Rice for Enoch’s Second Expeditionary Unit

With Urgas, we head to the market to buy out.

As a matter of fact, it was exciting because it was the first time the market in Wang Du had ever been there. She also has a lot of pickpockets, so she attaches a string to her purse and grips it in front of her chest.

"Squirrel, you'll be fine. I don't have a knight's purse."

"Because I don't know!

Whoever steals people's things doesn't know what to do because he's in a cornered mental state. I've never been cautious.

Plus, I saved the contents of my wallet to use one day, and it contains money I earned by putting my neighbor's books on it instead. I thought it would be dangerous if I let you go for a moment.

We arrive at the market in Wang Du about thirty minutes walk from the Knights garrison.

He had placed a table under the tent to display the product.

The way the shops lined up was a rolling word.

"That's amazing."

"It's so crowded when you're at the festival that you can't move."

"Hiya ~"

They're going to be guarding us while we patrol there, so I think it's tough.

"Oh, we'll be understaffed at the festival, so we'll be driven out by the Expeditionary Force."

"Oh, no..."

I'm about to get pushed by a cub and become a meat dumpling.

While we're talking about that, we go inside the market.

Looks like there's a grocery store lined up first.

The shop, where the ceramic cups are arranged in a narrow area, is very cute with pictures of plants and animals. Speaking of which, I don't have my own cup, so I thought I'd want it. I'm working now, so it's my day off to buy it.

The next store is one with a beautiful line of pens. When it comes to the beautiful thing about a pen with a carved floral pattern! This too, makes me want it. I also had a lot of ink besides black and wondered what color it was.

The next street is open by a florist.

The flowers that are often native in the forests of Fore Elf are sold at high prices and sold to fly, so I thought I was going to be able to do business here, too.

Next door is the bakery. I can't smell the fragrant butter.

The way it displays like a mountain is a rolling word.

You think there's some sweet bread, like chocolate or custard cream? I've never eaten anything like that, so it bothers me violently, but now I'm at work, so I'll see you next time.

"Oh, you also have to buy bread for preserved edibles"

Apparently the bread wasn't just handmade, but sliced thin and dried what I bought.

Until now, they had made the decision that if mold wasn't growing, it wouldn't be a problem for them to eat.

I thought I should do something about the idea that it could be preserved if it dried.

"Squirrel Hygiene Soldier, do you have a recommendation for bread for preserved edibles?

"Maybe it's not here"

Ordinary bread has a long shelf life of about two weeks.

But the bread I know keeps for about three months.

The forests of Fore Elf are heavily snowed once a year. If that happens, which temperatures won't go up well and the bread won't burn. So I have a day to bake a month's worth of bread in case of heavy snow, but only then is it made using a special natural yeast.

"Is it a special, natural yeast"

"Yes."

Long-term preserveable bread has a lot of sour, but our village's specialty bread is fluffy mouthwash and not too sour. The snow days are so delicious that I've been looking forward to this day of bread.

"Oh, really?"

"Yes, in the village, if you're fifteen, you go to a village outside the woods to make natural yeast."

I will sow it till my dowry, and raise it. But my natural yeast doesn't seem to be a dowry tool. What a hang-up.

Fortunately, I can't leave the natural yeast of the three years, and I bring it here, so I can always make bread.

"So let me also bake"

"I appreciate that. I want to avoid sour bread as much as possible..."

"Right..."

I won't forget the hardness of that bread and the unique sourness.

I hope it's just the sourness of the yeast. No, no, let's just say I didn't break your stomach.

"Speaking of which, is it something you can't make in a village when you go to make natural yeast?

"Right. The natural yeast in the village needs intestinal substances after the first milk of a fresh-born veal. We don't have livestock, so we have to go outside and get it."

"Heh, veal intestinal substances. You can make natural yeast with that stuff ~"

"Yes, it's a delicious bread with water retention, embalming and antiseptic properties."

Livestock farmers provide veal intestinal substances comfortably in exchange for nuts, mushrooms, etc. picked in the woods.

However, it's hard to manage yeast, and not often if you realize it, it was useless. The village digs holes in the basement and keeps them safe.

Fortunately, there is a large underground warehouse in the dorm cafeteria, so I was allowed to put it there. It's something I watch every day, so I was worried about being alive properly when I got back from the expedition, but it didn't seem to be a problem.

The secret of bread, which is plump and soft and allows for long-term preservation, lies in the symbiosis of yeast and lactic acid bacteria.

It also has effects such as intestinal action and improved immune system, and is good for health.

However, the bread fabric is softer and harder to handle than normal bread. So the women in the village don't want to bother making it.

I'm not that bad, so if you're about to make it once a month, there's nothing wrong with that.

"Well, I'm looking forward to it"

"Yeah, stay tuned."

The sweet smell of the next street makes me want to eat it, so I try not to look at it and pass by, passing in front of different shops with green fruits, bottles, dried goods.

The edge of the food district is the butcher.

Various types of meat were hung from the store, a word of roll.

"Ah, Squirrel Hygiene Soldier, we're just doing a meat sale!

What the clerk recommends is the fatty area of the triangular beef.

"Urgas, wait a minute. When making dried meat, shred all the fat so make it as lean as possible. And I hear dried meat from triangular beef does taste good, but it's not for amateurs. Plus, once you get fat, you can eat only a small amount."

In the village it was made of mountain venison. The best part is pork pork. It is a luxury product in a village that does not have livestock.

"Ah, a chunk of pig pig, it's cheap. Let's go this way."

Pork on the market is less than half the price the merchants coming to the village were selling. Now I know it was a price. Forgive me.

Anger decides to forget about it for now and buy as much meat chunks as the budget allows.

I've been buying horned beef before, so they surprisingly cheapened it.

They have salt and pepper for seasoning. So then I bought a few sugars and spices, and then two bottles of wine.

I bought the item and went home.

Before it gets any worse, I'll get to the machining.

Cooking began in the simplified kitchen of the Second Expeditionary Force Knightshack. My assistant is Mr. Urgas.

Wash your hands nicely, wrap your hair around them, hang them up before starting work.

"First, we're going to stab a fork in the surface of the meat"

Drill holes with forks so that salt and the like can reach the entire meat. And sprinkle with salt, powdered spices and dried spices, and rub them together.

And then put it in a clean leather bag and store it in the ice room for about seven days. In the meantime, flip over or wipe away the juice.

"It's going to take a lot of time."

"Yeah, it'll take a lot of work."

Seven days for salting, half a day for draining salt, one day for drying, then let it smoke for a few hours and it's done.

"It feels like it's been a while since I finished it."

"I see."

It tells me how to make it in my notebook. Urgas was a study-keen youth.

"Save and eat, what other things do you have?

"I'm not saying preserved food, but cakes with dried fruit last a month or two, and the more days go by, the better they taste"

In addition, if the mushrooms are also dried, long-term storage is possible. It makes a good stock of soup.

"You want something delicious to eat on your expedition?"

Urgas says as he talks about his dreams. I agree immediately.

It was a hard expedition and I wanted to think about a lot so I could enjoy my meal.