Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 25 [Parts 1 to 2] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“All right, that should do it.”

Roughly two hours had passed since our arrival at the main Sauti house, and we had finally completed a sample dish meant for the northerners. We had naturally used the ingredients from the castle town to prepare it, since we would have to make the real thing with the same stuff. We would just have to purchase fitting replacements for whatever we had used from the post town tomorrow.

Including Mil Fei Sauti, I’d had five chefs in total assisting me. We had arranged things that way so we could provide one-on-one instructions to the five Mahyudra women. My other assistants came from the Sauti branch houses and the Vela, all women I had worked with before in the kitchen before during the incident with the lord of the forest.

The four visitors from the Ruu clan silently watched us work, and once the sample was done, Rimee Ruu exclaimed as if she’d been holding it in for a long time, “Amazing! It even smells totally different!” clinging to me like a puppy wagging its tail. “So, is that stew? It is, isn’t it? It looks really tasty!”

“Yeah. Under these conditions, I couldn’t come up with anything else to make.”

Like Rimee Ruu had said, I had gone with a stew. Because of the large amount of karon milk we’d had to work with, I’d decided to make something akin to a fresh cream stew. I could make a more ideal version of the dish with full access to the ingredients available in Genos, but I still felt that I’d done a decent job with what was on offer here.

We’d all worked hard to stir the karon milk and separate the fat from the skim milk. This karon milk had been brought here yesterday, so fortunately it had already been starting to separate a bit from the get go. By cooking fuwano together with that milk fat, we were able to prepare roux to serve as a base.

Thanks to the wide variety of ingredients on offer, we’d had no issue whatsoever with creating stock. In particular, I was grateful for the salted karon ribs and kimyuus legs, which still had bones inside. By boiling them together with a variety of vegetables, we could easily make a high-quality soup stock.

What was most important there was the order we had added those ingredients and the level of heat used. Since they had just been throwing everything in together and boiling it over a high heat like the people of the forest’s edge used to do in the past, it had ended up as a mushy mess. And because they’d been using meat and vegetable scraps to begin with, they’d all ended up reduced to a paste.

My first step had been to get a decent stock from the bones and the chunks of meat clinging to them. Then I had added the vegetables in a particular order so that they wouldn’t fall apart. That meant getting the tino, chatchi, and nenon in early, and not adding the chan and nanaar till near the end.

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