369 Lew's House Night Party ③ - Tee Time by the Woods

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for waiting. Now I'd like to start a study session on crackling."

The mutilated meat was returned to a packed leather bag of pico leaves, and I was allowed to store it temporarily in the pantry before I could finally call it that.

The clock is about to fall short of four moments. Since dinner preparations also seemed to be cleared up in advance, it was likely that only two hours could be spent on study groups.

"Let's start with this guy"

I took the cloth bag I left in the corner of the workbench and let it open on a wooden dish.

The fragrance is very fragrant. How long does it last? Yesterday, I put the heat through at Fa's house, it is a gigigi leaf.

"Wow, that smells lovely! Does Gigi leaves smell like this?"

"Yeah. You don't feel that bitter just because you smell it."

It is a cocoa fragrance that evokes chocolate and cocoa. And the roasted Gigi leaves had turned their appearance into pitch-black. Originally, it was a round leaf with a diameter of 5 cm, but the application of heat has caused the fibers to loosen up and have already collapsed into a powdered form with half.

"They say this is originally a tea ingredient. It's pretty bitter, but would your fathers like to taste it too?

"Are you sure? Isn't Sim's vanilla that cheap?

"I don't know what to say. Besides, some herbs don't seem to be particularly valuable."

And because Varcus was hiding the correct use, there are still piles of these Gigi leaves in the castle's pantry. If I could use this correctly, I would be able to please Torsto and Polearths again.

but the person who tasted it had a uniformly sinister face, without exception, both the number and the guest. Contrary to its mellow, fragrant aroma, this gigigi leaf is as bitter as a concentrated cocoa.

"Was Varcus making such delicious dishes based on bitter vanilla? I have no idea what ingredients to combine with this."

Sheila-Lou spoke that way in a much-necked fashion. Rayna-Lew is also an extremely difficult face.

"I haven't come up with a use for cooking yet either. As we talked about the other day, I'm going to try to make use of this guy first by making sweets."

"What? I don't like bitter sweets, Rimi."

"Of course, no one will be happy with a treat that's just bitter. But even arrows and seals are sour, but combined with sweet sugar, you could make them into delicious confectionery ingredients, right? It's the same thing."

So first we warmed up the milk of the caron and let us put in the powder of the gigigi leaves there along with the sugar.

After all, the look was finished like cocoa. but for the people of this land who do not know it, it is just a brown liquid. Even the shades of black and brown are reminiscent of burning, so maybe they just seem "bitter" to everyone.

To break down their fixed concept like that, I add more and more sugar as I taste it.

Of course, just melting the cocoa-scented vanilla can't possibly produce the same flavor as cocoa. There should be a corresponding procedure for making cocoa from cocoa, and this is a gigigi leaf, not a cocoa, in the first place. No matter how much sugar or milk was added, it was an impossible story to recreate that unique mellow, deep flavor.

but I could make a strange drink of cocoa taste by combining the flavor of caron milk with the sweetness of sugar.

Somehow, it has a cheesy taste that seems to be sold at the candy store.

Still, there was no strange tannins, acidity, etc. in the Gigi leaves, and it seemed to be an ingredient that blended well with the sweetness of sugar and the flavor of milk, so I wondered if it wouldn't even create that much dissatisfaction if I didn't know the real cocoa.

"What do you think? Although I don't think it tastes bad."

Transfer the contents of the small pot into a wooden dish, and I look back at everyone.

Limi-Lew didn't try to move, so he took up the wooden spoon as Tour-Din had decided to.

So, roughly rub it and let your eyes shine once in a while.

"It's delicious! Or so sweet!

"Well, that's all I put in sugar."

So Limi-Lew and Tara were finally going to take up the wooden spoon too.

This one seems to be more than Tul-din's delight already. That was followed by Yun-Sudra and Sfira-Zaza, whose sweetheart girlfriends were to give everyone a voice of joy.

"This is certainly delicious! I just don't think it tastes as good as anything with sugar added to the caron milk!

"Oh, this guy sure is sweet and delicious.... but if you just take a sip like this, can you drink something sweet like this as tea anyway?

