Gentleman's Night Canteen

In fact, the so-called "thousand layers" is just an imaginary number. After all, generally speaking, the height of Napoleon cake is about the height of one bite. After all, if it is too high, it is made of puff pastry and it is easy to fall off when pinched, so In this case, the meringue of the Napoleon cake is in 4~5 layers, and it is rare to reach the "hundred crisp" in the middle case.

After all, folding five times with Lanmeng’s production method is only 5 layers, and five pieces of meringue are only 17 layers.

Even so, if the craftsmanship is not enough, it will affect the taste of the puff pastry. At that time, the cart will be turned upside down. After all, the most important thing about food is delicious food. The appearance is more of an embellishment, and the taste is the real core!

However, Lan Meng is still willing to challenge if the technology allows.

The dough and butter are so thin that Lan Meng can barely fold it again, so that one layer of puff pastry has reached 33 layers. Although the result is still not called "thousand-layer", in Lan Meng's view, this is already his The current limit for 'technical' and 'beautiful'.

After cutting the folded puff pastry into the same size, Lan Meng shouted directly.

"Rotom!"

"Lotto~!!"

Almost as soon as Lan Meng's voice fell, the baking tray beside him floated up. When the baking tray fell into the oven, Rotom also floated directly into the oven.

"Accelerated mode, 40 minutes."

The most special feature of these high-tech kitchen utensils in Lanmeng store is that it can reduce the production time, or separate and accelerate the time inside the kitchen utensils from the outside time. In the acceleration mode, the time can be reduced by up to 10 times.

Looking at the '(??ヮ??)ノ' emoticon on the LCD screen, Lan Meng couldn't help laughing.

Although it felt a little strange at first, but now he is familiar with Rotom's emoji, which is something he never dared to think about before, after all, he didn't know how to study it before.

But after a knowing smile, he continued to focus on cooking.

The soul of Napoleon cake lies in the special meringue, but the custard sauce can't be sloppy either.

As one of the most frequently used sauces in French desserts, custard sauce is not only used in Napoleon cakes, but also widely used in bread, puffs and other foods, among which puffs with custard sauce is the most Perfect match!

Caska sauce is different from ordinary cream, but made with egg yolk, white sugar, milk and low-gluten flour.

"Crack~"

The eggshell was lightly knocked on the cooking bowl, and a crack was seen in the egg, and then the egg white continued to flow out with a light shake, and Lan Meng finally opened the egg completely after the egg white was gone, and the only remaining egg yolk was Drop into a side bowl.

Lanmeng successfully completed the separation without even needing a separator. After all, this is also a basic skill for him. After all, there are no such useful props in the kitchen of the star stronghold.

After Lan Meng became familiar with manual exercises, the speed alone was not inferior to those equipment, but the biggest effect was that Lan Meng could do it with only one hand, and he could use the other hand to do other things.

For example————put the moomoo milk that was just shipped this morning into the milk pot to heat it.

These moomoo milks are all produced by the big milk tanks in the farm. Not only does the milk taste mellow, but it also has no fishy smell. The most important thing is that it is rich in nutrients. In the absence of medicines, it can even be used as therapeutic medicine. , but the onset of therapeutic effect is relatively slow, more suitable for nutrition.

Since the arrival of Momoo Milk, Lanmeng has replaced all the dairy products in the store, and the cream in the store is basically made of Momoo Milk.

Of course, he didn't waste all the pastries that were made into cakes and sent to the farm.

There is no doubt that Lembongan's conquest of so many Pokémon on the farm depends on more than just his 'craft'.

Right now, as the temperature in the pot continues to rise, the faint milk fragrance also slowly diffuses, and Lan Meng also knows that it is probably enough.

After turning off the fire and putting down the handle of the milk pot, Lan Meng also started to beat the eggs.

The egg yolk and white sugar gradually began to become fluffy under the stirring of Lan Meng's constantly shaking arms, and the eyes also changed from the initial egg yellow to milk yellow, until the solution became completely thick and could no longer be fluffy. Only then gradually slowed down his movements and slowly added the heated milk and low-gluten flour into the cooking pot and stirred slowly.

The reason for this is to prevent the low-gluten flour from agglomerating.

After stirring evenly, Blue Dream was sieved again.

The seemingly strange steps are actually to ensure that there will be no flour at all, and the taste of the sieved solution will be more delicate after being made into custard sauce. Blue Dream, who is striving for perfection, will naturally not miss this step.

And when all the solutions are mixed, all that's left is to reheat.

Put the solution in a pot and heat it over low heat while stirring constantly to prevent solidification. When it completely turns into a milky white viscous liquid, it is basically declared complete.

It can be used directly after cooling for a period of time.

At the same time, the meringue on the other side has also been baked, and Lan Meng also directly asked Rotom to open the door of the oven after a "ding" to let it dissipate the heat first.

After a while, the puff pastry is ready to use when it is no longer hot to the touch.

