Harvest Moon 64/Recipes

Collecting recipes is one of the many optional goals of the game. When you become good enough friends with and give certain foods or items to a character, that character may give you a recipe. The recipes cannot be cooked or used physically in any way during gameplay, but the number of recipes received during the game factors into the evaluation at the end of the third Spring. They are on display in the kitchen and can be checked at any time.

Some recipes will show up as a different name when viewed from your kitchen. For example, Ellen's Walnut Cake recipe lists as "Herb Rice Cake", Lillia's Vegetable Tomato Stew is "Twice-Cooked Tomatoes and Greens", and the shipper's Tomato Soup is "Tomato Crem Soup". Other recipes, such as the one from Gray and Karen's mother, require a certain affection level before he or she will give it to you. Two recipes are seasonal: Cliff's Spice Tea can only be obtained in winter and the Old Lady of the Mountain's "Herb Rice Cake" is only available during spring.