I shake Dora's father with suspicion, and I say no.

"This is only a confectionery ingredient. Tool-din, how would I use this if I were you?

"Eh... is that, after all, the use of this juice to try to work out Poitan or Fuwano?"

"Yeah, that's the first thing you can think of, right? Then try to rub some Poitan baked sweets when it cools down. In the meantime, I'll get ready for something else."

With that said, I took away the pot at my feet. It is another caron milk, which you have kept in the Luu family's pantry since yesterday. I let him sleep overnight, so that fat is floating right there. I gently shrugged up the fat and sealed it in an earthen bottle, and then I spoke to my beloved parent, who tapped around the entrance.

"Ey-fa, can you please stir to the crackle?

Ai-Fa stared at me like a long time ago and then received the earthen bottle.

It may be the first time in months that whipped cream has been made.

Of course, it would take the same procedure to make milk fat, but that one followed Michelle's teachings of packing it in a big leather bag and beating it with a stick, so this method was a lot of hiccups.

So, if it's me, it'll take me seven or eight minutes. This task can also be finished in half the time if I ask Ai-Fa. Ai-Fa began to shake the earthen bottle quietly and forcefully while holding the earthen bottle's mouth to keep the stopper from falling off.

In the meantime, Tool-Din cooled the cocoa broth with water from a water bottle and used it to work up the powder of Poitan. As if I had thrown cocoa powder, the brown poitan fabric would come up. Taste it, add a little caron milk and sugar, give it more care, and then Tour-Din started baking the dough on an iron plate.

I receive the stirred earthen bottle from Ai-Fa and transfer its contents to a wood dish before adding new sugar and gigigi leaves. The rest was whipped with vegetable chopsticks and the whipped cream was finished to the point where the corners stood slightly.

Furthermore, skimmed milk is utilized to make custard cream as well.

In egg yolks, sugar and fuwano flour, here too, combine the gigigi leaves and dissolve it in skimmed milk. Once only one spoon of milk fat has been added to make it thick, the liquid is skipped over the fire and is complete.

As a result, baked Poitan, whipped cream and custard cream were finished with the addition of Gigi leaves.

The Rimi-Loux and others had already sparkled the eyes of every star before tasting.

"Ah, delicious! Not bitter at all! No, is it bitter? I don't know, but it's so delicious!

"Yeah, it's delicious, huh? I'd love to eat more."

Not less than the youth group, Yun-Sudra and Sfira-Zaza are also blissful expressions.

Terrier-Mass was a surprise, and Mime and Raina-Lou and others had a joyful but serious look, as well as such satisfying faces as Yumi and Vina-Lou.

"How about the Pinots, one bite at a time?

When I called it that way, it gave me a slightly more complicated grin.

"If you say you can't and let me stay, but you even have such pity, why don't you stop touching the wrath of the forest?

"I don't think the forest is that narrow. That's what I was going to do."

Besides, Lolo's not coming back, so there's only Pinot and Chantu on the spot. The two travellers looked like they'd been touring a lot before gently grabbing the baked poiton of the wood dish.

"Oh well, this is... surprisingly sweet."

"This is delicious. And it does smell like Gigi tea."

Chantu, with his white beard hanging all the way around his chest, smiles with the right expression of likability. Among the travelers, this old man has a warm temper.

"Shantu has spoken of Gigi tea, hasn't he? Is that, after all, a much bitter tea"

"Right. But tea leaves don't taste good, and it must be gigi tea because it's bitter."

They are vagrant travelers who stretch their legs up to the land of Sims far away. With that in mind, wouldn't this tasting be significant to us?

"But it seems that using Gigi leaves for just about everything could also kill each other for the deliciousness of the cause. It might be better to try this kurum on a regular baked treat, or a regular kurum on a baked treat made with gigigi, so you can ask for just how delicious it is."

Hidden but in a firm tone, Tour-Din spoke that way.

I nod back, "Right."

"Moreover, I think the quantity of Gigi leaves still has room for study. Especially in baked confectionery and custard cream where you add fire, the flavor will change before and after you add fire.... I wonder if you'd like to leave that formula to Tour-Din"

"Oh, wow, to me?

