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DIRECT ANSWER
What the player needs to know
Pick hot water and three spoonfuls
After Coen returns home with the herbs, Pieter asks him to prepare the medicine. Choose “Use hot water” at the first prompt. At the second prompt, choose “Add three spoonfuls of herbs.” These selections reproduce the instructions Anca gave earlier and complete the recipe correctly.
The difficulty is memory rather than crafting. The written instructions are available when Anca gives them, but the game does not expose the note again from the preparation prompt. You do not need to reload the entire visit if you have already reached the pot; the two choices above are the complete recipe input.
| Prompt | Correct choice |
|---|---|
| Water temperature | Use hot water |
| Amount of herbs | Add three spoonfuls |
Why the recipe deserves its own answer
This is a short decision with a disproportionately important result. Independent launch-build walkthroughs warn that preparing the medicine incorrectly has worse consequences than the earlier force-feeding choice. The direct answer stays above the spoiler line so players can solve the prompt without learning the later scene.
The recipe is part of Withering Away, not Page-Turner. Spending extra time studying with Anca may matter to her relationship route, but it does not change the quantities in the medicine. Keeping those questions separate prevents romance advice from obscuring the immediate quest solution.
Avoid losing the opening-day route
Withering Away competes with other prologue objectives for the eight available segments. Start it early enough to return home before the Blood Mass, and keep a save before the brewing interaction if you want to compare outcomes. Do not assume switching time of day will preserve every unresolved opening quest.
If you are planning the whole day rather than solving the recipe prompt, return to the prologue route. It groups the medicine with nearby work and identifies the quest that can safely wait until free exploration opens.
The two recipe inputs are corroborated by independent launch-build walkthroughs and are narrow enough to answer without inventing surrounding outcomes. A clean prologue replay will verify the exact prompt text, quest state and consequence on the current patch. Until then, this page deliberately avoids claiming that every nearby dialogue choice is required for Esme’s outcome or Anca’s later relationship route.
- Collect the herbs from Anca.
- Return home before the evening sequence advances.
- Choose hot water.
- Add three spoonfuls of herbs.
Frequently asked questions
How many spoonfuls of herbs go in Anca’s recipe?
Add three spoonfuls of herbs after choosing hot water.
Should I use hot or cold water for Esme’s medicine?
Use hot water. Cold water is not the correct Withering Away recipe choice.
Can I read Anca’s recipe while making the medicine?
The preparation prompt does not provide the written instructions again, which is why the correct two-step choice is easy to miss.
REFERENCE RECORD
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Follow a practical eight-segment Dawnwalker prologue route, learn which Laslea quests can wait and avoid spending the opening day on the wrong commitments.