302 7.30 A Heartier Breakfast Than Usual.

The birds twittered near where I was lying down and wakened while I was wiping my face, half anticipating that these birds would one day shit on our faces when they are sitting high in the beams of the hearth's bare roof.

I glanced at Jean Lethal who was hugging his Gotham like a small bolster with a fixed nutty smile on his look, soothed that his weapon was not just being crafted into a better improvement but was bestowed a catchy name as well.

I peeked at Matilda and she was wheezing softly while lying down on a quilted pillow...?!? Haiyoo... This girl, really... Keeps sneaking stuff out from the trailer and fetches it to our writing area. Haiyooo... I marvelled what she will drag out from the trailer one day when her room is established and decent.

I took off to the crew banquet table and poured myself a lukewarm black coffee with sugar into a paper cup and once I'm done with it, I crumpled it up and threw it like a basketball into a waste paper basket. "Yeeeeeaaaaa... He is on F-I-R-E..... Tttssshhhhh....."

Yup... Every morning I would need my coffee fix and once in a while I would sneak behind the trailers and steal a few puffs of smoke. Hahahhaa.

I went over to the encampment and started a fire and I gathered some water and hung the pot on the tripod frame over the fireplace. What Jean Lethal saw yesterday was a campfire which means it got nothing hanging or near it and it was definitely a roaring fire. A fireplace is like this, small, friendly and good enough to boil a pot full of water in 20 or so minutes. Hahahahaha.

I checked the pot on the table and found that Matilda had soaked the green beans for more than 20 hours and these would be easily boiled to make green bean soup. I had bought a pint of sweet and preserved cow's milk, a few combs 'lady's finger bananas' that are small, thin-skinned and very sweet. I took a lump of brown sugar and set it aside. I went over to the riverbank and saw a wild screw-pine plant and took 6 leaves from it.

Ladies and gentleman, for today's breakfast, I'm going to prepare green bean soup with balls of glutinous rice and grilled bread. Since I'm up early in the morning today and the 7 dwarfs won't be here till the sun had reached almost as high as the peak of the mountains, I've got a pretty early start.

The offscreen crew had helped me to make dough of mixing 2 catty plain flour, abit of animal fat, some salt and 400 ml of hot water. Another crew helped me to mix the glutinous rice and made it like a mochi kind of texture which I would make tiny balls and dip it into the hot green soup when it's ready.

Since this is a healthier choice viewer's pick for morning breakfast, I substituted coconut milk for cow's milk instead. The water for morning tea had been prepared and I put it aside near the embers and placed more firewood and hang a bigger pot over it and let it boil the green beans until it seemed to break from its shell.

Since it was soaked for a period of time, the beans would be easier to boil and cook. A crew had prepared the dough into balls that would be made into grilled bread and I took a saucepan and placed it over 2 pieces of wood with the embers in between and it stood there like it was on a stove. The fire slowly heats up the saucepan while I patted a ball of dough into a flat round cake and lightly dusted them with flour so it won't stick to one another.

While waiting for the pot of green beans to boil over, I threw in the screw pine leaves that I had knotted and the lump of palm sugar inside it and placed wooden ladle so I could stir it while I flipped the grilled bread and cook it on both sides.

Jean Lethal had awoken since he had heard the din around the encampment as I whipped up breakfast. He washed up and asked if he could be of any assistance and I instructed him how to grill the bread while I make tiny miniscule glutinous balls using a small ladle to scoop and my fingers to twiddle them into the right sizes.

"This is for breakfast, right? So much...! Do you think we can finish it?"

"Don't worry... This grilled bread is 2 catty and it could be made into 20 or more pieces. This green bean soup is 2 catty and its accompanied with 1 catty of glutinous rice balls I'm making here. I will put in the pint of milk and 2 combs of these lady's fingers banana. It's sweet and very delectable...!

Jean Lethal moved his face near the steaming pot and smelled the sweet scent that emanates from it. In this era, they only eat plain green bean soup with nothing else. But with my skills at cooking, I improved the green bean soup to be quadruple in taste and in appearance.

"By Golly Miss Molly... It smells very nice...! Where did you learn how to cook like this? You must be raised by the kitchen staffs of some royal family...!"

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"Hahahaha... I learnt it off some Youtube videos la... Less talk... Later you would have burnt grill...and we would be expecting guests. 7 of them and these would be one of the breakfast they will remember for life."

"Oh... I've noticed them yesterday but they're kids, right? I saw their silhouettes last night from afar and can't distinguish any of them."

"Yeah... You can call them kids... They're the ones we got the shards of the gems from. Without them, no one could survive going down into the dark and airless mine shaft for many hours while they mine 7 pieces of each 4 gems per person."

"So far we had collected about 343 pieces for the whole week from them. I hadn't had the time to fuse them but would be doing them pretty soon once I had made the roof for the hearth."

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"Hey, Robin...Good morning JL. You should have woken me up just now so we could help you make breakfast. Scoot over... Let me make some tea first."

Matilda reached for the pot and prepared some tea with sugar to compliment the morning breakfast. She peered into the pot and saw the green bean soup simmering in a dark base and the smell was wonderful when I stirred it and the scent wafted to her nostrils.

"What's the occasion today? This looks and smells fitting for a King's meal...!"

"Ah... I'm just practising my cooking skills. It had been like 6 or 7 months I had someone to prepare for us 6 meals daily."

"6 meals? I would be happy to have a single meal each day... Why did they prepare so much for you?"

"Actually not just for me, it's for 5500+ people with a number of 72 cooks, for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper."

"As I said, you must be born in a royal kitchen and 5500+ people are the royal subjects I reckon..."

"Hahahaha... Your grilled bread is almost complete, you may set it on the table there. Matilda, help me stir this while I drop in these bananas first. It's semi-ripe but it tastes best when prepared in this green soup. Continue to stir slowly and I'm going to drop these glutinous rice balls a bit at a time and prevent it from sticking together."

I dropped in the whole pieces of bananas that had been removed from its thin skin. The small glutinous balls were dropped in gradually and I kept adding wood to the fire to bring it up to heat and prevents the glutinous balls from sticking with one another.

Jean Lethal helped to fan the fire ablaze and the flames somehow maintained the green soup to be at a constant temperature. When I had completed dropping those glutinous balls, I took over the stirring and discovered that only a few balls stuck with each other and on the bottom of the pot.

Everything was simmering and I pushed the woods aside and only left the embers. I took a rag and held the handle of the pot and brought it down to the embers before I pour the whole pint of cow's milk. I instructed Matilda to stir from the bottom and once it simmered, I told her that it's done after I threw in a few pinches of salt without tasting them.

I threw the cover of the pot on top and placed it firmly and let it cook by itself while waiting for the guests to arrive.

Matilda opened the cover and stirred the content before she placed a ball of the glutinous ball into a spoon and transferred it to her mouth. "Hmmmmmm... Sarap Sarap masmasarap... Oishi-nee... Hii... Hii... Hii..."

The look of satisfaction with her tongue sticking out calls for the complete success of this meal. "Terrific... Breakfast is served and here come our guests..."