"Yeah. Because there's some adage that likes are what makes you good at things. I have a pile of other ingredients to take care of, and when it comes to making sweets, I think I want Tour-Din and Limi-Lu to take care of them."

Tour-Din nods yes with a tweaking face of tension and excitement.

"I'm me, and I'm going to explore another use. I'll come up with a plan, and Tour-Din will finish it. When it comes to confectionery making, you think that's the most efficient thing. And of course, I want Tour-Din himself to come up with a variety of uses."

By making Gigi-flavored custard cream, I also saw a new path. That is, the development of pseudochocolate. Some aspects may be difficult without a refrigerated environment, but I was still able to catch a response that seemed to bring the taste closer to the chocolate I knew.

"I see, I don't make sweets. Is this guy, after all, what he's lumping for the nobles?

And Dora's father called me, "What do you think?" and I twist my neck.

"Of course, nobles want sweet sweets, but as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to think first of all for the people by the woods. As you can see, there are many people around the woods who prefer sweet treats."

"Right. Well, then, I wonder if it's an accommodation town or something. I wouldn't bother buying copper coins until I sent them out, but Tara seems a lot happier."

That was of concern even to me.

However, women and children are extremely rare for travelers visiting Genos. It may exist somewhat from nearby towns, but it is rarely possible from Sim or Jagal. As such, a long-term journey in this world is considered dangerous.

That means that most of the female customers will be Genos-based people.

Once again, I turned my gaze to Yumi and Terrier-Mass.

"Hmm, what do you think? I figured if I was going to buy it, I'd cook meat. It doesn't seem to taste like I want to eat it with meat."

"I might want to try it if I put it down for a few days. It's a flavor you can't taste in other dishes."

Until a few months ago, there was no sugar or honey in circulation in the Inn Town, and only enough sweet fruit existed to count. Therefore, in the first place, the "sweet treat" itself was completely unknown.

"Well, it might be interesting to try and sell it any day. They seem to have plenty of Gigi leaves, so they can consume quite a bit for not using them in commerce. … but I still want to prioritize handling in the woodland settlements first"

So I decided to ask Mother Meer Ray for her opinion.

"We've talked about it a little before, but what about eating sweet treats with daytime snacks? Will dried meat still be more powerful?"

"No, I've been scratching some baked potatoes lately. Not just the women, but the men. Because there seems to be a lot of men out there who are more powerful."

"Oh, I've got half a dried meat and a potato. I think it would be better to eat with Aria."

From around the entrance, Rudd-Lou also raises his voice that way.

"Then maybe a pinch of sweet treats for the ladies' snacks. Why don't you join us for tea or something?

"Tea. Hey. I've never had anything to drink, so I can't say anything. Rayna and I have heard that you drink that kind of stuff in Castle Town and Dalaim."

"They also drink at the Inn in Inn Town. Everyone dares to make it a cup of tea even though the well in Inn Town can draw water that can be drunk as is. Tea is delicious and nourishing."

So I took a new item out of the cloth bag.

It was dried inside yesterday, and it is the skin of the chatch.

"You were getting this chatch-skinned tea in Dalaim, weren't you? It was a bit of a tea topic in Castle Town, so I've been teaching them how to make it on the way home."

Nothing is difficult. They shall crush the skins of the chatches dried in this caracalla, and cast hot water, and drink it by filtration.

By the way, chatch is a potato ingredient, but the epidermis are shaped like citrus. Chatch tea, which was fried, also had a refreshing taste with a fruity aroma.

"Speaking of which, we've always had zozozo fruit in this pantry, haven't we? It's only been seven months since I first took care of you."

"Oh, that's not rotten, so it's been untouched forever, hasn't it? I mean, Rayna and the others scrape it once in a while and use it for cooking, and it doesn't help, but it's a repeat."

"Finally, I've also learned how to make zozozo tea. Because of this, why don't we all have a drink"

It is the fruit of a zodiac, shaped like a snake wrapped around a tunnel. Snake shells, or textures that even the hive recalls, and yet the contents are packed tightly. It could be as big as a rugby ball.

