"I guess there are cookbooks you could read. I'm not sure what would be useful though. The ghost might be more help there than me to ask." He didn't want to send her off thinking the wrong thing.
"You start off following the recipe, then after you do it a few times with a little change here and there you figure out what works, what doesn't. It's trial and error. Sometimes it tastes good. Sometimes it just goes in the bin." He had his share of those for sure.