Let’s Create a Potion (4)
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When I used [Appraisal] on Father, I felt like something increased. It seems like the [Rewards and Punishments] entry has appeared. My ability has slightly changed.
[Daisy von Preslaria]
Second daughter of a viscount family.
Health: 10/10
Mana: 150/150
Job: Alchemist
Skill: Alchemy (2/10), Appraisal (4/10)
Rewards and Punishments: None
My job has become an alchemist! It’s probably because I received a payment from Father for the potion. Also, my appraisal skill went up.
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Thus, the problem was the bitterness of the potion.
If you think of bitter, it’s got to be vegetables.
I decided to try going to the kitchen.
The head chef, Bob, was in the kitchen.
“Good day, Bob. There’s something I would like for you to teach me.”
He tilted his head to the side and began to say, “Oh, does Ojou-sama have a question for me? What is it?”
Then, I described that in order to create a potion, when I ground the leaves or finely chopped them, they became bitter. Then, I explained that when I thought of bitterness, I thought about vegetables, thus deciding to ask Bob
“Let’s see…… those sort of leafy plants have an astringent and bitter taste. That’s why, for those leaves, it’s not good if you do nothing and just ground or finely chop them.”
Mhm mhm. I nodded and took notes.
“In those types of situations, if you use them after rubbing them with salt, then quickly parboil them in water, the astringent taste will be taken away. After parboiling it, please cool it off in water. Ah, don’t boil it for a long time!”
……’Don’t boil for long periods’, I noted at the end.
“It was really helpful. Bob, thank you!”
I ran to Mother’s side to get permission again.
“It’s not good for girls to run too much, you know,” I was slightly chided by Mother. 1
After apologizing to Mother, I told Mother that I needed salt to remove the bitterness and that it might be necessary to boil them with hot water, so I needed a colander.
Mother told Ellie and she went to get the salt from the warehouse and the leftover colander from the kitchen, then handed it over to me.
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I had Kate hold the salt and colander, and headed over to the laboratory.
“Miss won’t be able to do parboiling all of a sudden, so I shall do it,” she said with a smile.
It was a very welcoming proposal.
Come to think of it, due to Father and Mother’s opinion, it’s been decided that Kate basically would be the only person in charge of watching over my experiments as well as helping me. Also, she is the only one that knows about my [Appraisal] ability.
……And let’s leave the explanation at that.
“Come to think of it, if only one of the leaves is bitter, then it’s fine to just process that one.”
It suddenly struck me, then I tried nibbling on each leaf.
“……There’s some difference, but they’re both bitter,” I muttered while I frowned at the bitterness. It might have been bad manners, but the leaves I nibbled on were tossed straight into the trash.
“Well then, let’s process both of them,” Kate said, and I nodded.
I sprinkled salt and rubbed it in, then washed it off with water, and I had Kate prepare the things to quickly parboil the salted leaves, then cool it with water. Naturally, the leaves were processed down. drained, then finely chopped.
First, I decided to try the leaves that were just rubbed with salt.
I put the healing herb and mana grass that I had ground in the mortar into the water in the beaker, according to the ratio.
Small bubbles formed on top of the water, clinging to the sides of the beaker.
[Potion]
Quality: Normal
Details: Active ingredients are on the weak side.
When I let it sit for a bit longer, the bubbles became larger.
[Potion]
Quality: Normal
When I let it sit even longer, the water started to burble sometimes.
Just in case, I gently stirred it with a stick.
[Potion]
Quality: Normal
Details: The active ingredients have been well-extracted. Slightly bitter.
Yay! The bitterness has decreased a lot!
I filtered the slightly bitter potion with a cloth and drained it into a vial.
Next, I used the salted and quickly parboiled leaves.
I put the healing herb and mana herb according to the ratio into the water in the beaker.
Then, I put the beaker on top of the heating magic tool, then started heating it.
Bubbles formed in the beaker, then small bubbles began to appear.
[Potion]
Quality: Normal
Details: Active ingredients are on the weak side.
When I let it sit for a bit longer, the bubbles became larger.
[Potion]
Quality: Normal
Details: The active ingredients are slightly on the weak side.
When I let it sit even longer, the water started to burble sometimes.
This time as well, I gently stirred it with a stick just in case.
[Potion]
Quality: Normal
Details: The active ingredients have been well-extracted. Slight sweetness can be tasted.
“Yay! I removed the bitter taste! Kate, I completed a slightly sweet potion!”
I succeeded in making a bitterless, normal quality potion.
‘That’s right’, I recalled, then looked at Kate’s fingers. Then, as I thought, it seems like her hands were rough from her daily work.
There should be active ingredients left in the cloth to filter the potion contents.
“Hey, Kate, try wiping your fingers with this wet cloth.”
When I asked, Kate wiped her rough fingers with the potion-soaked cloth as I said.
“Ah, my rough hands are healing……”
Kate opened her eyes wide, appearing surprised.
“Hehehe. I never thought that there would be such side benefits to be Miss’s attendant.”
She is a woman in the end. She looked at her own fingers that became beautiful happily.