It's been about seven months since we first met in this pantry, and yet 80% of its zozozo fruit still remains. Sure, there's a new shredding trail by the way, but if I do this, and it's bitter, so there's hardly any use for it other than tea.

"Some houses seem to leave you alone for a year or two. That way, they smell very good instead of more tannins. Of course, if you get wet on the way, you'll rot."

This is also just shredded, simmered, and filtered. I haven't gotten a dedicated eyecloth net yet, so I used a coarse-eyed cloth to make Chacchi and Zozo tea stick together.

Zozo tea has a strong herbal aroma against citrus chacci tea. but the sip is unexpectedly soft and not so bitter. "Oh, this is good tea," said Dora's father and others.

"My grandmother Michelle told me to peel the chatch. Yeah, well, I don't even buy zozozo fruit."

"We deal in Zozo tea in our inn, but this is certainly a good fruit. You said seven months earlier, didn't you put him to sleep for about a year?

In an inquiry by Terrier-Mass, Mother Meer Ray said, "I think so," she said.

"I bought this one to put in the juice, but I couldn't really use it because just a little bit of it smells good enough."

"In the first place, why did you buy Zozo fruit when you didn't drink tea? You'd have put up a lot of value if it was this big, right?

When Dad asks strangely, Mother Meer Ray shrugs her tedious shoulders.

"I don't know what it is, but I guess we talked about making sure it tastes like it anyway. By then, I didn't have a chance to talk to a vegetable dealer. I didn't know what tea was."

"Oh, well, well. Until about six months ago, we were never close to you."

Speaking of smudges, your father compared the faces of Rudd-Lou and Vina-Lou.

"I still remember. I was heartily surprised to see Rudd-Loo and Vina-Loo coming to the store with Asta talking about that, like chatching or disliking pra. I guess you're eating my vegetables without even knowing what it tastes like, because I didn't know what to expect."

"Hmm? Did we talk about that?

"I did... that was when Asta went down to town with me to decide what kind of food to serve in the street..."

Vina-Lou has her eyes narrowed with nostalgia.

That would surely be the story of when I asked the Vina-Lou guys to accompany me on the buyout because I had hunter's job. At that time your father was watching Vina-Lou and the others with great surprise.

Somehow, where the air is soaked, Mother Meer Ray gives a bright voice to "But Sa".

"I knew this Zozo tea was a lot bitter. There's nothing I can't drink, but I don't feel better than water."

"Really? But bitter tea also has the role of attracting sweetness to sweets. Otherwise, when you say it during a meal, your impression may change again."

"I like it so much. Hot drinks with no meat or vegetables are quite fun."

It was Ms Tito Min who said so.

In response to that word, Mother Meer Ray nods, "I see."

"If you don't have to rot the useless Zozo, that's all I appreciate. By the time we can use this guy, we might be able to tell the difference between good and bad."

"Yeah, and chatching, 'cause we use it like a mountain. If you don't use a chatch at dinner, you'll have a noisy kid."

"Shut up. Everybody likes chatching, don't they?

Blurring, Rudd-Lou is also rinsing that chatch tea.

"And I like this guy, too. It tastes better than fruit liquor."

"You might also like Limi so much -! How delicious would you feel if you ate with sweets?

"Right," I laugh at Rimi-Lou like a puppy waving his tail.

"Try it tonight at dinner. I'm guessing Rimi-Lou will make sweets again?

"Yeah! I promised Tara, didn't I?

Tara is smiling, too. Everyone smiles, except some of them like Ey-Fa and Michelle. It was already nasty enough at the time of my last visit, but after about a month or so, the hedges between the people of the town and those of the Lou family seemed to have been removed more and more.

"So shall we get to the next ingredient? As for Kerr's roots, they're likely to be applied to 'Myrmu Grill'."

That's how the crackling study group went on without hesitation, and the evening was slowly approaching by the woods.

The two names Pinot and Chantou looked at this place of interaction from a little distance, with the same mouth as us, tucked into the same space, and still using the entrance between the Kama as a boundary.