Labyrinth Restaurant

"Oh, why would Mr. Gardo have an apron?"

"Uh, actually, it was a wacko called Kanno."

"I see - was that the reason -"

Three days after my last confectionery training.

Alice explained the situation to May, who was looking at Gardo in an apron and leaning her neck in a pompous and strange way.

In a nutshell, I came to learn to make sweets to feed someone if I ate them myself. Well, it's not even a very serious situation.

"Ooh, that's so wacky, so nice to meet you, seniors!

"Haha, you've got a pretty big junior again ~"

In Mae's case, it's not exclusive to sweets, but I guess in the sense that you're coming to this store to learn how to cook, it will indeed be a pattern between seniors and juniors. Gard is a far more veteran senior in the main business, but that position is in the form of a similar pullback.

Generally older subordinates or juniors, or vice versa, do not often feel spicy, but in their case they are also friends with whom they were originally known, and personally they will not have to worry about that hand.

When May learns to cook from Alice, the opposite will be the placement of Alice in the kitchen and Demon King on the floor. So this time I was wondering if nature and Alice would be the form to teach the two of us.

"Oh, yeah. Because of this, should I ask Mr. Gardo to tell me today?

That suggestion was made by Alice's whim, or playfulness.

No, not just because it seems interesting, but teaching people things is a good study, not just cooking. I'm not always Ijiwal to my beloved apprentice.

"haha, this is pressure ~"

And even if you say it this way, none of you look nervous about May.

Basically relaxed and my-paced, she looks like this and has quite a bit of liver on her feet.

Specifically how brazen is enough to slap a cockroach or muckade out of the room with no expression and with the shortest possible speed.

Aside from that, May, who was quickly appointed as a temporary teacher, often thinks with his arms around what to make and how to teach,

"Not using unusual ingredients, sweet and delicious... what about donuts?"

"Oh, good! I love it."

He also said he loved it when he made the hot cake, but does sweetness exist in this world, or even a number of different worlds, that he doesn't love at all?

"Oh, but fried food may not be very suitable for beginners ~"

"Mm, really...?

But even though May said a doughnut herself, a few seconds later I came to the level of frying difficulty. Having heard that word, Gard is pretending to be superficially calm, but dropping his shoulders so shrunk that his big body can see him around.

In terms of the ingredients you need, it's easy to align them because they can be reduced to the extent that frying oil is added to the hotcakes made by Gardo last time, but frying is a little more hurdled for beginners of cooking. It's not that uneven of an idea that we should reconsider and make it another thing, either.

"I think you'll be fine. The demon king used to teach Gardo how to swallow it."

Here comes the backup fire from Alice.

Alice only asked about it later in hearsay because the Demon King took care of her when she made the hot cake, but I know she was showing extraordinary passion and taste (and appetite).

"Really?"

"Come on? I was just doing it normally."

I don't seem conscious of the person at the time, but I would fall into a fairly sensible category. Genius, at least in terms of enthusiasm.

Even as May, there is no reason to dare avoid frying if Alice or the Demon King have vouched for her taste and she wants it strongly in person. In the end, we ended up making donuts as originally proposed.

"Well, let's weigh and pinch the ingredients first and make a spring ~"

"Whoa, let me handle this!

First, weigh as well as last time.

Place the thin powder, eggs and sugar in a bowl as directed.

"I didn't see anything, but you remember the quantity and everything?

"Eh heh, I've made doughnuts a few times."

Well, that's the last time I saw you.

I proceeded with tequila without any particular problems.

"So, when I mixed the contents of the bowl thoroughly, this is how I made it stick ~"

"Hmm."

"Stick your ends together and make a wheel...... you're so fast, Mr. Gard ~"

The dough for the doughnuts feels a lot firmer compared to the almost liquid hot cake tare.

The moist, limp texture can be close to clay finishing, and you won't have to worry about spilling it even if you handle it quickly.

The first time May made one sample to show it, Gardo moved his hand so fast that he could imitate it and see the remnants, instantly rounding all the fabrics. Maybe the judgments cultivated in years of martial arts training are utilized (in vain).

That's how he got the wheel he made,

"No, how come it's a roundabout shape?

Potsuri and whined about the questions that arose.

I didn't care when I was eating in a customer position until now, but I had to make it myself and it seemed like I was starting to care about the details.

"Uh... speaking of which, why?"

"It seems to be the reason that the fire enters the whole thing more evenly than the dungo type. Because it's black burnt outside and it's hard to get something like boiled inside."

Mae didn't have an answer to the question, but Alice even followed her there. Alice once wondered the same thing and asked the Demon King.

"Well, I'm finally going to fry you, but before I do, I have to choose oil ~"

"Yeah, but there's a lot of oil, too, right?

"Yes, it doesn't fit depending on the type of dish, but there are quite a few."

The bottom preparation so far has gone without any particular problems, but the doughnut making is the real deal from here on out.

