Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 577 Formula Improvement
The process of making compressed biscuits is actually quite simple if you don't consider the involvement of alchemy.

All you need to do is mix the prepared raw materials together, knead them into dough, press them into thin slices and bake them, and you'll get... the rough form of compressed biscuits.

The next step is to grind the rough into powder and then press it into shape.

What really determines that compressed biscuits can provide a lot of energy and a sense of fullness is the formula of the compressed biscuits.

In terms of the use of raw materials, the main components are usually flour and oil, and sugar is added to increase energy density.

At the same time, for the sake of taste, some other ingredients will be added appropriately for seasoning, such as milk powder and various flavors of flavor substances, so that the compressed biscuits can have different flavors.

But in the final analysis, the main ingredients are flour and fat.

"My Lord Earl, I can satisfy your request for any flavor of biscuits you need, but I really don't know anything about compressed biscuits." The pastry chef called by Perfect looked at the raw materials in front of him with a kind of awkward expression on his face: "We pastry chefs usually try our best to make the biscuits taste crispy and delicious, not too hard or too soft. As for how to increase the calories of the biscuits, I..."

If Perfecto was asking for improved texture and flavor, the pastry chef saw no problem with her request, no matter how outrageous it was.

But now Perfect asked him to increase the calorie content of compressed biscuits, a field about which he knew nothing, which was a bit outrageous for a pastry chef.

It's like asking a human internist to treat a pet. Although it's not impossible, it's clearly not within his scope of expertise.

"It's okay. I know you don't understand. You just need to make the cookies according to my requirements." Perfect didn't care about that and directly gave his requirements: "You can use these ingredients as you like. Add as much sugar and fat as possible to make baked cookies that are not bad in taste. The taste doesn't matter, but it must meet the calorie standards I set."

At this point, Perfect seemed to be worried that the pastry chef didn't understand what he meant, so he added, "The cookies you make are just rough dough for compressed biscuits. They will be crushed and ground into powder before being pressed into compressed biscuits. So you don't need to worry about the taste at all. As long as they meet the other conditions I mentioned, make people feel full after eating them, and provide enough energy, that's fine."

In order to help the pastry chef understand what is sufficient energy, Perfect prepared a calorie calculation table for him, so that he could quickly calculate the approximate calories contained in a biscuit based on the amount of raw materials he used.

The pastry chef looked embarrassed when he heard Perfecto's request.

He is a pastry chef serving Windsor Castle, and there is nothing wrong with him calling himself the royal pastry chef.

In the past, he had served the Queen and the Princess Royal, and the cakes he baked had been praised by the Queen. He had been responsible for the cake design for many royal banquets and had won praise on many important occasions.

Therefore, the pastry chef himself is still a little proud, with a kind of reserve and dissatisfaction as if "I used to make pastries, and now you want me to make something else".

But this emotion only lasted for a moment, and the pastry chef changed from being reluctant to starting to work seriously. Because Perfect told him the relationship between the calories of the current compressed biscuits and the energy required by the human body after the extreme cold, and also explained the effect of doing so and the consequences of not doing so.

Let the pastry chef fully realize the significance of his work.

For some people, you need to whip them to force them to work; while for some others, you need to appeal to their emotions and reason to enable them to exercise their subjective initiative.

For Perfecto, she can whip the officials to make them work hard and maintain efficiency at a higher lower limit; she can also use incentives to keep the pastry chefs at a very high upper limit to meet her needs.

After being motivated and realizing the significance of his work, the pastry chef developed a strong sense of mission and soon carefully developed the first version of the sample based on the various raw materials in front of him.

"Replace part of the original oil in the compressed biscuits with cocoa butter. Although the taste is a bit strange, it's still pretty good." The pastry chef made a rough version of the first version of compressed biscuits. After Perfecto tasted a piece, there was an indescribable weird expression on his face, as if he had eaten something that tasted very strange but not so bad that it was hard to swallow.

But after she finished eating the whole cookie, she still said: "The calories are not enough, and the taste is weird. Although it is not bad, I still suggest you add more sugar and don't control the amount of cocoa butter. The raw materials are not a problem."

For a royal pastry chef, he had never worried about raw materials in the past. After all, the royal family had never been short of food, clothing and daily necessities.

Moreover, Victoria was the most powerful country in the world and the country with the most colonies in the past. As the capital, Langton had extremely rich materials, and raw materials from all over the world gathered here.

Pastry chefs have also made many attempts to develop new creations using ingredients from all over the world.

However, as overseas trade was gradually interrupted by cold waves and sea ice, the various raw materials that were originally abundant in the city of Langton have now become extremely scarce and in short supply, and some rarer materials have even become extinct.

Under such circumstances, the pastry chef looked at the raw materials he had just used and asked Perfect a serious question: "My Lord, the compressed biscuit rough dough you asked me to develop should be mass-produced, right?

I can understand wheat flour and oil, but how can cocoa and sugar, as raw materials, meet the production needs of factories without imports from overseas colonies?
Do I need to make corresponding adjustments to the formula? Or should I design with materials that can be stably supplied? "

The pastry chef had good intentions and took into consideration the current problem of tight food supply, so he made suggestions from what he thought was a reasonable perspective.

But this seems a bit unfounded for Perfecto.

She just smiled at the pastry chef, and then demonstrated how to use alchemy to 'create out of nothing' the rough cookie he had just made, and then handed it to the pastry chef: "All I need is the recipe. As for the raw materials? You don't need to know so much about alchemy."

(End of this chapter)