Chapter 5: The Showdown That Goes Off Topic
The scope of the soup is so large that Yagi Yukisai has no idea where to start.
Having a little phobia of choice, he looked at the wide variety of materials in the Chaldean kitchen, and had a feeling of being at a loss.
"Well, senior, how's borscht? It's red, and it feels cute. ”
Seeing that everyone was so helpless, Matthew couldn't help but carefully search his memories and come up with a plan. She hadn't actually drunk borscht, only that it was a Russian-flavored soup. It is said to be a red soup made with a special Russian wild vegetable.
However, Yagi Yukisai did not respond to her, and Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled awkwardly and said, "Actually, I haven't drunk borscht." The last time I saw borscht was in the anime, and I watched Sousuke drink it once. ”
"Ah......h
Matthew stiffened like a cat splashed in water.
Actually, she wanted to suggest it to Yagi Yukisai, and now that she thinks about it, she does, use her predecessors to refer to Fujimaru Ritsuka, and use Yagi seniors to refer to Yagi Yukisai, and today she blurted out that she didn't add her surname, which completely caused chaos.
"And, most crucially, there are no basic ingredients for borscht here. That is, Russian sugar beets. ”
Ding Xiaowan held a whole duck meat in her hand and responded while deboning it.
"Ahaha...... I'm sorry. ”
Matthew bowed his head slightly, apologetically.
"Speaking of which, Yagi-sen, let's just make jelly! Jelly! You see, it's a cooking duel again, it's soup again, so let's make jelly! ”
Fujimaru Rika suddenly thought of something and proposed.
"I agree with you, Comrade Fujimaru. I'll look for cantaloupe. ”
Yukisai Yagi couldn't help but smile and agreed.
"Huh? Jelly isn't considered soup, is it? And, why use cantaloupe? ”
The three people present chuckled, only Matthew and Charon, two people who had not been exposed to Japanese animation, looked at each other, not knowing what they were talking about.
In fact, it's a famous scene from a famous food anime.
Moreover, the jelly they say in their mouths is actually a condensed broth. Not some jelly.
"It's a shame you haven't seen it. It was a very interesting cooking animation. When I was a kid, I listened to the Chinese dubbed version, and I always thought it was Chinese animation...... I also cook because I look forward to the role in it. ”
Ding Xiaowan brushed off the dirty skin of the long green onion, revealing the pure color of the green onion stalk inside, while building stubble.
The girl with black shawl hair bowed her head seriously to work, and the neat hand work combined with the court gauze gave people a sense of dislocation of the times.
"Ah, I understand. When I was a kid, I thought the same thing when I saw that glittering dish, and then I started going to the kitchen to fry buns, and I found that I couldn't laugh no matter how I fried them. ”
Yagi Yukisai couldn't help but recall his childhood, so he simply didn't even choose the ingredients.
"Ah, I understand! That anime is full of memories. I had a crush on lobsters back then because of this! ”
Fujimaru Rika also nodded vigorously and agreed.
Matthew wrote down in his heart that Rika Fujimaru liked lobsters, and then suddenly noticed that the topic was off track, and quickly tried to pull back the topic: "Seniors, let's digress!" Isn't it a discussion about what to cook? ”
"Ahh X2
Yukisai Yagi and Rika Fujimaru showed shocked expressions together......
These two people were so obsessed with the topic of animation that they forgot about it!
Although this peculiarity is strange no matter how you look at it, and it's normal that you can't take it seriously, it's too far off topic!!
"Well, it's understandable that there are so many uncertainties, but I still have to decide what to do early."
While saying this, Ding Xiaowan filled the pot with the ingredients and put it on the gas stove to boil.
It was a soup made by dismantling the skeleton of a duck.
She mainly wanted to make something out of duck meat. In China, this is a very common way to eat, especially in roast duck restaurants, after ordering roast duck, most restaurants will ask you whether the duck rack is fried or made into soup.
By the way, Ding Xiaowan still remembers that when she was a child, duck rack soup was included in the cost of ducks. And now when I eat it again, I find that it seems to have been taken out separately. So every time she asked the store to pack the duck rack and go back to make the soup herself. But she didn't go to a restaurant much when she grew up.
"Huh? Miss Ding, have you started making soup? ”
Only then did Matthew notice that while everyone was talking, this Chinese female servant with quick hands and feet had already disposed of the things in her hand and started cooking. Chinese cuisine is world-famous, and it seems that the people who come out of the country of food are different.
"Huh? Ah, this one, it's not for competition! Didn't the orange-haired girl over there say she was hungry? Anyway, it's not settled yet, so let's make something to eat first. ”
As she spoke, she tore the duck meat into small pieces, dipped in sauce, and prepared to roast it. This is a very common way to eat it in Japan, called "teriyaki".
Teriyaki, only duck meat was burned, and it was a pity that the duck bones were thrown away, so she simply boiled a pot of duck rack soup.
Matthew secretly sighed in her heart that she was careful, even she almost forgot that Fujimaru Rika had mentioned that she was hungry before, and she still remembered!
The flames rose so much that Charon bent down and looked at the gas stove curiously.
Although he has modern knowledge, probably, he still feels magical. After all, in ancient Greece, where he lived, human use of fire was a very rare thing. After all, there is a legend of Prometheus stealing fire.
By the way, according to some Greek mythology, when Charon was shot by a poisoned arrow again, life was worse than death, and he offered to be tortured instead of Prometheus.
He certainly lived in an era where there was no such convenient stove.
"I'd love to show Prometheus too."
Charon muttered, sniffed it, and the air was already filled with a strong scent.
Generally speaking, it takes a while from the beginning of the soup to the time the aroma comes out. However, Ding Xiaowan's side is as if she can control the ingredients, and the cooking is very fast from the beginning of production to molding.
(I want to keep the skill.) Similar to cooking, it has the ability to make corrections to cooking behavior. )
Charon calmly analyzed.
In fact, there are indeed some practitioners who are particularly good at cooking, and will bring cooking skills down as a retention ability.
Other words...... This little girl, to the letter, is a servant. Although she herself seems to be completely unaware.
Fujimaru Rika was already hungry, and when she heard her reminder, her stomach was even more uncompromising and she didn't listen, and the girl's face showed a blushing color. Ding Xiaowan smiled:
"I'll do something right away, and wait."