Chapter 25: New ingredient, first sauce

Seeing the bridge to Gandalcia, Lynn was excited and delighted.

“This is nice. It feels like an adventure. I have a feeling that the food there will be delicious.”

That impression is as expected. The atmosphere here is very similar to crossing to an island on an area map in an RPG game.

We crossed the bridge and made it to the island safely.

“First of all, I’ll introduce you to Lulu. She is the fisherman on the island. You can ask her about seafood. You can pick any plants in the forest as you like. —Oh!”

In the middle of our conversation, I found a star-shaped depression.

“Please excuse me for a moment. Wait for a bit.”

I quickly dig up the ground with the shovel I carried.

I hope soy sauce fruit comes out this time.

As I was digging into the ground, I heard the conversation between Char and Lynn from behind me.

“What is Cedie doing?”

“Father is looking for treasure. When he digs the ground, treasure will surely come out.”

“Ah? That sounds like a lie though.”

“It’s not a lie. Father will 100% sure find something!”

When I dug about ten centimeters, something hit the tip of the shovel.

“Oh, it’s a spring insect autumn herb. This is an ingredient for a magic potion. I wonder if I can sell it in Sambabano?”

Spring insect autumn herb is a type of mushroom that is parasitic on insects. The book said that it could be used as a healing medicine or an aphrodisiac drug.

“Heh~, I thought he would find gold coins or something because you said it’s a treasure, but he found ingredients instead. That’s impressive.”

In fact, gold coins sometimes appear, but a detailed explanation will be good for another time.

“Father, it wasn’t a soy sauce fruit……?”

Char had a look of disappointment on her face.

I emphasized the deliciousness of sea urchin rice eaten with soy sauce, so Char was completely interested in it.

“Don’t worry, I’ll find it eventually.”

Even in Island Maker, the probability of finding soy sauce fruits was not low. If I look for it all year round, I’ll find it eventually.

After meeting with Lulu and Nowald-sensei, Lynn roam around the island to gather ingredients.

“Amitake, orange, and raspberry. Eh, what is this?”

Lynn held out a fist-sized black fruit.

“Eh, t-that’s…… A…., A……”

Memories of a distant past life come back to my mind.

“It’s an avocado!”

“Avocado? I’ve never heard that before. Do you eat it often around here?”

Nope. I’ve never heard of avocados being harvested in this area. I mean, I’ve never seen one on the table at Dantès’ mansion.

I’m sure it can only be found here in Gandalcia Island.

I’ll check with Nowald-sensei later.

“I think it’s probably only growing on this island.”

“It’s such a rare ingredient then! Whoa, this is a great discovery! I wonder what it tastes like.”

The fruit that Lynn had picked was black so it’s ripe and ready to eat.

“You can eat it raw, let’s try it right away.”

“Great!”

It was Charlotte who was more excited than anyone else.

In my previous life, I liked to pour soy sauce on avocados, but unfortunately, I don’t have soy sauce fruit yet. I couldn’t help it, so I decided to eat it with a little salt.

“I’m surprised, it’s very delicious! The creamy texture is also interesting. It could definitely be used for a variety of dishes.”

Lynn happily puts a bite size amount of avocado in her mouth.

“In my hometown, we called it hill butter.”

“Hometown? Is that what you call it around here? Didn’t you say that avocados only grow on this island?”

Oops.

Hometown here also means one’s birthplace, but the hometown I’m talking about is the one from my previous life.

“I said it wrong. That’s what I’m going to call it here.”

“I see. Hill butter is a good name too. It seems to go well with bread.”

Oh right. It’s delicious when added in sandwiches.

“I’ve had smoked salmon and avocado sandwiches before.”

“You paired it with smoked salmon!? That’s interesting. What else was in it?”

“I think it was tomatoes, sliced onions, and mayonnaise?”

“Mayonnaise? What is that?”

Lynn pulls out a notepad and writes down my words. Come to think of it, there was no mayonnaise in this world.

“Mayonnaise is a kind of sauce made with eggs and oil.”

“I’ve traveled all over the world collecting recipes for different dishes, but I’ve never heard of such a sauce.”

Well, of course that’s a given.

Mayonnaise was invented some time ago, was it the fu……, fla……, flamingo?

No good. I can’t remember well.

I kind of remember how to make it though. I think we can make it by whisking the egg yolks and vinegar well, while gradually adding the oil.

“Would you like to make it?”

“By all means, let me try it. I’ll do anything to repay you!”

“Do you have utensils?”

Salt, vinegar, eggs and olive oil are available in the kitchen.

The problem is the utensils.

“I don’t have the utensil for whisking, and I don’t think chopsticks will lather it well.”

“Do you need a whisk?”

Lynn pulled her tools out of her bag.

“Those are fine cooking utensils.”

“I had it custom-made by a blacksmith.”

In this world, cooking utensils are also custom-made. It is impossible to buy it at a hardware store.

That’s why all of Lynn’s tools are valuable.

It can be said to be equivalent to a sword for a samurai. Yet, Lynn is willing to lend me her utensils even though we just met today.

That’s how much she wants to try mayonnaise, and that highlights how passionate she is about food.

“I’ll borrow your whisk then.”

“I’m going to Lulu.”

“Why?”

“I’m going to get some fish. I’m going to find a replacement for the smoked salmon.”

Lynn immediately went out after saying that

This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.

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