lina had never expected to have such trouble with a re pastry. Sure, the bread dough was tough to get right the first ti, and making puff pastry felt like an absolute nightmare at first. But choux pastry was on a different scale entirely, and she soon regretted having wanted to incorporate her healing caral into sothing new.
The whole afternoon and evening after she gave the letter to Alistair, lina concentrated fully on making the choux pastry. Mostly it was to keep her depressing thoughts at bay. But she did want to get the healing cream puffs right as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, the first batch was… unusable. Aside from the first few pastries piped by Master Gilbert, the shape for the rest was far too inconsistent. So were too small to be even considered pastries, and so were too large and had sunken in on themselves. Luckily for lina, Sienna liked the flavor of the pastries and eagerly ate all of her failures.
The next batch was better. Few rare pastries actually looked the way they should and most were usable enough to be filled. The only downside was that during the piping process, lina had accidentally squeezed too much dough out the other end, wasting a good portion of it.
"If you can't hold the bag closed then tie a knot at the end," Gilbert grumbled, watching the whole disastrous debacle as he cooked dinner for them both. A soup made from fresh sorrel which lina had found on the far side of the garden.
"I've tried doing that, but when I tie the knot, so of the dough always cos out!"
"Then don't overfill the bag so much!"
lina continued struggling with the choux, making a whole heap of them. Apparently, it was alright to make them even a day or two before serving which was great news. It ant she could prepare the choux the previous day and fill them in the morning.
The problem was that if lina kept adding new things to the nu, she'd eventually run out of ti to make them all. She'll either have to stop making so of the older pastries or have to rotate the selection by days. Rotation was plausible but it could leave so custors unsatisfied when they ca for that one specific item they wanted.
If only we had sobody to help out. It would make it easier to offer new things, and the kitchen is easily large enough for two or three more people to work simultaneously.
But once again, the problem ca down to money. Anyone they would try to hire would cost the money which at the mont, they didn't have. Hiring an apprentice could mitigate this issue, but lina was already well aware of Gilbert's thoughts about apprentices.
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