Cooking and Baking Extended - New Foods Only Edition
by LunaMurphy

version 1.0.0
2018-07-01
 
===Short description===
 
Recipes for 60+ new food and drink items, including canis root tea, nirnroot tea, rabbit stew, gourd soup, new types of dumplings, salt-free cooked meats, bierocks, chaurus pie, recipes from the book Uncommon Taste, and much, much more.
 
This version does NOT include recipes for some previously-uncraftable vanilla food items. If you want those, please use the main file instead.
 
No new models or textures. No scripts. No worldspace edits. No vendor edits. No leveled list integration. No vanilla or DLC records of any kind edited or overwritten. Simple, safe, and lore-friendly.
 
Made entirely with TES5Edit, using only vanilla, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn assets. No other dependencies and no conflicts.
 
===Full description===
 
I kept the effects, values, and healing benefits in line with vanilla foods, so there isn't anything overpowered here. For recipes that use primarily food ingredients, I based my effects on those offered by vanilla food items. However, for recipes that include multiple alchemical ingredients, I considered the effects more carefully, so that certain recipes--particularly the omelettes, fish soups, and savory meats (not so much the teas)--produce effects like weak versions of potions brewed with the same ingredients. Now non-alchemist characters can enjoy mild benefits from ingredients which also happen to be regular food items. The alchemical properties of salt, however, are ignored. (See FAQ if you care why.) A handful of recipes have effects that aren't necessarily justified by the alchemical ingredients, but either are justified by Tamrielic lore (look for a couple of Oblivion-inspired treats) or real-world folklore or folk medicine that seemed to comfortably fit into Skyrim. And of course, most food items have a restore health effect, regardless of ingredients, because that is an effect shared by nearly every food item in the base game.
 
When selecting alchemical ingredients to use in various recipes, I limited myself to herbs, berries, mushrooms, eggs, and other things that might reasonably be expected to taste good. No ground-up claws or feathers or anything like that. This is cooking, not alchemy.
 
I started this because I wanted more nonalcoholic beverages in my game, beyond the rare jug of milk that the Hearthfire DLC introduced. Then I added some foods to go with my drinks. And then I decided to replicate as faithfully as possible the recipes from the in-game booksUncommon Taste and Chaurus Pie: A Recipe. Then I tried to fill gaps where the game was missing recipes or not using particular ingredients. Then I kept adding more and more recipes, just for fun. However, I kept all recipes lore-friendly and not overly fancy, though a few are moderately fancy. There are a small number of complex two-part recipes which must be started at a cooking pot, then finished in an oven. You can blame Chaurus Pie: A Recipe for starting me down that dark path.
 
Recipes that require a Hearthfire oven are marked as such. Otherwise, a standard cooking pot is used.
 
===New food and beverage items with recipes===
 
Herbal Tea
Ingredients: 1 Frost Mirriam + 1 Elves Ear + 1 Thistle Branch
Effects: Resist Frost 10% for 60 seconds
Why? You find frost mirriam and elves ear hanging in kitchens all over Skyrim, but they aren't used in any vanilla recipes. I decided to change that.
 
Canis Root Tea
Ingredients: 3 Canis Root
Effects: Fortify One-Handed 5% for 60 seconds + Damage Stamina 5 points
Why? Master Neloth gets to drink canis root tea. Why can't we?
Why damage stamina? It's a very bitter tea. That first sip will make you flinch.
 
Juniper Tea
Ingredients: 3 Juniper Berries
Effects: Fortify Marksman 5% for 60 seconds
Why? Juniper tea is a thing that exists in the real world.
 
Lavender Tea
Ingredients: 3 Lavender
Effect: Resist Magic 10% for 60 seconds
Why? Lavender is one of my favorite flavors, in tea and in many other things.
 
Breath of the Mountain Tea
Ingredients: 1 each Blue, Red, and Purple Mountain Flower
Effect: Restore Health, Stamina, and Magicka 5 points each
Why? Floral teas are really quite lovely.
 
Red Tea
Ingredients: 1 Snowberries + 1 Dragon's Tongue + 1 Red Mountain Flower
Effects: Resist Fire 10% for 60 seconds
Why? Berry-infused teas are also delightful.
 
Nirnroot Tea
Ingredients: 3 Nirnroot
Effect: Fortify Health 10 points + Fortify Stamina 10 points + Night Eye for 60 seconds
Why? This is based on Sinderion's Nirnroot elixirs from Oblivion, though my tea doesn't have nearly all of the effects nor the potency of Sinderion's potions. Skyrim does not have a night eye spell or potion, but Khajiit do have a night eye ability, which is what this uses. Now you don't have to be a Khajiit, vampire, or werewolf to see in the dark for a few seconds.
 
