I Am Sought After by Everyone in a Different World Where the Power and Chastity of Men and Women Are Reversed - 22

Chapter 22: Natural Yeast Bread

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Other than the unexpected visit from Countess Rachel, there hadn’t been any major incident ever since than. Just like this, a week had passed since I came to this world. 

Today, the treatment center was closed. Normally, I would be working at the treatment center from noon until the evening. To be fair, I didn’t spend that much time at the treatment center, but still, having a day off once in a while felt nice. 

Of course, the possibility of emergency patients coming in was never 0. We already made prior preparation for this. The Adventurers’ Guild would be contacting us at the party house if there was an emergency. In fact, just yesterday, I had an emergency patient coming in in the middle of the night. 

“Ooh, the dough is rising nicely.”

“You’ve been busy since yesterday. Just what are you making?”

“Oh. I’m making bread.”

“Bread?”

Yes. I had been experimenting with various things since the second day of arriving in this world. Bread was basically the staple food in this world, but all the bread was hard. I didn’t know about other kingdoms or towns, but at least in this town, all the bread sold was hard bread. 

Growing up, I was used to eating soft rice and soft bread. Eating hard bread for every meal was really tough on me. Hence why I began to conduct an experiment to improve the bread in this town. If this town didn’t have soft bread, I figured I should just make it myself. 

“Okay. Now I just need to punch it to release the gash and let it go through a second fermentation before baking it.”

I bought several fruits and clay pots from the market using the coins I had received from treating people. I boiled the pot and purified the pot with magic. Then, I boiled a jug of water and while waiting for the boiling water to cool down, I chopped the fruits into small pieces. Then I put the fruits into the pot and added a small amount of sugar. I sealed the pot shut with cooled water and stirred the content a little bit every morning and night. I repeated this process for 5-6 days and eventually, they started producing fizzy white foam. This was the moment I knew the natural fruit yeast water was ready to use. 

Actually, I experimented with various types of fruits and different quantities of fruits in each pot. Only about a third of them succeeded. The rest of the pot either smelled strange or didn’t produce any fizzy foam at all. 

Back to the dough. I mixed wheat flour, salt, sugar, milk and the natural yeast water I had made. I kneaded it together and let it sit overnight. Once the dough had risen significantly more than before, I punched it down to release the gas.

Now, after a few hours had passed, the dough had finished its second fermentation.

“Then, Flora, please help me with the rest.”

“Leave it to me.”

I put the dough into the oven. By the way, since the oven hadn’t been used since… Forever. I took my time to thoroughly clean it until I deemed it was safe enough to use. 

I asked Flora to help me heat up the oven quickly with her fire magic. We carefully watched the fire, adjusted the head accordingly as the bread baked. 

“Nice, nice… Looks like it’s coming along well.”

“Oh, it smells delicious.”

“It looks more plump and soft than regular bread.”

“That’s right. Please let me know which one tastes the best.”

I tore off a piece of the fluffiest, largest loaf and tasted it. 

“Oh! Yup! This is definitely passable enough!”

Of course, the bread I baked was not as fluffy, fragrant and flavourful as the bread from my original world. But at least, the texture of this bread was much better than the hard bread sold in this town. Not to mention, this bread was freshly baked. Of course it would taste better than the hard bread we usually ate. 

‘Whoa! It’s softer and tastier than the usual bread!”

“What the heck?! It tastes completely different from the bread we eat every day!”

“-?! It’s soft and delicious…”

Yeah, this bread also tasted pretty good. If I remember correctly, this bread was made using yeast from apple-like fruit. The previous one was made with yeast from grape-like fruit. So far, both yeast produced a fluffy and delicious bread. 

“I’m thinking of selling this bread. Do you think it will sell?”

“Yeah, it will definitely sell! I’d buy it even if it’s a bit more expensive than the usual bread.”

“Me too. I’d buy it even if it’s double the price of the usual bread.”

“I’d buy it as well. It’s really delicious.”

Their reaction was quite positive. That being said, I wouldn’t price it too high. The cost of fruit in this world wasn’t that high and since I could bake a lot of bread with just one pot of yeast, I would only price it at 10% higher than the usual bread at most. 

“If possible, I want the orphanage to bake this bread. Can you guys help me with it?”

In addition to the first orphanage I had visited with Riche, I also visited the two other orphanages in this town. Although the two other orphanages were in a slightly better condition than Riche’s orphanage, but it seemed none of the children in all those three orphanages were getting enough food to eat. All of the children looked pretty thin. 

While I could keep donating money and food to the orphanage, but no one could tell what the future held. The Guild Master would be receiving a reply from the capital soon, and depending on the reply, we might need to leave this town. 

It would be best if the orphanages could earn money and it would be double the benefit if I could also just get the bread from the orphanage. I liked cooking, but baking bread every single day would be troublesome to do. 

“Yeah, of course!”

“Leave it to us!”

“We will do our best to help.”

Alright, I guess we would head to the market in the afternoon to buy the necessary items and talk to various people. I was still an amateur in making bread. I had my own limitations, so it would be best if we could also get an actual professional baker to join us instead. 

Also, I wanted to build a stone oven at the orphanage and maybe had a food stall in the shape of a cart or something to sell the bread with.

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T/N: Whoa… Instead of introducing mayonnaise, MC is going to introduce soft bread? This is new! Most isekai trope will introduce soy sauce or mayonnaise first (≧▽≦)