How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 282 Adding More Toppings to the Bread

Although the students of Class 8, Grade 11, have almost turned into human gluttons under the subtle influence of Kagawa, they are still the same teenagers who uphold the Five Stresses, Four Beauties, and Three Loves.

Before the meal, squad leader Lu Daiqing instructed that each person could only take one of each type of sandwich, and everyone strictly followed this rule.

Although some people secretly went to the nearby preparation station after taking their sandwiches to add a slice of meat or squeeze an extra spoonful of mayonnaise to their sandwiches, after everyone left, the plates still had a few small sandwiches left for several people.

Meanwhile, the four members of the "A Bite of China" group arranged the sandwiches on a plate, sat around the brick oven, and began to discuss the day's results.

"I never expected that an oven and flour could produce such a chemical reaction. We used to make egg pancakes by frying them directly in oil, and the taste was a bit monotonous."

Aino admired him from the bottom of his heart.

"The connection between flour and fire can be traced back to the origins of human civilization. There must have been fire between humans and carbohydrates. Sometimes it was baked directly in the fire, sometimes it was steamed over water, and sometimes it was baked near a heat source. In short, the consumption of flour is inseparable from a heat source."

Kagawa snorted.

"But if you count it this way, with roast chicken, roast eggs, roast beef, and now toast, that makes four kinds of food, right? That should be enough to prove that this kind of enclosed heating equipment is helpful for cooking, so shouldn't we consider applying for a proper oven?"

Liang Gong said nervously.

Unlike Kagawa, who was eager to see modern ovens, he wasn't particularly impatient. Rather, it was because he was the one who always took the baking trays. The heat wave that hit him when the oven was opened would give him quite a shock, even though he knew the surrounding fire-fighting equipment was in good working order and the brick oven was of good quality. He was still a little scared.

"This is probably not feasible for the time being. The main reason is that the mechanized ovens used as modern processing equipment for staple foods cannot produce enough food samples at present. If it is only for making bread, the people in the Agriculture Bureau will probably only allow the construction of more brick ovens for safety reasons."

Ouyang Yating poured cold water on the idea.

"Sample size...does that mean we need to make even more varieties of bread?"

Kagawa stroked his chin thoughtfully.

Ouyang Yating nodded.

"It's not just about having more varieties; ideally, it should be like today, with differences in the way it's eaten, the types of ingredients it's paired with, the taste... You know, closed internal dry heating equipment has been banned for civilian use for many years."

"Getting the government to lift the ban means they have to withstand pressure from the First Fleet and enforce the law. So if we want them to become our assistants, we have to produce a large quantity of finished products that will impress the Agriculture Bureau."

These words helped Kagawa sort out some information.

However, there are different kinds of bread...

She turned on the screen and looked up a list of traditional European and American breads on Geegle.

In the 21st century, Europe and America are the main consumer markets for bread, and they have a long history of eating bread, so the variety of bread is even richer than that of steamed buns in China.

However, the only bread I actually tasted in Kagawa was freshly baked bread from some chain bakeries or small handmade workshops near my rented apartment in the 21st century. Those places sold common types of bread such as round loaves, toast, and red bean buns.

Although the breads from Europe and America that appeared on Geegle were accompanied by pictures and descriptions, Kagawa had never personally tasted most of them, so she didn't know which breads tasted or were eaten differently from the breads she had tasted in the 21st century.

It seems I'll be spending a lot of time researching bread for the next few days. Kagawa sighed.

Seeing that Kagawa was silent in front of the screen, Ouyang Yating and the other two did not disturb her, but instead turned their attention to the small sandwiches on the plate.

"It's amazing that people in ancient times could think of such a way of using it, sandwiching raw vegetables and cooked meat and protein between baked flour?"

Aino used a fork to pry open the toast on top of one of the small sandwiches.

"This is nothing, do you remember the cakes we made before? The cake base was steamed, and the cream on the outside was made from raw eggs and milk. The fruit on top was even more raw."

Ouyang Yating wasn't particularly surprised.

"That makes sense... Hey, Ya-ting, you said we can spread cream on cake bases, so can we spread it on bread too?"

Suddenly, Aino had a brilliant idea.

"Is he going to come up with some crooked idea again?" Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong looked at him warily.

When Kagawa was instructing the students on how to cook simple prepared foods at school, he would tell them every time he presented a new recipe: "Don't improvise when cooking. You can adjust the seasonings according to your own taste, but don't add anything that's not in the recipe." "That's fine, that's fine."

However, this time Kagawa broke her own warning. While her eyes remained fixed on the screen, she continued talking, giving them a brief explanation:
"These kinds of fruit sandwiches are sold in some bakeries and convenience stores in the 21st century. They're made with butter spread in the middle of toast and fruit added, but they're more like desserts than a main meal?"

"what?"

The three were extremely surprised, and even Aino, who had proposed the idea, was amazed by the ingenuity of the ancients.

Rive, who had been listening quietly to the four of them chatting, couldn't help but open his mouth slightly to express his surprise.

"Just as rice is the staple food of several major countries and surrounding regions in the 21st century, bread made from wheat was once the staple food of several continents on Earth. So it is not surprising that in the centuries-long history of bread consumption, the imaginative ancient people came up with all sorts of ways to eat bread, just as rice can be made into desserts."

Kagawa added casually.

"what?"

Even Riviera couldn't help but join in the chorus of surprised exclamations.

Rice? Dessert?
Their current impression of desserts is limited to things like cakes, yam rolls, and double-skin milk pudding. How did they associate white rice with these things?

The four's meager imaginations are now somewhat overloaded and have crashed.

Kagawa glanced at them, shrugged, and continued flipping through his documents.
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"Why is it so quiet over here? Did you make a mistake again and get scolded by Kagawa?"

Nancy walked over with a smile, carrying her lunchbox.

"No, they're just refreshing their worldview."

Kagawa stretched and looked up at her.

"What? Still not enough to eat? There are a few more sandwiches here, you can take them if you're hungry."

Nancy waved her hand, shook the lunchbox in her hand, and placed it on the table.

"No, no, I'm saving room for pork for tonight. I just came to show you the new combination I came up with."

Ouyang Yating and the other three turned to look at the lunchbox that Nancy had placed on the table. The sandwiches in the lunchbox originally contained only one type of ingredient, but now they were a combination of three ingredients, although the portion was only one-third of the normal size.

"You've got some ideas, haven't you?"

Kagawa sighed.

"If there were more kinds of ingredients, I could make a mini version of [a certain brand of meat]," she thought to herself.

However, this piqued everyone's interest. There were still a few uneaten sandwiches on their plates, so they started to try Nancy's method of combining ingredients to see which sandwich suited their taste better.

"Sigh, if only this bread were bigger, I could put all sorts of things on it."

"It's a pity," Aino said.

"This is already quite big, how much bigger do you want?"

Kagawa looked up at him helplessly.

"Can it be as big as a dinner plate?"

Aino pointed to the half-meter-wide plate on the table.

"Then this isn't bread, it's pizza," Kagawa thought to himself, cursing inwardly.

...pizza?
This seems like... worth a try?
Kagawa stroked her chin, increasingly convinced that this new direction was quite promising. Her eyes lit up, and she reopened her light screen to begin researching pizza recipes.

Ten minutes later, she silently turned off the screen.

...How about we get the cheese sorted out first?