Gentleman's Night Canteen

The water bath method is a method widely used in baking various cakes. Its function is mainly to ensure the humidity in the oven. As for why Lan Meng specially uses two layers of baking paper, it is because water can not only ensure even heating, At the same time, it can also prevent the bottom of the cake from being in direct contact with the metal, so that the bottom of the baked cake will not only show a light milky yellow color, but will not be hard at the same time.

The key to Lan Meng's cakes is the 'taste', so he naturally pays special attention to this.

After the coloring of the top layer of the cake was completed, Lan Meng directly sealed the upper layer of the cake mold with a layer of tin foil, and added some warm water to the middle of the cake paper to ensure that the bottom of the cake would not come into direct contact with the mold.

Then all you need to do is wait.

After about 20 minutes or so, it is basically baked, but if you don’t like the taste of being too tender, you can bake it for a while, but it is best to limit it to half an hour, because the cake will be lost after it is baked for too long and completely hardened. Charm.

Put the baked cake directly into the refrigerator to chill.

Ordinary household refrigerators naturally cannot do this, after all, it is easy to damage the refrigerator, but the black-tech kitchen utensils that appear together with the system and the Destiny Food Gate in Lanmeng Kitchen do not have these problems, and he can even use it through the control panel. Perform accelerated cooling.

Generally speaking, 2 hours is the standard for normal household refrigerators, but it is enough to use the special functions of the refrigerator in front of you for only a few minutes.

Holding the cake taken out of the refrigerator, Lan Meng felt a little disappointed for some reason.

Although Maomaomon is very cute, when he was Snowballmon, he could also help him make ice cubes or cool down the ingredients. Although the efficiency is definitely not as good as special kitchen utensils, he still enjoys the process of making together more.

But right now is naturally not the time to think about these things. He picked up the cake and took out a portion of Guanling juice to dilute it to the point where he could eat it directly, then he took the plate and went straight to the restaurant.

While Lan Meng was making the cake, the apricot-haired girl or Lysaline Stott on the other side was sitting at the dining table and took out her small bag and started sorting the materials she collected today.

As an alchemist, she carried some simple tools with her, in order to be able to process some materials easily. Now it is better to work first than to wait.

Although it hasn't been long since he became an alchemist, perhaps because of his relatively good talent, these tasks that he has done countless times on weekdays are naturally completed quickly, and the work steps laid out on the table are packed and ready for later. Lysa, who asked Lan Meng where to take out the garbage, couldn't help but look at this strange restaurant in Lan Meng.

The reason why Lysaline Stott, who was born in the village of Larsenboden on Keuken Island, was interested in alchemists was completely accidental, but I have to say that this kind of occupation that requires enough imagination is indeed very suitable for people who are naturally adventurous She is energetic but cautious enough.

As for why she was not surprised to see Lan Meng, a stranger, it was because recently, many people from outside the island came to this small island where she lived for many years by boat, and some of them behaved mysteriously, unlike them. Compared with the smiling Lan Meng, his affinity is much higher.

But even so, she was still a little curious why Lan Meng opened the restaurant in the depths of such an uninhabited forest. When she went to the port before, she heard the aunt in the restaurant say, "Thanks to the fact that more people from outside the island have come recently, their business is also doing well." many'.

Obviously, the restaurant needs enough traffic to support it.

But when she noticed Lan Meng's huge shield placed by the door, she also realized one thing, that is, Lan Meng might not be a simple chef, just like her. On the other hand, they often go on adventures in the wild in order to collect materials.

Maybe the chef is just a part-time job for the other party?

But maybe because of her curiosity about the "stranger" Lan Meng, she couldn't help but glance around in the store, and soon found Maomaomon and Yae Shenzi sitting in the chairs.

Whether it's a chubby cat with big eyes and cute cat ears, or a Yae Kamiko with a long, fluffy tail, it will definitely poke the girl's heart, and she leaves almost without any hesitation. He took his place and squatted in front of the two of them.

Compared with Maomaowu, who was ordered by Lanmeng not to show up in front of people casually, Yae Shenzi had already noticed the arrival of the other party, but did not make any reaction. It was obvious that she was planning to wait for the opportunity to contact the other party.

But when the opponent stretched out his hand towards her to rua her, she dodged the opponent's right hand very skillfully.

Although Blue Dream RUA's her every time as a 'bundle of foxes', as the secretary of Narugami Taisha Shrine, she is not someone who can RUA casually.

