episode_0024

Unfortunately, there are only a few dishes that can be made with spices alone.

When I thought about it, if I wanted to use red pepper powder in ‘cooking’, I had to drastically increase the amount used. It wasn’t that difficult to get garlic, which is a frequent ingredient in Korean dishes, but the real problem lay elsewhere.

“It must be difficult to make red pepper paste.”

I’m not sure when red pepper paste began to be used frequently in Korea, but it must have been at least after the Japanese invasions of Korea. I heard that it was roughly after that that red pepper was introduced.

I’ve only briefly heard about how red pepper paste is made. I think they said you need some kind of glutinous rice powder and meju powder.

That doesn’t mean I can make meju here myself. Although I know that meju is made from beans, I don’t know how to ferment it. I know about ‘fermentation’, but that doesn’t mean I can collect soybeans and try to ferment them. There are a lot of problems.

In Delki City, there are ‘preserved foods’. There are also ‘fermented foods’ using deer milk. In the south, there are also fermented foods similar to kimchi, so fermented foods themselves for preservation purposes are not something to be discouraged.

The problem lies in fermenting the ‘soybeans’.

During the fermentation process, soybeans… … The smell is a bit weird.

Even if Cheonggukjang is not famous for its real smell, the smell is enough to scare people who are not used to fermented soybean foods. Moreover, it is not only the smell. It is also the visual.

And I don’t have the confidence to handle the attention that will be focused on me eating something like that.

If you are conscious of the gaze of those around you, it is best to import dried and powdered meju… … The problem is that we don’t know if there is Meju in this world.

Regardless of the era, people’s intelligence levels have not varied that much, so considering the long history of fermented foods, it is reasonable to assume that similar foods exist in this world as well.

However, given the context of the ‘medieval fantasy world’, food from the East will be in the East. Even in this case, the smell and appearance cannot be avoided, but at least there will be no strange misunderstanding if it has the title ‘goods imported from the East’. However, if there is a problem, —

—In reality, the countries that eat meju are further away from Europe than India.

If you import meju, it may be more expensive than pepper.

… … Once again, I was in despair. I couldn’t think of a way to make red pepper paste. And no red pepper paste and no meju meant that there was no ssamjang or chojang.

If I had lived my life thinking that there was nothing at all, it would have been a little more bearable, but it was difficult to just give up because hope kept flashing before my eyes.

“… … No.”

Still, it is too early to despair.

Still, there is red pepper powder and cabbage… … No, but I heard that there is also a food similar to kimchi made with fermented cabbage. So let’s start with kimchi. Didn’t they say that Korean-Soviet people who immigrated to Russia used carrots to make kimchi?

I don’t know if you can make kimchi stew with carrot kimchi or not.

While I was lost in thought, looking at the red pepper powder I received from Amelia, I heard someone knocking on the door.

That wasn’t a common occurrence. In Delki City, there were more people who opened my door without permission.

So, it could be assumed that the person who did such a thing was an outsider.

“Lady Delkisi, the prince requests to see you.”

The voice that could be heard very clearly even through the thick door had a very accurate royal accent.

In Delki City, you do your own work. In the first place, there is no maid to call me a young lady. The people of Delki City, whether or not they were mixed with the baron’s blood, were valuable human resources, and when they were assigned to do the laundry, they were armed with bows and arrows. It was much better to give him a hand and let him hunt.

So, that clear yet soft voice must have been that of a person who arrived a few days later than the prince.

Although she is a maid, there is a very high probability that her status is higher than mine. Of course, she is not revealing her status.

“Yes, please come in.”

As I was feeling a bit cringe while giving an answer that I rarely do, the thick wooden door scraped open against the floor.

The person who came in was a maid who looked like a picture. She had blond hair tied in a bun at the back, white skin, blue eyes, and a maid outfit.

The maid who entered my room first, bowed slightly, stepped to the side, and the prince followed behind her.

It seems that the reason the prince came and opened the door in person over the past few days was because the people who followed him had not yet arrived. Well, since he was of the noblest bloodline in the Alwen Kingdom, his actions until now would have been rather natural.

And I’m not sure if it’s just his mood or if it’s real, but the prince’s behavior has also become much more cautious than before.

At least he didn’t say anything about wanting to spar with someone from Delki City. Well, that may have been more due to losing to me once and then Amelia asking if it would be better to postpone the spar, rather than because of the group that followed him. .

However, since I put off the sparring and made the excuse of ‘I wanted to get to know each other better’, the prince probably thinks that I still like him even now.

I guess that’s why he shows a strangely confident attitude when dealing with me, which makes me angry.

I felt like I wanted to request a duel first and destroy it, but if I really did that, my family might be branded as a royal.

After the prince evolves into the crown prince, there will be no need to worry, but at least until that happens, you will be tired in many ways.

“Lady Delkisi.”

“Prince Evan.”

I stood up and bowed to Prince Evan. This greeting, which was a bit awkward at first, gradually improved and became quite natural now.

It can be said that it is the result of Amelia’s hard practice.

“I have come to ask you something urgently, but can you listen to my story?”

Just looking at the way he said it, it seemed closer to an ‘order’ than a ‘request’, but what could I do? The fact that the prince came here also meant that he got permission from my father.

No, is my father still thinking of sending the prince to me after seeing what happened last time? Rather, I don’t know what my mother was thinking as she didn’t stop her.

“Yes, if it’s the prince’s request, I should gladly grant it.”

I was saying this as a subject, but the narcissistic prince had a smile on his face as he understood it. That smile was also a confident smile that was completely different from the stiff expression he had when he first came, which made me very angry.

“Since I was visiting Delki City, I thought I should learn and practice the ways of Delkisi during my stay.”

If I didn’t do that, there would be no reason for coming. I would have come to accumulate ‘manly achievements’, and that may be why I passed through the Grand Duke’s castle on the way but did not visit the Grand Duke’s castle. On the subject of coming to a remote area with an extreme environment, on the way Because you can’t enjoy a flashy party.

Amelia said that was just rude, and that the Archduke was protesting by sending Amelia away, but in truth, I didn’t know much about that and had no intention of finding out.

Isn’t he the male protagonist’s younger brother who doesn’t appear in the main story anyway?

For all that, I’m curious because it’s so intertwined with the main characters.

“I heard that the people of Delki City go hunting periodically.”

Hunting and reconnaissance.

Since crop cultivation was extremely limited in Del Kishi, the main way to obtain food was hunting. Fortunately, the wild animal population in Del Kishi is maintaining steady. Each animal is so large that catching just one animal can kill several people, making it the top predator. This is partly because prosthetics are extremely limited.

However, because they knew that if they were to catch everything recklessly, there would be a food shortage here as well, Delki City has made it a basic policy to survive on the food provided by the Grand Duchy. Hunting is, after all, a process of making ‘surplus’.

“They don’t always go out on reconnaissance and hunt, but they often come back after catching game.”

When I corrected the prince, he nodded.

“I received permission to hunt. However, most of the scouting groups were full, so it was difficult for me to join as an additional person. However, in the case of the young lady, I heard that she was forming a group by herself. We could hunt together as long as we had the young lady’s permission. They say it’s okay to go out.”

It’s not hunting, it’s scouting, but if my father gave me permission, I should follow his advice.

However, there was one thing to make sure.

“Article ‘Joe’ is ‘Joe’ in the sense that it includes the wolves, not just me. Is that okay?”

You screamed last time when you saw me get my head bitten off.

“… … .”

The prince thought for a moment and then said,

“It’s okay.”

I answered that way.

What if you are like that?