Milk and Honey
Ingredients: 1 Jug of Milk + 1 Honey
Effects: Restore Health 5 points + Cure Poison + Cure Disease
Why? Because when I'm sick, I like to mix honey into hot milk. It soothes a sore throat and makes me feel better. Try it sometime in the real world!
 
Honey Lavender Dumpling (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: Same as vanilla Lavender Dumpling, except substituting Honey for Moon Sugar.
Effects: Same as vanilla Lavender Dumpling.
Why? Because moon sugar is a gateway drug to skooma. Just say no, kids! (Yes, I grew up in the 1980s. Is it that noticeable?) You can still make lavender dumplings with moon sugar if you want to, as the Hearthfire recipe is untouched. I just added an alternative.
 
Berry Delight Dumpling (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 2 Snowberries + 2 Juniper Berries + 2 Jazbay Grapes + 1 Sack of Flour
Effects: Restore Health 10 points
Why? No special reason. It just sounds tasty. And yes, grapes are technically berries.
 
Rabbit Stew
Ingredients: 1 Raw Rabbit Leg + 1 Carrot + 1 Potato + 1 Tomato + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 10 points + Restore Stamina 15 points
Why? Not a lot of meat on a rabbit. Stewing it up with veggies makes a heartier meal.
Bonus: Do you remember way back before the DLCs came out, when all the soups in the game looked exactly the same? Remember how Hearthfire gave us unique, pretty textures for every type of soup? Do you miss the ugly old soup texture? Well, enjoy its return!
 
Gourd Soup
Ingredients: 1 Gourd + 1 Tomato + 1 Garlic + 1 Leek + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 12 points + Restore Stamina 12 points
Why? There are no vanilla recipes for gourds, so I saw a void to be filled. Yes, it also uses the original ugly soup texture from the Before Hearthfire era.
Bonus: You may notice that this is just the tomato soup recipe with gourd added. I did not notice this until I looked at several real-life gourd soup recipes for inspiration and wrote out my ingredients list. And then I looked at the existing recipes in the game and thought, hey, wait a minute. Oh well.
 
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Ingredients: 1 Blisterwort + 1 Swamp Fungal Pod + 1 Glowing Mushroom + 1 Jug of Milk + 1 Sack of Flour + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 20 points + Resist Shock 10% for 60 seconds + Fortify Smithing 5% for 60 seconds
Why? First, mushrooms are awesome. Second, the effects are consistent with the alchemical properties of the mushrooms utilized in this recipe.
 
Chicken Noodle Soup
Ingredients: 1 Chicken Breast + 1 Carrot + 1 Garlic + 1 Chicken's Egg + 1 Sack of Flour + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 10 points + Cure Disease
Why? Where I come from, when someone is sick, you give them chicken noodle soup, as if it were some magic cure-all. So in the game, I decided to let it actually be a magic cure-all. Of course, Skyrim has no noodles, so the idea here is that you're first making the noodles from flour and egg, then making the soup, but I didn't want to make this a two-part recipe, when both parts would be at the cooking pot.
 
Boiled Clams
Ingredients: 6 Clam Meat + 1 Salt Pile (produces 6 boiled clams)
Effects: Restore Health 2 points
Why? I always seem end up with more clam meat than the other ingredients necessary to make clam chowder, so I wanted another way to cook it. You get back the same number of clams you put in. I figured one salt pile ought to be enough for a whole pot of clams.
 
Bland Cooked Meat (multiple recipes)
Ingredients: Meat, without the usual salt pile requirement
Effects: Restore Health, but at a lesser effectiveness than the vanilla recipes, so you'll still have a reason to cook with salt when you have it available.
Why? A hunter in the wilderness shouldn't need salt to cook the deer they just killed.
Which meats? Beef, Boar, Chicken, Goat, Horker, Mammoth, Pheasant, Rabbit, Salmon, Slaughterfish, and Venison.
Bonus: Also includes bland steamed mudcrab legs, with no butter requirement.
 
Savory Cooked Meat (multiple recipes)
Ingredients: Meat, with the usual salt pile, plus two or more additional ingredients.
Effects: Restore Health, with slightly greater effectiveness than the vanilla recipes, and a small buff from the alchemical ingredients used in the seasoning.
Why? Sometimes, you just wanna get fancy.
Which meats? Beef, Boar, Chicken, Goat, Horker, Mammoth, Pheasant, Rabbit, Salmon, Slaughterfish, and Venison.
 
Fish Soup (multiple recipes)
Ingredients: 1 fish (various types) + 2 or more other alchemical ingredients + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 5 points + Moderate buff from the alchemical ingredients used.
Why? After making so many alchemy-inspired savory meat recipes, I started thinking, what can I do with all these little fishies?
Which fish? Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, Histcarp, River Betty, Silverside Perch, and Slaughterfish Egg.
 
