[Genshin Impact]: I can become stronger by cooking.

Since the restaurant was already closed, only Louise remained in the kitchen, cleaning up the ingredients.

After all, Chao Ke's notice of closure came suddenly, but the restaurant had prepared enough ingredients for a whole day's use.

According to Chao Ke, this wave of store closures will last at least until the final evaluation, which is two days from now.

Louise would never serve ingredients that had been sitting for two days to diners.

But letting them spoil is a shameful waste.

Therefore, Louise plans to pack them all up first, and then ask Mr. Chao Ke how to deal with them later.

Just as Chao Ke opened the kitchen door, Louise had finished cleaning up the kitchen as well.

Seeing this, Chao Ke looked at his hardworking employee with some embarrassment.

They were so focused on closing the store that they forgot about the fact that the kitchen still had the day's ingredients stored there.

Chao Ke clicked his tongue lightly. If he had thought of this earlier, he should have come and helped.

Seeing the boss arrive, Louise's eyes lit up with joy, and she quickly passed the question of how to handle the ingredients to Chao Ke.

Looking at the pile of cured meat, bread, and various ingredients for making [Fruit Fairy Cheese], Chao Ke fell into thought about how to deal with them.

But in just a few breaths, Chao Ke made a decision.

The kids haven't had a barbecue party in a while, so this is a good opportunity to have some fun with all this food.

Louise wholeheartedly agreed with Chao Ke's suggestion and followed him to move the ingredients to the Bufati Mansion.

Chao Ke wasn't in a hurry to announce the barbecue party to the children.

Instead, I went to my older sister's office first to see if there were any activities planned for tonight.

Arecino looked through it, and it turned out to be a bit unfortunate.

As scheduled, there will indeed be a minor event tonight.

But since it was a barbecue party for children, Arecino didn't want to make things difficult for them.

After all, people who work in this industry...

No one can predict which familiar faces will be missing from the crowd at the next barbecue party.

Arecino pondered for a moment, considering agreeing to Chao Ke's suggestion to postpone tonight's event until tomorrow.

But unexpectedly, Chao Ke's face rapidly magnified in front of her.

A few minutes later.

Looking at the children who had been gathered, Chao Ke announced the good news that a barbecue party would be held that night.

The children cheered for the unexpected good news, their joy was highly contagious, and seeing their genuine happiness, Chao Ke's lips curled into a smile.

But one child in the crowd raised his arm and politely asked Chao Ke a question.

"Warwick, is there a problem?"

Warwick nodded and spoke to Chao Ke.

"Mr. Chao Ke, although I don't want to spoil everyone's fun, it seems there are already activities scheduled for tonight."

Chao Ke patted Warwick's head and said with a smile.

"Children, please don't worry about that."

"After much persuasion, your [Father] has agreed to postpone the event originally scheduled for tonight until tomorrow."

"Yay! Yay!"

The children shouted even more excitedly.

In the office.

Arecino licked her lips, a slight blush on her face.

It's clear that Chao Ke wasn't lying.

His persuasion process certainly required a lot of talking.

Chapter 149 [Lotus Pastry]

After informing the children that a barbecue party would be held tonight and assigning the relevant matters to a few reliable children,

Chao Ke could then continue his life as a hands-off manager.

Back at the [Delicious Taste Restaurant], this time, the restaurant was finally empty.

Chao Ke loosely clenched his five fingers, activating his power over water.

Water elements in the air quickly gathered, forming several water spheres around Chao Ke.

As Chao Ke manipulated his elemental power more delicately, these water spheres began to move up and down within the [Delicious Taste Restaurant], washing away the dust and grease from the entire restaurant.

After all, Funina is still a deity of Fontaine.

Inviting her over as a guest always requires some preparation.

For example, thoroughly cleaning the restaurant inside and out.

Fortunately, given the elemental authority that Chao Ke currently possesses, this task shouldn't take too long.

A few minutes later, the water spheres made of water elements completed their mission.

Chao Ke gathered them together, filtered out the mud and dirt from the water, and then dispersed the collected water back to its original place.

At this moment, the [Jia Zi Wei Restaurant] is bright and clean.

Even in the hard-to-reach corners, there was not a speck of dust or grease.

