Fake Cinderella

17. Workplace

Large table in the center of the work room where the marble has been stripped off. On top of that, a marble work plate. There are several empty bookshelves and cabinets on the walls.

Most of them are empty, but the honey, sugar and fruit liquor I just got yesterday has already subsided, and lots of shiny copper balls are layered on top of each other. Beautiful curve being struck out thin...... I am surprised that this is not an industrial product but handcrafted and at the same time admire its craftsmanship.

"Oh, wow"

"I'll make sure you have a little bit of everything you need."

"Yeah."

Glad to hear it. Though not in the kitchen...... it's my work place.

It reminds me of the cookies and sugar pies I produced from the living room, and the pancake sandwiches I made when I walked into the kitchen, just in case I didn't name myself a samurai.

You don't have to worry about spilling water or flour for hand washing on a carpet that looks expensive anymore, or brush up the dark marble workbench in the kitchen with all your strength before you use it.

Gently stroke the table. Glad. As much as I want to rub my cheek against my desk if I don't have eyes.

"Now Sir Vigzam and Sir Reyes will bring the ingredients"

"Thanks"

"What are you making today? Your Highness."

"It's a pound cake"

It's like practicing some obnoxious English conversation, but I hope you don't mind. I'm careful not to talk too much. I'm in trouble when I give it away.

"Um, you know, can I have a burn loss or something?... you know, the girls at the main palace said they would love to eat it once... and they envied me."

Alice says as she grabs on hard.

Gaze at Lilia. I don't know, so I can't judge. Lilia is fine, so make sure she snorts at the edge of her eyes.

"Fine.... I'll give it to Julia and Milady."

Oh, thank you, Your Highness.

"" Thank you ""

They both laugh happily.

"Please do your best to help. Today I want to thank all the escorts for their daily work."

"" "Yes" "

I'm sure it was the first time they envied me working for the Crown Princess Palace. Lilia said it was dangerous to replace it and it was intense.

During this time, the cooks also said when they were making pancake sandwiches in the kitchen.

The West Palace... a corner with the Wong Tai Won and the Wong Tai Won Palace... is said to be the tightest in the royal palace.

His Royal Highness Prince Wang prefers silence, so when he makes a loud noise, Baron Farzart of His Highness's edict gets sober and angry, and he dislikes the smell of cosmetics, etc., and when he drifts the scent of perfume and so on around it, he is greatly upset.

So the day you attended the night club seems tough.

Besides, I'm not into eating enough to finish my meal with portable food, but if I don't like the taste of tea and coffee, I won't talk about it after that.

Silent pressure...... you're afraid of that one. I still have better things to fix if you complain.

In the West Palace, I was told that I would be alone if His Royal Highness were offered a replacement.

Of course His Highness is not the only one. Her Royal Highness... I mean, I have a problem, too, and I say I don't know if I would really be there without a female officer in and out.

Perhaps she is just the right queen for Her Highness, but at least let Her Highness do it gorgeously and vibrantly or the whole West Palace will be quiet as if she had died, everyone said orally.

Sure, that makes sense, I thought, but what about glamorizing? Or so I thought.

Whatever you talk about, you're unresponsive, so it's gonna be tough on you, too, how sympathetic. Laughing and deluding is the mastery of modern Japanese.

But I'm not saying it because I've been told a lot, but I honestly don't think the quality is very good, people in the kitchen. I don't think they're bad people, but I'm taking a break, so I was surprised someone was smoking in the kitchen.

Cigarettes like cigarettes wrapped around themselves. Smoking doesn't even seem to be such an expensive thing here, and some of it seems to be pricey enough for them to get their hands on as a hobby, and about half of it was smoking.

They say there are many people in the royal family and nobility who prefer them, and there are cigarettes in the royal palace, as well as in the gifts that His Majesty easily gives to his servants as a light reward.

... privately, tobacco is unlikely.

Smoking drives my taste crazy, and I can smell it in my hands. Many people don't like it when they cook.

Well, it's my personal preference, and I'm a favorite cook for tobacco... but don't smoke in the kitchen.

The kitchen makes things that go into people's mouths. You can't just drop ashes in case. There is no recognition of foreign body contamination even though it is shameful.

The kids at the bottom work hard, but they're not aware of the cooks they're actually making.

