Rebirth as a Cooking God

This is a Christmas Eve where some people cry and some people laugh.

The store was filled with laughter.

Watching Misa Tamagawa handing mulled wine to Maki Morita, Xia Yu suddenly remembered something and started to walk to the store door, but the car waiting not far away could only be seen as a faint shadow.

Under the street lamp, an exquisitely packaged bag was eye-catching. Xia Yu opened the bag and took out a note with scrawled writing, which was obviously left in a hurry:

Merry Christmas!

The exclamation point at the back even penetrated the paper, looking murderous.

Xia Yu laughed happily.

There are no symbols such as question marks and exclamation marks in formal Japanese. The pause mark is the Chinese comma, and the period is used the same way. However, due to the influence of Chinese, Neon Gold uses question marks and exclamation marks more and more in private situations outside of written language.

Isn't this the situation now? Alice used an exclamation point to express her anger and helplessness.

In this regard, Xia Yu could only show his hands.

If he had planned to respond to Alice, he would have picked up his gun and mounted his horse on the night of the night attack. Wouldn't it be gut-wrenching to kill everyone in and out of the house?

Today, he planned to deal with it coldly and ignore everyone, but who knew that Morita Maki was too smart. It was not until this moment that Xia Yu realized that he had made other admirers shed tears in the snow on Christmas Eve, and Xia Yu sighed: Maki is still awesome!

Take the bag and go back to the house.

Morita Maki, who was chatting with the Tamagawa sisters, glanced at the gift bag in the boy's hand, trembled her long eyelashes, and suddenly said: Hey, Ayu, you received a Christmas gift again, what about your return gift?

Return gift?

He was about to go upstairs, but he paused. Xia Yu was quite astonished and looked at the girl with a full chin and a smile.

Is it weird to return a gift? Are you not prepared?

Morita Maki said.

Well……

Xia Yu touched his head in subtle embarrassment.

If you treat someone coldly and don't accept gifts, there will be no return gift. But he seemed to have broken the rules by braving the snow to pick up the girl.

Yes, in return, we also want a gift from Boss Xia! Misa Tamagawa raised her hand and echoed in a sweet voice.

Not far away, Tamagawa Ayaka glanced over.

Zhu Qing gloated over the misfortune and said to himself: You kid, just get busy putting out the fire!

Before Xia Yu could answer, Morita Maki sat on her seat and counted on her fingers: Pole Star dormitory, Xiao Hui, Yuki-chan, Ryoko-chan and Mrs. Fumio, the top ten organizations include Kobayashi-senpai and Erina. , and other girls such as Hisako, Miyoko...

Listening to her counting with a smile, for some reason, a trace of cold sweat broke out on Xia Yu's forehead.

Stop, stop, stop!

Waving his hand to block it, Xia Yu rubbed his brows: Are you ready now?

Morita Maki nodded, her eyes clear, There should always be etiquette things. There is no need for any special meaning. It just represents blessings and greetings to friends.

When she said she was a friend, the girl's eyes finally showed slyness. Is this a way to stabilize her base?

Okay, it's up to you!

Xia Yu shrugged and immediately turned around and entered the kitchen.

Zhu Qing, Misa, Ayaka and Maki all sat in front of the bar and watched him busy through the window.

In less than ten minutes, Xia Yu had prepared the materials. He planned to spend half the night preparing the Christmas gifts to be sent out tomorrow. There was no need for complicated things, just food, Christmas snacks, to express his feelings through food.

The main materials are water, flour and yeast.

The auxiliary ingredients are relatively complex, including spices such as tangerine peel, cinnamon, and cardamom, as well as almonds and other dried fruits.

Scanning the kitchen table full of ingredients, Tamagawa Ayaka and Morita Maki, who are good at making desserts, were both stunned.

Isn't this what you need for a German Christmas cake?

Oh, cake?

Zhu Qing said with great interest: What kind of Christmas cake will a chef who opens the door of Linzhi serve? Tsk, I'm suddenly looking forward to it!

There are quite a few people who want to return gifts, but if each person has a small cake, it is not complicated to make, but it just kills time.

Get bottled ready-made salted lemon peels and orange peels

Xia Yu used a small basin and poured in salted lemon slices, orange peels and dried grapes. He turned around and took a few tablespoons of wine, mixed it into the ingredients, and soaked them together.

