+5 Strength +5 Stamina +5 Wisdom +5 Intelligence +20 Hit Points +30 Mana 0.10 Weight Avg Price: 33pp
Classes: All Races: All
Skill: Baking
Trivial: 251
Cost to Produce: pp
Quantity Produced: 4
Ingredients:
Unless Mixing Bowl is listed as an ingredient, all baked items can be made in either an oven or a spit.
Sub Combines:
        Yields 
        Posted @ Mon, Sep 9th 2:40 PM 2002
        Hello,

        I am a GM baker with skill of 250.  I also have my GM baking spoon that give +5% baking mod. I have made 1,000's of these.

        Enough of my credentials. Here are some yields for the sub items. This is important since you need the correct amount of everything or you'll end up with a lot of extra ingredients of one type and missing a few others.

        Apricot Marmalade - Yield 6
        Marmalade Sandwich - Yield 12
        Jumjum Spiced Beer - Yield 10
        Winter Chocolate - Yield 1
        Jumjum Cake - Yield 20
        Slice of Jumjum Cake - Yield 10. Note you need double the amount of slices as other ingredients.
        Jumjum Salad - Yield 10
        Royal Mints - Yield 10
        Mature Cheese - Yield 10
        Woven Mandrake - Yield 1
        Steel Boning - Yield 1
        Picnic Basket - Yield 10

        So what do you do since some of these combines yield different amounts? Well a common factor in all ingredients is 6. This means make 60 of each ingredient to come out with using up all your ingredients equally (well close to it).

        In otherwords:

        Make 1 Apricot Marmalade combine to get 6 Apricot Marmalades. Make 5 combines of Marmalade sandwiches to give you 60 sandwiches. You will have 1 Apricot marmalade left over actually.

        Make 1 Jumjum cake combine to get 20 cakes. Combine 12 cakes--one by one--to get 120 slices of jumjum cake. (Remember you need double here, that's why you need 120 not 60). Also note you get 8 extra cakes left over but I found this combine is very tough and I often fail a few times. Its nice to have a few extra in case.

        Make 6 combines of Jumjum Salad to get 60.

        Make 6 combines of Royal Mints to get 60.

        Make 6 combines of Mature Cheese to get 60.

        Make 6 combines of Picnic Basket to get 60. The sub combines on these are a pain but each yield 1 so they are also a factor of 6.

        Now you have enough ingredients to fill 3 backpacks. Click away, 8 items in the oven and pray you succeed.

        I have found that at my skill level I fail about 51% of the time. Because the yields of the subcombines are so high (10 usually) the price of the picnics are actually pretty low. The cost involved is more about the time involved to make all the clicks and gathing stuff. The brownie parts are not that bad since each one makes 20 cakes and each cake is 10 slices meaning 200 slices. You need 2 slices per attempt so that's 100 combines off one brownie part.

        ~Happy Baking~
         
              RE: Yields 
              Posted @ Wed, Sep 11th 4:03 PM 2002
              Very nice and very helpful! I put together a shopping list, based on your recommendations for getting enough for 60 combines. Here it is along with a step-by-step following:

              Shopping List for 60 Misty Thicket Picnics
              6 Barley
              6 Bottle
              1 Brownie Parts
              1 Clump of Dough
              6 Eucalyptus Leaf
              6 Fennel
              12 Flask of Water
              1 FORAGED Fruit
              6 FORAGED Vegetable
              9 Frosting
              6 Hops
              12 Jum Jum Stalk
              6 Lettuce
              5 Loaf of Bread
              12. bottle of milk
              12 Mandrake Roots
              6 Rennet
              6 Small Brick of Ore
              6 Spices

              In addition, you will need the following:
              1 Cake Round
              1 Dairy Spoon
              1 File

              This seems to be the most straight forward order to proceede, listed as the number of Combines:

              Forge
              6. Steel Boning

              Loom/Kit
              6. Woven Mandrake
              6. Picnic Basket

              Brew Barrel
              6. Jum Jum Spiced Beer

              Oven/Spit
              1. Apricot Marmalade

              Mixing Bowl
              1. Winter Chocolate
              6. Jum Jum Salads
              6. Royal Mints
              6. Mature Cheese
              5. Marmalade Sandwich

              Oven/Spit
              1. Jum Jum Cake
              12. Pieces of Jum Jum Cake
              60. Misty Thicket Picnics

              Hope someone finds this helpful!
               
                  RE: For the Matur.e Cheese.... 
                  Posted @ Sun, Sep 8th 2:32 PM 2002
                  Things to know:

                  Picnic Baskets are player made. Takes smithing and tailoring skill.

                  Dairy Spoons are smithed.

                  The baking combine for Jumjum Cakes also requires a Cake Round, which is made via pottery I believe.

                  Lettuce is purchasable in ShadowHaven. Same merchant as Jumjum.

                  Bread is also purchasable, why you'd go through the hassle of making it yourself I have no clue.