g quiet…

“Sorry to disturb you,” a butler said.
“I have brought the gift from Lady Flora.”

“Oh! You’re finally here! Where is it, where is it?” Ludwig said.

For a while, we three children chatted, or, well, I was just being swept up in the conversation, but… while that was going on, the food, or rather, the sweets, had finally arrived from the poison tasting.
I thought it would have been later, but it was a happy miscalculation that it arrived sooner than expected thanks to Ludwig’s request to have it brought over immediately.

“What is it indeed? I don’t think I’ve seen these before?” Wilhelm said as he looked over my gift.

“Hmm… I’ve never these before, either, have I?” Dietrich said as he did the same.

It’s not unreasonable for them to be ignorant, because it’s all rare or non-existent in this world.

What I brought were cookies, donuts, pound cakes, pancakes, and plenty of whipped cream.
Of course, all of them are knock-offs and different from those in modern Japan.
I don’t know the detailed classification or how to make it official, so I just made something like them through trial and error.

Cookies and donuts have been around for a long time.
However, it was only after the 18th century, after the early modern period, that it took on its current form…

There was something similar to a cookie, but I added a lot of sugar, added butter, and mixed meringue, and then finished it to resemble something close to a modern cookie.
The original cookies also contain sugar, but sugar is expensive and you can’t put it in large amounts, so it’s not very sweet, it’s hard, and it’s not very tasty.
It has low moisture content and can be kept for a long time, so it is like a portable food for traveling.

Sugar, butter, and eggs are also added to the donuts for a modern twist.
However, it may be different from what is fermented by adding yeast, so it may be closer to satta made with ghee than modern donuts.
A knock-off is just a knock-off.

And although I call it a hotcake, it might just be bread.
In modern times, a very convenient thing called hotcake mix is sold, but there is no such thing here.
I’m not sure if I can call it a hotcake or a pancake just by cooking it similarly.

I just make whipped cream and put it on top.
With plenty of berries, it might look like a pancake that is popular in modern Japan.

My goal is to please the royal family and convince them to buy the large amounts of sugar, oil, eggs, and dairy needed to make them.

“This is a cookie.
This is a donut.
And this is a pancake.
And that one over there is a pound cake,” I said.

None of them are as delicious as those in modern Japan.
I think it’s probably because the flour and yeast are different, but I can’t prepare something like that with my knowledge.
Even with wheat flour, it’s not just a matter of variety, but there are various types such as strong flour and light flour, but I don’t know how to make it or compensate for that.

Skip over that and add sugar, butter, cream, eggs, etc., and just mix things from the original world and this world.
Still, it’s much tastier than the original sweets in this world.
Rather, there aren’t many sweets in this poor world.
These sweets are the ultimate luxury in this world.

“Delicious! What is this?!” Ludwig said.

“Mmm… this a little too sweet…” Wilhelm said.

Father and son are chowing down.
Hey…….
is it okay for the royal family to do that? I don’t think it’s right to take a mysterious item from a stranger and put it so carelessly into your mouth… I don’t know what I would do if I was brought these instead… I thought it would be hard just to feed them more than one, but I never thought it would be this easy.

“Dietrich, Victoria, you should try them as well,” Wilhelm said.

“Fa-Father! This is what Flora gave me! I don’t mind if everyone eats it, but I’m the one who says so, yes?” Ludwig said.

What’s up with, you Ludwig? … Don’t get hung up on trifles.
The King is the greatest, and as far as I’m concerned, anything is fine as long as the royal family eats it.
I just thought that Ludwig would be the easiest to visit, so if the King would also eat it, it would be quicker and easier.

However, I do not understand Ludwig’s feelings.
I didn’t think he would be so upset if his father gave it to the people around Ludwig when Ludwig was the original recipient.

“The tartness of the berries softens the sweetness and makes it easy to eat,” Dietrich said.

“These ones seem to lean to older diners, doesn’t it?” Victoria said.

They join in and compare the various foods.
At first, people in this world who are accustomed to unsweetened things felt that it was too sweet, but they gradually got used to it and it would generally be well received.
That is my goal.

Sweet things are addictive.
In this world where there isn’t much sugar, hardly anyone is addicted to sugar, but if you eat a lot of sugar like this, you’ll soon crave it again.
But there is no convenient sugar, oil, butter, or eggs.
It’s hard to reproduce these sweets made with ingredients that are not in this world.
Or at least, ones that aren’t easy to get.

How-e-ver! Anyone can reproduce the recipe if they buy the ingredients from my farm and ranch.
TO SUM-MA-RIZE: If you want to eat these things in the future, you have to buy the ingredients from me! It’s a perfect strategy!

“Hey, Country Girl!” Rutger said.
“Who’s the cook who made these? Let me meet ‘em!”

“Some of these treats have a long shelf life, so we made some with the help of our head cook, but there was a possibility that the texture would change during transportation, so most of them were made by me here.”

“……… Huh?”

The hands of the four men who had been grabbing and eating sweets up until now stopped as one.
Victoria is giggling to herself because she knows we’ve been cooking them since I rented her kitchen last night.
What’s so funny?

I wonder if they think that Helmut and Isabella made it for me.
Unfortunately, most of them were made by me.
I had some help with the preliminary preparations, but I didn’t teach them much about modern earth’s cooking, so almost no one other than Damian could reproduce my cooking.
Damian may have taught his disciplines, but I don’t know about them.

Even so, it’s rude of them to stop as soon as I say it’s handmade by me.
I washed my hands properly and they shouldn’t be dirty… maybe?

“I see! Flora made it by hand! I’m moved by your love for me, Flora!” Ludwig yelled.

No, no,… what are you talking about? Since no one but me can make it, there’s nothing I can do but make it myself… I have no feelings for you, Ludwig?

“Hmph! I’ll give you a little credit for trying!” Rutger huffed.

And Rutger, are you aiming to be a tsundere as well? Who benefits from a male tsundere? At least I don’t want to get too close to such a troublesome man.

“I see… you can make these yourself… perhaps it was you also who came up with the recipe, Princess Flora?” Dietrich said, a twinkle in his eye.

If he had glasses or something similar, it would have looked great.
He seems to be the type to calmly say all manner of things while making his glasses shine and turn opaque.

The King and Victoria say nothing.
She just looks at me and her surroundings with a grin.
For the time being, the plan was to get them to eat sweets that used plenty of my ingredients and make them want more of them, so it succeeded… or maybe not?

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