The basics

Welcome to Elder Scrolls Cuisine. I started this blog because I thought it would be fun for both me and my kids, and OK, mainly because I'm trying to pass the time between now and when Skyrim comes out. The goal? To more closely live, breathe, and eat Oblivion-style. So the rule is, recipes and dishes here have to be cookable using the ingredients that the developers of Elder Scrolls have revealed in the game to be available (or ingredients that can be reasonably assumed to exist there based on other evidence).

So let's start by seeing what's available to work with. Following are the food-based Alchemy ingredients found in Oblivion.

Main Ingredients
Apple
Beef
Blackberry
Boar
Bread
Carrot
Cheese
Corn
Crab
Fennel
Fish (slaughterfish)
Flour
Garlic
Grapes
Ham
Ironwood Nut (acorn?)
Leek
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Mutton
Onion
Orange
Pear
Potato
Pumpkin
Radish
Rat Meat
Rice
Strawberry
Tomato
Venison
Watermelon
Wheat Grain

Seasonings/Herbs
Arrowroot
Bergamot
Flax
Ginkgo
Ginseng
Lavender
Milk Thistle
Mugwort
St. John's Wort

Finished Dishes
Shepherd's Pie
Sweetcake
Sweetroll


In addition, the following can be found in taverns and travels.

Ale

Beer
Wine

Mead
Oysters


Based on the items available, we can assume the following with relative confidence.

• If ale, then barley
• If mead, sweetcake, and sweetroll, then honey
• If ocean, then salt
• If cheese and beef (wait, beef?), then dairy
• If ham, then pork and bacon

So these are the ingredients an Elder Scrolls cook has to work with. From here on, I'll reprise that role. I'll categorize recipes based on whether they use all confirmed ingredients, or some assumed ingredients. I'll base things as closely as possible to the medieval cookbooks that are currently on their way to my house. :)

According to fans on the official Facebook page, eggs and chickens have been confirmed. This is very exciting news.

Other ingredients I'm missing?