Expanded Foods 1.7.0 (2024)

Got some veggies or mushrooms that are about to go bad and you don't have a cooking pot for... whatever reason? Just toss 'em onto a firepit, the oven, or with 0.5 L of water in the saucepan! Doing so boosts their nutrition and reducestheir shelf life (unless you burn them). You can chop them up with a knife to make them more edible. Also good in pies!

NOTE:Whole mushrooms have to be boiled instead of baked. You can still cook them in a firepit too, but they don't like the oven.

You can grind up bread by hand or using a quern to make bread crumbs! They give massive nutrition boosts to stews and soups.

Need a long-term form of bread preservation? Mix together flour, salt, and water to make hardtack! It lasts a long time and can be baked multiple times to make it even less edible and longer lasting!

Is your meat not tasty enough? No problem, just smash it with a rockto bring out its nutrition! Chopping it into bits brings out the flavor, making it even better than usual. You can even throw them into stews if you want. You can boil meat with 0.5 L of water in the saucepan.

Now includes fish!

Berry bread can be made by mixing some kind of flour and either water OR milk, plus berries or dried berries. You can pour syrup or honey on top of it.

To make confectioneries, mix honey/syrup/peanut butter together with peanut paste or sunflower grain or acorn meal. Salt optional.

Mix together peanuts (or other nuts) OR sunflower grain, syrup/honey, gelatin, and fruit to make a fruit bar! A very nice healing snack.

Mix together smashedmeat, batter (such as syrup, honey, or eggs), flour, and bread crumbs, then mix oil onto it, orcook/bake it. Once done, you can pour syrup, soy sauce, or honey on top of it.

Mix together wholeveggies, batter (such as syrup, honey, or eggs), flour, and bread crumbs, then cook/bake. Once done, you can pour syrup, soy sauce, or honey on top of it.

As you may be able to guess, this needs batter (syrup, honey, or eggs), bread crumbs, and chopped food/cheese/rice/boiled eggs.
It would also appear that I missed them when I was naming stuff. Whoops!

Mix soft dough in the mixing pot. That's it. If you want something more substantial, add chopped meat or veggies. Cook or bake in the oven. Ideal in cooking pot meals.

Mix honey and peanuts (salt optional) in a mixing bowl to get raw gozinaki, then cook it. Mix it in the mixing bowl with syrup or honey for a sweet treat.

Muffins are made like berry bread, but made out of soft dough instead of regular dough.

Mix together 2 meat nuggets, 1 ball of fat, and 3 berries. It's edible raw, but even better when cooked.

Mix together 1 meat nugget and 1 ball of fat. You can add cheese, if you're into that sort of thing. Hang it to dry on the meat rack to boost its nutrition even further. Good in meals,salads, and pies. You can boil sausage with 0.5 L of water in the saucepan!MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING UNAGED MEAT NUGGETS!

Mix together 1 bell pepper and 1 portion of chopped food, grain, dried berries, or cheese. Optionally, you may bread it with honey/syrup, bread crumbs, and flour. Can be oiled or fried like other breaded foods.

Get some seaweed, grind it in a quern, form it into sheets in the crafting grid, bake it in the oven,then mix it with rice to make sushi. You can add any kind of chopped veggie and drizzle it with honey, sauce, or birch/maple syrup.

Spoiler

Cook bone broth with more bones in the saucepan until you get raw gelatin, then cook that and some water to make plain gelatin. You can add juice, sauce, or syrup to instead make flavored gelatin. Syrup needs an extra portion of water, though.

Render fat and water in the saucepan to make lard. It can be used as a replacement for fat AND food oil, plus it can be added in porridge to give it a fat, creamy texture.
If left along long enough, it turns into Hardened Lard, which can be used for candlemaking and mechanical work.

Boil milk in a saucepan to make pasteurized milk. Seal 1 portion of curdled milk and 4 portions of berries in a barrel to make yogurt starter. Mix together 1 liter of yogurt starter to 1 liter of pasteurized milk to make fermenting yogurt, which must be sealed in a barrel or bottle to turn into plain yogurt. Mix with syrup or honey to make flavored yogurt.

Made by cooking cheese and milk in a cooking pot. You can add vegetables, meat, sausage, more cheese, bread crumbs, fish sauce, soy sauce, and food oil.

Made by cooking rice grain and soy beans in a cooking pot. You can add everything from au gratin, which is... most things.

This meal can only be made in the mixing bowl, but still requires a cooking pot. It requires 2 kinds of chopped vegetables at a minimum, but you can add cooked meat and sausage, cheese, fish sauce, soy sauce, oil, and vinegar. You can also add fried food.

This meal can only be made in the mixing bowl, but still requires a cooking pot. It requires 0.5 L of yogurt, up to 4 portions of fruit, nuts, and syrup/gelatin/honey.

This meal is made in the cooking pot out of pasta noodles and water. Pasta noodles can be made by mixing egg and flour together, then smashing it flat and cutting it into noodles. You can add herbs, meat, vegetables, oil, and sauces.

Like the salad, you need to put a pot in the mixing bowl, then add boiled pasta. After that, you can add in veggies, meat, oil, fried food, sausage... almost anything the salad accepts, as a matter of fact.

Juice be fermented in bottles or barrels to make berry wine or boiled in a saucepan to make syrup. Wine can be used in stews or fermented into vinegar, while syrup is ideal on baked goods. Wine and brandy will now age over time, providing healing and lots of intoxication.

Cook 1 liter of water per 1 bone in a saucepan. Can be used in stews and soups.

Cook bone broth with egg white at a 1:1 ratio. Can be used in stews and soups.

Compress seeds, rice grain, flax grain, sunflower grain, peanuts, soy beans, or olives in a press. 128 grains/nuts/beans OR 32 olives makes 10 liters of oil. Can be used in stews, au gratin, and salads, or to fry food in a saucepan/cauldron.

Mix together peanut paste and food oil to make peanut butter. You can also add honey/syrup and salt.

Mix together peanut paste, soy sauce, honey/syrup, and water to make peanut sauce. You can also add salt.

Gather sap from a birch or maple tree, then boil it in a saucepan to make syrup. Tree syrup is good on most fried goods.

For soy sauce: In a barrel, soak soybeans in water, one liter of water per soybean portion. Once fully soaked, Cook over a firepit and grind in a quern to make roasted soybean powder. Mix this powder with any grain in a mixing bowl or crafting grid to make soy sauce culture and soak in 1 liter of brine. Once the final soak is done, Press the soy slurry in a fruit press to retrieve soy sauce. Soy sauce can be used in many meals or in fried goods.
For soy milk: In a barrel, soak soybeans in water, one liter of water per soybean portion. Once fully soaked, place in the crafting grid to de-shell the soybeans, then mix with 1 liter of water in the crafting grid. Grind mixture in a quern to make a blended soybean mixture. Press to make raw soy milk, then Boil to make edible soy milk. Soy milk can be used as a milk replacement, if you really care about not exploiting virtual animals.

A vile concoction made from cooked, chopped poisonous mushooms, bonemeal, saltpeter, 0.1 L of aqua vitae, and 0.1 L of green dye, then boiled with more bonemeal and distilled into the brew. It has unsurpassed healing abilities but will quickly make you so hungry you'll wish you were dead. Be careful with this stuff!

Healthy juice made by compressing vegetables in a press. 64 of the same vegetables make 10 liters of juice, which can be used in soups.

A byproduct of leaving wine sealed for too long, vinegar does not expire and can be used in salads or for pickling foods to increase their shelf life.

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Get some dried leached acorns and just place them in your grid to divide them into manageable portions.