On the contrary, Mao Mao Beast, who was full of curiosity about the outside world, jumped towards the other party with his big eyes blinking when he saw the outstretched hand.

"Play with?"

Looking at the cat that suddenly spoke, Lysaline was obviously a little surprised. After all, talking monsters are extremely rare, but she still nodded happily looking at the cute cat.

"Hmm~!"

That's why after Lan Meng left the kitchen, he saw Mao Maoshou and the guests playing together.

However, judging from the other party's reaction, he should not be from the ordinary world. If so, he didn't intend to stop him, but just put the dinner plate in front of the other party.

"Snacks are ready, please take your time..."

Chapter 25 One Dim Sum, Three Flavors

Because she was addicted to petting cats, she didn't realize it until Lan Meng put down the dinner plate.

I came here to eat snacks, not pet cats... But forget it, anyway, I didn't come to the forest to find a snack shop but to collect materials, but since we got together, let's just go together.

At this time, Laisalie didn't have the slightest sense of stroking other people's cats in front of the owner, but instead looked curiously at the cake in front of her.

"Is this the dim sum outside the island? It doesn't seem very complicated..."

Looking at the other party's innocent expression, Lan Meng didn't explain, but just looked at the other party with a smile on his face. After all, as the other party said, the 'cheesecake' he made looked very 'ordinary'.

The main body of the egg-yellow cake is paired with the top layer of baked brown cake crust. It doesn't seem to be any different from ordinary cakes, but Lan Meng believes that the other party will not think so after eating...

Under Lan Meng's gaze, the other party picked up the small spoon in front of him and carefully cut off a small piece from the tip of the cake, but it was Lan Meng who suddenly spoke.

"Guest, please wait a moment."

"?"

Lai Shalin looked at Lan Meng with a puzzled expression, as if she didn't understand why Lan Meng called to stop her.

"This cake is best eaten together from top to bottom."

With Lan Meng's reminder, the other party showed a suddenly realized expression, and cut the spoon down a little.

"Ding~"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of the spoon hitting, the other party frowned unconsciously.

The mold used by Lan Meng to make cakes is a standard eight-inch cake magic tool, and then it is cut into eight even parts with four knives. For Lan Meng, this kind of cake is basically three or two bites, but for the beginning, it is only a plan. For Lai Shalin who dug a little at the front and then cut off a large piece from top to bottom under Lan Meng's reminder, it was a little bigger.

Although because of the climate on the island, Lai Shalin wears a cool vest, sun protection sleeves and shorts, and her personality is a bit boyish, but she is still a young girl in essence, and she seems to feel uncomfortable with opening her mouth in front of strange men A little shy.

But looking at Lan Meng's confident smile, and out of curiosity about "do not understand dim sum", she finally decided to follow Lan Meng's instructions and eat it in one bite.

"Ah~!"

Accompanied by an extremely interesting voice, the other party put the cake and the spoon into his mouth.

Because she likes to eat small snacks, she has actually eaten most of the snacks on the island. As for the ice cream, although she doesn’t eat it very much because of the price, she has eaten it, but she is the first ice cream cake like this one. eat at once.

The special silky texture of the slightly cool cake made her... um, right?

After taking a bite, Lysaline suddenly showed a puzzled expression, because she suddenly found that the texture of the cake seemed to be a bit wrong, and the cakes touched by the upper and lower teeth seemed to have different textures.

The cake on the top is very similar to the traditional sponge cake she usually eats, that is, it has a special cool taste, but the 'cake' at the bottom has a little elasticity. It is more like a pudding than a cake?

Not only that, as she chewed, she found that there seemed to be a special sauce between the 'sponge cake' and the 'pudding'.

Could it be that the other party put together three kinds of snacks like a sandwich?

Some curious Lysa couldn't help but put her head in front of the cake. The ornaments on the front of the beret on her head kept shaking like rabbit ears, but what Lan Meng was more concerned about was that the other party was completely on the dining table because of the forward leaning action. people's hearts.

The current Lanmeng can also be said to be well-informed. Whether it is Jiutiao Shaluo, the general, Thor, they all have hearts far beyond ordinary people. The tall stature of the others, the petite appearance of the girl in front of him who only reached his chest made him look the most exaggerated.

At this time, Lan Meng was already a little curious about how the other party would react after eating the food he made... No!

