My Lady Chef { La Vita Series } - Volume 1

Chapter 74: Neo

"Dear Wife,

My felicitations on recruiting your new "chef" for your cafe.

I wanted to thank you for the advice you offered for this campaign. We are slowly closing in on the main city and it is only a matter of time when their surrender is inevitable.

A reward is in order when we meet so think long and hard about it. It be a thousand dresses or a hundred trinkets.

Or both. If that is what you desire then I cannot wait to spend the night divesting you of said garments as I much preferred you without a "stitch" on."

Your loving reprobate of a husband.

-Duke Aisenburg's Letters to the Duchess.

Duchess: looked redder in the face after reading the last parts of her husband's letter and lamented for the seventh time why vibrators were not invented in this world.

Ely's POV:

Almost 2 weeks later....

"Neo. Have you gotten used to the kitchen?" I asked the young man who was cleaning his station with efficient movements.

"Yes, chef. I am honored that you reached out to me." he put away the cloth he was using and began taking out the ingredients I asked him to assemble.

In the past weeks, My hunch about him was correct.

He is a quick and eager study and he memorized and committed to memory, every menu item in the cafe.

Especially the set meals which will be our MSP.

Main Selling Point.

So now I am teaching him to make easy desserts that will be served as an ala carte sweet.

A Swiss Roll plus Jam Bread.

First I taught him how to mix the ingredients together and even taught him that separating egg yolks and whites and then folding them in would result in a fluffier sponge cake.

He watched as I whipped cream with the mixer that I was able to power using mana stones. It was a new tool
I asked Pierce to craft for me as well as other cooking and baking tools that I remember using on Earth.

"Whoa. The cream has stiff peaks and it took a few minutes. Incredible." he saw me take out the mixer. "After this what next?"

"The sponge cake is now cooled so we place the sponge cake out of the cake tin and place it on a baking sheet.

I demonstrated how to make the final product by layering the whipped cream with a spatula before rolling it with the help of the baking sheet.

" It...it really became a round cake. Does it taste good chef?"

"We will taste one in a while so for now. Let me place it in a cooling rack and show me how you roll the cake." I said as he took the bowl of whipped cream and prepared to replicate what I did.

His attempt was a little clumsy and he pressed it too much that the extra whipped cream came out on both sides but it was acceptable after a little cleaning.

Finally, after cleaning up everything and sitting outside the table, I gave him a slice of the roll cake I made and took a slice from the one he made.

When he took a bite of mine. His eyes sparkled as his eyes closed in bliss as he ate another and then another....

Until the plate was empty.

While I took my time and ate his creation. It was not bad but the whipped cream was all but smooshed so it had a lesser amount which affects the sponge to cream ratio.