my magic industry

Chapter 15 Cake and Sugar

As the wooden cover was slowly pushed away, a circular object with a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters was revealed inside the wooden box.

This round object is white as a whole, dotted with the pulp of cherries, strawberries, grapes, oranges, and pineapples. It looks colorful and appetizing.

"What is this?"

Ellen looked at the pastry that seemed to be made of lime in surprise, and asked curiously.

"This is fruit cake, a pastry made with flour, cloud sugar, milk, egg white, and various fruits!"

Xia Lin looked around and asked the old housekeeper:
"Excuse me, can you bring us a knife and some plates?"

"Of course, honorable guest!"

After a while, the maid brought what Xia Lin wanted. Xia Lin cut open the fruit cake with a knife. The fluffy light yellow cake was covered with a layer of two to three centimeters thick cream, which looked very delicious.

After dividing the whole cake into eight pieces, Xia Lin picked up a piece of cake with a knife and put it on a plate and handed it to Ellen, beckoning him to have a taste.

Ellen looked at the cake that looked like a work of art, but he never imagined that it was actually a kind of pastry. He picked up a knife and fork, cut off a piece of cake covered with something like lime, and put it in his mouth. Big eyes.

This... what kind of smell is this! ?

Ellen can't describe the wonderful taste she tasted at all. The mellow milk, sweet pastries, soft clouds and sweet and sour fruits are perfectly blended together by the hands of gods, and it is probably possible to form such a complex and beautiful taste.

He felt that his tongue and mouth could truly feel the happiness bestowed by the gods at this moment, and all his troubles disappeared in front of this happiness.

Compared to this god-given thing called cake, the various famous and expensive pastries I have eaten before are as insignificant as dust on the ground.

“OMG this cake is so delicious!!!”

After tasting for a long time, Ellen swallowed the cake and said in amazement.

His reaction made the well-trained maids and housekeepers next to him a little curious about how delicious this dessert called cake was, and it moved his rich and well-clothed master so much.

"My friend, do you think this kind of cake will be welcomed by nobles?"

Xia Lin took a bite of the cake, and enjoyed the familiar sweetness, but he had already tasted it when making it at home, so he didn't lose his composure like Ellen.

"Of course! Xia Lin, this pastry named cake will definitely be frantically sought after by nobles! Even if it costs ten silver coins like this, I don't think it's too much at all!"

Ellen replied affirmatively, and even Xia Lin was a little surprised by the expected price he gave.

A cake with a diameter of about 25 cm costs about 35 silver coins, mainly because the labor cost of screening low-gluten flour is too high, and the seasonal fruits dotted on it are also quite exaggerated.

If it is not for color matching, Xia Lin can use some ordinary fruits instead, such as cherries or strawberries, which can reduce the cost to about 25 silver coins, but Ellen said that such a fruit cake can be sold for [-] silver coins!

Why don't you let your mother and younger sister learn the steps of making cakes, or sell cakes in your own store?By the way, sell the birthday cake talk, maybe these cakes will sell well?

Xia Lin thought about it, and felt that this idea seemed good, but he didn't come here to sell cakes, but to sell the white sugar produced by his own small workshop.

"Then Ellen, how high do you think the price of an essential ingredient for making this cake can be set?"

Xia Lin took out a small wooden box of the same style from her sleeve pocket, opened it, put it on the stone table and pushed it to Ellen aside.

"What is this? Salt?"

Ellen looked at the white sugar in the wooden box with some curiosity. He scooped up a little bit with a spoon and put it into his mouth. The pure sweetness spread into his brain, making him suddenly think of the cake he ate just now.

"This is cloud sugar, a sweet crystal formed by the mysterious magician who used powerful spells to trap the clouds in the sky and condense them on the ground.

Of course, this is what I say to the outside world. In fact, the production of cloud candy is very complicated, and I will not be able to explain it to you in a while.

I came to visit you today because I want to cooperate with Greg Chamber of Commerce to sell this kind of cloud candy! "

Seeing Ellen's face full of disbelief at her bluffing statement, Xia Lin chuckled lightly and explained instead.

"Is it just for sale?"

"Just a sale!"

"..."

Ellen was silent for a moment, and he saw that this kind of cloud sugar, whose sweetness was countless times purer than brown sugar, definitely had a bright future.

But Xia Lin was no longer in urgent need of Jinlunte at this time, and he was not willing to sell the craft of making cloud sugar to himself like a vertical spindle spinning machine.

The feeling of having only one bite of such an obviously beneficial cake is really itchy, but Ellen looked at Xia Lin who was smiling confidently, and sighed:

"Okay! My friend, the Greg Chamber of Commerce will cooperate with you to sell this wonderful product, but you have to tell me how much it is produced, and how low a price I can get from you!"

"Now I can provide you with four hundred pounds of cloud sugar every day, and the price is one silver mal and thirty copper pes per pound. After a while, I think this amount will double."

"A unique business?"

"It's a unique business, but it doesn't rule out that new people will be added later."

"I am willing to buy out your cloud candy at the price of one silver mal and fifty copper bis per pound!"

Hearing that someone might come to represent the sugar business in the future, Ellen eagerly raised the price.

"Haha! My friend, I'm afraid you underestimated the production of Yuntang. The current [-] pounds is just the beginning.

If the raw materials are available, I will soon buy a manor on the outskirts of the city and be responsible for the production of cloud sugar. By then, hundreds or even thousands of pounds of cloud sugar will be sold every day!

Such a big business, even the Greg Chamber of Commerce can't afford it.

What's more, I have to cooperate with the sugar guild in the imperial capital, otherwise they will be angered, and my little mage and knight will be wiped out by them. Could it be said that the Greg Chamber of Commerce can withstand their anger? "

"Okay! Then one silver mal and thirty copper bis, I will open up the market as soon as possible, and hope your production can keep up!"

Hearing the name of the sugar guild, Ellen also gave up the idea of ​​eating alone. He sighed and sat back to his original position, and began to think about where to start to develop the cloud sugar market.

After thinking about it, Ellen added:
"Xia Lin, for Yuntang, I think you have to teach my cook how to make cakes!"

"My friend, the method of making the cake is very valuable. You can't expect me to give it away for nothing. Twenty gold lunds, I think, is an appropriate price."

"Fifteen!"

"Eighteen!"

"Only fifteen!"

"Okay, Ellen, for the sake of your diamond-like friendship, I will sell you the recipe for making the cake for fifteen pieces. Please bring a pen and paper. I will go to your kitchen and teach you after I finish writing it." How cooks make ingredients."

Xia Lin sighed pretending to be invincible, but in fact, he didn't have much desire to keep the method of making the cake secret.

As a food for the noble class, although it can bring him a lot of profits, it is of no use to his development.

Xia Lin's goal is not to become a chef or pastry chef who studies food, but to explore the mysteries of magic to his heart's content.

(End of this chapter)