No matter how well you can make the dough, you can't even see it if you fail to fry the heart.

Adjusting the temperature is also important, but before then you have to decide what oil to use first.

There is no absolute right answer to this, but sesame seeds and olives with strong and characteristic aromas can have too strong a personality and risk damaging the taste of the ingredients.

If there is no particular focus, it will be easy to use weak oils of habit such as soybeans and vegetable seeds.

For the record, the commonly known as "salad oil", which would be the most used in Japanese households, is a blended oil consisting of multiple vegetable oils, and soybeans, vegetable seeds and saffron are also commonly used as ingredients.

This time, vegetable seed oil will be used without difficulty, and the lecture will proceed to the next stage, the identification of the temperature of the oil.

"Mr. Gard, you could only use the chopsticks, right?

"Oh. I had a hard time at first, but that's convenient inside."

"Now, have this vegetable chopstick ~"

There are also several different ways to find out the oil temperature, but it would be particularly easy to stick the vegetable chopsticks in the oil and discern it by how it bubbles out.

Low temperatures if you have less bubbles, high temperatures if you get momentum, medium temperatures about in the middle of it.

In the meantime, most fried foods should take some form if you know how to tell those three and which temperature is right for which dish.

"In the case of donuts... I think this is fine ~. Did you remember ~?"

"Oh, I remember. Can I add some dough now?

"Yes. It's dangerous when the oil jumps, so please put it in."

"Oops, that's sooo much."

Beginners unfamiliar with frying can be scared of hot oil and put ingredients in from a high position, but you should never do it that way if you literally don't want to burn big. Even if I'm careful, if oil jumps on my fingers, I'm going to let it go, but there's guts and gambling.

Stay put for a while and watch the fabric shades as you hear the juju, juwa juwa and oil squeal. Occasionally, about once or twice the dough is turned over with vegetable chopsticks to adjust for even heat on both sides of the doughnut, around bright light brown......,

"Sounds like a good fox color ~. Well, keep pulling it up ~. If you take it easy, you'll burn it."

"Ooh!?"

Gard, instructed by May to "hurry" in a relaxed tone, hastily rescued the doughnuts from the oil.

The surface is still hot and the oil is making a scene.

When you get here, all you have to do is finish.

"And then while it was hot, I shook the sugar all over it."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa"

"Isn't there a little too much 'blah'?

Alice is cold sweating at the amount of sugar that can be sprinkled.

Adjust the flavor as desired. If you don't like sweetness, sugar is understated, even like this if you love sweetness...... well, you must be an ant.

Well, on the rabbit and on the corner.

"That's it ~"

"Oh, thank you! This looks delicious!

This is how Gardo succeeded in his first attempt at donuts.

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"Omake: The Donut Hole."

at tasting time after making it.

"Ha-ha-ha?"

"Hmm, aren't you going to eat it?

Mae had freshly fried doughnuts in her hand and was thinking something.

"No, I was just wondering, there's a 'doughnut hole' in the middle of this circle, right?"

"Oh. Well, that's how I shaped it."

"Yes, there is a 'doughnut hole' here. But once you're not in a circle, the" Donut Hole "disappears, right?"

"Hmm? Well, yeah"

"Somehow, I wondered if I could leave a 'doughnut hole' for some doughnuts ~"

"Hmm?... hmm?

It may just sound like you're saying something you don't know about wax, but you don't actually know wax.

In fact, this question, a rather famous issue in the philosophical world of the planet, has been challenged by many philosophers in the past, or freaks who have had time to spare.

What is the state of 'hole'?

What is the definition of the act 'left behind'?

What is' doughnut 'in the first place?

... big adults are seriously arguing about something like that.

There may well be no mistake in repudiating it as a pinch of reason rather than an argument.

"Hey, did you fall asleep?

"Mmmm ~..."

With a unique sensibility of 10%, May arrived at that question on her own and thought at a tremendous high speed.

Close your eyes and keep your doughnuts.

Pah looks only like a child who fell asleep while he was a bitch, coupled with the way he looked younger than his age, but aside from that, I thought about it very hard.

What is a doughnut?

What is a hole?

What is the world?

What is the truth?

".................. Ha!?"

That's how I was about to open up something enlightening, and it felt like there was nothing without an atmosphere that seemed to arrive in a later step at a frontier nanica that humanity should not recognize.

"What, you're not eating? Well, it's a waste of time to leave it, and I'll eat it, okay?

"Ah."

On the verge of that, Gard took the doughnut and returned it to sanity where it was at stake.

The more you notice, the more fried doughnuts you have, that's the last one.

"Yeah, yummy!

"Ahhh!?"

"Yeah, you wanted to eat after all? Well, I'd like to review it, get some ingredients, and I'll fry you extra."

Mae herself also forgot beautifully what she was thinking because her consciousness turned to the doughnut, but she said she felt the extra portion of the doughnut (sugar mash) tasted better than usual because she used her head well.