REKA: Cooking and Recipe Guide

If you want to cook something in Reka you have to go to the oven in the middle of your house.
On the middle-left side of the oven you can place items and cook them. You have to combine three items. If something can be cooked out of the ingredients together they will convert to the oven with a cooking timer or in the queue on the left side. If you click on items in the queue the items will transfer back in your inventory.🎃🍂

On the right side of the oven your cooked goods are stored. If you click on them they transfer in your inventory.

Make sure there is always wood in the back of your oven!!!

Have fun trying to mix different ingredients and find new recipes or continue reading this guide for all recipes.
There is a detailed version of all dishes and a table with selling prices summing it all up ✨🐈‍⬛

All the foods:

The first fruit preserve was invented in the Roman Empire. They preserved plums with sugar cane and made the first plum jam.¹ Today Jam is prepared by cooking fruit with jam sugar that is mixed with pectin. (Science fun fact: pectin is a gelling agent found in citrus fruit and apples. You don’t need jam sugar for a fruit preserve with them). Making Jam is a great way to preserve the abundance of berries and fruit harvested in summer and fall. My favourite jam is raspberry jam! It has the best sweet-sour ratio and tastes like summer in a jar.

Currently there is only one kind of Jam in REKA.

You can cook Raspberry Jam by either combining three Raspberries or two Raspberries and one Honeycomp.

Jam is less then a small sweet meal. You need two Jams for a small sweet meal. A jam and another sweet food item are not enough for a regular sweet meal.

¹https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmelade#Geschichte

Porrige is a food that has been consumed since the Paleolithic Age. Back then it might have been just crushed starchy plants heated with water. In Northern Europe and Russia porrige has been a typical staple food made out of different types of grains that were available. It was primarily a savoury dish, with meats, root crops, vegetables and herbs added for flavor¹. Today it is mostly prepared for breakfast with sugar, fruit and milk. (I use a mix of differnet grains and usually add oatmilk, cinnamon, dried ginger, peanut butter, blueberries and raspberries).

There are four different kinds of Porrige in REKA.

For normal Porrige you have to combine 3 Grain.

For Porrige with Fruit just combine two Grain and one Raspberries or one Grain and two Raspberries.

For Porrige with Honey cook two Grain and one Honeycomb or one Grain and two Honeycomb.

For Porrige with Honey and Fruit combine one Grain one Raspberries and one Honeycomb.

Porriges count as small sweet meals, except the plain Porrige. Plain Porrige doesn’t count as savory nor sweet when given to villagers. You better combine it with other savory or sweet Items.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge#History

In Reka you can prepare Pancakes, Berrie Cake, Pumpkin Cake and Honey Cake. There are a few different types of Honey Cake in Eastern Europe¹. There is ukranian Medivnyk, polish Miodownik, russian Medovik and german Honigkuchen (and there seems to be ancient greek “Placenta Cake” but ew. Edit: turns out the mamalian placenta is called after the cake and not vice versa).
Fun Fact: In germany we say “you shine like a honey cake horse” if someone seems very happy.

If you are a sweet witch you can combine Flour, Raspberries and a Honeycomb for delicious flat Pancakes.
The Pancake is a small sweet meal.

For Honey Cake combine Eggs, Flour and Honey Comb.
The Honey Cake is more than a sweet meal(?).

To craft Berrie Cake combine Egg, Flour and Raspberries.
The Berrie Cake is more than a sweet meal(?).

Combine Egg, Flour and Pumpkin for Pumpkin Cake.
The Pumpkin Cake is more than a sweet meal(?).

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_cake

Bread is a typical staple food throughout Europe. There are LOTS of different kinds of bread here. Over here in Germany we have the largest variety of breads worldwide with more than 300 basic kinds of bread.¹ In Europe we have Black Bread, Grey Bread, Brown Bread, White Bread, Sourdough Bread, Grain Bread, …

There are currently only two types of Bread in REKA.

Add three Flour or two Flour and one Salt to your Oven to bake some delicious white Bread.
Bread counts as a small savory meal.

If you crave some hearty Bread you can combine two Flour and one Garlic for Garlic Bread.
Garlic Bread is a small savory meal.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_in_Europe

In fall and winter, soups provide a perfect meal to warm you from within. I just spent four days eating pumpkin soup with different kinds of bread and toppings like roasted pumpkin seeds (the poor kids) and kimchi. I ate Czech Garlic Soup for the first time one year ago and, what can I say, it was AWESOME!

There are three Kinds of Soups in the Game.

You can prepare Mushroom Soup by cooking three Edible Mushrooms or two Edible Mushrooms with one Salt.
Mushroom Soup is a small savory meal.

You can craft Garlic Soup by combining three Heads of Garlic.
Garlic Soup couts as a small savory meal.

Combine three Pumpkins.
Pumpkin Soup is a small savory meal.

Combine three Eggs in the oven.
Scrambled Eggs are a small savory meal.

Combine two Eggs and one Edible Mushroom.
Mushroom Deviled Eggs are a small savory meal.

Pierogi are traditional dumplings prepared in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. Preparing them takes a long time and they are usually cooked with the whole family helping. The dumplings are filled with minced meat, bacon, potatoes, mushrooms, cabbage or fruit. They are simmered in water and then served or panfried with onions.¹

To cook tasty Pierogies combine Flour, Salt and Pumpkin.

For Pierogies with Mushrooms combien Flour, Salt and Edible Mushrooms.

Add Flour, Salt and Cabbage to your oven.

All Pierohies are regular savory meals.

¹https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirogge

Cabbage Roll is a common dish in Europe. They are typically filled with ground meat and seasoned with onion and spices. The blanced cabbage leaves are filled and then simmered with a sauce. In Middle and Eastern Europe the sauce is often tomato based.¹ My grandma used to make “Kohlrouladen” with potatoes and gravy and showed me how to prepare them when I was a child. I never heard of Cabbage Rolls stuffed with pumpkin or mushrooms, but I will defenitely try it!

For some nice Cabbage Rolls combine two Cabbages with one Edible Mushroom.

Add two Cabbages and one Pumpkin in your oven.

All Cabbage Rolls are regular savory meals.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_roll

Combine Pumpkin, Edible Mushrooms and Grain for stuffed Pumpkin.

Combine Pumpkin, Cabbage and Grain.

All Stuffed Pumpkins are regular savory meals.

Witchcraft Items are used to cleanse or charm places or … to poison people.

You can craft Black Salt by combining three Salt in the oven.
Villagers won’t eat Black Salt. You can’t feed it to them.

You can craft a Mild Poison by combining three Fla Agaric Mushrooms.
It poisons the Villagers if you give it to them. You get no rewards then. So don’t. …unless you want to earn some extra coin from some shady villagers.

 

Thank you for reading my guide <3

It’s my first guide ever and I’m super excited to share it with you, my fellow witch ✨
I reeeeeally love this game and sometimes catch myself wandering in the woods just enjoying the atmosphere and the bright raspberries that are ready to be picked for a nice porrige or cake.

I hope your food pantry is always stocked and the fire in your oven is always burning and warming your witch hut in the cold autumn season! 🍂🎃

If you found new recipes or tipps just comment :]