Zelda had watched over Link the entire time, which among other things meant she'd been tormented, tormented I say! by all the delicious dishes Link had cooked up but that she wasn't able to taste. She'd tried not to be too obvious about it, but when they'd sat down at the cookpot that first night After, Link gave her a kind look and offered her the full spread of his collected ingredients and Zelda knew she'd been rumbled.

Her first few attempts were... dubious, but Zelda chalked that up to enthusiasm; attempt number five resulted in a respectable stamina elixir that didn't even smell too buggy, and attempt number six saw her turning her hand to a mushroom dish that Link devoured in three highly approving bites.