Chapter 7 (2/2)
Because to steam something, you have to use fire.
Unfortunately, this is as far as I’m allowed.
For the stir fried vegetables, the only thing I was allowed was to wash them, after all.
[Young miss, allow me to do the rest. The only thing left is the steaming, and while that happens I’ll prepare the stir fried vegetables. By all means, feel free to wait in your room.]
[I’m at least going to clean up after myself. Also, as the one who asked for this I want to watch it till the end.]
In the end I wasn’t allowed to clean up either with it being too dangerous as a pretext however, I pa.s.sed the time while listening to his opinion on the new cookware.
The head chef said that he he was intrigued by the new cooking style and was looking forward to tasting how it came out.
[Okay, it feels like a good time now. Please carry the dishes to mothers room.]
In our house the rule is for the family to eat together.
Recently, mother has been bedridden, so the food has been carried into her room and father and I ate at her side.
Sometimes father is away on inspections and can’t attend lunch with us. Today however I confirmed this morning that he is doing deskwork.
[Certainly! I’m sure the lady will get well quickly from the young miss’s cooking. ]
[Thank you. Todays cooking, later I want to hear your opinion as well, okay?]
The ones eating this food, won’t be our family alone.
Our employed servants as well as our serfs and the ones tilling our fields will also have this distributed to themselves.
That’s why I decided on the easily distributed dumpling for the menu.
That’s why we made enough for a big pile.
I can’t wait to hear everyones impressions.
While cheerily walking towards mothers room from the separate house, father was already inside her room, flirting.
Because it is as usual, I don’t hesitate and also trespa.s.s.
A short while later, the food arrived.
Upon seeing the food for the first time, both mother and father seem very interested.
If we only had green tea this would be like yum cha, yet forget green tea, there’s not even black tea in this world.
(Tn: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_cha if curios.)
I’d also really like to increase the variation among beverages.
[Father, mother. The one who came up with todays meal was me. This biggest one is called a chinese dumpling and this tiny one is called a steamed meat dumpling, I decided to try heating the food inside cookware with water steam. The rest is called stir fried vegetables. Please tell me your impressions.]
[Food that you came up with Liliana, I looking forward to it.]
Liliana has worked hard in place of mother, huh. I’m grateful. Then, let us thank the forest for this harvest, let us eat.]
[Thank you, Liliana. Let us thank the forest for this harvest.]
[I’m glad that it pleased you. Let us thank the forest for this harvest.]
After saying the prayer used in these parts, the two firstly took a chinese dumpling each and ate it like you would bread.
They probably thought it was related to bread.
I thought they both stopped for a moment, and the eating continued in silence.
Ehh... Does it taste that bad I thought, and decided to eat one chinese dumpling myself.
Yep, it tastes like a chinese dumpling.
It was substantial and filling, and above all else the filling with melted cheese, the fillings combination with the melted cheese was exquisite.
...Yet, why are those two silent?
For the people of this world, are the tastes of my former world unpalatable?
[Father, mother. Was it not palatable? I’m so sorry... ]
Then the two finally raised their heads, and looked at me.
[Liliana is a prodigy, isn’t she? This food is incredibly tasty. The wrapping covering the filling is also plump and mellow.]
[Liliana, this is a revolution in the culinary arts! The history of food will have a new page added!]
I’m happy for their praise, but aren’t they’re overly grandiose, well done keeping a straight face saying that.
[I’m glad it’s palatable. Please also try the steamed meat dumplings.]
This time mother and father advance towards the steamed meat dumplings.]
They had a wondrous look on their faces as they looked at it for the first time, before taking a bite of the steamed meat dumpling.
[It’s incredibly juicy and tasty, isn’t it?]
[The moment I ate it the meat spread, and the good taste concentrated in my mouth.]
Ufufu, it seems so.
The steam causes the shape of the meat to crumble, while not destroying it’s taste, these are cookwares that make the best use of the raw materials.
What’s more, the nutrition is mostly kept so this cooking style is very healthy.
The two smiled while eating the food.
Having a smiling face at the dining table is a very joyous thing.
To me, those smiling faces are the flavor of happiness.
The final seasoning for a good meal.
The food was eaten in the blink of an eye and with a pleasant feeling a new desire rose within me.
[Father, mother. From now on, is it okay if I help with the food?]
There’s a great deal of other types of food that I want to try doing.
Especially noodles.
I really want to make pasta.
Unfortunately, in this world there aren’t any noodles either.
Probably, this is because of the fork.
Forks are commonly used however, forks only have two teeth.
Like this, there’s no way they’d be able to eat noodles, right?
After all, there’s no way to entwine them.
Chopsticks don’t even exist.
Therefore, I think that even if in the past someone came up with noodles, it probably didn’t take root and was forgotten.
I also asked father to create forks with four teeth, and I’m currently in the middle of waiting for them.
When the revised forks are completed, I’ll make some pasta.
And then I’ll use these forks and with all my might wreath the pasta around it.
That day, I unanimously earned the right to help with the food.
Then, several days later at the birthday party, mother threw a bomb at us.
She didn’t literally throw a bomb at us, okay?
[The present I give to Liliana is this.]
While saying that, mother hit her own stomach with both hands with a smiling face.
[Liliana, you’re going to get either a little brother or a little sister.]
[Eeeeehhhhh---!]
Wait, didn’t this surprise even father? Mother!!
[Aren’t you glad, Liliana?]
No no, I’m happy, it’s just the way you told us shocked me so much, mother.
[Alice, is what you just said the truth?]
[Oh, Louis. Are you also unhappy?]
Saying that, mother looked timid.
[How could I not be happy? With not only a cute daughter like Liliana, but you’re also going to give birth to one more child, I can’t feel anything but grat.i.tude towards you.
Whilst saying that, he hugged mother tenderly, and kissed her on the cheek.
Yes.
They’re at it like usual, those lovebirds.
Yet, I’m also happy so I decided to join them, and burst in.
I’m going to get either a brother or a sister.
I’d recently thought that mother had been unwell lately, so mother had been in the initial stages of pregnancy, apparently that’s why she always looked drowsy.
Apparently she had asked the medical doctor to keep it secret because she wanted to surprise us.
[Liliana, happy birthday! It seems you’re getting a brother or a sister. It seems there was no problem with the lady either, isn’t that nice?]
Miina was grasping my hand with a smiling face and was happy with us.
[Huh, Liliana. Your hand is hurt!]
[Ah, I hit myself slightly with the knife when I was working in the kitchen.]
Well, it’s just a scratch, so it’ll heal in no time.
Of course, since I was a self-alleged housewife, even though it’s been a while the fact that I cut myself still came as a shock to me.
Since I did it behind the back of the head chef, I’d been keeping it hidden though.
By looking at Miina, she seemed so sad that it almost was like she herself had gotten hurt.
[Liliana, I’m going to heal it for you. I beseech thee, may Liliana’s wound be healed.]
Miina folder her hand over the wounder hand and I felt a slight warmth.
When Miina grinning removed her hand… Huh, how mysterious.
What was there was a hand without the slightest scratch.
[Eeeeeh---!]
Miina, what did you just do-----!?
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