Hmmm I'm thinking of an idea (and will be asking in the modding questions thread, and if it's been done or is do-able):
- take tallow and use it to fry/deep-fry ingredients.
- possibly increasing the value by the rate of the tallow's
- the result is a higher value ingredient
Worst case someone just keeps frying the same piece of chicken. And then makes a fried fried fried fried fried chicken roast. But hey it's a mod and if someone chooses to do that and unleash it unto the realms that is not my problem.
Similar thought, but with making jerky. Jam and other preserves are already of the Expanded Plants/Reactions mod, but idk if that's up to date.
I contemplated recently making omelets and sandwiches as edible goods made via reaction, and spices from rock salt and plants. There's plenty of room for an entire culinary arts mod.
You could for instance have a "x and cheese omelet with bacon," taking any creature egg and any creature cheese, and pig meat. Like "ostrich hen egg and cheese omelet with bacon"
You'd use a new meat material associated with the creature's egg via reaction class or whatever. " and cheese omelet with bacon" would be the name of the meat item.
Can do the same with sandwiches: "x liver sandwich with cheese" from bread (made from flour)
, cheese, and liver, getting the item from a meat type made from the creatures liver.
Someone posted that in the "what are you modding" thread they used this to make sausages, I did the same, now my dorfs get happy thoughts from their sausages.
Spices need to go on food, I was just going to use them in special recipes. Like roasted garlic and herb bread; a meat type with plant tokens, gets it's item name from "garlic and herb spice" which is made from garlic bulbs, salt, and some plants. Expensive and has a pleasant syndrome that gives happy thoughts.
Dwarves can cook spices into roasts and biscuits and stuff too, without special reactions, and that would create good thoughts from the syndrome off the spice.
I had a sticky note with like a dozen ideas for food stuff written on it. No idea where it ended up...