***
He sifted the finely ground wheat flour, sugar, salt, and yeast into a bowl and mixed the ingredients evenly.
Next, he poured in lukewarm water and freshly squeezed goat’s milk little by little and began to knead the dough. The flour mixed with the water began to clump together.
He kneaded the lumpy flour gently like he was soothing a baby, and it soon turned into a sticky mass.
The preparation for the first fermentation was now complete.
He covered the dough with cheesecloth and let it rise.
While the dough was rising, Chloe cleaned the oven, and Hae-jun brought in firewood and lit a fire. He needed to raise the temperature in advance to bake the bread at the right time.
“Oh, it’s rising.”
Pote, who had been standing in front of the glass bowl as if guarding it, shouted.
Just as he said, the dough had risen considerably compared to before.
“Can we start kneading it now?”
“No. It says here that the first fermentation should be for an hour.”
“Ah, I can’t wait.”
“You can’t wait because you’re staring at it like that. Come here and bring some firewood.”
“Tch, fine.”
He flew in with a sullen voice and moved a few finger-sized pieces of firewood. He understood Pote’s feelings. At this moment, Hae-jun himself wanted the fermentation to be done more than anyone else.
However, he recalled his father’s words in the notebook that said, ‘The basics of baking lie in following the recipe accurately.’
For Hae-jun, who did everything faithfully according to the set rules, it was the easiest thing to do.
“Time’s up.”
Exactly an hour later, he took out the dough.
The dough, which was as white as a baby’s butt and plumply swollen, looked completely different from the dough he had made the first time. When he touched it carefully with his hand, it stuck to his fingers more than before.
A sense of success.
Hae-jun smiled faintly as he looked at the dough.
He added 15g of sunflower seed oil and kneaded the dough more.
He removed as much air as possible, shaped it into a circle, and began the second fermentation.
The promised 30 minutes passed, and he finally faced the dough that had finished fermenting.
“It looks like it’s doubled in size compared to before.”
[Hurry. Hurry up and take it out.]
“Calm down. This is when it gets important.”
Hae-jun calmed Chloe and Pote, who were getting excited, and poked his finger deep into the center of the dough.
Pshhh-
The gas escaped with a sound.
He carefully lifted the dough after the air had escaped. The dough, which had gone through the second fermentation, stretched out like the pizza cheese you see in TV commercials. He placed the stretched dough on the counter and rolled it out long. He put it in a bread baking pan in that state and put it in the oven.
“Is it all done now?”
“Uh, you just have to bake it at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.”
[My heart is pounding! I’m so excited.]
Hae-jun was just as anxious.
Everyone’s gaze was directed at the oven.
After a short while, the savory and fragrant smell of baking bread wafted out.
It was the mysterious scent that wafted from the bakery on his way to school from the boarding house every morning. The scent that stimulated his appetite and made his mouth water.
“It smells amazing.”
“My mouth is watering.”
[Gulp-.]
By the time the heat from the oven made his face flush, the 35 minutes had passed.
Hae-jun, who had his lips pursed tightly, carefully opened the oven. The appetizingly browned bread finally revealed itself.
“Oh~!”
“Wow~!”
[It’s a success!]
“Meow~.”
They cheered at the sight of the bread steaming hot.
It looked delicious just by looking at it. He brought his nose to the smell of freshly baked bread, and the savory scent permeated deep into his lungs. He carefully picked up the bread, which he had been admiring and not eating, and cut it open like he was cutting an apple. Bread isn’t for decoration.
Swish-
“Look at how the bread is tearing apart.”
[Doesn’t it look like cheese?]
“I want to eat it quickly.”
[That’s what I’m saying.]
Chloe and Pote said, their eyes fixed on the bread.
Hae-jun gave the two of them, who were drooling, the first chance to taste it.
“Here. Try it.”
He gave them each a slice of bread as they drooled.
“!!??”
[Um?!···]
In an instant, Chloe’s eyes shook violently.
“Uuuuum··· it’s fantastic.”