French puff pastry is basically composed of 'puff pastry', 'custard sauce' and 'ingredients'. Generally, improvements are made in the step of 'custard sauce', such as adding lemon juice, such as adding vanilla seeds. However, since Lanmeng intends to make the 'classic style', it is natural that everything is made according to the most basic method, and the final ingredients are no exception.

Generally speaking, Napoleon cake will choose seasonal fresh fruits to match.

Blueberries, cranberries, and strawberries are the most commonly used ingredients for Napoleon cakes. In addition, there are also nuts. After all, there were no fruits in winter before.

Lan Meng also took out the cleaned berries, cut them into small portions and put them aside.

According to the method of one layer of crisp, one layer of custard sauce, and one layer of fruit, Lanmeng has built 4 groups.

Even though Lan Meng deliberately controlled the thickness of each layer of custard sauce, the height of the baked puff pastry still exceeded 8cm.

This height is okay for men, but for women, they already need to grow their mouths, but it doesn't matter if the guest is a man right now.

Putting the finished Napoleon cake on the dinner plate, holding a glass of warm milk, Lan Meng strode towards the dining room...

Chapter 7 Lelouch's Interest in Snape

"Shasha~"

In the restaurant where Lan Meng was not there, there was only the sound of pages turning, but the owner of the sound turned a blind eye to each other.

The only difference, though, was that Snape's attention was indeed on the notebook in front of him.

This notebook was 'gifted' to him by the Hogwarts potion science professor, which recorded a lot of data from the other party's previous experiments.

Some of these potions succeeded in the end, but some failed...Of course, it is also possible that the record of success is not in this notebook, but it doesn't matter to Snape, after all, to him now The experience of a potions master...whether it is success or failure experience is invaluable to him.

It's just that compared to the serious Snape, Lelouch on the other side flipped the book more perfunctorily. After all, he just used the flip book to hide himself.

Maybe it was because he observed Snape was discovered before, at this time he didn't look at Snape unscrupulously like before, but just peeked at him from the corner of his eye.

Just as Lan Meng and Snape judged each other as "noble" and "pure blood" according to their appearance, clothing and posture, Lelouch, who was peeking at Snape at this time, couldn't help but lament in his heart that he was really really good today. It was a coincidence.

Originally, it was just because the green-haired woman came out to seek her cleanliness, but she didn't expect that she would meet a nobleman from the 'Holy Britannian Empire'.

That's right, although Snape is not like most of his pure-blooded students who are like a peacock with its tail open all day long to show others the "family heritage", but as a member of Slytherin He still pays more attention to his personal image, coupled with his iconic Western appearance, and the feeling of being out of place with District 11, the only identity Lelouch can think of is probably "Holy Britannian Empire nobleman" up.

As for why, as a prince, he didn't know each other?

When he was young, he was taken as a hostage and sent to the former Neon, and now the 11th district, so why is it so strange that he doesn't know the nobles?

But the key point is that the 'Ashford Academy' he is studying at this time is an aristocratic academy. In theory, the descendants of nobles of the right age in District 11 will go to this academy, and he is a member of the student union. Have not seen each other.

Then there is only one answer—the other party is from China!

It is even very possible that they are the descendants of the nobles who followed their royal brother to District 11!

If the operation is good, maybe you can follow the other party to get in touch with you before you have no chance to get in touch with the circle.

But looking at the other party's 'proud expression unique to nobles', Lelouch felt that the difficulty might be greater than expected.

Although the 'eyes' bestowed on him by that woman are very useful, the two parties have only just met, and their trust in each other is completely a mystery. If possible, Lelouch still wants to use this ability as little as possible, so he is thinking about whether he can You can't rely on speaking skills to get information from the other party, and then capture the nobles in District 11 from the inside, or even use them as a springboard to influence the country.

It is obvious that he has not yet become a 'zero' at this time, and he has not completely abused his ability. If he has become a zero, he might use his ability to control the opponent decisively. Knock down instantly.

Because of CC, Lelouch with the ability of 'absolute command' is indeed a bug-like existence, but it is limited to ordinary people. Snape, who is a wizard, is not so easy to solve.

In this era when Voldemort is making trouble everywhere, whether it is someone who wants to become a Death Eater, or to save his life, the combat effectiveness of wizards in this era is countless times stronger than that of more than ten years ago, let alone Snape He is also outstanding among his peers.

Just now Lelouch was noticed just by looking at him. If he really had malicious intentions towards Snape, he might be hit by Snape's 'split' before he even said his words, right?

For Snape, who has already begun to study 'Shen Feng Invisible', this is one of the most familiar spells he uses at this stage.

But fortunately, the sound of footsteps soon made Lelouch temporarily put down his plan, because Lan Meng had already returned to the restaurant with the food he ordered.

For him, meeting Snape, the 'holy nobleman of the Britannian Empire', was nothing more than an unexpected joy, providing him with an opportunity to attack those guys from the inside, but he did not forget one of the people he came out today The purpose is to relax.

"Really, there are some things that can't be rushed at all...it must be because of the strange things that strange woman said..."

When he thought of that weird girl named CC, he felt a headache.