Although his ability is somewhat misleading, but he doesn't use it for this kind of thing, his ability is used to help customers!

Realizing that something was wrong, Lan Meng silently said "I am a serious chef" in his heart, while trying to recall the calming figure of "Mr. Baimu", and his agitated heart immediately calmed down.

Compared to Lan Meng, who was in a delicate mood, Lysa's attention was completely locked on the cake in front of her.

Originally thought it was a structure similar to a 'sandwich', but when she moved closer to the cake, she found that there were obvious color gradients on the cake, and it was not as obvious as the 'sandwich' she imagined.

"Mr. Store Manager, how did you do it... Ah! Sorry!"

Although Lai Shalin looks a bit naive, she is not a real child after all. She is already an adult in the world she lives in at the age of 17, and now she has managed herself as a qualified alchemist Of course, I also know not to inquire about other people's secrets casually.

In her opinion, the cake made by Lan Meng is a dessert that she has never seen before, and the method of making it must be very valuable. Although she just asked out of curiosity, she might be regarded as a commercial spy by the other party. All right.

But to her surprise, Lan Meng didn't seem to care?

"It doesn't matter, it's not a special technique, it's just that the characteristics of the ingredients themselves allow them to achieve the current effect through sedimentation and heating during the production process..."

Lan Meng has basically no concept of the so-called "unique skills". After all, his current situation can basically be said to be "no worries about food and clothing". I understand what my teacher said at the beginning, "Seeing that guy's smile when he ate a mouthful of hot food, I suddenly felt very peaceful inside."

Cooking is to make the people who eat it happy, and he also enjoys this feeling very much. If he can let more people learn this "way to make other people happy" through his own hands, then he will naturally support it very much, so what? May have hidden thoughts?

However, Lan Meng's explanation at this time was more of a habitual solution to the other party's doubts, and he didn't really expect the other party to learn. It sounded like he suddenly remembered something, and after asking Lan Meng "Can I take notes" and got an affirmative answer, he also took out a notebook from his pocket and quickly recorded something.

After he finished speaking, he couldn't help asking a little curiously.

"Have you learned?"

Facing Lan Meng's question, Lai Shalin did not try to be brave. Instead, she tilted her head and thought for a while before giving a more accurate answer in her opinion.

"I don't know, I haven't tried it after all, but I feel that this method may be used in my alchemy."

And following the other party's words, Lan Meng's eyes lit up, he seemed to know the reason why the 'Gate of Destiny Food' led the other party to come this time...

Chapter 26 My kitchen is quite big

Regarding Lysa's self-explosive career, Lan Meng couldn't help but start talking to the other party after being surprised.

I don't know if it was out of gratitude to Lan Meng for "teaching me skills", or simply because of my own lack of vigilance, after a few sentences, I vented my bottom to the sky.

First of all, the other party is not a famous master, and it is only recently to become an alchemist. Secondly, although the other party is an alchemist, he is a "traditional alchemist" who specializes in refining various medicines. The other party said that she didn't know much about the 'doll technology', but she could help Lan Meng to find out.

However, to Lan Meng's surprise, the other party said that although her alchemy process is different from cooking, it also has something to learn from. The material is being processed.

Maybe it was a little embarrassing to have prostituted Lan Meng's inspiration for nothing, but the other party took the initiative to demonstrate the process of refining medicine for Lan Meng.

Because she only carried the simplest equipment with her, she naturally couldn't make too complicated potions, but she simply heated and purified the herbs picked in the forest and had been preliminarily processed before, and soon a bottle of light green The solution was poured into the empty glass bottle carried by the other party.

Lan Meng looked at the 'glass bottle' handed to him by the other party, and his expression was very subtle.

Although the flames that the other party heated up seemed to be summoned by magic power, and their own magic power was mixed in during the modulation process, but for some reason, looking at the various equipment in front of the other party, he couldn't help but think of the flames that he had when he was in college. In the laboratory of the chemistry department that I accidentally saw, their experimental tables are also full of various flasks, test tubes, droppers, gas collecting bottles... and so on.

The only difference is that they follow science when using these devices, while what Lysaline is using is magic.

However, just as Lai Shalin gained inspiration about refining medicine through Lan Meng's explanation of cooking techniques, Lan Meng also discovered some things that can be used in cooking through the other party's description of "alchemy", such as the fusion of different materials.