I was complaining quite a bit, but now I think Elzevelt's castle tasted better, dinner.

"My princess, how are you?

"Hmm, not only is the staple food of His Royal Highness Prince Wang portable and not interested, but it's because it's not very tasty... Oh, but you can't lift the cook's arm because His Highness Prince Wang won't detain him in the first place..."

Growing a cook is often said to be a guest, but this is really true. Even the cook works hard if they say it tastes good, and I think about why if they say it tasted a little intense today.

Though Monday at my senior's bar, what I was making while face-to-face with my customers became more of a training for me than anything else. Because I can hear the opinions of people who are eating directly.

Basically, the taste of a professional cook is not so brazen. There are some salt reductions depending on the ingredients. But whether or not it feels good because of the eater's physical condition changes. How much flavor can you add to the eater...... it's my property to let me study that raw.

"I don't know which comes first, but surely the cook's arm in the Wong Tai womb isn't very good. So they're looking forward to going to the main palace to eat."

Nice, Alice and the others. I would also like to try the dishes of the main palace.

Well, I think I'm looking forward to chatting, Lilia laughs.

"It's not just a matter of arms...... but since I'm a cook in the Wong Tai womb, how can I say this?

Thoroughly cleaning if I have the authority!! In the meantime, I cleaned the oven thoroughly though. I pretended not to look elsewhere. I'm sorry.

... Later Lilia moaned me that it wasn't Her Royal Highness cleaning the oven.

"Yes, unfortunately, they are not Her Royal Highness's cooks, so Her Royal Highness cannot fire them.... Originally, Her Royal Highness has Her Royal Highness's cook, but once, there was a problem and the kitchen here was crushed. I hear that's the room where you keep your clothes now."

"Oh........."

That's what that wasted, wide hall-like walk-in closet was all about.

There's a neat line of shelves and tans in a room that's big enough to say which dance hall it is.

There's already a tailored one in the tank, and the shelf still holds the one that remains clothed. The clothes are generally stored in a rolled state, but this is... not a hundred or two hundred. I'll open a shop, specializing in luxury goods.

"Your Highness, we have all the materials."

"Thanks"

"Do you have any other hard work?

"No, I'm fine. Thanks."

Sir Vigzam, a red-haired, short-haired man who brought in a crate, and Sir Reyes, who cut his dark hair around his shoulder, were both in their mid-twenties. The average age of my escorts is thirty. There they are, so they are slightly younger.

But from the whole Kingsguard, they become middlemen.

By and large, if you take ordinary steps, you will be knighted as early as around 18 at the age of 12 and between 22 and 25 at the latest. They are both delicacies that they became knights at the same time they turned eighteen. I have already been in that position for more than five years.

According to Lilia's explanation, His Royal Highness Prince Wang put the number of escorts in place as usual on my return to Elzevelt, but he was competently carefully selected. It is fortunate to me that all of them have given their swords to me.

But what I'm sorry about is that the job of 'my escort' is not a very worthwhile job for them.

I wish I could reward you sooner or later, but I don't know what will happen.

"What will they make today?

Milady arranges the ingredients on the workbench handily.

Flour, butter, eggs and milk...... nuts and dried fruits are essential. Then sugar and honey.

Conical sugar collapses with a special pencil before use. Tree honey is a loose amber honey liquid picked from a tree called Callis, which is native to the north. That unique aroma of nectar is very similar to maple syrup. I can do it mainly in the northern regions, but the taste varies a lot from region to region.

"I'll make a pound cake"

Cake basics - - Pound cake. There are many variations in flavor, and it's less likely to fail than from chiffon cake or sponge cake.

This is a small type for bread, so we have confirmed that it can also be applied to the cake type.

"Don't you need grass honey?

Grass honey is a saggy syrup extracted from sweet crawling grass. This has a bit of a blue odor, but it tastes good when I drink it in conjunction with citrus juice.

"Yeah. I'm not using it today"

"Your Highness, yesterday's pot."

Alice and Julia bring me the kettle. This is what I left out yesterday.

The contents of a thin white magnetic lidded pot are dried fruit marinated in lemon honey and brandy. Dry fruit is also used for military portable food, which means that there are quite a few types.

