115 – The influence of culture
After returning home, I immediately took a shower and headed to the restaurant.
There are two new desserts to prepare this time.
… Usually at this point, it’s time for Helena-sama to ask what that is?
“Are you ready?”
“Yes!”
I looked around at the people gathered in the restaurant and nodded slightly.
“There are two desserts to make this time. It’s easy to make, so if you have a recipe, it’ll be easy.”
The dessert to be made this time is honey skein and ice cream.
Outside Oaklea, cotton candy will be popular instead of cotton candy, and ice cream will be very popular in the upcoming summer.
I was thinking of making ice cream someday when I could afford it, but the skein of honey was an idea I came up with thanks to Bertus.
I don’t intend to take the cotton candy machine outside.
But Bertus seemed to want to feed the other comrades cotton candy too.
The problem is that cotton candy is made of sugar, so it absorbs moisture and shrinks over time.
So there was a problem that you couldn’t take it to the territory.
I thought of a dessert called honey skein, similar to cotton candy, from Bertus’s regretful response.
I had forgotten about it because I didn’t have much time, but I thought that now is the right time since it’s rumored that the popularity of cotton candy is slowly declining.
I just happen to have a plant called Ian to use as starch.
The recipe is surprisingly simple.
First of all, prepare honey or syrup, put it in a pot, boil it, and add sugar in between so that it hardens like jam.
If you boil it like that and cool it down, it becomes a sweet and sour mass that melts at your body temperature after you put it in your pocket.
Pull out a thin thread while twisting it as if you were making handmade noodles.
At this time, the point is to sprinkle sugar powder made by grinding starch and sugar to prevent them from getting tangled together.
It’s simple to make, but compared to cotton candy, it’s a cumbersome dessert that requires a lot of work.
“I think it will be simpler than I thought.”
Still, it doesn’t seem too annoying to the people here.
It’s probably easier than making a cake….
I entrusted the skein of honey to the three cooks gathered in the kitchen.
The next step is milk ice cream.
This is really simple. Just mix 400mL of milk with 4 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of starch, boil it in a pot, cool it down, and freeze it.
“I can’t believe that Ian’s powder is so helpful….”
… Pay attention to the desserts I made!
We worked hard to make it, but our chefs’ heads were all filled with Ian.
Apparently, Oaklia has ice desserts other than this, so it seems that this is the reaction.
Here comes the worst winter, when you spray hot water into the air and it freezes.
That’s why even fresh milk freezes after a while.
That was Oklea style ice cream.
Since the principle is the same in the end, everyone seems to have this kind of reaction.
Still, it would be much more delicious than the traditional method of eating frozen milk with sugar or honey… !
I made ice cream with the simplest recipe and put it in a container.
This is a bit unpopular, so let’s go for a new challenge… !
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Milk, egg yolk, whipped cream, sugar, and a little fruit juice are mixed together to make real ice cream!
ㅡ How do you know those things?
As I was about to make ice cream in earnest, Helena-sama, who had been quiet for a while, started talking to me.
You fell in love with Pokéball just by looking at it?
ㅡ So why do you know… !
That’s because the main characters in different worlds do these things every time, so even if they don’t like it, they memorize it.
ㅡ What kind of genre is that different world?
This is just the content of living like me.
If you go further, you can make cosmetics and firearms, but I can’t do that, and this is the limit, so don’t make such a strange expression.
Because I’m not a science major, I can’t get ingredients for cosmetics, and I don’t want to make firearms even if I know how to make them.
“Now, all you need to do is cut the dishes. For a soft texture, you have to freeze it and then take it out halfway through and mix it well.”
“Okay!”
There is no refrigerator here, so it takes a long time because it is frozen with ice.
So I thought about leaving this place to them and going back, but the chefs brought unexpected people.
These were the facets of the tribal union.
Anyway, I couldn’t reveal my true identity to the servants of the mansion, so I’m just saying that I’m a eater who knows how to use some magic.
So it seems that I called them without much hesitation.
The reason must be the rapid freezing of ice cream….
“Are you talking about the new snack I was talking about last time?”
“Yeah, that’s it.”
“I heard that the ice cream needs our help?”
“It is here.”
It must have been this easy for Bertus, and the ice cream was made in an instant.
If I had to explain the reaction, it would only hurt my mouth.
With a little exaggeration, I’ll just say that the word ‘Mimi (美味: very good taste)’ came to mind.
***
The dessert tasting event ended successfully.
Honey skein and ice cream will safely rise to the ranks of new desserts.
I decided to match the story by saying that the two desserts were made by the royal family of Oklia.
The honey skein will be sold under the name of honey skein, and the ice cream will be called ‘Ochlia’.
When you think of winter, you think of Aucklia, and it will help to increase the prestige of the country.
Now, the last urgent fire is the interview with the merchants.
If you finish this safely, you will be able to concentrate on writing again for a while.
I was going to meet the merchants with that in mind, but everyone seemed to be busy somewhere.
I wanted to talk about something, and I heard that there has been very little rain lately.
