Chapter 179 (1/2)
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at 10th of July 2019 12:35:12 PM
Chapter 179
”We start with the flour,” Stella said, handing him a bowl of wheat .
”What?” Joseph asked, with a laugh . ”I'm supposed to grind my own flour?”
”Why not? Instead of using magic all the time, try doing things the old-fas.h.i.+oned way . The grain grinder is right over there,” she said, smirking as she pointed to the grinder mounted on the thick table behind him .
”Alright, how much do we need?” he asked, setting the bowl down and examining the grinder curiously . A tiny makers mark of a mouse attested to the fact it must have been brought over from the other realm with some of the beast-kin .
”The recipe requires three and a third cups of finely ground flour . In my life as Sylva, it would have been called all purpose . ”
Joseph dutifully placed a handful of grain in the grinder, making sure there was a bowl under the outspout, and began turning the handle to grind the grain . As it slowly trickled out, he looked at the results and gave her an incredulous look .
Stella couldn't hold back her laugh anymore, and ended up leaning against the counter holding her belly .
”Oh, haha,” he grumbled .
PREPARE FOOD .
A bowl of fine white flour replaced the bowl of unground grain .
”Oh, spoil sport,” she laughed, wiping her eyes .
Setting the bowl down next to her, he said, ”Okay, other than flour, what's in these mystical cookies?”
”The next thing is baking soda and salt . Both of which we get from mines far to the west . ”
”Wait, I know that salt can come out of the ground, but baking soda?” he looked at the white powder she pulled out of her purse, suspiciously .
”How else do you think it's made? Sylva's people always mined it, and crushed it into fine powders to use for baking with . It actually comes in many different colors . I always liked the blue myself, but it's white here . ”
TEST FOOD .
It was indeed baking soda . While it wasn't completely pure, it would definitely do the job .
”I guess I never thought about it before . ”
She raised an eyebrow . ”How can you consume food, and not know where it came from? That would be like going to a market, and purchasing food, without understanding that the eggs came from chickens or the milk from goats . ”
Joseph was silent because he knew that happened a lot in some of his previous lives .
”How much baking soda and salt go into these cookies?”
She raised an eyebrow at his redirection, but turned back to the table . ”One and a half teaspoons of baking soda, and one and three quarters of a teaspoon salt . ”
”There's more salt than baking soda?”
”Are you going to question every ingredient?”
”Sorry . ”
”Mix those three together, and set the bowl aside while we work on the other parts . ”
Joseph dutifully measured and mixed the three ingredients,
Stella went over to the cabinet that had been magically reinforced to stay cool inside, and pulled out a bowl of b.u.t.ter .
”Measure out a cup of this b.u.t.ter into another bowl,” she said, handing it to him, as she closed the cabinet .
”Wow a whole cup? No wonder I like them . I just hope I don't get fat off of these . ”
”That's not the best part . We need two cups of sugar and a third of a cup of mola.s.ses . ”
”Let me guess, we don't have brown sugar?”
”If we had brown sugar, it would be two cups of brown sugar, but we don't, so it's white sugar and mola.s.ses . ”