QUEST 1 · FREE-TO-PLAY
Cook's Assistant
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.

- Difficulty
- Novice
- Length
- Very Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 4 January 2001
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Before you start
Talk to the Cook in the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle.
Items required
- Egg (can be obtained during the quest)
- Bucket of milk
- A bucket (if obtaining the milk during the quest)
- Pot of flour
- A pot (if obtaining the flour during the quest)
Enemies to defeat
STEP BY STEP
Walkthrough
Follow the chapters below. Click any screenshot or diagram to view it at full size.
Before you begin
This quest is typically among the first to be completed by new players and is intended to encourage exploration of Lumbridge. However, for non Ironmen players, it is possible to skip gathering the ingredients yourself by purchasing the items on the Grand Exchange before speaking to the Cook, allowing for the quest to be completed in seconds.
A feast for a Duke
Begin the quest by speaking with the Lumbridge cook found in the kitchen on the ground floor (UK) of Lumbridge Castle. He mentions it is Duke Horacio's birthday and that he is supposed to bake the Duke a cake. Unfortunately, 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.
Bucket and pot
A bucket spawns in the cellar of Lumbridge Castle, and a pot spawns in the kitchen on the centre table. You can also purchase both a bucket and a pot from the Lumbridge General Store for 2 and 1 coins, respectively.
Egg








123- 1 Chicken coop
- 2 Dairy cow field
- 3 Wheat field
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
With an empty bucket, go north into the cow pasture. Use the empty bucket on a dairy cow (distinguishable by its cowbell) to get a bucket of milk. You can optionally talk to Gillie Groats for an explanation on how to milk a cow. She can be found across the river next to the dairy cow in the eastern Lumbridge cow field.
The cook will also accept milk that is in a bottomless bucket of milk, taking one bucket worth of milk from it.


Pot of flour
With an empty pot, leave the cow pasture and go south-west to the wheat field. Pick some grain, and then enter the Mill Lane Mill, found up the road to the north-east. Climb to the top floor, put the grain in the hopper, then pull the lever and climb back down to the ground floor (UK). Finally, use an empty pot on the flour bin (which is now full of flour) to get a pot of flour. You can optionally talk to Millie Miller inside the mill for an explanation on how to make flour.



Delivery
After collecting the ingredients, speak to the cook to deliver them.
Congratulations, quest complete!
Quick checklist 8 instructions
Use this when you already know the route. The full walkthrough above includes explanations and diagrams.
Walkthrough
Obtain the following items: a bucket of milk, a pot of flour, and an egg:
Buy from the Grand Exchange for current Grand Exchange price + current Grand Exchange price + current Grand Exchange price coins
Create them yourself:
Bucket of milk: use a bucket (found in the cellar of Lumbridge castle) on a dairy cow in the Lumbridge cow field.
Egg: spawns at the chicken farm north-west of the cow field.
Pot of flour: with an empty pot (found by the Cook in Lumbridge Castle), head to the Mill Lane Mill next to the cow pens and pick some grain from outside. Climb up to the top floor of the mill and use the grain with the hopper, then pull the lever. Climb down and take the flour from the flour bin with an empty pot.
Talk to the Cook in Lumbridge Castle's kitchen with all the items in your inventory.
Say: What's Wrong? → Can I help?
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 300 Cooking experience
- Permission to use the Cook-o-matic 100, which reduces the chance of burning some foods.
OSRS WIKI CONTRIBUTORS
Sources & credits
Walkthrough text and preparation lists are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Game imagery © Jagex Ltd; individual image sources are linked in their captions. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.
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