The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 121 Food Card

Ms. Amisa left too quickly, and the little witches had to rely on the textbook to figure out the precautions for infecting broom grass on their own.

The book said that the longer the infection lasted, the better, so the little witches infected the broom grass sprouts several times.

The little witches didn't leave until it got dark in the greenhouse and they could see through the glass roof that it was night.

After passing the food distribution point, the little witches picked up the vegetable baskets they had left at the door when they arrived at noon and went inside to select ingredients for today's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast and lunch.

Moran, carrying her shopping basket, didn't go to the sugar and honey shelf as usual. Instead, she went to the meat and egg section and took half a tartar chicken, a few quail eggs, a small bag of rice from the grain shelf, a variegated eggplant from the vegetable section, and then some red peppers, garlic, green peppers, ginger, scallions, and other seasonings. Finally, she picked out some various kinds of small mushrooms.

Vasita was making mushroom soup tonight and was picking out mushrooms here when she saw Moran coming over and glanced at her basket:
"Huh? Isn't today Friday? Why are you suddenly getting ingredients? Are you planning to cook?"

Except on weekends when you can see Moran coming to get proper ingredients, she usually comes with sugar and honey to make bread, fruit cakes, and fruit juice.

Today is an exception.

Moran nodded: "Tonight I plan to make chicken stew with mushrooms and spicy chicken, tomorrow morning I'll make steamed egg custard with quail eggs, and for lunch I'll make braised eggplant with soy sauce..."

"You've come to your senses? You're planning to eat three meals a day properly?" Vasita asked in surprise.

"I've finished proofreading the workbooks and have plenty of time. I plan to take advantage of the unlimited supply of ingredients at the ingredient distribution center and practice my cooking magic as well," Moran said. "If I don't practice now, there will be more restrictions starting in second year."

Apart from meat and eggs, they grow everything that can be grown themselves.

Back then, the cost of making a dish was much higher.

Although her cooking magic is only at the apprentice level right now, cooking with magic is sometimes not as fast as cooking by hand.

But once she reaches a higher level, it really does save her a lot of time and improve her standard of living.

“It should have been done long ago!” Vasita said. “But what is spicy chicken? What is Dudu bird steamed egg custard? And what is braised eggplant in soy sauce?”

She knew about chicken tartar stew with mushrooms. She had seen it prepared in the "Gourmet Guide of Valen Continent".

"Spicy chicken is made by stir-frying chicken pieces with red chili peppers, Dudu bird steamed egg is made by cracking eggs, adding water and steaming, and finally sprinkling on chopped green onions, sesame oil and soy sauce, and braised eggplant is made by braising eggplant with soybean paste and light soy sauce!" Moran explained simply.

"Soybean paste? Light soy sauce? Soy sauce?" Sylph, who had just arrived, said she didn't understand: "It sounds like condiments? I've never seen them at the ingredient distribution area. What are they?"

“These are all seasonings from Earth; they’re not available at the ingredient distribution center,” Moran said.

"You made this yourself?" Vasita asked. "I didn't see you collect the ingredients!"

“Because… they were all made using the Book of Cards.” Moran summoned the Book of Cards and pulled out a handful of cards from it.

“{Food Card - Dark Soy Sauce}, {Food Card - Light Soy Sauce}, {Food Card - Soybean Paste}, {Food Card - Sesame Oil}, {Food Card - Spicy Hot Pot Base}…”

Vasita and Sylph's eyes fell on the last few hot pot base cards and they were stunned: "Wait! Hot pot base cards?"

“Use the card to get a serving of spicy hot pot base…” Vasida read out the card’s effect.

"Moran! Is it the same spicy hot pot you made before?" Sylph's mouth started watering uncontrollably.

“Yes,” Moran said.

Before enrolling in school, she planned to learn cooking magic, then make her own soy sauce, and finally make Dudu bird egg custard for herself.

Later, the Book of Cards helped her achieve this. She knew how to make these things, and by feeding the Book of Cards a portion of the materials, she could use magic to create the corresponding cards.

Basically, you can make one with less than 1 Mana of magic.

She can save at least several hundred mana every day. Making seasonings such as soy sauce and sesame oil is troublesome, so using cards to make them is much more convenient than making them by hand.

And it still tastes like the old-established brands from Blue Star.

In fact, she can not only make seasoning cards, but also turn the finished dishes she makes into cards.

However, the production cost is higher, starting at 1 mana and capping at 4 mana. The more complex the finished dish, the higher the cost.

Moreover, food cards made with ingredients that are not found on Blue Star but are unique to Valen, such as Dudu Bird Egg Custard, require her to make them herself in order to create the cards.

All things considered, it consumes more energy than cooking with her own cooking magic. If she could make the finished product herself, she would still use cooking magic.

So for now, she has only made some seasoning cards that require complex production processes.

Furthermore, the headmaster forbids her from selling ready-made food cards to the little witches, but seasonings are fine.

She made these cards because she's been cooking more often lately and practicing her cooking skills.

"Enough said, Moran, give me one hot pot base card, no! Ten cards!" Vasida said generously without even asking the price.

Sylph was short on magic power, but still asked, "How much is the red oil hot pot base card?"

"Two mana for one!" Moran followed the old rule, selling at five times the price. For orders less than one mana, she increased the portion to make it one mana: "Boil it in water, and you can cook meat and vegetables in it."

Sylph calculated the magic she had left for the day. She needed to save half to maintain her natural magic regeneration rate tomorrow, and she still had 6 mana left over: "I want 3!"

"Okay!" Moran smiled and made cards for them, then signed the trade agreement.

The purple gem in the Book of Cards has stored up some more energy.

Having received the hot pot base card, the ingredients in the basket no longer seemed quite right.

"Wait a minute! I'll go get some more ingredients!" Vasita said.

Sylph did the same, returning to the ingredient collection point.

Seeing how excited they were, Moran guiltily touched her nose.

She made the card the day before yesterday, but then she had to finish her Planting Magic class and take a broom grass cultivation class. She only remembered to tell Vasita and Sylph when we were talking about soy sauce.

"Why did Vasita and Sylph go back again?" Ais and Alba, who had just finished selecting their ingredients, came out and saw the two of them rushing back. They asked curiously.

Moran's card-selling spirit has awakened again. She's a culinary master and a heavy user of seasonings!

"Would you like a hot pot base card? And soy sauce cards, soybean paste cards too..."

Oh, right, Ais likes cooking meat dishes, so Moran added a few more: "Do you need a spice packet card or a cooking wine card?"

"What is all this?" Ais and Alba were completely confused.