Ah, don't they usually put ingredients soaked in rum here so that they have a strong Western flavor?

Morita Maki was surprised.

Shh!

Zhu Qing pointed her finger at her lips.

In the kitchen, Xia Yu stared at the mixture of ingredients in the basin in front of her, her brows knitted together.

He had an idea and thought that at this stage, it was necessary to make extraordinary changes. Is it too simplistic to just use ordinary wine?

In fact, the 'German Christmas Cake' is his candidate for snacks at today's food festival. If roasted chestnuts and Christmas mulled wine weren't a better match, he might be bringing out cakes for sale tonight.

Therefore, Xia Yu is naturally familiar with how to make 'German Christmas Cake'.

Um?

Xia Yu slapped his forehead, glanced at the task bar, and cursed inwardly. Why did he forget the task of using Melk's Stars? The Melk's Light he got from the system was more like spice. It is a recipe, not a recipe, so the cooking form does not have to be limited to the so-called Italian spice bread. From the perspective of ingredients, the 'German Christmas Cake' is also a spice pastry.

The return gift and the task should not be delayed, as it should be!

So where should forbidden spices be used?

Think about it.

Although there was a surge of inspiration in the first session, if I wanted to add Melk's Stars, I would just keep the wine normal. The idea of ​​adding a rainbow wine was quickly suppressed.

Wake up, you haven’t figured out how to control two taboo ingredients at the same time!

Xia Yu reminded himself this.

After going through the making process of the 'German Christmas Cake' in their minds, several people couldn't help but be confused when they saw that Xia Yu did not pour out the flour and dough, but instead took a bag of powdered sugar.

Powdered sugar, as the name suggests, is powdered white sugar.

But if you have to pick the difference from white sugar, then powdered sugar usually contains about 3% starch.

The purpose of mixing in starch is to better store powdered sugar. As we all know, white sugar is easy to clump, and powdered sugar is even worse. When the air is slightly moistened, a big lump will agglomerate. Starch can prevent it.

But it’s not just powdered sugar.

Later, Xia Yu reluctantly took out the treasured glass bottle. The whole bottle was shining with gold, wasn't it the Melk's Stars.

White dust, gold dust mix.

After thinking about it, Xia Yu used the [Spice Inequality] to quickly conceive of a spice formula, which was to construct a framework for controlling taboo spices. He first searched for his own knowledge of taboo spices, which was crucial.

Melk's stars are composed of new amino acids. In terms of deliciousness, they can surpass most food ingredients in the world. If you eat them directly, you will have very toxic addiction symptoms...

Moreover, it is said that the CP ingredient combination of Melk's stars, a forbidden spice, is sparkling silk-footed fish!

Xia Yu started to think about another taboo ingredient, Sparkling Silky Fish.

Can the system provide a research report on the cooking of Shiny Silkfish? A comprehensive one! He communicated what was in his mind.

Ding, the request has been received. To purchase relevant knowledge, you need to pay 100,000 reputation points...

My heart skipped a beat.

Just the food materials alone cost 100,000 reputation points? Sinkhole!

With veins popping out on his forehead, Xia Yu looked at the reputation slot. Fortunately, he had accumulated a large amount of reputation points recently, so he gritted his teeth and paid.

Looking at the precious information emerging from his retinas, Xia Yu's eyes became thoughtful.

It seems that there is a little clue.

I don’t know how long it took.

Shaking his head, Xia Yu looked up at the store. The people who were sitting at the bar and planned to watch the cooking demonstration started to fall asleep, and they were all so sleepy that they yawned continuously.

Morita Maki held her head in her hands and dozed off, but woke up the next second, feeling dazed.

I may have to fight all night, everyone should leave!

Xia Yu was speechless.

Come on, Boss Xia!

Tamagawa Misa and Tamagawa Ayaka got up and went back to the apartment next door.

Zhu Qing waved his hand, You are busy with your own business, don't worry about me.

I, I'm not sleepy! Morita Maki said. She helped with the cooking at home, and she must have been tired from the food festival, as she was clearly struggling to keep her eyes open.

Xia Yu said with a smile: I won't chase you, but you should take a nap for a while, right? You can go upstairs or to the apartment next door. I guarantee that you will receive my Christmas gift early in the morning!

That……

Morita Maki's face turned red. Zhu Qing laughed out loud and pushed the girl's back, Come on, let's go, I'll take you up.