[It’s amazing. It’s the exact taste that Sir Charles used to make!]
Hae-jun, who had been watching their reactions with satisfaction, finally put a piece of bread in his mouth.
‘Huh!··· It’s delicious.’
The crispy outer surface of the bread touched his lips first. The bread was full of a savory flavor, as if it were chewy like chicken. However, the inside was different. If the outer surface of the bread had a chewy texture like chicken, the inside crumbled softly like cotton candy. An extremely soft texture. As he moved his jaw, savoring the pleasant texture, the savory and sweet flavors spread throughout his mouth.
An amazing flavor that could not be described in words.
He couldn’t help but resent himself for realizing now that freshly baked bread tasted this good.
‘It’s so delicious that the word delicious is not enough to describe it.’
The taste of the bread made properly with his father’s recipe was truly exceptional.
“When you knew how to make it this delicious, what was that bread back then?”
“I didn’t have enough ingredients back then.”
[That’s right. I saw it, but you only put water and flour and baked it. It wasn’t food that a spirit could eat.]
Pote shook his head as if it were a terrible memory.
‘This brat!’
“Can you make something else too? I feel a bit sad just eating bread.”
[Yes, please. Sir Charles used to make various other dishes when the bread was baked well.]
“Oh, now that you mention it.”
His father’s notebook contained several recipes using whole wheat bread.
Hae-jun activated the notebook and skimmed through the recipes.
‘Hmm, this one is missing ingredients, and this one too.’
Unfortunately, there was no food that he could make in the current situation where he lacked ingredients.
The only dish he could make was basic toast, which was made by cutting bread, toasting it in a frying pan, and adding a fried egg.
He couldn’t even bring out the proper flavor because he didn’t have any butter, and he was hesitant to try a crispy cabbage salad to put inside because he didn’t have mayonnaise or ketchup.
“I don’t have enough sauce.”
“Sauce?”
“Uh, I don’t have any ketchup or mayonnaise, and I don’t have any butter either.”
Hae-jun, who had passed on the missing ingredients and made the worst failed bread because he had made it carelessly, was reluctant to cook a recipe that lacked ingredients.
[Isn’t it written in Sir Charles’ recipe notebook?]
“It is, but there are too many things that I can’t get right away.”
“Ugh. What a shame.”
For example, vinegar is needed to make ketchup and mayonnaise. Starch is also needed to make it thick, and butter too···.
‘Hmm, I guess I can make some butter.’
Fortunately, he could make butter if he used the goat’s milk he got from the goats.
The method of making it is also simple. According to the recipe notebook, if you keep churning goat’s milk, it will turn into a solid state like whipped cream, and if you keep turning it until your arm breaks, it will separate into water and fat. That fat is butter.
However, this method requires a lot of energy if you don’t have the equipment.
“I’ll study the method, so let’s eat for now··· did you already eat it all?”
While he was thinking for a moment, all the bread on the plate disappeared.
“It was so delicious.”
[Yes, it was the best, the best!]
“Meow~!”
“I want to eat more···.”
[Yes, yes. Please make it again. Again!]
“Meow~!!”
Although it took some effort, he felt a sense of satisfaction seeing them eat so deliciously.
Hae-jun, who smiled broadly, rolled up his sleeves again.
“Okay. Just wait a little bit.”
.
.
.
Only after baking and eating three more loaves of bread did Chloe and her party smile with satisfaction.
Somehow, he gained confidence in cooking.
He, who could barely boil ramen, was baking bread.
‘I need to take the ingredients and study them.’
Hae-jun left enough ingredients for the farm and transported them to the real world.
***
‘Huh? Why did I forget this?’
Hae-jun, who had just returned to
reality, noticed something blinking in the corner of his vision.
It was the information window.
*
[Cha Hae-joon] Lv.5
Age: 25 years old
Title: One who crossed dimensions
Occupation: Beginner farmer, Beginner chef
Experience: 100 (50%)
Stamina: 13/25
Skill: 25
Fame: 1
*
When he opened it, he saw that the title ‘Beginner chef’ had been added to his occupation.
