When we arrive at home, we directly go to the kitchen to start making the oil from the camellia seeds. Actually, for the better quality oil, the cold extraction ways by using some pressing machinery will give camellia oil in better quality, but that kind of machinery is impossible to find here. So the only option I have is using heat extraction although the quality is slightly under the cold extraction process.
After piling the fruits in the kitchen, we begin our oil extraction process from these camellia fruits.
"Ikki, how to make the oil from these fruits?"
"Oh, let's open the fruits first and take the seeds inside"
We start to open the fruit together and collecting the seed inside the fruits. I put aside some seeds that look good to plant it later. After we finish taking the seed from the fruit, the next step is to break the seed into pieces using a grinder. Since this quite tiresome works, we take a turn to break the seed. While we breaking the seed, I prepare boiled water on the pot. When we have enough seeds pieces, I put them on the boiled water pot.
"Silvie, after we boil this seed pieces in the pot, the golden colored oil layer will be formed on the top of the pot. We scoop that oil layer and move it to other pot. Can you do that?"
"Um, I can do that"
I keep making the seed into pieces while Silvie taking the oil layer from the pot. We keep doing this until there's no more oil layer on the pot.
"Ikki, there's no more oil layer in the pot"
"Um, okay. Let heating the other pot to remove the water content in that pot and get pure oil"
We're heating the oil container pot to evaporate the water content in the pot. When there's no more steam come from the pot and the pot make blubbing sounds, that indicating there's no more water in that pot and we move the pot from fire.
"Ikki, what this oil can do?"
"This oil has many usages, Silvie. For body treatment, for hair treatment, can be used for cooking too"
"That many? Wow, this oil is amazing"
"Um, look at the oil, smell the aroma too"
I show Silvie the result from our oil extraction from the Camellia fruits. It's a golden colored oil with herbs aroma, actually this oil more suitable for cosmetically usage than for cooking oil. This oil also contains a small amount of SPF that can be used for sunblock, which I want to carry when we go to the beach again.
"The aroma is good, not like oil from fats…..it's like herbal aroma"
"This oil is also good for wound treatment"
"I can't wait to use this oil. Ikki, can I use this oil now?"
"Ugh, it's still hot after being boiled. It would not make your skin smooth but burnt instead"
"Umm….so tonight?"
"Okay, I will help you to use this oil"
"Thank you, Ikki"
Silvie looks happy when I promise her to help her applying this camellia oil at her tonight. We still talking about this oil when a knocking sound can be heard from the front door. When we see who comes, it's Mr. Matius who coming carrying the meat in both of his hands.
"Hello master Ikki, I come to deliver the meat"
"Wow, this much?"
Mr. Matius smile wryly before answer it
"Actually I want master Ikki to help me cook some of this meat. I don't know how to make this meat taste good like what master Ikki did"
Ugh, he wants me to make a meat dish for him with that meat. What should I make with just meat? If he also carries something else with him like flour or potato, maybe I can make some dish with that ingredient.
If only meat with the current spices that I get from the herb valley just now….
Oh, I get an idea how to cook these meats. It's a popular dish in my world, burger! Combine with the tortilla that I can make here, I decide to make tortilla burger for Mr. Matius.
"Alright Mr. Matius, I will make this meat into delicious food for you. Please wait for a while and give us time to cook it"
"Haha, I know master Ikki can do that. I leave this meat to you, take your time to cook it master Ikki. Your cooking is worth to wait"
I receive the meats from Mr. Matius and bring it to the kitchen. I ask Silvie to make some tortilla skin, which she already able to make it on her own while I preparing the meat to make patties burger from it.