Cook's Assistant

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It briefly summarises the steps needed to complete the quest.

Cook's Assistant (#1)
Released		4 January 2001 (Update)
Members		No
Quest series		None
Official difficulty		Novice
Lead developer(s)		Paul Gower

Cook's Assistant is the first RuneScape quest ever released. In the quest, the player must obtain a bucket of milk, an egg, and a pot of flour for the Cook of Lumbridge Castle who is running low on time to make a birthday cake for Duke Horacio.

This quest was one of the six available during RuneScape's launch, and was originally developed by Paul Gower.

Details

Start point	Speak to the Cook in the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle.
Official difficulty	Novice
Description	The Lumbridge Castle cook is in a mess. It is the Duke of Lumbridge's birthday and the cook is making the cake. He needs a lot of ingredients and doesn't have much time.
Official length	Very Short
Requirements	None
Items required	Pot Bucket
Recommended	To skip most of the quest: Egg Bucket of milk Pot of flour
Enemies to defeat	None

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Walkthrough

A feast for a Duke

The quest start location.

Begin the quest by talking to the Cook in the kitchen on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] of Lumbridge Castle. He mentions it is Duke Horacio's birthday and that he is supposed to bake a cake for it. However, he has forgotten to buy the ingredients and asks the player to bring him a bucket of milk, an egg, and a pot of flour.

A bucket spawns in the cellar of Lumbridge Castle, and a pot spawns in the kitchen. Both can be purchased from the Lumbridge General Store for 2 coins and 1 coin, respectively.

Note: You can skip the intended process by bringing a pot of flour, a bucket of milk, and an egg with you. After starting the quest with all of these items, you say that you happen to have those items with you and the cook will ask if you were planning on baking a cake, completing the quest in seconds.

Egg

The location for an egg north of Lumbridge.

Go east out of Lumbridge Castle and run north along the path until you reach the chicken coop north-west of Farmer Fred's house. Go into the coop and pick up an egg.

Bucket of milk

Milking a dairy cow.

With an empty bucket, go north into the cow pasture. Use the empty bucket on a dairy cow to get a bucket of milk. Optional: You may talk to Gillie Groats across the river to the east in Lumbridge cow field next to the dairy cow for an explanation on how to get milk from it.

Pot of flour

With an empty pot, leave the cow pasture and go south-west to the wheat field. Pick up a grain then enter the Mill Lane Mill to the south-west. Optional: You may talk to Millie Miller inside the mill for an explanation on how to make flour. Climb to the top floor, put the grain in the hopper, pull the lever, then climb back down to the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US]. Use an empty pot on the flour bin full of flour to get a pot of flour.

Recommended: If you are a member, the easy Lumbridge & Draynor Diary requires baking bread on the Lumbridge Castle range, mill a second pot of flour for bread dough now to complete the task.

Delivery

After collecting the ingredients, speak to the Cook to deliver them.

Quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 Quest point
• 300 Cooking experience
• Permission to use the Cook-o-matic 100, which reduces the chance of burning some foods.

Required for completing

The completion of Cook's Assistant is a requirement to complete the following:

• Recipe for Disaster
• Easy Lumbridge & Draynor Diary: Bake some bread on the Lumbridge castle kitchen range.

Transcript

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Trivia

• Cook's Assistant is one of six quests released on the launch day of RuneScape.
• There is an easter egg in the Death to the Dorgeshuun quest — when you introduce Zanik to the Cook, he tries to offer the quest to her. "In fact, it's a good thing I met you. It's the Duke's birthday today, and I should be making him a lovely big birthday cake. I need eggs, flour and milk...", but player then tells the Cook that she does not have time for that, to which he responds, "It was worth a try." This insinuates that the cook tries to trick newcomers into bringing him supplies.
• The Cook at the Servants' Guild of Ardougne references this quest in her dialogue, saying "Overnight I was fired and replaced by some fool who can't even bake a cake without help!"
• During the 20th Anniversary event it was revealed that the Cook has attempted and failed to bake a cake countless times, explaining his recurring need for ingredients from new adventurers.