It seemed that it appeared because he had baked bread in the bakery one after another.
Now, Hae-jun’s occupation in the Dimensional Farm was a beginner farmer and chef. Although he was unemployed in reality.
“Wait··· when did my fame go up to 1?”
His fame, which had not gone up no matter what he did, had changed from 0 to 1.
All he had done on the farm a while ago was bake bread continuously at Chloe’s request.
“Does fame go up when you grant requests?”
Come to think of it, the only way to increase favorability or fame in RPG games is to complete NPC quests.
Chloe’s request was a kind of NPC quest.
Hae-jun thought he should listen to Chloe’s requests more often.
It’s good to raise stats anyway.
Hae-jun, who closed the information window, headed to the restaurant kitchen.
The counter was full of ingredients he had brought from the Dimensional Farm.
Flour, cabbage, cucumber, potatoes, cherry tomatoes, lemons, and eggs and goat’s milk.
With just these, he could make great food with a few commercially available ingredients.
Hae-jun thought that if he studied while cooking, he would be able to make proper food on the Dimensional Farm as well.
“Okay. Let’s make it.”
First, he had to prepare the necessary sauces.
He ran to the convenience store and bought basic seasonings like vinegar, sugar, and salt. 30,000 won disappeared in an instant, and his bank balance was 240,000 won.
Leaving the pain(?) behind, he opened the recipe notebook.
The first dish he would challenge was mayonnaise. The reason was that the recipe was the simplest. Just measure the eggs, cooking oil, vinegar, and salt according to the amount and blend them with a blender.
He took out a blender and a glass jar with a lid from the display cabinet where he kept his cooking utensils.
He put 1 egg, 225ml of cooking oil, 5ml of vinegar, and a little bit of salt in the jar and turned on the blender.
Whirrrr-
With the sound of a powerful motor, the mixture began to solidify.
It was completed very simply.
He compared the taste of commercially available mayonnaise and homemade mayonnaise.
It didn’t have the strong taste unique to instant products, but it tasted pretty good. This was probably because it was made with ordinary ingredients that were easily available in the market.
“Everything tasted good on the farm···.”
Leaving his regret behind, he moved on to the next dish.
The second sauce he would make was tomato ketchup. Now, the difficulty level would increase sharply. The cooking procedure was also complicated, and there was a lot to do.
He followed the recipe and lightly heated the tomatoes and peeled them. Then, he added vinegar, sugar, and blended them with a blender and simmered them over low heat until they thickened.
When the sweet and sour scent wafted, he added lemon juice and starch.
Then, the tomato, which had been thin, quickly hardened.
It was the effect of the starch.
“Oh! It’s delicious.”
Hae-jun’s eyes widened.
This time, an incredibly delicious ketchup was made that could not be compared to commercially available tomato ketchup. It was an outstanding taste that could not be compared to the previous mayonnaise.
He hummed a song involuntarily.
Although he was disappointed with the mayonnaise, he could make one dish he had in mind with just the homemade tomato ketchup.
“Let’s make a cabbage salad.”
Until now, he had eaten cabbage completely raw.
It was edible because the unique sweet taste burst out when he chewed it, but cabbage is best eaten with ketchup, mayonnaise, and a sprinkle of sugar. If you make it this way, it can also be used as a side dish and is a rich deep-fried dish. The taste is especially great when served with tonkatsu.
Tok- tok- tok- tok-
He cut it carefully, although clumsily.
It wasn’t easy to cut it thinly.
He wanted to use a slicer instead of a kitchen knife, but
[*Caution: Never use a slicer.]
He was cutting it clumsily because of the words in the notebook.
There must be a reason for his father’s words.
“My hand hurts so much.”
Perhaps because I was nervous and used a lot of force to cut, my hands felt numb after chopping a whole head of cabbage. Still, I was proud to see the cabbage piled up on the cutting board.