Chaurus Pie (two-stage recipe)
Stage 1: Cooked Chaurus Meat (cook at cooking pot/roasting spit)
Ingredients: 1 Chaurus Chitin + 1 Tomato + 1 Honey + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 10 points + Restore Stamina 10 points
Stage 2: Chaurus Pie (bake at Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 1 Cooked Chaurus Meat + 1 Potato + 1 Carrot + 1 Green Apple + 1 Red Apple + 1 Sack of Flour
Effects: Restore Health 15 points + Restore Stamina 15 points
Why? In the in-game book Chaurus Pie: A Recipe, Nils describes the ingredients as "white, thick meat from the midsection" of a chaurus, cooked on a spit and basted with pulped tomatoes, water, peppers, honey and salt. After boiling all that, it is baked in a pie crust with potatoes, carrots, and apples. So cooked chaurus meat is just an intermediate step on the way to chaurus pie. My recipe is not 100% lore-accurate, as some of the ingredients, like peppers and water, do not exist in the game. More problematically, chaurus meat doesn't exist in the game either, which is why I substituted chitin. Just pretend that chunk of chaurus midsection you lopped off the beast has meat inside the shell. Also, since there is no suitable vanilla model for cooked chaurus meat, I just used the chaurus chitin model. I know that does not look very appetizing in your food inventory screen. Pretend it's like one of those fancy crab cakes where the crab meat and other ingredients are stuffed back into the shell and you have to scoop it out to eat it. Or just finish the job and bake it into a pie. It will look much more appetizing that way.
 
Sunlight Souffle (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 1 Eidar Cheese Wedge + 1 Butter + 1 Jug of Milk + 1 Chicken's Egg + 1 Sack of Flour + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 10 points + Restore Stamina 10 points
Why? This approximates one of the recipes from the in-game cookbook Uncommon Taste. But the Gourmet's recipe includes ingredients not present in the game, like cow's cheese, pepper, and nutmeg, so this is as close as I could get. It's not known what kind of animal Eidar cheese comes from, but since it's unspecified, I'm calling it cow.
 
Potage le Magnifique
Ingredients: 1 Chicken Breast + 1 Raw Beef + 1 Carrot + 1 Leek + 1 Butter + 1 Sack of Flour
Effects: Restore Health, Stamina, and Magicka 10 points each
Why? This approximates the other recipe from Uncommon Taste as closely as possible, again with some concessions to the limited ingredients actually available in the game. The recipe calls for chicken and beef broths, so I substituted the meats which you'd have to use to make those broths.
 
Shepherd's Pie (two-stage recipe)
Stage 1: Seasoned Goat Meat Mixture (cook in cooking pot)
Ingredients: 1 Leg of Goat + 1 Garlic + 1 Carrot + 1 Potato + 1 Salt Pile
Effect: Restore Health 10 points
Stage 2: Shepherd's Pie (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 1 Seasoned Goat Meat Mixture + 1 Sack of Flour
Effect: Restore Health 15 points + Cure Disease
Why? Shepherd's pie was available in Oblivion, and it had the cure disease effect when used for alchemy, so I kept that. Classically, real-world shepherd's pie variants usually involve mutton or lamb meat (hence "shepherd's"), but there are no sheep in Skyrim, so I went with goat meat. I know the pie graphic with the criss-cross crust isn't really accurate, but there isn't anything else in the vanilla or DLC models that looks like a mashed-potato crust.
 
Pheasant Pot Pie (two-stage recipe)
Stage 1: Seasoned Pheasant Meat Mixture (cook in cooking pot)
Ingredients: 1 Pheasant Breast + 1 Potato + 1 Carrot + 1 Garlic + 1 Salt Pile
Effect: Restore Health 8 points
Stage 2: Pheasant Pot Pie (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 1  Seasoned Pheasant Meat Mixture + 1 Sack of Flour
Effect: Restore Health 10 points
Why? There are enough recipes for chicken. Time to do something with that other bird.
 
Beirock (two-stage recipe, with plain and fancy versions)
Stage 1: Seasoned Beef Mixture (cook in cooking pot)
Ingredients: 1 Raw Beef + 1 Cabbage + 1 Leek + 1 Salt Pile
Effect: Restore Health 10 points
Stage 2, plain version: Bierock (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 1 Seasoned Beef Mixture + 1 Sack of Flour
Effect: Restore Health 15 points
Stage 2, fancy version: Mushroom and Cheese Bierock (bake in Hearthfire oven)
Ingredients: 1 Seasoned Beef Mixture + 1 Mora Tapinella + 1 Goat Cheese Wedge + 1 Sack of Flour
Effect: Restore Health 20 points
Why? They're delicious, and while bierocks are not mentioned in the lore, they are definitely the type of food a true Nord would eat. (See the FAQ for more info.) This uses the model for potato bread, because the visual appearance is actually spot-on.
 
