 19 entries: every dish and cooked ingredient except Boiled Eggs, plus Egg, Sugar, Butter, Flour and Salt. The two Veggie Salads are separate entries, so you need an Uncommon one as well. An entry counts the first time that item lands in your inventory, so buying a single Salt is enough for its entry.