Chapter 228 (1/2)

Chapter 228: Rose Pastry

If the girl that often called Yuan Zhou Boss Liu saw how he peeled the skin off at the moment, she definitely wouldn’t correct herself in calling him Boss Liu. The craftsmanship simply couldn’t be described without the words of “drastically amazing.”

Yuan Zhou held a knife in his right hand with the edge toward the red date and a well-cooked date in his left hand with the tip end upward. He slightly rotated the date with the left hand along the knife edge and the skin of the red date was then peeled off. It was as seductive as the clothes of a beautiful woman falling from the smooth skin.

After that, he peeled off the hard skin and put the intact flesh into a bowl while pushing the date stone out, without damaging the flesh at all.

Having taken the intact flesh out and pounded it until it became pulp, he added some cane sugar and then began to boil it.

“System, I feel I should add some honey at the moment so that the taste and texture can reach a higher level,” said Yuan Zhou while he was boiling it with a small flame.

The system displayed, “With regard to the culinary skills, you can comprehend it by yourself.”

“You got it wrong. What I mean is that I need honey.” Yuan Zhou ridiculed with an expressionless face.

What a joke! Yuan Zhou also wanted to buy the honey by himself but the system believed the ingredients bought outside weren’t raised or processed carefully. Besides, the quality and texture were unable to reach the selection requirements.

After Yuan Zhou said that, the system kept silent for quite a while. It was so long that the date paste was already well-cooked.

The system displayed, “Congratulations, host, for your improvement of the culinary skills. As a result, a special reward is hereby awarded.”

[Special Reward] Yanfeng Royal Jelly (available to be received)

“Well, it looks really good.” Looking at the reward in sight, Yuan Zhou didn’t receive it immediately.

He looked again at the finished date paste. The color was in bright reddish brown and the flavor was natural and delicate.

“The cane sugar is also not bad. I can use the royal jelly next time,” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself.

From the seventh sense of a man, Yuan Zhou felt it a little strange that the system decided to release the reward to him at this time. In order not to affect his mood of making delicious dishes, he decided to receive the reward later.

Previous lessons had to be kept in mind. Every time, the reward would basically be a scam if he didn’t get it from the completion of a mission.

After the stuffing was done, Yuan Zhou prepared to make the pastry. The principle of making the pastry was naturally to complete it at a quick speed. Just within two seconds, a pastry was done in his hands. Pastries made in such a short moment naturally had no other tastes except the purest fragrance of the glutinous rice and the red dates.

The second one that Yuan Zhou made was the rose pastry. Only the name itself had already conveyed great romance as the rose had always been linked with love in recent decades. The aromatic flavor and the flamboyant or pure color could basically conquer most females.

For the rose pastry, he certainly had to extract the color of rose out first and then dye the glutinous rice flour red. Rose pastries made that way had the aromatic flavor from the inside out.

Following a sound of “Zhi Ya”, Yuan Zhou opened a cabinet and took out an intact fresh rose from inside.

The moment he opened the cabinet, the fragrance of the rose rushed into Yuan Zhou’s nose. Yet, it wasn’t pungent at all. Instead, it was quite luscious as if it had penetrated deep into his heart.

“It’s truly fresh.” Yuan Zhou picked up a rose flower. With a slight shake, the dew spattered immediately. With his sensitive nose, Yuan Zhou certainly smelled the fragrance of the rose.

The system displayed, “It’s the rosa damascena classified in the category of edible roses. This flower is the national flower of Bulgaria. It has double petals growing in a corymb, single petal, or semi-double petals. The flower stalk and calyx tube are densely covered with glandular hair and had a strong scent. It is of high value to use.”

“The wild rose is basically free from the insects and pests, which is the law of nature. What the system uses is the edible rosa damascena.”

“I know you are awesome and use the best material every time.” Yuan Zhou washed the flower petals and meanwhile ridiculed the system. It was just that his voice was blocked by the face mask and hence couldn’t be heard clearly.