It’s true that ordinary cooking doesn’t use these things, but some special herbal diets, and Lan Meng’s “special recipes” with special effects may be useful. A dream is an infusion of one's own emotions.

Although the way of reaction is different, things with special effects can be obtained through processing.

Lysa was originally curious about Lanmeng simply because she was "an outsider from the island", but with more and more exchanges, the other party also wanted to return to the workshop immediately to refine the potion.

But maybe it was because the two of them were so happy to communicate that the cake that was originally placed in front of them was also eaten before they knew it.

For this reason, Lan Meng has to sigh with emotion, the girl's appetite is almost as unobservable as Schrödinger's cat.

On the other hand, Lysa rubbed her stomach with an expression that was still unfinished.

Even aside from the novelty of eating this special cake for the first time, Lysa still felt that this cake was the most delicious dessert she had eaten in all these years.

The fluffy taste of the sponge cake on the top layer, combined with the slightly Q-bomby taste of the pudding on the bottom, gives people the feeling that it is just a little strange. If it is just like this, she may just feel strange, but it will not be like the time. I like it as much as before, but the key lies in the third flavor that is different from the two.

Eggs, white sugar, and flour combined with milk not only produce fluffy sea bread and a special taste like pudding at the bottom, but also create a special filling similar to 'custard sauce' through heating and layering material.

'Casada sauce' is a very commonly used filling in French cuisine. The ingredients used are also eggs, white sugar flour and milk. The production process is mainly mixing and heating, but the key is to cool down immediately after heating.

This is why Lan Meng deliberately controls the time during the baking process so that it does not bake too long and puts it in the refrigerator to cool down immediately after it is out of the pan.

Because once the baking time is too long, it will not only increase the proportion of the "sea bread" on the top, but also the bottom will not have the same Q-bomb texture as it does now, but will gradually solidify, not only getting old And the eggy smell will also become heavier.

And if the cooling is too late, the temperature conduction will still cause the 'custard sauce' he deliberately made to be gradually assimilated by the upper and lower.

But it's the right baking and refrigeration that gives it just the right layering.

The 'Casda Sauce' in the middle, this third taste between 'cake' and 'pudding' is like a special fusion agent that confuses the boundaries of the two, and finally makes them completely integrated , into a dish.

Because of Lan Meng's explanation, Lysa also figured out how this 'magical' cake is made, but because of experience, she is still at the stage of 'the brain has learned, but the hands have not learned'.

After all, according to Lan Meng, the key to this dessert is to grasp the 'baking time' and 'cooling down'.

This kind of thing relies more on experience than pure data. After all, it is impossible for a human being to be like a machine so that the amount used is accurate every time. At this time, it needs to be adjusted according to the individual.

Although as an alchemist, Lysa is still somewhat confident in her hands-on ability, she still couldn't help asking Lan Meng if she could help to taste the finished product next time, after all, she is more important than handling ingredients. Good at handling various materials.

Naturally, Lan Meng would not refuse this, whether it was because of the possible "reward" from the other party, or simply because of the spread of cooking skills, he would not refuse.

And he also made further suggestions.

"My kitchen is quite big, and I don't need it for the time being, why don't you try it directly as a guest?"

Facing the enthusiastic Lan Meng, Lai Shalin was not used to it at first, not because Lan Meng called "warning against strange men" at the beginning, but simply because she felt that Lan Meng had helped her too much.

Not only to help her own alchemy, but also to teach her how to make cakes and help her save money. You must know that this part of the money saved should have been earned by Lan Meng.

Although I don't know why Lan Meng is interested in things like 'dolls' and 'puppets', it is still a branch of 'alchemy' after all. If she searches carefully, she can still find some information. Thinking of this, she faintly I made up my mind to help Lan Meng find more information in order to repay Lan Meng for helping me...

Chapter 27 Crooked, but not completely crooked

Because of the need to learn cooking skills, Lan Meng specially found an apron for Lysa, but because it was the size used by Lan Meng, it was really too big for Lysa to wear, but she didn't seem to care much about it.

It’s just a nice slipknot on the neck of the apron, so that the apron will not fall off. As for the waist at the back, there is no need to make too many changes, because Lan Meng originally thought that the back of the apron would be completely folded. In the end, it could only be hung on the other party's neck simply, like a piece of tarpaulin.

But Lan Meng found that she still underestimated, or rather underestimated the power of the human heart.