Gourmet Emperor: Master Of Culinary World 139 So Many Things To Do, So Little Time In Hand

I have a really good afternoon nap again today. Maybe because I just received a shipment of grapes from Lumon town and I have a desire to visit that town, all those things carried into the dream I had during my nap. I feel like I was walking in the middle of vast vineyards with grapes in best quality hanging on their stalks, like invite me to taste them with my mouth. I pick one that already ripe and look delicious, put it on my mouth, bite it lightly to make the skin open then suck the grape's essence to my mouth. I still suck the sweetness of the grapes when my ears hear a woman voice is calling my name.

"Henry….wake up….my dear Henry, open your eyes please…you already wake up, right?"

Huh? Did she tell me to wake up? My consciousness slowly returns and I realize there's something soft and warm in my mouth. When I open my eyes, I see a woman breast right in front of my eyes with its nipple on my mouth. I blink my eyes several times to adapt to new scenery. When I look up to see the owner of the breast, I see Clara smile at me.

"Hihihi…I know you already wake up when suddenly you bite and suck my breast, Henry"

I immediately release her breast from my mouth only to see there are some bite marks all over her breast. So, the grapes that I suck in my dreams…it's actually her nipple?

"Clara…did my mouth always on your breast during my sleep?"

"Hu um…like a baby on his mother breast, Henry. I know you already sleep when I don't feel you suck my breast anymore and I just sense you start to suck my breast again just now, so I know you already awake"

"Did I sleep long?"

"Not too long but not too short either"

"Hmm…I had a good nap, thank you, Clara"

I raise my head and give her a kiss as thanks.

"Am I can continue my work, Henry? I still have to make that shampoo for maids. Ah right, how much I should make that shampoo, Henry?"

"For around 30 people, Clara"

"That will take quite a time to make it. Do you still need me in here, Henry?"

"No, I also still have other matters to do too"

We climb down from the bed and I help Clara wear her corset on since she only wears her underwear when accompany me to take a nap. After she fully dressed, Clara leaves my room after giving me a kiss. I sit in front of my desk and watching the paper contain event schedule for Earl Stamfort welcoming party. It's not finished yet because I don't what to add to the list on that paper. This makes me restless because I already promised my sister to give her what she must do as the welcoming party host. What should I say to her when I visit her? I also still have things to do in the kitchen, the potato and the meat that I ask to marinate should already ready to process. There also new ingredients that I want to ask those cooks to process, like the rice, for example, I want to ask them to take it to mills and clean the skins. Peel the corn from its cob too. After that, I still have to brief the maids and servant, give them soap and shampoo to clean their hairs and body.

After thinking for a while, I decide to visit the storage room before heading the kitchen first. I feel relax when doing some cooking, maybe because this is something I can do best in this world. I'm planning to make some potato chips and bring it to my sister to accompany our conversation later. From the storage room, I take some sample of corn and rice and bring it with me to the kitchen.

Since I already said that I will visit the kitchen often this morning, the cooks there no longer surprise when see me appear in the kitchen again.

"Young master Henry, how can we help you this time?"

Mrs. Martina greets me with an enthusiastic tone on her voice. Since I give her chance to taste soft bread for the first time, her att.i.tude toward me is getting better.

"Ah, I want to ask, where this castle make the flour from the wheat stored in the storage room."

"We deliver it to mills in the outskirt of the castle town, young master"

"Can they make flour from other sources besides wheat? I have something to turn into flour"

"I guess they can, young master. What do ingredients you want to make into flour?"

"This one. But you need to peel it from its cob first. Also, there are two types of corn stored there. The one I want to turn into flour is this one, the other type just peels from the cob only. This corn is just arriving this noon and kept in the storage room"

I handed Mrs. Martina the corn I just take from the storage room.

"And for this one, can you make the skin peeled?"

I show the paddy grain and scratch the skin with my nail, uncover its white grain inside.

"I'm not sure about this one, but I can ask it on the mills. Young master, do you need this process as soon as possible?"

"Yes, it will be used for another dish for Earl Stamfort welcoming party"

"The corn still needs peeling, so I can only send them to mills tomorrow. But this horse feed can be sent now"

"Good, I'm waiting for the result tomorrow"

After finish order for stuff related to corn and rice, I check the potato slices and marinated meat.

I add more salt and pepper to marinated the meat and keep it in room temperature for dinner later. I process potato which already soaked in salt water into potato chips.

It's actually easy to make homemade potato chips, although the thickness is not as thin as potato chip made by the factory in my previous world. Just sliced thinly the potato, soaked in cold water for a while to remove possible poison (if you don't know, sometimes potato also had poison in its tuber which makes those who consume it had diarrhea if not properly treated) remove the water then soak it again with salt water for at least 30 minutes before fried in vegetables oil.

With potato chips placed in a sealed container on my hands, I leave the kitchen to meet my sister again.