Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 22 [Parts 1 to 8] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Sorry for the wait, everyone. It’s finally time to get started on our first study session in quite a while.”

The sliced meat was placed in leather bags stuffed with pico leaves and temporarily stowed in the pantry, so I was finally able to make that declaration.

According to the sundial, it would soon be the fourth hour. Preparations for dinner were also mostly done, which left us with two whole hours for our study session.

“Let’s go ahead and start with this,” I said, grabbing a cloth bag that I had left in the corner of my workstation and emptying its contents onto a wooden plate. Instantly, a fragrant aroma filled the kitchen. The ingredient in question was gigi leaves, which I had roasted yesterday at the Fa house.

“My, what a wonderful aroma! Who knew that gigi leaves alone could give off such a scent.”

“Yeah, they don’t seem like they would be all that bitter just from the smell, right?”

It was a cacao-like aroma that called to mind chocolate or cocoa. The roasted gigi leaves had turned jet black. They had started out as round leaves around five centimeters in diameter, but after being heated for a while, their fibers had broken down, leaving them in a half-crumbled state already.

“Apparently, they’re usually used as an ingredient for making tea. It’s quite bitter, so would you all like to try it too?” I asked Dora and the other guests.

“You don’t mind? Herbs from Sym aren’t exactly cheap, are they?”

“It doesn’t take all that much if you just want to have a taste. Besides, it’s not like it’s an especially expensive herb.”

Besides, Varkas had been withholding information on the proper techniques to use it, so the pantry in the old Turan manor still had a mountain of the stuff in stock. If we could find a good use for them, Torst and Polarth would be absolutely thrilled about it.

However, all of the chefs and guests who tasted it frowned. In contrast to their mellow and fragrant aroma, the gigi leaves proved to be bitter like concentrated cacao.

“Varkas made that delicious food using an herb this bitter? I can’t even imagine what sort of dish it would work well in,” Sheera Ruu remarked, looking rather discouraged. Reina Ruu had a pretty glum expression.

“I still haven’t thought up a way to use it in my cooking either. Just like I discussed the other day, though, I’d like to give it a try in sweets first,” I said.

“Huh? I don’t want any bitter sweets!” Rimee Ruu complained.

“Obviously, nobody would enjoy a sweet that was bitter and nothing else. But arow and sheel are pretty sour, right? And yet, you can still use them to make something delicious if you combine them with a sweet ingredient like sugar. So I’m thinking of something like that.”

To start with, we heated up some karon milk, then added sugar and powdered gigi leaves. It started to look even more like cocoa, but to anyone who didn’t know what that was, it would probably just look like a brown liquid.

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