Songs of Glimmerwick: Cooking Recipes and Baking Guide

When I first started cooking in Songs of Glimmerwick, I couldn’t find a single consolidated recipe list anywhere, so I did what any stubborn player does — I experimented in the kitchen and wrote everything down. This is my personal cooking memo, built entirely from trial and error. Fair warning: I got a little lazy partway through and started tracking things in a spreadsheet before pasting them here, so updates come slowly. If a proper wiki or full guide ever appears, I may wind up taking this one down — but until then, I hope my notes save you some guessing.

What You Need Before You Start Cooking

Three things gate your cooking entirely, and I ran into each one the hard way. First, you need a Leather Waterskin — you can buy one from Seed for three Seed coins. Second, you need Flour, which you either grind yourself by running Wheat through a Mill (crafted via the crafting menu) or simply buy from the miller. Third, you need cookable ingredients — vegetables, fruits, and herbs grown in your own garden are almost all fair game. Having those three sorted is what unlocks the whole process.

The Cooking Process, Step by Step

Here’s the exact sequence I follow, and honestly the whole thing feels a lot like Minecraft’s crafting style once it clicks.

1. Check whether your Leather Waterskin actually has water in it. If it’s empty, fill it from the pond in your garden. When you buy one fresh from Seed, it already comes filled, so you’re fine the first time.
2. In your inventory, move Flour onto the Leather Waterskin and click — I believe it also works the other way around, dragging the waterskin onto the flour. A button press produces Dough.
3. Take that Dough and move it onto a cookable ingredient, repeating the same action. Each ingredient turns the dough into its own specific dish’s dough.
4. Bake the dough in a fireplace — the ones in the Common Room and the Library both work, and there are others scattered around. Bake it the same way you would in Minecraft.

One quirk worth knowing: if an ingredient can’t be cooked with dough, the two items will simply swap places in your inventory rather than combining. That swap is actually my go-to test for whether something is a valid cooking ingredient. From what I can tell, whether an ingredient is edible raw doesn’t matter here — some crops like Tomato just refuse to mix with dough no matter what.

There’s a nice reward for sticking with it, too. Once you’ve cooked a decent amount, a stall appears in your garden where you can sell your dishes, and the more you cook, the slightly higher the prices get. Just be sure whatever you sell is homemade — gifted food can’t be sold at the stall.

Recipe Notes and a Warning About the Cooking Skill

I’m not listing material costs here. The annoying reason is that item details don’t show up unless you pull them out of a chest, so calculating costs on the fly turned into a headache — for now I’m only recording the monetary value of each dish.

This next part isn’t so much rigorous testing as it is me trying both setups and finding a mess. A bug actually flipped the effect of the cooking skill, meaning taking the skill made you worse off. If your mana values match the table below while you have the skill, you’re hitting that bug. The 1.01 patch fixed the reduced-effect bug, so with the skill active you should double the mana numbers I’ve listed. Unfortunately, a separate bug now means Cucumber Sandwich doesn’t change at all with the skill, so leave that one out of any bonus calculations. Also, the dishes that originally restore 29 or 33 mana increase inconsistently — they jump to 59 and 65 instead.

Full Recipe List (By Price)

Here’s the meat of my notes. I’ve sorted everything by price so you can decide what’s worth baking first. Treat this as your baking list for meal planning.

If you’re chasing the fishing or speed bonuses specifically, note that the effects differ wildly between dishes at similar prices — Fisherman’s Pie gives the biggest fishing boost I’ve recorded at just 55 coins, which makes it a bargain in my book. And if you need help tracking down the flute collectibles elsewhere in the game, my all flutes guide covers that side of things. That’s everything I’ve cooked and logged so far — happy baking, and I’ll keep adding to this as I experiment more.

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• Songs of Glimmerwick: All Flute Types and How to Get Them