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Chapter 243 - Egg Dish Deliberations

"The egg supply? Oh, spring is indeed their season, but..."

When Yuri visited the kitchen after dinner and spoke with Mand, he learned that it wasn’t something to be overly concerned about. While not on a large scale, something like poultry farming was practiced, and if stored in a Magic Bag, eggs could be eaten regardless of the season.

(...In that case, I can just teach him the egg dishes as planned...)

He had his plan, but what should he teach first? Yuri pondered for a moment, but then realized he couldn't begin without knowing what kind of egg dishes were served in this country.

"Dishes using eggs? Well, you know... boiling, frying..."

It seemed to be more undeveloped than he had thought.

"Well... I mean, there just aren't many dishes where eggs are the main ingredient."

Apparently, while eggs were highly valued as one ingredient among many, so-called "egg dishes" where eggs were the star were limited to boiled eggs, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, and egg drop soup. Incidentally, sweet tamagoyaki was, as one might expect, unknown.

(In that case, the omelet is probably the basic one. People with a discerning palate will appreciate it, and depending on the type of ingredients you put inside, the same omelet can be transformed into a myriad of things.)

One candidate for a recipe to offer was decided.

(Next is probably flan... For better or worse, consommé soup seems to exist.)

Unlike his past life where convenient cubes and powders were common, when he considered the labor involved in making consommé soup from meat and vegetables, he felt a little hesitant to teach it so lightly. That said, the more effort it took, the more highly the dish would probably be rated, and...

(The range of arrangements also expands considerably depending on what ingredients you use...)

If he was going to teach something, he wanted it to be a dish with a wide range of arrangements, applicability, and expandability. That would mean less trouble later on.

(There was that ‘One Hundred Egg Delicacies’ thing, but... that would be for advanced users... Ah, maybe I can teach him something like onsen tamago?)

With his basic policy decided, Yuri conveyed the outlines of the omelet and flan to Mand, and confirmed whether similar dishes existed in this country and whether they could be used as the kind of entertainment dishes Adon intended... Mand’s enthusiastic response was the answer.

"Well then, I’ll teach you the more detailed procedure, but before that..."

Yuri had one more dish he wanted to check on. It could be called an egg dish, a dish where a boiled egg was wrapped in minced meat mixed with onions, coated in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried... yes, what was known in his past life as a Scotch egg. Whether the boiled egg inside was hard-boiled or soft-boiled made a significant difference in the taste.

(It’s a shame there’s no chili sauce or ketchup, but with some creativity, I could probably substitute with something like black pepper.)

Thus he thought of a "substitute" that would make ordinary people's eyes pop out. In this country, pepper was a luxury item said to be more expensive than its weight in gold, but Yuri, still influenced by his past life’s perceptions, had yet to fully grasp this. Incidentally, it wasn’t impossible to make a ketchup-like substance using the Pepit fruit he grew in his village, but since the Pepit, which preferred a cool climate, couldn't be cultivated in the lowlands, Yuri had no plans to teach about it for the time being. Even if he were to teach it, it would be after considering how to cultivate it in the lowlands, and even then, End Village and Baron Darren would be first.

In any case, harboring such a plan, Yuri posed his question, and Mand’s answer was,

"Minced meat... what’s that?"

"...Huh?"