Turns out that when using Note
Well, you did not pose any stupid question here, in fact I did recheck what I did, and turns out that the notepad++ changes I made needed to be saved manually in order to take effect, coz everytime I reopened the reciepes.xml I saw my changes there, but they were highlighted and not taking effect, I suppose hitting the save icon made the changes take effect? I am no coder and I did use mods and edited configs before, but I guess I never noticed that,
Regarding my world, I am playing single player, local server, navezgane map, and I have 5-6 mods, Oaks cookers mod is one of them, but so far no interference
one more remark though, after successfully changing the snow mod, now I see 3 bottled water recipes, 2 with murky water, and one with the snow one, there is a repeated water from murky water recipe (same ingredients), its not causing any trouble, its just annoying to look at, so dont mind it this remark if its gonna be troublesome to figure out, and thanks again for the follow-ups