Now We're Cookin'

Not much into cooking yet? I believe you'll be able to use Pilgrim's Bounty to level your cooking up to 355 quickly, easily, and inexpensively -- even if you've never cooked before! Here's how you can use it to level cooking:

Step 1: Go to the cooking trainer (there's one available right outside Stormwind City for the event) and get the Spice Bread recipe -- buy the needed Simple Flour and Mild Spices (sold by the Pilgrims Bounty ingredient vendor nearby), and cook at least 80 bread. The recipe turns gray at 40, but don't worry about that -- be sure to save all the bread you make, as you'll need it for the next step.

Step 2: Go to a Pilgrim's Bounty recipe vendor and purchase the Bountiful Cookbook for 1 silver, and in it you'll find the Spice Bread Stuffing recipe -- learn the recipe, buy Autumnal Herbs, and make the stuffing until you get to 100. Reminder: When you reach 50, go back to your cooking trainer and get Journeyman in cooking so you will continue leveling to 100.

Step 3: Learn the Pumpkin Pie recipe, buy ripe pumpkins and Honey, and make the pie until you get to 160. (Note: The necessary Ripe Elwynn Pumpkins are only available from a Pilgrim's Bounty vendor outside Stormwind City.) Reminder: When you reach 125, go back to your cooking trainer and get Expert in cooking so you will continue leveling past 150 and up to 160.

Step 4: Learn the Cranberry Chutney recipe, buy tangy cranberries and honey, and make the chutney until 220. (Note: The Tangy Wetland Cranberries required for the recipe are only available from a Pilgrim's Bounty vendor outside Ironforge.) Reminder: When you reach 200, go back to your cooking trainer and get Artisan in cooking so you will continue leveling past 225 and up to 300.

Step 5: Learn the Candied Sweet Potato recipe, buy the sweet potatoes, honey, and autumnal herbsand make the potatoes until 280. (Note: The Teldrassil Sweet Potato required for the recipe are only available from a Pilgrim's Bounty vendor inside Darnassus. Be sure to get extra sweet potatoes here, as you'll need them for step 6 also.) Reminder: When you reach 275, go back to your cooking trainer and get Master in cooking so you will continue leveling past 300.

Step 6: Learn the Slow-Roasted Turkey recipe, buy the sweet potatoes, and honey, kill Wild Turkeys until you have enough turkeys, and cook until you get to 350. (Note: Wild turkeys required for this recipe are only found in Elwynn Forest.)

I estimate this will cost under 10g! Significantly cheaper and easier than leveling your cooking under the usual circumstances.

Judging from the recipes, the minimum cooking level to get this achievement is 280.

• 
  
• [Spice Bread Stuffing] Min. cooking lvl 90
• 
  
• [Slow-Roasted Turkey] Min. cooking lvl 280
• 
  
• [Cranberry Chutney] Min. cooking lvl 210
• 
  
• [Pumpkin Pie] Min. cooking lvl 150
• 
  
• [Candied Sweet Potato] Min. cooking lvl 270
• 
  

Order of One-Time Quests

These are one-time only cooking quests (with yellow quest markers). Each quest requires a different cooking level, ranging from 1 to 280. The recipes are obtained from [item=46809] (H) at a vendor near the quest givers.

This guide assumes that you can cook everything. However, if you can't, these recipes will give you enough cooking levels to raise your cooking to over 410 (!) if you make each recipe ~70 times. Make sure to buy each level of Cooking (@ 50, 125, 200, 275) or you'll be wasting cooking levels! There is a [skill=185] trainer at each location if you need to learn the recipe for Spice Bread.

Note: This information includes the ingredients for the 5 daily quests to be completed at the same time. A guide for the dailies can be found here.

Alliance
Spice Bread Stuffing (1)*
Pumpkin Pie (100)
Cranberry Chutney (160)
They're Ravenous In Darnassus (100)
Candied Sweet Potatoes (220)
Slow-roasted Turkey (280)

Horde
Spice Bread Stuffing (1)
Pumpkin Pie (100)
Cranberry Chutney (160)
Candied Sweet Potatoes (220)
Undersupplied in the Undercity (160)
Slow-roasted Turkey (280)

* Cooking level required

Note: The one-time quests require that you prepare the food. Don't cook anything until after you get the quests (unless you're using them to raise your cooking level) or you'll have to make extra.

Total Ingredients (one time only):

• Alliance & Horde
  
  • 130 [item=44853]
  • 
    
  • 80 [item=44835]
  • 
    
  • 30 Simple Flour
  • 
    
  • 30 Mild Spices
  • 
    
  • 25 [item=44855] / [item=46797]
  • 
    
  • 25 [item=44834]
• 
  
• Alliance only
  
  • 30 [item=46784]
  • 
    
  • 25 [item=44854]
• 
  
• Horde only
  
  • 25 [item=46796]
  • 
    
  • 30 [item=46793]

Order of one-time quests:

Alliance

Horde

1.

Stormwind

Undercity

Buy: ▪ 130 Honey ▪ 80 Autumnal herbs ▪ 30 Simple flour ▪ 30 Mild spices
Pick up: Spice Bread Stuffing She Says Potato We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again?
Kill: ▪ 25 Wild turkey
Make: ▪ 30 Spice Bread Stuffing, ▪ *20* Slow-Roasted Turkey (Save 5 to make later)

Turn in: Spice Bread Stuffing
Pick up: Pumpkin Pie
Buy: ▪ 30 Ripe Elwynn Pumpkin
Make: ▪ 30 [item=44836]

Turn in: Spice Bread Stuffing
Pick up: Pumpkin Pie
Buy: ▪ 25 Ripe Tirisfal Pumpkin
Make: ▪ 25 [item=44836]

2.

Ironforge

Orgrimmar

Pick up & Turn in: Can't Get Enough Turkey Don't Forget The Stuffing!

Turn in: Pumpkin Pie
Pick up: Cranberry Chutney
Buy: ▪ 25 Tangy Wetland Cranberries
Make: ▪ 25 [item=44840]

Turn in: Pumpkin Pie
Pick up: Cranberry Chutney
Buy: ▪ 30 Tangy Southfury Cranberries
Make: ▪ 30 [item=44840]

3.

Stormwind

Thunder Bluff

Turn in: We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again?
Turn in: Cranberry Chutney
Pick up: They're Ravenous In Darnassus

Pick up & Turn in: Easy As Pie
Turn in: Cranberry Chutney
Pick up: Candied Sweet Potatoes
Buy: ▪ 25 Mulgore Sweet Potato
Make: ▪ 25 [item=44839]

4.

Darnassus

Orgrimmar

Pick up & Turn in: Easy As Pie
Turn in: They're Ravenous In Darnassus
Pick up: Candied Sweet Potatoes
Buy: ▪ 25 Teldrassil Sweet Potato
Make: ▪ 25 [item=44839]

Turn in: Candied Sweet Potatoes
Pick up: Undersupplied in the Undercity

5.

Stormwind

Undercity

Turn in: She Says Potato
Turn in: Candied Sweet Potatoes
Pick up: Slow-roasted Turkey
Make: ▪ 5 [item=44838]

Turn in: She Says Potato
Turn in: We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again?
Turn in: Undersupplied in the Undercity
Pick up: Slow-roasted Turkey
Make: ▪ 5 [item=44838]

6.

Darnassus

Orgrimmar

Turn in: Slow-roasted Turkey

Turn in: Slow-roasted Turkey

Note: The 5 daily quests can be found here.

(Please let me know of any errors so I can correct them right away. Thanks!)