Among them, I chose the softer pulp one… three varieties of apricots, prunes and grapes!

Uh, something, I'm getting a wuss.

"I'm not sure of His Highness's taste, so His Highness's share makes something that works brandy. Will Your Highness be drinking brandy?

"They drink. Sounds like alcohol is strong, Your Royal Highness."

Okay. Fine then. That's because people who drink alcohol can eat it deliciously.

".................................... for now, shake three kilos of flour"

I think three kilos is a little too much, myself. But the performance of this oven... the cook in charge of baking... is too uneven.

The knights of the escort are happy to take a little burnt or overcooked failures or something.

Count Stazen is a sweet and spicy knife, and Count Stazen's deputy, Robert, is a super sweetheart. I wept the first time I gave him a cookie, enough to give me my sword again.

Basically, this guy thinks sweets should be sweet, and there are a lot of things with strange amounts of sugar, but I also want him to know about 'proper sweetness' and 'deliciousness of ingredients'.

"I have arranged to grab one oven, all day long"

"Thank you, Milady"

Milady heard the other day that she had decided to become an apprentice to a female official. Because of that, Lilia was constantly educating me, and she became a lot of distractions in these places.

The samurai have a bridesmaid training type whose purpose is to learn etiquette in the royal palace and use it as a foil to serve close to the royal family, and a burly career woman and a royal family member who aspire to serve women in their respective functions there.

Alice and Julia will be married and retired within a few years in the former. Aristocratic children here generally decide to get engaged at around sixteen, and it is normal to get married by about twenty. They've both already decided where to dowry.

Milady put on hold the engagement she had decided to make by deciding to become a woman official. Marriage of women officers is not forbidden, but a decent marriage is harder than serving the Lord in the Royal Palace.

"Well... let's get started"

I giggle at everyone.

What I'm wearing today is a thin pink, decorative piece. Plus, an apron that matches the samurai. The hair is also properly wrapped up with a triangular scarf. Not unless it's easy to move, I knew it.

Is it possible that the kitchen is dangerous for your wife because of the hem of her dress and all sorts of things on her sleeve?

It is certainly dangerous to enter the kitchen in such a slight outfit.

"Milady finely chopped the candied lemon skin. For decoration… well, leave about a quarter of it in a circle"

"Yes."

"Julia shake the powder twice at a time and stay in the bowl for two cups at a time. Alice can mix the butter in a bowl with this two cups of sugar and make it look white and fluffy."

"Okay."

"You're fluffy."

"When you get fluffy, mix the three eggs together one by one. This is the most important thing... when you're done, please help Alice too"

"Yes."

Lilia and I butter the mould in the meantime and prepare for each variation. When you get to the point of mixing with the eggs, shake the powder in again and mix thoroughly.

Pound cakes don't fail that way if you remember the same amount of eggs, butter, flour, and sugar in the basic ingredients.

Bad manners, but pinch one brandy pickled fruit.

(Oh, that sounds good)

It was worth the guzzle with a fork so Brandy could penetrate. This kind of build-up of hassle makes it tasty.

Yeah, well, this brandy, it's amazing. Yeah, I thought you'd love some sleeping drinks, but I put up with it because it's not what the twelve-year-old princess does.

On my thirteenth birthday, I want to root for at least as much wine as I can drink.

Today, I have two working people in the oven who bake bread every day and are used to using the oven. People who thought I had sights when I walked into the kitchen.

Actually, this is the first step in my ambition, because I can't use the oven myself, so I'm trying to raise a professional ovenman.

With the flow work, you finish the cake one after the other and pour it into the mold.

Raisins on plain, lemon and nectar, then, saggia tea. Now, second flash. But I tried using it because the fragrance is not different in height and it tastes good.

So-so first bake.

There was nothing undercooked, but the grilled unevenness was still there, and about half of it was still burnt.

The craftsmen in the oven also call to listen.

"The firepower is different in the position you're baking, so I think if you make a replacement or reverse the orientation, you'll lose the unevenness, too?

"You are right, Your Highness."

... I wish I didn't have to be so frightened.

Even if Princess Doll is Ada's name, I'm not a doll.

"Then please do so"

The second baking began immediately because I had prepared it in advance.

Good because there are plenty of bread shapes.

I made it all myself, just the two I give His Highness.

