The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 32 Bread and Juice
We slowly made our way down the mountain.

At the fork in the road at the foot of the mountain, Moran parted ways with Vasita and Sylph.

She went straight back to her dormitory, while Vasita and Sylph took the right fork in the road. One of them was going to the food distribution point, and the other wanted to go to the farmland to find Bier.

Back in her dorm, she took out a basket of breadfruit and started experimenting with different cooking methods.

Heating would destroy the restorative magic effect of breadfruit, so Moran simply used the cold pickling method.

Similar to pickled plums, cut breadfruit into small pieces, flatten them with the back of a knife, and marinate them with different seasonings.

I made a small dish of each of the following: sugar-cured, salted, and salty-spicy.

The marinating time is expected to be between half an hour and two hours.

Then, I used a lot of salt to marinate a small jar of plums overnight. After draining the water, I added minced garlic and rock sugar. This process is to marinate for a week.

It's a pity there was no soy sauce, otherwise she could have marinated another portion with soy sauce.

After finishing these steps, Moran began trying to juice the breadfruit.

There was no juicer in the dormitory kitchen, so she could only cut the breadfruit into small pieces, put them in a bowl, and then use a wooden pestle to slowly press out the juice.

When eaten raw, breadfruit feels quite substantial, similar to the texture of an apple.

But when it came to actually juicing, five or six breadfruits filled a whole bowl, and it only made one cup of thick breadfruit juice. It even had to be squeezed and filtered several times.

Moran took a bite, and the sourness was so intense that she didn't want to try a second bite. It was several times more sour than eating raw breadfruit.

But it's okay, she has another way.

She made a pot of honey water with warm water, added a lot of white sugar, stirred it thoroughly until dissolved, and then took a sip.

It's incredibly sweet, the complete opposite of breadfruit juice.

While waiting for the honey and sugar water to cool, Moran activated her energy vision and began tasting the breadfruit she had pickled earlier.

The sugar-cured breadfruit pieces are sweet at first bite, but the sweetness is quickly overwhelmed by the sourness once you bite into them.

The salted ones are the same, only they taste saltier.

The initial taste is slightly better than eating it raw, but after that it's about the same.

The feeling of fullness was not affected, and under the energy vision, Moran also saw that after eating the two plates of breadfruit, his energy aura brightened slightly, indicating that the effect of restoring magic power was not affected.

It seems that cold marinating is indeed a viable option, but short-term marinating doesn't allow the flavors to penetrate well enough, and the texture isn't significantly improved. Those marinated in jars, however, might develop a better texture over time.

The remaining salty and spicy flavors are salty and spicy at first, followed by sour and spicy. The sour and spicy flavors mix together, enhancing each other's power, creating an endless aftertaste. Before I could even finish one bite, I was already wiping away tears and snot.

Moran didn't even have time to observe the recovery of her magic before gulping down several large glasses of water. It took several minutes for her to recover.

Once she calmed down, she immediately eliminated the salty and spicy flavors.

One bite and the breadfruit wasn't enough to fill me up; it was so spicy I had to drink water until I was stuffed. It was even more unbearable than eating raw breadfruit.

Her stomach was so bloated that even though the honey water had cooled down, Moran had to wander around the room until she could digest it before continuing, otherwise she was afraid she would throw up.

After strolling around for a while, feeling a bit more energetic, Moran started adding honey water to the bread juice, dipping it in the mixture to taste.

It wasn't until the entire pot of sugar syrup was added that the flavor became a normal, sweet and sour, palatable fruit juice.

Moran took a few small sips and observed the changes in the brightness of her aura. To her surprise, she found that these few sips had the same restorative effect as eating a small plate of pickled breadfruit before.

She took a few more sips, and sure enough, she wasn't mistaken!
Perhaps it was because several breadfruits were used to make the juice; indeed, concentrated juice is the essence. Since her magic hadn't fully returned, she drank a few more sips.

As she drank, Moran sensed something was wrong; she touched her stomach.
"Judging from the recovery effect, the satiety effect should be very strong too! How come my stomach doesn't feel particularly bloated even though the energy aura has brightened a bit?"

This effect doesn't seem right; it probably doesn't affect the feeling of fullness!

I wasn't planning on bothering my friends tonight, but I couldn't resist now.

Soon after, Lilith, Vasita, and Sylph arrived upon hearing the news.

"Try it!" Moran poured each of them a glass of honey bread juice.

"Made by Moran, I know the taste can't be wrong without even tasting it!" Vasida praised before even taking a sip.

After all, it's backed by a world with a rich food culture!
"That's because you didn't see the terrible state I was in when I tried other things." Moran still gets goosebumps when she thinks about it now.

Vasita asked curiously, "What is it? Can it taste even worse than breadfruit?"

"If you put it that way, I'll let you try it!" Moran was glad she hadn't had time to throw away that small dish of salty and spicy breadfruit.

He turned around and brought it over, thoughtfully placing it in front of Vasita.

"..." Vasita wanted to slap herself!

"Chili peppers? And garlic? Raw?" Lilith wrinkled her nose. "I really can't imagine what breadfruit, chili peppers, and garlic would taste like raw! But I've had this kind of chili pepper before, it's not very spicy! Vasita, just be careful not to eat any garlic bits."

Vasita accepted Lilith's suggestion, peeled away the minced garlic, and picked up a small piece.

Moran quietly brought her a large teapot.

Vasida jumped up and down from the spiciness the next second, and Moran just in time put the teapot in her hands, which she then chugped away.

Moran was not surprised. He turned around and went to the washroom to get a wet towel. After Vasita calmed down a bit, he smeared the towel on her face and wiped away her tears and snot.

Vasida was completely stunned by the spiciness. She looked at Lilith accusingly: "Senior! You tricked me!"

Lilith didn't believe it at all; she even thought Vasida was acting!

She picked up a piece and put it in her mouth: "How can it be so spicy! I grew these peppers myself... Ha! So refreshing! So refreshing!"

She ate too quickly, and Moran hadn't had time to pour her water.

Lilith couldn't take it anymore and used the Clear Spring spell to pour the water into her mouth.

The first thing I did after catching my breath was ask, "Why is it so spicy!"

"The sourness of the breadfruit must have brought out the spiciness of the chili peppers," Moran said.

Sylph, the only survivor, was extremely grateful that she was a slow-paced person, which saved her from disaster.

She quickly took a sip of honey breadfruit juice to calm her nerves.

The next moment, his eyes lit up: "It's delicious! You guys should try this!"

Upon hearing this, Vasita and Lilith also took a sip.

"It really tastes good!"

"Compared to that salty and spicy pickled breadfruit from before, it's like night and day!"

(End of this chapter)