Still Loved Even In The New World
CHAPTER 21: Making Chocolate

I opened my eyes, then got out of bed. When I looked out of the window, I saw that the sky was still dark. I estimated that this was still a long time before sunrise, at least a few hours.

I took a warm bath and changed my clothes with a little maid outfit that I accidentally kept. I used it on a whim, I got it from the Lucky Draw event. it's actually a junk item that doesn't give any buffs, but somehow I kept it until now.

using magic, my wet hair can be quickly dried. To make it easier to move, I tie my hair into a ponytail.

looking at the bed, it seemed like I did not disturb Felmina's sleep.Maybe Felmina was sleeping too late and exhausted, she was currently sleeping very well.

I walked up to her and poked at the fleshy little baby's cheeks.The feeling of being a big sister is incredible, especially if your sister is a sweet little sister.

I fixed the position of the blanket so that he did not get cold. finished improving, I immediately went down and headed to the kitchen to make chocolate.

I got cocoa beans from someone I met while sneaking away to town.The guy used cocoa as feed for livestock.

how can I bear with the good things that are wasted?. I immediately buy all the cocoa beans carried by that person. he carried about one cart of cocoa beans and sold them for only two silver coins.

because I only brought Alterion silver coins, so I bought along with the entire garden that man owned.

one Silver Alterion coin equivalent to one platinum coin can buy an estate?!. isn't this amazing?!.

that person deliberately bred cocoa for sale as animal feed.The land he used was also very large, equivalent to the land I bought from the trading guild back then.

in addition, I also hired the farmer to look after the garden for me and gave him a salary of four silvers a month. For ordinary people, four silvers is a very big money, he said, usually by selling those cocoa beans, he would only get less than two silvers.

as I entered the kitchen, I saw Jors preparing some groceries.

Filia:"Jors.What are you doing?"

hearing my voice, Jors turned around in surprise then quickly approached me. He did his usual nobility etiquette towards me. I also reciprocated his politeness and tried to get used to things like this.

Jors:"I was preparing the ingredients to prepare the breakfast, miss. Then, what is the lady doing?. This is still three times the sand before sunrise"

three times of sand is equivalent to three hours. In this world, they use an hourglass as a time marker.I once measured how long one piece of sand was when I first heard it, I found that one hour in half was about an hour or so for an hour.

the principle works easily.assume if the sun will rise at around six in the morning, three times the sand before six in the morning is equivalent to three hours before six in the morning. so I woke up at about three in the night.

Filia:"I want to make something. Jors, will you help me?"

Jors:"of course, miss. Then what can this Jors do?"

I immediately pulled Jors' arm and took him to the back garden illuminated by the light stone. I took Jors near the tree trunk and showed him two large wooden boxes covered with a grove of flower bushes.

Jors:"miss.what is this?"

without answering Jors' doubts, I opened the box and the unpleasant scent immediately spread.

Filia:"this is the cacao bean I fermented. Now help me bring this cacao bean to the kitchen"

although I can easily carry it, or put it in storage, but what's wrong with asking others for help?!.

although confused, Jors brought one of the boxes and I put the other box into Storage. After arriving at the kitchen, I immediately used magic to clean the fermented cocoa beans.

then use another magic to dry it slowly to dry. after dry the cocoa beans must be roasted to ripen it and facilitate stripping from the skin of his ari. usually will take about two hours, will take, so to save time, I used an item that could speed up time.it was in the form of a small hourglass with blue sand.if you put the item on an object, you put it on a piece, then the time of the object will be accelerated to 2.5X. so to roast cocoa beans only takes about twenty-four minutes.

roasting is also intended to develop the character of a distinctive chocolate flavor. In the process of roasting the color of cocoa beans will turn brown and smell chocolate. After roasting, the cocoa beans will break apart, the outer shell breaking off leaving the cocoa bean flakes. At this point, we have something edible, which is really chocolate, and it tastes really bitter. For the meat, an alkaline solution (dutched process) is added to reduce the sour taste and make the nib darker.

next is the process of grinding. The roasted cocoa nibs are then ground and ground to form mass cacao. Cocoa mass does not contain alcohol and can also be interpreted as chocolate liquid. Cocoa mass can be squeezed to become cocoa fat or cocoa powder, or printed and compacted into bitter chocolate.

To make cacao, the cocoa mass is squeezed hydraulically to get the fat portion of the cacao from the cocoa mass, leaving the cocoa cakes. Cocoa fat will be used for medicines, cosmetics, and of course in the manufacture of chocolate. And the rest of the other cocoa solids are smoothed into cocoa powder.

Now to the chocolate section. The cocoa mass itself is actually bitter and not so soft. To make different types of chocolate (to make it sweet and develop its texture), it is necessary to add some other ingredients in certain quantities such as sugar, cocoa fat, vanilla, and milk. The ingredients will be mixed into a paste with a consistent dough.

we can eat this now, and it tastes pretty good, but it's not quite the same texture as what you would normally imagine as a chocolate bar. At this stage, the sugar and cocoa were still quite coarse so I would work around this by putting this mixture into distillation, as well as into rollers, to improve the texture and soften the paste. This stage is very important to determine how soft this chocolate will be when eaten.

the roller itself I made using wood and operated manually with the help of Jors

To smooth out the texture, and to really bring out the chocolate flavor, the mixture then enters the conching process. Conching is a taste development process in which chocolate is placed on a constant stirring process for hours.

even after using the hourglass of time, I still had to stir it until the sun started to rise. This conching process reduces moisture, removes all sour flavors, and coats each chocolate article with a layer of cocoa fat. Later, the resulting chocolate will be softer in texture and also in taste.

this process should require a Conching tool, but because the tool does not exist, so we will use magic. slowly the chocolate floated in the air and stirred strongly like using a machine. now I realize how easy it is to use magic.

after all that process is now time for printing. I made a mold from wood with magic ⟨⟨Modeling⟩⟩ to create various shapes.there are small beam-shaped, round shape, round shape, and others in sizes as big as the tip of the little finger.

there are also many square-shaped wooden molds with holes on the top.The brown liquid, poured through a hole on top of the wooden box and then in the cold right.

to cool down, I just need to use ice magic and the chocolate will harden quickly.

after it was cold, I put the small chocolates into a beautiful clear glass jar. Because quite a lot, I produced about 40 large jars. and all the square molds were opened split in two. inside it looked brown with a cute bear shape big enough to eat five to six people.in addition to the bear, the bear, the other word-print also contains various forms including, swans, dragons, birds and others that look like beautiful works of art.

throughout the process, Jors simply stared in amazement and daze.In addition to Jors I also saw the chef and waiter who used to serve in the kitchen was staring stupidly at the door.

I didn't even realize when they were coming. Was I too focused on making chocolate?.

looking at them, I just smiled and put all the chocolate into the storage and left only one jar on the table, it already contained about 30 chocolate-sized bars large enough for two bites.

"what just happened?"

there were some people who had witnessed, but even they did not know what had happened just now.is cooking?.what magic?.what is this.

Filia: "there is no need to think too much about it!. Now try this and let me hear your opinion"

(the end of this chapter)