“There is talk that a drought might come.”
It was the story of a merchant who came to sign a contract with me.
It’s a drought….
If they really come, the reservoir is a very important situation, right?
“Fortunately, each territory repairs the reservoir as soon as spring arrives, so the worst may be avoided.”
“Really? Everyone must have suffered.”
The ground must still have been hard, but as soon as spring arrived, the reservoir was repaired….
“Yes. But thanks to the writer, I let go.”
Why am I here?
You’re not saying it was because of the non-compensation, right?
“A Merchant who sees the future, the main character has already experienced a drought, so he buys food in advance. However, people around them think the main character’s actions are stupid. At that time, the main character pretends to ‘predict’ the drought. The rationale was quite logical.”
The main character, who returned to his youthful days, did not have enough wealth to obtain a large amount of food.
Therefore, he inevitably needed to borrow money to buy food.
At this time, the main character gives various reasons to borrow money, saying that a drought will come soon.
“Unusually, a group of lights mixed with the moonlight floating in the sky. It still snowed a lot in Oaklea, but not so much in other parts of the country. According to farmers early in the morning, steam rises above the surface of the water. Wasn’t the sky always clear these days?”
In addition, fruits that require a large amount of water are smaller than usual.
Migratory birds who like to play in the water suddenly began migrating to regions with heavy snow in the winter, such as Oklea.
Other reasons were described to highlight the genius of the main character, but the story was quite plausible, so it seems that everyone prepared it in advance.
Of course, it can only be described plausibly.
It’s just a list of the symptoms that experts called a sign of a drought in Marais.
I happened to have an elf, Bertus, so I got some advice.
“We are also tweaking our distribution network, thinking there might be a drought.”
A drought can be the worst, but it can also be a lucrative phenomenon for merchants.
So you have no choice but to be busy.
“Grain prices will rise.”
“No. It won’t go up that much.”
Hmm?
“I sold the product, not the soul.”
“That thing….”
The main character of Unrewarded took the opportunity to increase his wealth through drought.
However, the main character only takes moderate profits and opens the barn.
The person who lent money to the main character expressed doubts about what the main character did.
Then the main character answers his question, saying, ‘I sold things, not my soul.’
Could it be because of my novels that people who only work for profit?
“Because having a lot of people also means that there are a lot of people who will buy my products.”
This is also what the main character said while saving people.
Anyway, it seems to have had a considerable influence on merchants.
“The Merchant who sees the future seems to be a bit popular in the Chamber.”
“This is our scripture.”
I made the main character, Bernard, a goodwill prize in order to gain favor from the merchants.
But I didn’t expect to get such a reaction.
“The person who wrote the novel said he was setting up a business.”
So you can trust him even if he hasn’t shown any ability.
I think I want to say that.
After that, all merchants who came for contracts brought up the story of uncompensated.
I didn’t even bother to ask, but most of the people who brought up the story in advance that the signs of the drought that I saw in Mibosang were approaching.
In addition to that, there was a merchant who brought up the story that more and more young people are knocking on the door of the store these days.
ㅡ You come to think that there is power in writing. To the extent that it shakes the souls of those who worship money.
… That’s how it is.
Somehow, I don’t think it should be like this.
I think I need to hurry up and write the story of unrewarded!
The changes they saw ignited my creative desire.
In Mare, there were many other incidents and accidents, both large and small.
There were things that were common on Earth, such as floods and epidemics, and there was an event unique to Mare, such as an inundation of monsters.
I decided to put this whole story in Uncompensated.
And this time, I decided to publish in a slightly special way.
After meeting with the merchants, I immediately ran to the Golden Isaac Company to meet with the editor-in-chief.
After hearing the reason for my visit, the editor-in-chief shook his head with a very embarrassed expression.
“That is difficult, author….”
“All I have to do is write my autograph and the name of the store and branch manager that will receive the book in advance to prevent leakage.”
“Haa….”
This book was written with a light heart in the hope that it would be favored by merchants, to the extent that merchants call it a bible.
So, in return for the favor, shouldn’t I also turn the motor when the water comes in?
“We are only going to do that without compensation. Borrowing a distribution network is just as burdensome.”
To those who have signed a contract with me, I send a hardcover copy of the uncompensated book with gratitude.
That’s what hasn’t been published yet.
Merchants are as smart as they are sensitive to money.
You will know the meaning of the hardcover book I am sending you, so no one will recklessly spread the contents of the book.
“You are concerned about your body. Even if you had Lady’s stockpile, you would write 4 books in 2 months….”
I can write one book in 8 days, so I can write 4 books in a month if I use life-or-death.
So, two months is enough to write it with plenty of time.
“I will. You know that.”
“… If that’s the author’s will, you can. But please take care of your health.”
“You used to growl like that, but you’ve changed a lot.”
“It’s because we aren’t the same anymore.”
The editor-in-chief laughed weakly after making such a joke.
“Aren’t you sorry?”
“Shouldn’t we call it the trend of the times?”
It’s the trend of the times….
Something that makes you think in many ways.