Published at 20th of November 2020 09:23:31 PM
“Alright! It’s done!”
“Oh! What’s with this dish!? I swear I haven’t encountered anything like this in my life, and I guarantee no one else in this country has either . ” Verse exclaimed .
“It looks really delicious!” Sarchan excitedly quipped .
“Go ahead and try some . ”
I mixed the meat sauce and pasta thoroughly and placed portions on three plates . We then dug in .
Mm, that good! I was winging it a bit earlier, but I did manage to make some great meat sauce in the end . The harmony between the Big Boar meat, the tomato sauce, and the sautéed garlic, onions, and carrots were superb . The powdered cheese also suited the meat sauce quite well .
“What’s this!? It’s so chewy and delicious!” Sarchan praised .
“Oh, it’s so good . So there was a dish like this in this world . ” Verse exclaimed softly with a touched tone .
“There are actually quite a variety of sauces that can be used to pair with pasta . I’ll give you a number of sauce recipes later . ”
“I’ll be troubling you, Alan!”
“I’ll be making a dish called pizza next . Can I take some of your bread dough, Verse?”
“Go ahead . It’s right over here . ”
Verse opened up a shelf and presented to me five prepared bread doughs wrapped in a moist cloth .
“Hee, so these are your bread doughs huh… Do you have the stuff that would make the bread expand when baked?”
“You mean the leavening agent?”
Verse passed me a container wrapped in cloth along with one portion of the prepared bread doughs .
“Oh, so this is the leavening agent huh . ”
I kneaded the bread dough with my finger for a bit . I see . I can’t really tell the difference between this and genuine pizza dough since I’m no expert . I also mixed around the leavening agent with my finger for a bit as well .
Now then, what should I do? There’s a definite difference between the process of making bread dough and pizza dough . Of course, the baking process is different as well . I can at least reproduce the usual shape if I just used the dough as is, but I really want Verse to be able to taste a properly made pizza .
Oh, right!
(Hey, Iris . )
『Yes, Captain . 』
(How can I make this dough become a proper pizza dough? Oh, and I want the dough to be in the standard napoli-style as well . )
I actually prefer the thick napoli-style crust with puffed-up sides to the thin romstyle crust .
『……I believe I am the only military ship AI that was asked a question like this in the entire history of the empire . 』
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(Cut me some slack here, okay . Pretty please . )
『Using that particular bread dough as a base, proceed to add in fifty-two grams of wheat flour plus thirty milligrams of water, and then proceed to re-knead it . The end product will turn out fairly similar to the item you want . 』
(Thanks a bunch, Iris . Oh, and please draw up a recipe for pizza dough using this leavening agent as the key ingredient as well . )
『…Understood . 』
I followed Iris’s instructions and re-kneaded the dough . Great . I think this much will do .
I divided the newly created pizza dough into two portions . I was thinking of making two pizzas using two different groups of toppings .
Using the tomato sauce as a base, I will make one with bacon as the main ingredient, while the other will be using the river prawns .
I and Verse started processing the river prawns . There were newly bought bacon, onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms available as well . I’ll go ahead and chop these up too . Oh, and I also have to grate the cheese I bought in the market as well .
I’m going to use the tomato sauce we made earlier to make the pizza sauce .
I flattened the pizza dough with the chef’s rod . I was, of course, making a napoli-style crust with puffed up edges . When that was done, I spread the pizza sauce over the surface of the dough . Then, I started to put on the various toppings . The first is plenty of cheese . Let’s put some mayonnaise on top as well . And just like that, two different kinds of pizza were completed .
Alright . Now all that’s left is baking them in an oven .
“Um, I need to bake these in an oven now . ”
“Oh, so you were actually gonna bake them inside an oven? You should have said so earlier so I would’ve fired it up . ”
Oh yeah . It totally slipped my mind . Even if we started putting in some firewood now, getting this oven ready for baking will still take quite a bit of time .
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“Hey, um, can I use magic to heat this oven up?”
“Hm? You can actually do something like that?”
“I’ll give it a whirl . Sarchan, this is gonna be a bit dangerous, so step back please . ”
Um, the oven would probably break if I used more power than necessary . Let’s raise the output gradually then .
Then, a stream of flame akin to that produced by a flame thrower spewed in front of me . It then flowed toward the oven . In order to heat the entire inside surface of the oven evenly, I carefully adjusted the output of the flames .
“So this is magic!? It’s so amazing!” Sarchan excitedly exclaimed .
I continued producing magic flames like that for about a minute or so and then stopped .
(Nanom, is the temperature inside of the oven ready for baking now?)
『It is a little lower than the usual temperature used for baking, but it will do . 』
“How about it, Verse?”
“…Hm . I guess it’ll do . But you sure are amazing, Alan . ”
“Yeah, I guess . Even if I don’t really look like it, I’m still an A rank member of the Magic Guild after all . Magic’s quite convenient, isn’t it?”
“So you’re already A rank huh…”
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I asked Verse to put the two pizzas inside the oven . The temperature was a little lower than what’s ideal, so I guess it’ll take longer than usual to bake them .
After about ten minutes, the pizzas were finally done baking . When we took them out of the oven, the edges were puffed up nicely, and it visually looked pretty much perfect . Oh, let’s tear up some of those basil-like herbs and put it on top of the pizzas as well .
“Okay, all done . Go ahead and have a taste . ”
I cut up the pizzas into slices and served one slice of each kind to the three of us .
Let’s try the one with bacon toppings . Mm, that’s good . This was baked to perfection . The crisp texture of the bacon and veggies and the hot, stretchy cheese fitted each other perfectly . The pizza inside my heart has finally appeared in front of me…
The one using the prawns as toppings was also pretty good . The juicy and tender prawns were to die for . The pairing between the tomato sauce and the mayonnaise was also nice .
“Uwaah! This is also really good! Actually, I think I like this the most out of all the dishes you taught us!” Sarchan exclaimed in glee once more .
“Oh! This is great . To think simply putting ingredients on top of bread dough and then baking them together could produce something like this . The appearance is also really nice! I’m sure this will knock the heck out of our customers . ”
“With this dish, simply changing the toppings used will allow you to make a great variety of pizzas . You can go ahead and try different kinds yourself and see how it goes . ”
“Oh! Leave it to me . I’m gonna do it for sure!”
There’s still some time until dinner . Okay . I’ll go ahead and make some risotto as well . There are still some prawns left, and I properly set aside the prawn heads and shells earlier as well . I can probably make some great dashi with them .
“Okay . The next dish is called risotto . Let’s make dashi using the prawns first . Gotta bring out plenty of umami . ”
I put water to a boil, put in the prawn heads and the shells, and created some prawn-based dashi . I gave it a taste and confirmed that the rich flavor of the prawns have been soaked up by the water, creating perfect dashi . The prawn heads and shells gave the dashi a deep and complex seafood flavor .
I’ll sauté some of the shelled prawns next . If I boiled them directly with the rice, the prawn pieces would turn hard and shrink after all . I set aside the prawns on a plate, sautéed some garlic next, then some onions, red bell peppers, and finally, some unwashed rice .