Chapter 5 Dragon Crystal and Ice Cream Toast (Part 2)

Making Italian Gelato is not difficult. The only difficulty is that it is time-consuming and laborious to stir it manually. But now with the mechanical maid Leila, it can reduce a lot of burden for Jiangyou.

Jiangyou plans to make two flavors: a classic vanilla flavor and an equally charming chocolate flavor. The steps for both are very similar: first, heat milk and sugar in a small saucepan until it is slightly boiling. At this stage, you can add the ingredients of different flavors.

Jiangyou took out a piece of vanilla pod, scraped out the seeds with a knife, and threw the vanilla seeds into a small pot of vanilla flavor. This is the vanilla flavor. Chocolate is even simpler. Just throw the chocolate blocks into the pot to melt, and then adjust the sweetness.

She didn't throw away the vanilla pods, as they were quite expensive. She simply dried them on a grid at around 80 degrees Celsius for an hour, then ground them into a powder using a stone mill. She collected the powder in a small bottle and added her own high-purity liquor, which she distilled herself. This created natural vanilla extract, which she could later use in desserts.

The boiled mixed liquid needs to be placed in the refrigerator to cool for an hour. At the same time, the baked toast needs to cool down and dissipate the steam, then it can be placed in the freezer of the refrigerator to freeze and set for subsequent cutting.

During the waiting time, Jiangyou and Naxia worked together to prepare the ingredients needed for opening the store, and prepared the soy sauce chicken, braised duck and braised pork to be sold today.

An hour later, the ice cream liquid was taken out by Jiang You and poured into a frozen metal pot, stirring it continuously with a whisk. Since there was no modern ice cream machine, it was necessary to repeatedly cast frost magic to cool the metal pot.

During the continuous stirring process, the ice cream liquid will be evenly mixed with the air, and will be continuously cooled and solidified by the cold metal pot, eventually forming ice cream without ice debris and with a delicate and smooth taste.

The two pots of ice cream gradually solidified into a solid state, and once they were no longer difficult to stir, they could be placed in the freezer for storage. The frozen toast was then taken out. Takumi used a sharp bread knife to cut off a piece of the top, then dug a square hole along the edge of the toast, leaving a one-centimeter-thick toast bowl.

The bread inside is cut into three slices, each of which is further divided into nine bite-sized squares, which are evenly coated with a mixture of melted butter and honey.

After making all these preparations, Jiangyou looked at the time and it was almost noon.

The workshop has already started business. Leila and Jericho are busy in the front, and Nasha is responsible for preparing meals in the back. Even though Jiangyou is fully focused on preparing a dessert meal for little dragon Leodo, the workshop is still running normally.

——What reliable partners!

Xiaolong Leodore will come to the store at 12 o'clock. Jiangyou will first bake a batch of crispy chocolate egg rolls, and then put the toast brushed with butter and honey into the bread oven for a second baking.

Since ice cream and fruit will be put into the toast later, just put half of the bread back into the toast and bake the other half separately, which can also make the small bread cubes more crispy.

Ten minutes later, the fragrant toast came out of the oven, and Leodo entered the shop on time. He sniffed the sweet aroma in the air and looked at the golden toast in Jiangyou's hand with great joy: "Is that my lunch today?"

Jiang You smiled mysteriously and took him to the small restaurant in the back to sit down. "Wait a moment, this toast still needs some magical magic to become the most delicious appearance."

Xiaolong's eyes were sparkling, and his heart and eyes were full of excitement.

Jiangyou carried the toast into the kitchen, added a large ball of vanilla ice cream into the square toast bowl, filled it with fresh raspberries, cranberries, lychees, and almonds, and then scooped a large ball of chocolate ice cream on it. Finally, he put a few cranberries on the top, inserted some individually baked small bread cubes, two chocolate crispy rolls, and ground some chocolate crumbs on it... done!

When the finished product was served, even the world-famous and well-informed Xiaolong couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow! This is so beautiful!"

"You must eat this while the bread is still warm and the ice cream is still cold." Jiang You pulled out the chair opposite Xiao Long and sat down. "Try it now."

Leo raised his spoon, scooped up a spoonful of chocolate ice cream and small bread cubes, put it in his mouth, and instantly shuddered: "Wow! So refreshing! This is much better than the ice chips I made myself!"

"Ice chips?" Jiangyou's soul fire shook.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm an ice dragon, so I like cool things! When the weather's too hot, I freeze ice cubes for myself." Leodore pulled out a chocolate egg roll and, without any instruction, used it to pick up a large piece of chocolate ice cream and put it into his mouth. He squinted his eyes and revealed a happy expression. "But the ice I froze has no taste at all, unlike this, which is sweet, bitter, soft and smooth! It's like eating silk! This golden cube is delicious too!"

"That's toast... Hey, I'm glad you like it!" Jiang You said, supporting his jaw. "Actually, I invited you here today because I want to discuss a business deal with you."

"Hmm?" Xiaolong ate without raising his head, nodding vigorously: "You go ahead."

"It's like this... I've been thinking about expanding my shop lately. I've already bought the land next door, and I'm planning to build a restaurant with a view there." Jiang You pulled out the design that the troll had drawn. "This is what it will look like in the future."

Leo took a big bite of the bread, his mouth full of food. He glanced at the design and nodded repeatedly: "This is really beautiful!"

"Right? Right!" Jiang You said excitedly, "But the design of this glass greenhouse requires the use of a certain building material - dragon crystal."

"Oh...oh!" Leodo reacted, "So you want to ask me for dragon crystals? Sure! I have plenty of that stuff!"

"Great!" Jiang You silently clenched his fist under the table and asked, "What's the price?"

"Price?" Xiaolong chewed and swallowed a large mouthful of bread, then scooped up a large spoonful of ice cream sprinkled with cranberries and almonds and stuffed it into his mouth. "Let me think... Or, how about making me a thousand servings of this toast?"

Jiang You: “……?” Wait, is this dragon not good at math or business?

Seeing Takuya's dazed and confused expression, Leodo couldn't help but start to doubt himself: "Huh? What? Is it too expensive? Let me think about it again."