Pilgrim’s Bounty is the time to level up your cooking skill in WoW. You can go from 1 to over 300 this week using just six recipes that you learn for this special World Event. The required ingredients for each recipe are few and readily available, too. Nothing could be easier.

Travel to the first of the Main cities for your faction listed below. There is no need to visit any other than these three cities.

For Alliance: 1) Stormwind, 2) Ironforge, 3) Darnassus.
For the Horde: 1) Undercity, 2) Orgrimmar, 3) Thunder Bluff.

You will find the special Pilgrim’s Bounty area  just outside or inside the front entrance of each city.

Stormwind or Undercity:

Start by training your Apprentice Cooking skill and learning the basic Spice Bread recipe with the Cooking Trainer at the Pilgrim’s Bounty area.

Next, purchase a Bountiful Cookbook from one of the Bountiful Barrels in the Pilgrim’s Bounty area. The cookbook contains the Pilgrim’s Bounty recipes you will need. The barrels also contain most of the special ingredients you will need for the special recipes. You will have to travel to all three main cities for your faction to obtain all of the ingredients to make all of the recipes.

In Stormwind or Undercity you can obtain the ingredients to make the Spice Bread Stuffing, Pumpkin Pie, and Slow-Roasted Turkey.

While in Stormwind or Undercity you will need to hunt down and kill the wild turkeys that you will find nearby in Elwyn Forest or Tirisfal Glades. Get at least 50 – 100 turkeys for the recipes and daily quests.

Make the Spice Bread recipe for 85 Spice Breads and then turn 80 0f the Spice Bread into Spice Bread Stuffing. You will reach 75 cooking skill during this, so return to the trainer and train your skill up to Journeyman Cooking, and then continue with the Spice Bread Stuffing until you reach 100.

Next learn the Pumpkin Pie recipe and purchase enough pumpkins and honey from the barrel to make 100 pumpkin pies. Make this recipe until you reach 160. (Remember to train at skill 150 to train Expert Cooking, so that you can continue to level up.) Save the ingredients for at least five of the pies until you reach Orgrimmar or Ironforge; you need to pick up the quest before you make the recipe for it to count.

When you reach 160 you can learn the Cranberry Chutney recipe. You will need to move on to Orgrimmar or Ironforge in order to obtain the cranberries necessary to make this recipe.

Orgrimmar or Ironforge:

Purchase cranberries and make Cranberry Chutney until you reach skill 220. Keep enough cranberries to make 20 more chutneys, but don’t make them yet. Remember to train to Artisan Cooking at skill 200. At skill 220 you can learn the Candied Sweet Potato recipe from your Bountiful Cookbook. You will need to visit Darnassus or Thunder Bluff to obtain sweet potatoes to make this recipe.

Thunder Bluff or Darnassus:

Purchase sweet potatoes and make Candied Sweet Potatoes until you reach skill 280. At skill 275 you can train for Master Cooking.

At skill 280 you can learn the final Bountiful Cookbook recipe Slow-Roasted Turkey. Return to Undercity or Stormwind and pick up the Slow-Roasted Turkey quest before you make the Slow-Roasted Turkey. Make this recipe until it no longer levels you up, but note a couple of things:

1. You get 2 skill points per turkey cooked
2. The recipe goes grey at 370 or so and it still gives you 2 points of skill per turkey.
   
3. At 405 it drops to 1 pt of skill per turkey and start to slow down after 410 or so. It’s really slow after 425. With enough turkey you should be able to hit 430.

Here’s a pic of my level 3 Warlock with 429 cooking skill:

Congratulations! You’ve gone from 1 to over 425, from Apprentice to Illustrious GrandMaster, in one day!

Click here for a guide to all of the Pilgrim’s Bounty quests: Pilgrim’s Bounty Quests Guide .

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