***
He sifted the finely ground wheat flour, sugar, salt, and yeast into a bowl and mixed the ingredients evenly.
Next, he poured in lukewarm water and freshly squeezed goat’s milk little by little and began to knead the dough. The flour mixed with the water began to clump together.
He kneaded the lumpy flour gently like he was soothing a baby, and it soon turned into a sticky mass.
The preparation for the first fermentation was now complete.
He covered the dough with cheesecloth and let it rise.
While the dough was rising, Chloe cleaned the oven, and Hae-jun brought in firewood and lit a fire. He needed to raise the temperature in advance to bake the bread at the right time.
“Oh, it’s rising.”
Pote, who had been standing in front of the glass bowl as if guarding it, shouted.
Just as he said, the dough had risen considerably compared to before.
“Can we start kneading it now?”
“No. It says here that the first fermentation should be for an hour.”
“Ah, I can’t wait.”
“You can’t wait because you’re staring at it like that. Come here and bring some firewood.”
“Tch, fine.”
He flew in with a sullen voice and moved a few finger-sized pieces of firewood. He understood Pote’s feelings. At this moment, Hae-jun himself wanted the fermentation to be done more than anyone else.
However, he recalled his father’s words in the notebook that said, ‘The basics of baking lie in following the recipe accurately.’
For Hae-jun, who did everything faithfully according to the set rules, it was the easiest thing to do.
“Time’s up.”
Exactly an hour later, he took out the dough.
The dough, which was as white as a baby’s butt and plumply swollen, looked completely different from the dough he had made the first time. When he touched it carefully with his hand, it stuck to his fingers more than before.
A sense of success.
Hae-jun smiled faintly as he looked at the dough.
He added 15g of sunflower seed oil and kneaded the dough more.
He removed as much air as possible, shaped it into a circle, and began the second fermentation.
The promised 30 minutes passed, and he finally faced the dough that had finished fermenting.
“It looks like it’s doubled in size compared to before.”
[Hurry. Hurry up and take it out.]
“Calm down. This is when it gets important.”
Hae-jun calmed Chloe and Pote, who were getting excited, and poked his finger deep into the center of the dough.
Pshhh-
The gas escaped with a sound.
He carefully lifted the dough after the air had escaped. The dough, which had gone through the second fermentation, stretched out like the pizza cheese you see in TV commercials. He placed the stretched dough on the counter and rolled it out long. He put it in a bread baking pan in that state and put it in the oven.
“Is it all done now?”
“Uh, you just have to bake it at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.”
[My heart is pounding! I’m so excited.]
Hae-jun was just as anxious.
Everyone’s gaze was directed at the oven.
After a short while, the savory and fragrant smell of baking bread wafted out.
It was the mysterious scent that wafted from the bakery on his way to school from the boarding house every morning. The scent that stimulated his appetite and made his mouth water.
“It smells amazing.”
“My mouth is watering.”
[Gulp-.]
By the time the heat from the oven made his face flush, the 35 minutes had passed.
Hae-jun, who had his lips pursed tightly, carefully opened the oven. The appetizingly browned bread finally revealed itself.
“Oh~!”
“Wow~!”
[It’s a success!]
“Meow~.”
They cheered at the sight of the bread steaming hot.
It looked delicious just by looking at it. He brought his nose to the smell of freshly baked bread, and the savory scent permeated deep into his lungs. He carefully picked up the bread, which he had been admiring and not eating, and cut it open like he was cutting an apple. Bread isn’t for decoration.
Swish-
“Look at how the bread is tearing apart.”
[Doesn’t it look like cheese?]
“I want to eat it quickly.”
[That’s what I’m saying.]
Chloe and Pote said, their eyes fixed on the bread.
Hae-jun gave the two of them, who were drooling, the first chance to taste it.
“Here. Try it.”
He gave them each a slice of bread as they drooled.
“!!??”
[Um?!···]
In an instant, Chloe’s eyes shook violently.
“Uuuuum··· it’s fantastic.”
