I'm the Culinary God-Chapter 801 - 350: Limited Beverage for the Silly Squad—Butter Beer! [For Mengchiho’s Bonus - ]_3
Lin Xu was surprised that his Baobao suddenly became a COS fan.
He entered the points shop and exchanged his points for the Excellent Level cooking technique for butterbeer.
The reason for exchanging rather than experimenting was because they were moving house soon, and he had previously seen online tutorials on butterbeer, and the taste was indescribable.
Adding wheat beer gave off a sewer-like odor, and adding soda was better, but the taste was overwhelmingly sweet and greasy.
To prevent his Baobao from drinking such dark cuisine, he chose to exchange.
Paying for peace of mind, you know.
After the exchange was successful, Lin Xu discovered that the butter used to make butterbeer was synthetic butter, whose main characteristic was that it contained no butter at all.
Plus, it couldn’t be made with beer...
Is this really a butterbeer that contains no butter or beer?
For netizens worldwide to figure out how to make a drink JK Rowling made up is truly not easy, and they must have taken quite a detour.
After viewing the house, Shen Baobao was thinking about the butterbeer, so they drove back to the store to start making it.
"Xu Baobao, what kind of beer do you need to make butterbeer? Should we buy some on the way home?"
"No need, just go straight back, the ingredients used are very common, you can buy them at Uncle Yu’s supermarket."
At the store entrance, Lin Xu went into Uncle Yu’s supermarket and bought some synthetic butter and a few bottles of kvass, along with a few boxes of apple juice.
For a beer-like taste, add kvass; for a fruity taste, add apple juice.
As for beer, barley beer might be better; anyway, wheat beer has that sewer smell. But the best option is ginger beer, which has no alcohol content.
Back at the store, Lin Xu got cream, brown sugar, whole milk, sea salt, and ginger juice ready to start making it.
Put a small saucepan on the stove, add two small pieces of butter, melt on low heat, then pour in the brown sugar, melting in the same way, and finally add the cream and a pinch of sea salt.
Sea salt balances the sweetness and reduces greasiness, a must-use seasoning.
Simmer until bubbling, the color turning rosy, then pour in a bit of ginger juice, simmer a bit more, pour in a large bottle of kvass, heat until steam rises and turn off the heat.
Take two large draft beer glasses, pour the warm liquid from the saucepan into them, filling them to eighty percent full.
Kvass already has a fermentation aroma, and when heated, it tastes similar to beer but is different because it tastes sweet.
That’s why many netizens suspect that JK Rowling happened upon Russian kvass and came up with butterbeer.
To avoid a flop, Lin Xu tasted it.
It did indeed taste a bit like beer and had a sweet milky taste.
It felt like a drink for adults.
But the butterbeer wasn’t quite finished.
It still needed a milk foam.
The froth component of beer.
Only with the milk foam does it look more like beer.
Lin Xu poured some cream into a small bowl, added two small spoonfuls of caster sugar, a pinch of sea salt, whipped it, and served it on top of the butterbeer glass.
Finally, he scraped some cinnamon powder on top with a small knife.
And the whole drink was considered done.
The liquid in the glass was the color of beer, topped with white milk foam.
It looked exactly like the butterbeer from the movies.
Lin Xu carried out two glasses of butterbeer from the kitchen to find at the door one large and one small apprentice wizard dressed in magic robes.
"Wow, haha, the butterbeer is really done, Lele, our Hogwarts Magic Academy Yanjing branch finally has its own drink."
"Yeah, yeah, finally no need to drink the same as Muggles."
Holding this beer-flavored children’s drink, the two clinked glasses, one saying cheers and the other saying brave journey.
You’d think they were heavy drinkers with a massive craving for alcohol.
After clinking glasses and sipping, both simultaneously said:
"Wow, so good!"
To be honest, the best way to drink this beverage is to drink kvass directly, refreshing, not greasy, full of honey flavor.
But what can you do if the Baobao at home likes it?
Just as Lin Xu was about to go back to the kitchen, a system prompt rang in his mind:
"The host has made a satisfactory beer-flavored drink in the specified time for his fiancée, completing the reward task [Drink Making], earning one Perfect Level drink lottery, would you like to draw now?"
Indeed, reward tasks are merely formalities.
Lin Xu chose not to draw immediately, planning to do it later with Dundun.
Just in time to interact with the little guy before the lunch rush hits.
Geng Lele took two sips of butterbeer, picked up a chopstick, and cast a Balala Little Magic Fairy spell on Zeng Xiaoqi:
"Turn into a Psyduck!"
Zeng Xiaoqi looked helplessly at the two of them:
"Aren’t you two childish, hurry up and drink your kvass. Don’t wait till it gets cold and upsets your stomach, then you might end up at the pediatrician."
It’s the weekend, and people off work gathered in the store, ready for today’s staff meal.
It wasn’t long before Chen Yan arrived, arm in arm with Tian Qinglan, like a friendship beyond age.
"Today my brother-in-law seems to be making chestnut chicken and glazed tofu, sit here and wait a bit, it’ll definitely be delicious."
Tian Qinglan was just passing by, forcibly dragged upstairs by Chen Yan, and seeing all these young folks, she was about to leave when the mention of glazed tofu piqued her interest:
"Oh, does Boss Lin also know how to make glazed tofu, such an old dish?"
"Yes, Professor Tian, don’t be shy. Isn’t that Tsinghua University’s smart class Professor Cui Qingyuan sitting there? He comes when he’s free, treating this place like a cafeteria."
At the moment, Cui Qingyuan was discussing programming topics with Qiang-ge.
Qiang-ge focuses on practicality, while Cui Qingyuan’s ideas are more out-of-the-box. After a round of exchanges, both benefited greatly.
"Balala Little Magic Fairy, turn into Spotted Mouse!"
Shen Baobao mimicked Geng Lele’s style with the chopstick, casting a spell on Chen Yan as well.
As a result, his butterbeer was taken away.
Chen Yan took a sip and responded with a helpless pout:
"Brother-in-law is spoiling you so much, he really made the beer-flavored drink you wanted, tsk, it’s going to pamper you."
"I’m happy! You wanna drink? Shouldn’t I get you a glass too?"
"Forget it, my eighteen-year-old self can’t handle such a mature drink."
"You’re thirty and still pretending to be young. See how you explain yourself when you meet your in-laws."
"I don’t care, even if the King of Heaven himself comes today, I’m 18...now give me another sip, this thing’s sweet and weirdly good."
In the kitchen.
Lin Xu blanched the diced northern tofu to remove the beany taste.
Then he set the prepared minced pork, scallion and ginger, starch water, and other ingredients on the workstation, ready to make today’s new lunch dish—glazed tofu.
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Three updates today, requesting Monthly Tickets, brothers! Two more Chapters to update, I’ll take one or two days to rest, stay calm.