With the one full of brandy pickled fruit and tea. Ovens and artisans, please!

"Lilia, have some tea. Let's take a break."

"Yes."

Cut off the cod of the cod and cut it into large bites.

The vessel is a small cafe ole bowl with a beautiful olive green glaze.

Plus, add mint leaves to the foamed raw cream.

"Come on, enjoy it"

It was hard to foam raw cream.

There was something like a prototype of a foam bowl, but it was difficult to use.

........................... not even saying I want an electric mixer. At least it's a solid foam and I want a vessel.

And the bowl of copper is too heavy...... I wonder if it's stainless steel. Thin and light.

"Wow."

"It looks delicious ~"

"Here you go"

"I'll have it."

I like everyone's face at this moment.

"Yummy."

"Amazing ~"

"Your Highness is a wizard."

"It's really delicious. I'm sure His Royal Highness Prince Wang will love this."

Perceptions of the Four. The smile is dazzling.

After all, I like to make sweets.

I also like to come up with ideas with looks and stuff, but I'm more than happy to see this smile.

"Pound cake really tastes better. I prefer it."

For the most part, it would be better if I let it sleep for about three days. The flavour is tame and tasty.

But you really want to bake it and eat it right away.

"Lilia, later, please plug this in to the oven people"

"Okay."

I'll make a plug in to the people in charge of the oven.

I was wondering if it would be encouraging to eat what we baked ourselves.

"Your Highness, would you like to speak to Lord Vikzam and Lord Reyes?

"... yet, because I'm baking. That's right. When the second bake is done, let's take turns inviting everyone on duty today to tea."

"" Yes ""

You look happy, both Alice and Julia. I thought you had a fiancée.

That day was a day, Pound Cake Day.

I'm doing it in a samurai general, and Count Stazen came to peek, and it's become something of a big event.

The people in charge of the oven also got the hang of it while I was baking it a few times, and the last baking was great.

I made my own two bottles in the second, third and last four, respectively.

After all, the last one I could do best. While painting brandy of brandecake with hake, I thought I'd plug it in to His Royal Highness Prince Wang.

Thirty of them were cooked up in total.

Eight of them are for our snacks. Something with a little coarseness or too much fruit in it to collapse. Three bottles were eaten by everyone at tea time.

Of the 22 remaining bottles, eight were divided among the samurai, and six were inserted into the knights' stuffing room in my portion. I thought Your Highness would not eat six bottles, but I reconsidered trying to make half of the pound cake my own hidden food because I could save it.

"... you're very strict"

All the shelves that serve the ingredients are doored, and Lilia locks them all. The shelves, which kept the pound cakes that could have been done in a sloppy line, not only locked the door, but also stretched the paper and sealed it, further chained to the handle and locked it.

"Your Highness is the one who got angry that it would be best if foreign objects were mixed up in the mouth."

"Yes, but..."

Lilia must be afraid of poison mixing.

"... me, again, to be targeted?

Maybe I've been a little relaxed and not paying enough attention lately.

"I don't know that. My advice is not that Her Highness will be targeted directly, but that the poison will come from what Her Highness has made."

"It's..."

"Just in case. I'm doubly locked, and I'll lock this work room. The windows in this room are locked, and there are no hidden passageways in this room."

If I did my gaze, the window handle was also chained and locked.

"If you just keep this on, I thought you'd be okay first...... The key is to give His Highness the front door and one of the cupboards, and I'll take the rest. It's a mechanism that won't open without mine and His Highness's."

"Okay."

After cleaning up afterwards, it sank straight on the couch.

He was more tired than I thought.

"... you don't have to. Let him sleep like this."

The voice of a man. Comfortable to the ears, a resounding voice.

"But His Royal Highness Prince Wang..."

"The princess will catch a cold like this, brother"

... brother? Who are you talking about?

"Lilia, show me to my bedroom. Brother, please carry him."

I wonder who......

I can't get my thoughts together. I want to open my eyes, but I can't open them.

"... this is too light. A little fatter, but better."

"Brother, I'm not talking about cattle to make you fat..."

That's right, it's hard to... delicate... giggle...

I wanted to say it back, but I couldn't even spin the words, and my consciousness was strained to the bottom of a deep sleep as it was.