lina managed to get really good insight from Leliana. The girl had rather sensitive tastebuds and was brutally honest when she didn't like the flavor. Two sauces were effectively eliminated right from the start. She claid that they tasted more like sweetened dicine than actual caral.
Satisfied with Leliana's opinion, lina gave her three feyfruit and two saplons. lina had many to spare, although she had her doubts about whether the girl would be able to grow the magical fruit in the Human Realm. Feyfruit needed lots of ambient mana for it to grow properly. Saplon would be even harder to grow with their… special growing conditions.
But lina didn't intend to rain on Leliana's parade. She had looked pleased to receive the fruit, so she figured that perhaps it would lessen their feud if only a little bit.
After Leliana left, lina gave Gilbert the caral sauces to try. He confird that the two samples the redhead identified as too dical were indeed unsuited for pastry purposes. That saddened lina a little since they happened to be the most potent ones retaining both a strong healing ability and the effect.
But out of the two remaining samples, one had a good healing effect and a pleasant flavor, so lina was determined to use it to create her healing pastry.
"What kind of pastry would best work with caral sauce?" lina asked the old baker after they were done sampling.
"Caral is versatile. You can just drizzle it over pastries for additional sweetness. It'd work well on tarts, in rolls, you could even make puff pastries with caral filling inside."
lina thought about it. It felt too easy. She wanted these healing pastries to shine on their own, instead of just having the caral sauce drizzled on whatever first touched her fingers.
"Or I suppose we could make sothing new," Gilbert said, noticing the hesitation on lina's face. "How about so caral cream puffs?"
"Cream puffs?" lina asked excitedly. There weren't many tis she had eaten the dessert—she could probably count it on her fingers. It also has been at least ten years since she's eaten a cream puff. But even so she could still vaguely recall the lightness of the dessert. Who wouldn't want to eat a cream puff instead of dicine?
"Yes. It would do you good to learn how to make choux pastry."
"Choux pastry?" lina blinked. "We can't just use bread dough or puff pastry?"
"System, no! Those are not suitable for cream puffs at all. I'll show you how to make it properly tomorrow after we're done with our work in the bakery," Gilbert said.
"Yes! Thank you. I'll go make more caral sauce," lina said eagerly but was stopped in her tracks when Gilbert cleared his throat.
"Aren't you forgetting sothing?"
"Forgetting what?" lina asked.
She thought hard, going through a list of tasks she might have forgotten. The shop and the kitchen were clean, dough for tomorrow was already proving in the storage room and garden plants were taken care of. Leliana even reprimanded lina for letting the weeds grow wild, so she'd picked those out. The day had been quite busy for her.
"I'm surprised that you've forgotten about your lordling. Isn't the letter from my supposed friend long overdue by now?"
lina gasped in shock. "I forgot!"
How could I forget? That is like one of the most important things I needed to take care of. Even if the Church was on my heels and I was busy with Monster Realm and creating the new healing pastry, I should have written him that letter.
Gilbert sighed. "I thought I was supposed to be old and forgetful."
"Your mory clearly is not bound by your age. Thank you, Master!" lina said, hurriedly removing her apron. She needed to compose that letter this evening and give it to Alistair tomorrow morning when he stopped by the bakery.
After getting inkpen and paper from the living room, lina returned to her room and sat down at her desk with the full intention of writing the letter for Alistair. She'd have to tell him the location of the Architect so he could find it and get rid of
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