After hearing the payback from the castle cooks to Roland by giving him spit in his wine, make me feel goosebump. Lucky I have a good relationship with them, otherwise who knows what they put in our food or drink as their revenge.
"That's really surprising, Mrs. Martina"
"Haha…that scum deserve that, young master Henry. He hurts our feeling since he eats our food for the first time here. He's always comparing our food with the food in his Easton castle. For God sake, can't he see his father is an Earl and this castle only a Baron residence? That's why when young master Henry challenges him in a duel, most of us go to the training ground to see he got beaten by young master. Well, although he shamelessly uses his guard to fight young master, when young master throw that big guard to him and make him scared and fainted, that's really refreshing views"
"Haha…it's just a coincidence that he's in the direction where I want to throw that big guard to"
"Still, hearing him screaming so terrified sound good in our ears, young master"
"Okay, let's leave what already happens in the past. We still have guests to deal with, and we will busy for that. Mrs. Martina, for tonight's dinner please prepare ingredients for the following menu"
"Sure, young master. What should we prepare for dinner?"
"First, for soup, let's make birds nest soup. I've told the cook how to process the ingredients, right? For the appetizer, make some croquettes with tomato and mayonnaise sauce. The main dish will be fish tortilla and meats curry rice and close with vegetable salads as dessert. Make it for people around today's lunch number"
For today, the guards from Stamfort castle will be treated as guests but tomorrow at the banquet, they will be additional security members. So, I'll prepare another place for them to have a feast after the banquet is over, together with our soldier in an open field near soldier barrack.
"Understand, young master. Is there anything else?"
"Yes, make some potato chips and meat buns for afternoon snacks please"
"Sure, we will make it right away"
"Thanks, Mrs. Martina"
Mrs. Martina works efficiently, she orders the cooks to prepare ingredients that would be needed for tonight's dinner. Since the potato slices already prepared before, it only needs to be fried before can be consumed as a snack. Meats bun also only need to steam so it doesn't need a long time before potato chips and meats bun ready to serve as a snack.
I also don't want to see idle by the cooks while they working hard. I should teach them another simple recipe that not requires many ingredients, easy to make but also delicious for breakfast tomorrow.
"Alright! Those who make bread, come here. I'll show a new recipe for tomorrow breakfast, it called 'Pancake'. And someone please prepare these ingredients"
The cooks who make bread immediately gather near me in a fast manner. They look cheerful after hearing the word 'new recipe'. Sarah also can be seen among those who gather around me. She's a breadmaker as well.
"These are the ingredients. Please prepare it, I'm not making much, only for samples"
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
2 tablespoon vegetable oils
I don't want to make a large amount of this dish, just make some for the example to the cooks. Soon after the ingredients already prepared, I show them how to make 'Pancake' for the first time.
1. Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a big bowl. Stir using a whisk to incorporate everything.
2. Start adding the wet ingredients.
3. Stir everything until there are no small lumps.
4. Heat up the pan. Grease it using a small amount of oil.
5. Spoon the batter into the pan using the ladle.
6. Cook the pancake at least two minutes per side or until bubbles start to come out.
If only I had chocolate or something sweet else, that would be a perfect topping for this pancake. Wait, something sweet…..I almost forget maple syrup from the salt camp. Maybe this can be used for the topping. So, I go to the storage room to take a jar of maple syrup that stored there and returns to the kitchen.
I re-heating the maple syrup for a couple of minutes to make it thicker before it served as a snack for those girls. I'm finished making the syrup when the potato chips and meat buns also ready to serve.
"Alright, all dishes ready…Carina, please deliver this to my fiancé, okay, and this new pancake dish, tell them to pour some syrup here on the pancake before eating. I'll make some again for us too"
"Yes!"
Since there're too many things to carry, Mrs. Martina adds another maid to help Carina bring the snack to my fiancé's room.
After they left to deliver the snack, the cooks that still gather around me start asking me a question about the new recipe.
"Young master, that syrup before….how we can get it?"
Ah, right…this maple syrup is something new that I brought from salt camp. It's not something that you can easily obtain in the market.
"Ugh, that's something I made when I was in salt camp, and there's only a little of it. But after the next shipment from salt camp, I believe it would be available in sufficient quantity here. You can exchange the syrup with something else like honey or caramel. You still can eat it without topping thou"
"Can we try to make it, too?"
"Sure, why not? You can make it for yourself now. I also want to know how the taste"
"Alright!! Let's make it guys"
Oh my, they look excited and eager to make the new recipe right away. Well, this is not taking much time to make and while waiting Carina returns to the kitchen at least I can do some supervising here.
"Hey, it'll be going to burnt if you do not flip it now"
I shout at a cook who takes too much time to fry his pancake. He hurriedly flips the pancake in his pan and as I told, that side already turns into dark brown. Any minutes late, it would turn to black color because burnt.
"Young master….forgive me, but how do you know?"
"Use your nose. Can't you smell that pancake start makes burnt smell?"
"Ugh! That's my mistake. Thank you for your direction, young master"
There's no other mistake again which need me to correct and after they have done with their pancake try out, I took some with me and return to my room with Carina who already back to the kitchen after delivering the snack for my fiancé.