CH 139

“I've started steaming food.”

Translated by Dawn

Edited by Dawn

“I’ve started steaming food.”

“Uooh! What in the world!? Wait, Rolando-sama!?”

The kitchen door opened vigorously, and Ruzzo, startled by the sound, widened his eyes in amazement.

“Dededee, dededee, dededee, dededee, dededee, dededee”

“What is that weird song?”

“Don’t worry about it. I just sing it on a whim.”

“Yes.”

I hum the theme song of a knight who fought with a sword of light fallen into the dark side and then the door opened with a bang. Let’s not explained it to Ruzzo, and just get right down to business. (+)

“Ruzzo, I made some new cookware a while ago, and I’d like to borrow the kitchen to test it out.”

“A new cookware? May I see it too?”

“I don’t mind. Rather, you can help me since I’m going to make a new dish with the new cookware.”

“I understand.”

Ruzzo, who must be interested in cooking, asked to watch the cooking, so I just asked him to help me with a test run of the seiro as well.

The simplest steamed dish was butter potato. Unlike when potatoes were baked or boiled, potatoes steamed in a seiro hold their flavor inside, and there would be a difference between baked, boiled, and steamed potatoes in terms of flavor.

However, since I still had not been able to obtain butter, I would like to get milk as soon as possible.

“Ruzzo, have you ever heard of a condiment called butter?”

“Butter? I’ve never heard of it.”

“When you go to the market to look for ingredients, see if you can find any rice or soybeans. If you find any, make sure you get them at all costs.”

“I understand.”

With that said, I decided to start steaming potatoes in a seiro. The process was very simple: just wash the potatoes and put them in the seiro, being careful as to whether they had sprouts or not.

Fill a thick-bottomed wok with water and place the potatoes in the seiro on top of the water. Then, turn on the heat and let the potatoes steam for 25 to 30 minutes. When the water was boiled and the potatoes were steamed by hot steam, the steamed potatoes were finished.

After about 20 minutes, opened the lid of the pot and pierce the potatoes with a wooden skewer to check if they were cooked through.

After 30 minutes of cooking, the skewer became soft and the potatoes were steamed, then removed the seiro from the pot and put the potatoes to a plate.

“Actually, it’s supposed to have butter in it, but I’m going to use mayonnaise this time.”

“Ah, that mysterious white sauce.”

“Okay, it’s done. Try it…it’s good, I can assure you.”

“Nom, nom, haa, haa… guuhh, thi-this is!!”

I saw Ruzzo’s eyes widen in surprise when he ate the mayonnaise, not potato butter, and I quickly tasted it to confirm the quality.

The combination of hot potatoes and mayonnaise was a common one in my previous life, so there was no way it would be bad. In fact, they complement each other to create perfect harmony.

“Mhm, it’s delicious.”

“You are right, this is so delicious. This is a dish that uses a cooking method called steaming, isn’t it?”

“That’s right. By steaming, the flavor is locked inside. You will learn this too.”

“I-I’ll do my best…”

While his cheeks were twitching at the thought of yet another new task, his eyes were filled with the joy of learning something new.

Having confirmed the functionality of the ‘seiro’, I decided to try my hand at making a steamed meat bun just for fun.

The meat bun itself was not a difficult dish to make; it was simply a mixture of meat and vegetables to be placed inside, wrapped in a dough made of flour and yeast, and steamed in a seiro, so it was completed in no time.

“Nom, nom, nom…Yes, it’s delicious.”

The meat buns were perfect, and although the taste was not as good as the ones sold at the convenience store in my previous life, the lack of chemical seasonings and other unnecessary ingredients gave them a simple and gentle taste.

Then, for lunchtime, he mass-produced enough potatoes and meat buns for everyone and served them to the servants, which were well-received by all.

By the way, I felt that meat buns and potatoes were not enough, so I also made my own stir-fried vegetables with the vegetables I had on hand, which all the servants said was delicious.

I was pleased to see the addition of the new steamed dishes, which had increased the variety of dishes, but there was still no end to what I wanted, such as vegetable food oils and ingredients with rice and soybeans that I have yet to obtain, so I would continue to travel to obtain those ingredients. …Huh? My purpose was supposed to be sightseeing, but was it just my imagination that it was turned into traveling to search for food ingredients? It must be just my imagination.

Since I had made additional seiro, I provided some to Ruzzo’s kitchen and instructed him to practice in his spare time.

Later, I received a call from the King about the matter of the headhunting of the spy duo of Stella and Manya, and when I went to the King after receiving the call, he said, “I want you to let me eat some meat buns, too,” so I had no choice but to feed him and he devoured four of them with gusto.

Then, he asked me to cook for him once in a while, and I agreed to grant his request with a “one-time debt” that he would fulfill as long as he could. Alright, now I could get by in the event of a war with a neighboring country! Well, I guess wars wouldn’t happen that often, no matter how different the world was. …Right?

As for the important matter of recruitment, Stella was still active in terms of age, but he said that it would be acceptable to recruit her if he wished to do so. As for Manya, the apprentice, it was decided that I couldn’t recruit her since she was still inexperienced and was expected to grow in the future. Well, it would not be good if all of the spies who were infiltrated were pulled out by the people they infiltrated, so I agreed that the king’s decision was the right one.

As I was about to leave, he told me that there was someone he wanted me to meet with and that he would call me back when they were ready. I wondered who it was, but I guessed it was probably the queen, princess, or his heir, and he wanted to make sure his family had a connection with me, and that was the end of the matter.