[It’s amazing. It’s the exact taste that Sir Charles used to make!]
Hae-jun, who had been watching their reactions with satisfaction, finally put a piece of bread in his mouth.
‘Huh!··· It’s delicious.’
The crispy outer surface of the bread touched his lips first. The bread was full of a savory flavor, as if it were chewy like chicken. However, the inside was different. If the outer surface of the bread had a chewy texture like chicken, the inside crumbled softly like cotton candy. An extremely soft texture. As he moved his jaw, savoring the pleasant texture, the savory and sweet flavors spread throughout his mouth.
An amazing flavor that could not be described in words.
He couldn’t help but resent himself for realizing now that freshly baked bread tasted this good.
‘It’s so delicious that the word delicious is not enough to describe it.’
The taste of the bread made properly with his father’s recipe was truly exceptional.
“When you knew how to make it this delicious, what was that bread back then?”
“I didn’t have enough ingredients back then.”
[That’s right. I saw it, but you only put water and flour and baked it. It wasn’t food that a spirit could eat.]
Pote shook his head as if it were a terrible memory.
‘This brat!’
“Can you make something else too? I feel a bit sad just eating bread.”
[Yes, please. Sir Charles used to make various other dishes when the bread was baked well.]
“Oh, now that you mention it.”
His father’s notebook contained several recipes using whole wheat bread.
Hae-jun activated the notebook and skimmed through the recipes.
‘Hmm, this one is missing ingredients, and this one too.’
Unfortunately, there was no food that he could make in the current situation where he lacked ingredients.
The only dish he could make was basic toast, which was made by cutting bread, toasting it in a frying pan, and adding a fried egg.
He couldn’t even bring out the proper flavor because he didn’t have any butter, and he was hesitant to try a crispy cabbage salad to put inside because he didn’t have mayonnaise or ketchup.
“I don’t have enough sauce.”
“Sauce?”
“Uh, I don’t have any ketchup or mayonnaise, and I don’t have any butter either.”
Hae-jun, who had passed on the missing ingredients and made the worst failed bread because he had made it carelessly, was reluctant to cook a recipe that lacked ingredients.
[Isn’t it written in Sir Charles’ recipe notebook?]
“It is, but there are too many things that I can’t get right away.”
“Ugh. What a shame.”
For example, vinegar is needed to make ketchup and mayonnaise. Starch is also needed to make it thick, and butter too···.
‘Hmm, I guess I can make some butter.’
Fortunately, he could make butter if he used the goat’s milk he got from the goats.
The method of making it is also simple. According to the recipe notebook, if you keep churning goat’s milk, it will turn into a solid state like whipped cream, and if you keep turning it until your arm breaks, it will separate into water and fat. That fat is butter.
However, this method requires a lot of energy if you don’t have the equipment.
“I’ll study the method, so let’s eat for now··· did you already eat it all?”
While he was thinking for a moment, all the bread on the plate disappeared.
“It was so delicious.”
[Yes, it was the best, the best!]
“Meow~!”
“I want to eat more···.”
[Yes, yes. Please make it again. Again!]
“Meow~!!”
Although it took some effort, he felt a sense of satisfaction seeing them eat so deliciously.
Hae-jun, who smiled broadly, rolled up his sleeves again.
“Okay. Just wait a little bit.”
.
.
.
Only after baking and eating three more loaves of bread did Chloe and her party smile with satisfaction.
Somehow, he gained confidence in cooking.
He, who could barely boil ramen, was baking bread.
‘I need to take the ingredients and study them.’
Hae-jun left enough ingredients for the farm and transported them to the real world.
***
‘Huh? Why did I forget this?’
Hae-jun, who had just returned to
reality, noticed something blinking in the corner of his vision.
It was the information window.
*
[Cha Hae-joon] Lv.5
Age: 25 years old
Title: One who crossed dimensions
Occupation: Beginner farmer, Beginner chef
Experience: 100 (50%)
Stamina: 13/25
Skill: 25
Fame: 1
*
When he opened it, he saw that the title ‘Beginner chef’ had been added to his occupation.
