Queen Of Sauce Cookbook
| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Book |
| Location | Bookseller |
| Sell Price | 10000g |
The Queen Of Sauce Cookbook is the most expensive thing the Bookseller will ever put on his table, and it is also the one most farmers never see, because it only appears once a hundred Golden Walnuts have been gathered on Ginger Island. Reading it teaches every recipe the Queen Of Sauce would otherwise broadcast, including the ones her programme has not reached yet. That collapses a schedule measured in in-game years into a single afternoon, which is why it matters so much to anyone working towards a complete cookbook. There is nothing left in it after the first reading, so a second copy is better sold on or given away. It is a late-game luxury in the truest sense: by the time a farm can afford it, the farm hardly needs it.
The in-game description reads: Learn any Queen Of Sauce recipes that you don't already know.
Overview
The Queen Of Sauce is a cookery programme on the farmhouse television. A new recipe goes out on a Sunday, with a repeat showing in the middle of the week for anyone who missed it, and the programme works steadily through a fixed list rather than choosing at random. Watching it is free and reliable, but it is also slow: a recipe a week means that a farmer who starts cooking late, or who forgets to switch the set on, can still be waiting on dishes several years into a save. Missing a broadcast is not fatal, since the repeats come round again, but catching up the honest way takes patience.
The cookbook removes all of that. Reading it hands over every one of those recipes that the farmer has not already learned, and it does not care whether the episode has aired. For anyone chasing a full set of cooking recipes, it is the difference between watching the calendar for Sundays and simply having the list.
Getting to it is the hard part. A hundred Golden Walnuts is a serious amount of Ginger Island: the nuts are scattered across the island, hidden behind puzzles, dig sites and the volcano, and they are the island's own currency for parrot upgrades and for Qi's Walnut Room. Clearing that many means the island is largely finished. Only after that does the book start appearing in the Bookseller's rotation, and his stock is still rolled fresh for each of his two visits a season, so the wait can continue even once the walnuts are in the wallet. The price is then steep enough that only an established farm shrugs at it.
The honest assessment is that this is a completionist's purchase rather than a practical one. A farm wealthy enough to spend that much gold has usually been watching the television for years and knows most of the list already. What it does buy is certainty, and the few late recipes that would otherwise take another in-game year to come round. On a shared farm each player learns only from their own reading, so a household chasing recipes together needs a copy each.
Notes
Penny loves the gift, Elliott is pleased by it, and Alex is not keen. Given what one costs, handing it over as a present is an expensive gesture, though it is a loved gift rather than merely a liked one.
For dyeing it reads blue twice over: blue in the pots at Emily and Haley's house on 2 Willow Lane, and blue again through the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment in the feed.
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| Ol' Slitherlegs | 
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| Price Catalogue | 
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| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | 
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