He sat in the chair, pondering.

The kids still need some time to have their barbecue party, so why not take advantage of this break to learn how to make the lotus-shaped pastry that will be featured in the finals?

[Recipe: Lotus Flower Pastry]

[Description: One of Liyue Harbor's traditional sweets, made by wrapping a flaky pastry in a water-oil dough, then stuffing it with a sweet filling before deep-frying. The pastry unfolds layer by layer like flower petals, a beautiful sight to behold in the palm of your hand.]

Now that the recipe has been obtained, you can enter the God of Cookery's Trial Grounds to practice making this dish.

Would you like to begin practicing?

【whether】

"Yes!"

After confirming the option, Chao Ke's vision went black.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the Chef God's Trial Arena.

Looking at the various ingredients in the small cart beside him, Chao Ke was lost in memories.

The prototype of the Lotus Pastry is probably the Lotus Flower Pastry from its previous life.

However, both lotus-shaped pastries and lotus flower pastries are quite difficult to make.

Compared to Western baking, Chinese pastries have more intricacies and details.

Any mishandling of any step or detail can greatly affect the quality of the final product.

According to the system recipe, making this [Lotus Pastry] requires three colors of pastry: yellow, pink, and red, as well as a filling made primarily of almonds.

Fortunately, Master Mao had taught Chao Ke how to make the pastry, so Chao Ke wasn't intimidated this time.

Chao Ke planned to first make the oil paste needed to make the [Lotus Pastry].

Take an appropriate amount of low-gluten flour and a large amount of lard, mix them together, and start kneading.

Adding more lard is a trick that Master Mao taught Chao Ke. The reason is that when the oil content in the pastry is high, it will fry faster and allow the pastry to burst open quickly.

Judging from Chao Ke's current physical condition, the strength in his hands is no joke.

With just a few "light" kneads on the cutting board, Chao Ke had already processed a large piece of pastry to meet the system's requirements.

Chao Ke placed the prepared pastry in a clean bowl, moved it aside, and cleared the cutting board.

The next step is to make three different colors of oiled leather.

Chao Ke took a suitable basin from the kitchen utensils in the Chef God Trial Grounds, put an appropriate amount of high-gluten flour and a small amount of lard into it, and then added the coloring agent extracted from natural ingredients.

Chao Ke first took a bottle of yellow natural pigment from the trolley, opened the cap, and smelled it.

"So it's a pumpkin. Its golden color is not surprising."

After all, in my previous life, most restaurants served Buddha Jumps Over the Wall or Golden Soup XX, and the color came from a spoonful of pumpkin sauce.

The yellow pigment provided by the system was clear, without a trace of pumpkin residue, showing a commitment to quality.

Pour the clarified pumpkin juice into the mixing bowl, ensuring the flour, lard, and yellow food coloring are in the correct proportions.

Chao Ke reached into the basin and stirred it rapidly and frequently, successfully getting the murky mixture of oil and water into the snow-white flour.

When Chao Ke reached his hand out of the basin, a uniformly colored yellow dough had already formed inside.

Whether the final product, the lotus-shaped pastry, breaks or not, whether the petals fall off, and whether the color remains uniform are all determined by this oily dough.

Chao Ke was naturally not careless. He took the yellow dough out of the basin and repeatedly slapped it on the work surface several times.

This step is also to ensure that the lard and food coloring in the dough are distributed more evenly.

After being pounded and kneaded, the oil dough not only had a uniform color throughout, but even its surface was covered with a layer of luster.

In layman's terms, it means making the oily dough moist.

After the oil dough is kneaded, it needs to rest for a while to allow the elasticity of the dough to dissipate.

If the dough doesn't rest long enough to allow it to relax properly inside.

During the puff pastry process, the dough may break, causing the lotus petals to fall off, and in severe cases, the pastry may even fall apart.

Place a clean bowl upside down over the yellow oil dough and let it rest slowly.

Chao Ke picked up the bowl used for kneading dough and examined it in his hand.

When kneading dough, the goal is to achieve a clean bowl, clean hands, and a clean dough. This applies even to oil-based dough.

Therefore, the basin in Chao Ke's hand was extremely smooth and looked very clean.