It seemed that it appeared because he had baked bread in the bakery one after another.
Now, Hae-jun’s occupation in the Dimensional Farm was a beginner farmer and chef. Although he was unemployed in reality.
“Wait··· when did my fame go up to 1?”
His fame, which had not gone up no matter what he did, had changed from 0 to 1.
All he had done on the farm a while ago was bake bread continuously at Chloe’s request.
“Does fame go up when you grant requests?”
Come to think of it, the only way to increase favorability or fame in RPG games is to complete NPC quests.
Chloe’s request was a kind of NPC quest.
Hae-jun thought he should listen to Chloe’s requests more often.
It’s good to raise stats anyway.
Hae-jun, who closed the information window, headed to the restaurant kitchen.
The counter was full of ingredients he had brought from the Dimensional Farm.
Flour, cabbage, cucumber, potatoes, cherry tomatoes, lemons, and eggs and goat’s milk.
With just these, he could make great food with a few commercially available ingredients.
Hae-jun thought that if he studied while cooking, he would be able to make proper food on the Dimensional Farm as well.
“Okay. Let’s make it.”
First, he had to prepare the necessary sauces.
He ran to the convenience store and bought basic seasonings like vinegar, sugar, and salt. 30,000 won disappeared in an instant, and his bank balance was 240,000 won.
Leaving the pain(?) behind, he opened the recipe notebook.
The first dish he would challenge was mayonnaise. The reason was that the recipe was the simplest. Just measure the eggs, cooking oil, vinegar, and salt according to the amount and blend them with a blender.
He took out a blender and a glass jar with a lid from the display cabinet where he kept his cooking utensils.
He put 1 egg, 225ml of cooking oil, 5ml of vinegar, and a little bit of salt in the jar and turned on the blender.
Whirrrr-
With the sound of a powerful motor, the mixture began to solidify.
It was completed very simply.
He compared the taste of commercially available mayonnaise and homemade mayonnaise.
It didn’t have the strong taste unique to instant products, but it tasted pretty good. This was probably because it was made with ordinary ingredients that were easily available in the market.
“Everything tasted good on the farm···.”
Leaving his regret behind, he moved on to the next dish.
The second sauce he would make was tomato ketchup. Now, the difficulty level would increase sharply. The cooking procedure was also complicated, and there was a lot to do.
He followed the recipe and lightly heated the tomatoes and peeled them. Then, he added vinegar, sugar, and blended them with a blender and simmered them over low heat until they thickened.
When the sweet and sour scent wafted, he added lemon juice and starch.
Then, the tomato, which had been thin, quickly hardened.
It was the effect of the starch.
“Oh! It’s delicious.”
Hae-jun’s eyes widened.
This time, an incredibly delicious ketchup was made that could not be compared to commercially available tomato ketchup. It was an outstanding taste that could not be compared to the previous mayonnaise.
He hummed a song involuntarily.
Although he was disappointed with the mayonnaise, he could make one dish he had in mind with just the homemade tomato ketchup.
“Let’s make a cabbage salad.”
Until now, he had eaten cabbage completely raw.
It was edible because the unique sweet taste burst out when he chewed it, but cabbage is best eaten with ketchup, mayonnaise, and a sprinkle of sugar. If you make it this way, it can also be used as a side dish and is a rich deep-fried dish. The taste is especially great when served with tonkatsu.
Tok- tok- tok- tok-
He cut it carefully, although clumsily.
It wasn’t easy to cut it thinly.
He wanted to use a slicer instead of a kitchen knife, but
[*Caution: Never use a slicer.]
He was cutting it clumsily because of the words in the notebook.
There must be a reason for his father’s words.
“My hand hurts so much.”
Perhaps because I was nervous and used a lot of force to cut, my hands felt numb after chopping a whole head of cabbage. Still, I was proud to see the cabbage piled up on the cutting board.