Reach Rarebit
Ingredients: 1 Raw Rabbit Leg + 1 Eidar Cheese Wedge + 1 Rock Warbler Egg + 1 Ale + 1 Bread
Effect: Fortify Magicka 10 points and Regenerate Magicka 10 points per second for 360 seconds
Why? This is something of a joke, in that Reach rarebit is a rabbit recipe, but real-world Welsh rarebit has no rabbit in it, even though a lot of people think it does when they first hear the name. Anyway, I wanted a rabbit rarebit recipe for my own amusement. Imagine that in Tamriel, rarebit was originally a simple Breton recipe for cheese sauce on toast, and then some Forsworn said, "You know what this needs? Meat."
 
High Rock Rarebit
Ingredients: 1 Eidar Cheese Wedge + 1 Rock Warbler Egg + 1 Ale + 1 Bread
Effect: Fortify Magicka 5 points and Regenerate Magicka 5 points per second for 360 seconds
Why? After coming up with a backstory to justify the Reach rarebit recipe, I decided I'd better include the "original" Breton recipe it was "based on." Instead of the usual restore health effect, both of the rarebit recipes have effects like a much weaker version of Elsweyr fondue, a vanilla recipe which also uses eidar cheese and ale.
 
Farmer's Omelette
Ingredients: 1 Chicken's Egg + 1 Bleeding Crown + 1 Goat Cheese Wedge
Effects: Restore Health 2 points + Resist Magic 5% for 60 seconds
Why? Why not?
 
Pine Thrush Omelette
Ingredients: 1 Pine Thrush Egg + 1 Namira's Rot + 1 Mammoth Cheese Bowl
Effects: Restore Health 2 points + Fortify Lockpicking 5% for 60 seconds
Why? You should be able to make an omelette out of any bird's egg.
 
Rock Warbler Omelette
Ingredients 1 Rock Warbler Egg + 1 Imp Stool + 1 Eidar Cheese Wedge
Effect: Restore Health 6 points
Why? See above.
 
Hawk Omelette
Ingredients: 1 Hawk's Egg + 1 Nirnroot + 1 Eidar Cheese Wedge
Effects: Restore Health 2 points + Resist Magic 5% for 60 seconds
Why? Well, I did say any bird's egg. But hawk's eggs are so ridiculously rare, I expect most folks will never get to actually use this recipe, myself included.
 
Gruel
Ingredients: 1 Sack of Flour + 1 Jug of Milk
Effects: Restore Health 3 points
Why? Maybe your character is really poor. Or maybe you want to punish your follower for jumping in front of a fireball you'd already cast, then complaining about you shooting them in the back. Make them drink flour boiled in milk.
 
Porridge
Ingredients: 1 Wheat + 1 Honey + 1 Jug of Milk
Effects: Restore Health 10 points + Cure Poison + Cure Disease
Why? A hearty meal using wheat kernels (properly called "wheat berries," as I just learned) instead of flour. The cure disease and cure poison effects are because I already established that in my mod's twisted logic, hot milk and honey cures whatever ails you.
 
Roasted Ash Hopper (2 recipes)
Ingredients: Ash Hopper Meat or Ash Hopper Leg
Effects: Restore Health 3 points
Why? The Dragonborn DLC adds two edible ash hopper body parts, but no way to cook them. No salt required because if you're desperate enough to eat ash hopper, you probably aren't overly-concerned with seasoning it.
 
Ash Hopper Stew
Ingredients: 1 Ash Hopper Meat + 1 Ash Hopper Leg + 1 Ash Yam + 1 Garlic
Effects: Restore Health 8 points + Restore Stamina 8 points
Why? I thought this might make ash hopper meat a little more palatable than simply roasting it.
 
Ham and Yam Soup
Ingredients: 1 Boar Meat + 1 Ash Yam + 1 Salt Pile
Effects: Restore Health 10 points + Restore Stamina 10 points
Why? Something like this seems like it should be a Solstheim staple.
 
===REQUREMENTS===
 
Skyrim: Legendary Edition, or at least Skyrim with Hearthfire and Dragonborn DLCs. If you're only missing Dawnguard, you should still be able to use my mod without any trouble.

===INSTALL===
 
Use the mod manager of your choice. Or if you prefer to install manually, drop CookingAndBakingExtended-NewFoodsOnly.esp into your Skyrim Data folder. This mod only has one file.

===UNINSTALL===

Best practice is to never uninstall any mod from an active game. If you must remove a mod (any mod with an esp or esm file), either roll back to a save file from before you installed that mod or start a new character.
 
But if you absolutely must uninstall from an active game, then use the same mod manager you used to install it in the first place. Or if you installed it manually, then just delete CookingAndBakingExtended-NewFoodsOnly.esp from your Skyrim Data folder.