Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 13: Staple Food Reform
Six months have passed since his memories of his previous life returned. The memories of his previous life were only in the form of knowledge that he had acquired and Tauro was nothing more than an eight-year-old kid with a big head.
However, it was also clear that his knowledge was significant.
It would be possible for him to become an unrivaled warrior with modern knowledge, as is often the case in otherworldly fantasy stories.
However, after a little research, he learnt that this knowledge was a double-edged sword.
As he heard it, a smart vagrant brought his idea to a commercial guild and tried to make money out of it.
He tried to get a patent.
In this world, in order to protect an individual’s money-making idea, it is registered with a commercial guild to protect it and prevent it from being plagiarized.
But this was a creation of the state, the nobility, and the merchants.
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The vagrant’s idea was registered as belonging to a certain nobleman and the vagrant himself was found dead the next day in the woods outside the city. Apparently, he was attacked by a monster.
Tauro didn’t know the authenticity of this story, but he was horrified to think that it could have been him.
He was a former vagrant and an eight-year-old kid, so he was in no position to do anything about it.
No, it would be easy for a nobleman or a merchant to dismiss him as non-existent.
Tauro was glad that the first place he ran to was the Adventurer’s Guild.
He was thinking of using his modern knowledge when he got settled, but now he couldn’t do it carelessly.
Tauro pondered.
“Okay, seems like I will go with something that will technically be difficult for people to imitate.”
Tauro had an idea of how he could use his current strength, purification.
It was yeast fermentation.
In order to ferment yeast, you need to get rid of the germs.
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That’s where purification comes in.
In the first place, this world was extremely unsanitary.
There was no water or sewage system, so faeces and urine were collected and disposed of on the outskirts of the city by contractors who traveled from place to place.
Even then, the disposal location seems to be random.
The custom of washing hands is almost non-existent and making bread with yeast is also very difficult.
But if he succeeds, he could make fluffy bread.
Or rather, it could be eaten.
Tauro was dissatisfied with the fact that black bread made from rye, which is the mainstream in this world, was unusually hard.
It was common knowledge that black bread should be eaten after being softened by dipping it in soup, but it was really too hard to be eaten by itself.
Tauro, who had been a bread lover in his previous life and had knowledge of soft bread, longed for the bread in his memory.
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So…
“I spent a week sterilizing the fruit with purification and making yeast!”
Tauro rented a corner of the kitchen in the adventurer’s guild and got excited by himself.
Nei, the receptionist, peeked at him curiously.
“What are you going to do with all these Rigaud fruit soaked in sugar water?”
She asked, intrigued by the precious sugar fruit.
“I’m going to make bread!”
“Bread? Not dessert?”
“Yes! We’ll use it to make soft white bread from wheat.”
“White bread is the stuff that rich people eat!”
Nei was a little disappointed when she realized it was not a dessert, but her eyes started to light up, though she was a little surprised by his interest.
“I’m going to make a new kind of bread.”
Tauro said and continued to knead the dough.
“Then I’ll bake the dough that I let rise.”
Since they didn’t have a bread oven, he used a frying pan to bake the dough.
“The dough puffed up and smelled faintly of Rigaud fruit!”
Nei’s appetite was overwhelming.
“It’s not a bread oven, so it didn’t turn out very fluffy, but it’s done.”
Tauro cut the bread with a knife.
Nei was ready to eat.
Leo, the head of the guild, came into the kitchen as if he had smelled the aroma.
“What’s that great smell? Huh? Bread?”
Tauro offered to cut up a loaf of bread for Leo, knowing that he was in good hands with both of them.
“It’s soft and fluffy white bread, please enjoy.”
Nei touched the dough and was impressed,
“The surface is crunchy, but the inside is so soft!”
Leo exclaimed,
“What the heck is this?”
He was amazed.
They both finished it immediately.
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“I’ve never had such soft white bread before…”
“This is better than the stuff I ate at a nobleman’s house!”
They were so impressed with the bread that the idea of selling it in the store run by the Adventurer’s Guild was immediately put forward.
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Wait so the purification ability doesn’t count yeast as a contaminant? I mean it’s literally just a different micro-organism.
thanks for the chapter
The problem with isolating the yeast you want is that there are many yeasts floating in the air, and most of them don’t have the properties you want.
The difference between bread yeast and sourdough yeast is basically just this. If you try several times, you can end up culturing a relatively “good” wild yeast by chance. Then, as long as you don’t let it die, and don’t let it get badly cross-contaminated, it’ll mostly keep those properties for years. So, you can consistently make bread with a certain property and taste. But some other batch of sourdough won’t be the same. And, many sourdough cultures tend to make dough that tastes, well, sour. You can keep making new cultures until you chance upon one that’s really good, but that’s tedious. In fact, this is how bread yeast was isolated, and it didn’t happen all in one lifetime.
If you can purify(sterilize) and true-eye appraise, you can pick and choose until you get exactly the yeast you want, with much less time and effort.
continuing to lament the reality that people who know about machine tools don’t become fiction authors and authors don’t learn of machine tools