While rubbing the center of his eyebrows, he smiled and said thank you to Lan Meng in Lan Meng's words of "please use slowly".

Then Lelouch also forced himself to temporarily stop thinking about those moments and focus on the snacks in front of him.

Just as the other party didn't have anything to eat when he came to the store, he just wanted to find a place to rest and think about some problems, so he ordered something incidentally. As for the Napoleon cake, he ordered it just because his sister likes it. portion only.

But when Lan Meng brought up the Napoleon cake, he unconsciously narrowed his eyes.

Lan Meng's craftsmanship seems to be better than he imagined.

It even surpassed the chefs in the school cafeteria. They were the chefs specially invited by the Noble Academy for the heirs of the nobles.

' Just don't know how it tastes other than it looks? '

While thinking about him, he silently picked up the knife and fork next to the dinner plate.

The way to eat Napoleon cake is actually particular.

Some smaller ones are generally eaten in one bite, but the larger, long strips of Napoleon pies made by Lan Meng are more troublesome to eat.

First of all, be careful not to cut it directly when eating, because the only result of doing so is that all the sauces and fruits or nuts flow out of the plate.

The correct way to eat it is to lay the Napoleon cake on its side with a knife and fork like Lelouch at this time, and then cut it with a knife.

"click~"

With a crisp sound, a small piece of Napoleon cake was cut off in an instant.

Although he hadn't entered yet, he nodded silently.

Although he is not a gourmet, he still knows a little about Napoleon cakes because of his background. For example, he can roughly tell whether a Napoleon cake is good or not just by looking at the pastry.

For example, some shops use 'quick folding pie crust' to save trouble, which is the production method that Lanmeng directly gave up.

Flatten and fold the dough mixed with butter several times. Although it can also be crisped because of the butter, it is hard when baked. Although layers can be seen, they can’t really be separated at all.

In contrast, Lanmeng is made with butter wrapped in dough, so that the meringue made in this way can even be peeled off layer by layer if you want.

But even this production method is divided into 'classic folded pie crust' and 'inverted pie crust'.

What Blue Dream makes is the so-called 'Classic Folded Pie Crust'.

The meringue made by this method is not only more complete, it will not be as hard as the "quick folding pie crust" when baked, and it is easy to fall off, and more importantly, it can be easily cut even after visiting for a while, without As for hardening into a rock, you can only chew it with your teeth.

Of course, the reason why Lelouch knew these things was definitely not because his sister liked it.

While thinking about strange things, he gracefully picked up the cut 'Napoleon Cake' with a fork and put it in his mouth.

The movements that have been practiced countless times and the excellent cake made by Lan Meng make it look extremely elegant, even Snape glanced at him without knowing it.

Obviously, the unique aroma of Napoleon cake also attracted the other party's attention.

A normal Lelouch would definitely notice.

It's a pity that at this time his attention has all been on the tongue.

"click~"

When the teeth bite the puff pastry, it cracks instantly, and the puff pastry baked with butter has a unique aroma of fried food. Not only that, the 'Casda sauce' also oozes out and is mixed with the broken puff pastry under the pressure of the teeth. The puff pastry is thoroughly integrated.

The light milk flavor of Lan Meng's carefully made custard sauce is also mixed with a unique sweetness of eggs. With a smooth taste, the cake can be swallowed without much chewing.

"Crack~Crack~"

After seeing that Lelouch seemed to have nothing else to do, Lan Meng also turned back to Snape.

Not only that, Lan Meng also prepared a Napoleon cake for herself and the other party.

Snape didn't refuse.

Although he doesn't know why Lan Meng, a mysterious wizard, likes to make snacks, remembering that one of the four founders of Hogwarts seems to have this hobby as well, and Lan Meng is still from the one who didn't have much communication with them. But there seems to be nothing in the gourmet country that is famous for its gourmet food.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pick up a piece of Napoleon cake and put it in his mouth.

Although Snape's movements were not as perfect as Lelouch's, they both chose the method of side cutting. Obviously Snape also knew something about Napoleon cake.

As for why this happens?

It's very simple, because although Hogwarts is located in England, French dishes are often served in the cafeteria. After all, no matter how stiff the relationship between the two parties is, it can't change that the best restaurants in England are almost all French restaurants.

This also led to the little wizards of Hogwarts not being unfamiliar with French food.

Unsurprisingly, it was also extremely delicious, but Snape couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief as he felt his still clear brain.

"It seems that that day was indeed emotionally affected..."

Obviously at this time Snape was still worried about his sudden loosening of tone that day. He drank a lot of butter beer just now, and now he ate the snacks made by Lan Meng, but he couldn't help it like that day Saying everything...is undoubtedly good news for him.

As for Lan Meng, he smiled and watched the other party eating snacks. After the other party temporarily put down the knife and fork, Lan Meng put down the cup in his hand.

"Let's continue the topic just now..."

As Lan Meng's voice fell, Snape's expression couldn't help becoming serious, and even Lelouch, who was immersed in the delicious food on the other side, unconsciously focused.