The small package was placed on the table and made a crisp sound. Hermione came over to take a look and found that there were hundreds of chicken feet inside.
Looking at these bloody chicken feet, Hermione couldn't help shivering and feeling a little nauseous.
"Good boy, go over there and finish it first," Tom said, indicating that Hermione could sit aside and wait until he finished processing. Then the Room of Requirement transformed into an open kitchen, with half of the room being the kitchen.
One half is the dining room. The kitchen part has a clean worktop, next to the stove and various cooking tools. There is only a small round table and two chairs in the dining room.
Hermione sat on the small round table and could clearly see Tom's operations.
"I will never eat chicken feet!" Hermione glared at Tom and protested to him. She really couldn't imagine why someone would specifically collect chicken feet to eat - how disgusting! Even though Hermione, as a British person, had been exposed to it
Having experienced dark cuisine, it is also difficult to accept the act of eating chicken feet as food.
Tom ignored her. He took out a handful of jade finger bamboo shoots. The slender, yellow and tender bamboo shoots seemed to have dew on them. These ingredients were all obtained from the kitchen of Hogwarts, and he didn’t know that these little domesticated bamboo shoots were
How did the elves do it? Tom just tentatively mentioned it, and they rushed to bring him a full set of ingredients, as fresh as if they had just been picked from the ground.
In the UK, Hogwarts is probably the only one that can quickly collect these ingredients. In other places, just hundreds of chicken feet have to go to the slaughterhouse or the Asian Super League in big cities.
"If you can, I hope you can help me clean these bamboo shoots, wash the outer shells, and then hollow out the cores."
Hermione stood up from her seat and took out her wand: "Clear water like a spring!"
A stream of water came out from the tip of her stick to clean the outside of the bamboo shoots. Then she used a "whirlwind sweep" to condense a small whirlwind at the tip of the stick and easily hollow out the core of the bamboo shoots.
At this time, Tom took the magic wand and pointed at the leg bones of the chicken feet and said: "Split them into pieces!"
Under the influence of his spell, the chicken leg bones were all broken into several pieces, revealing the dark red chicken marrow inside. After breaking the bones, Tom needed to scrape the marrow on the chicken bones into a small dish little by little.
Anyone else would have taken hours to do this, but Tom did it with just a wave of his wand.
There was only a small plate of marrow peeled out from hundreds of leg bones.
Tom mixed the chicken marrow with egg white and salt to make them more plastic, then took a plastic bag and put them all in. At this point, the two of them worked together to complete the most complicated preparations in less than five minutes.
Work.
After the chicken marrow was done, Tom took out a bowl of minced chicken from the bag that had been seasoned with egg whites, salt and pepper. Now he only needed to pour the minced chicken into the bamboo shoots that Hermione had hollowed out.
After filling, use a small wooden stick to poke a small hole in the middle of the minced meat to fill in the chicken marrow, and you're done.
The cooked jade finger bamboo shoots are still bamboo shoots on the outside, but are filled with chicken on the inside. They look quite layered.
At this moment, a bowl of clear yellow liquid with a fragrant aroma suddenly appeared on Tom's operating table.
This is the pure chicken juice that he asked the house elves to help him make before. The method is not very complicated, but it is a little time-consuming: place a bowl on a large plate, put the cut chicken pieces and seasonings around it, and then put it on
Steam in the steamer. Due to the difference in air pressure between the inside and outside, the chicken juice in the chicken pieces will be sucked into the bowl. You can get a bowl of concentrated chicken juice without even a drop of water.
Even with the use of magic, this bowl of chicken juice took a lot of time to make.
Tom poured chicken juice on the jade finger bamboo shoots. He was going to use the chicken juice to steam the bamboo shoots. He looked around and saw an oven-like thing. But it didn't have the buttons on the ovens in the non-magical world.
When Tom walked to the "oven" carrying the plate, a sound suddenly came from inside the oven.
"I am a universal cooking box. Do you want to steam or bake? I can also freeze your dishes. I can do everything. I just need you to put forward the conditions-"
Tom was startled and almost knocked over the plate. But now that it spoke, it saved Tom the effort to study it.
"95 degrees, steam for thirty minutes." Tom, who regained his composure, gave the order. The stove opened by itself, and there was a tray inside. Tom put the plate containing the bamboo shoots in and it began to heat up automatically.
"I feel that this stove is much easier to use than the ovens at home." Hermione moved closer and looked at the multifunctional cooking stove in front of her carefully. "I didn't see a power supply or anything like that. It seems to be powered by magic.
Driven.”
This small stove has the functions of an oven, steamer, and refrigerator at the same time, and it operates intelligently. No wonder Hermione finds it practical.
"Then I'll find a chance to learn how to refine it," Tom thought of the Menes slate in his hand, feeling that making such an alchemical creation wouldn't be a problem.
"Refrigerator! I want a refrigerator!" Hermione's interest was suddenly aroused. Everything is good at Hogwarts, but there is one flaw: Muggle technological supplies are ineffective here, and various electronic devices cannot be used here.
To use it, even the watch must be a mechanical watch.
This resulted in Hermione never seeing a refrigerator during her three years as a student, and she could only enjoy iced food when she went home during the holidays.
"It would be best to be able to make ice cream and various desserts..." Hermione swallowed. She missed the ice cream a little. "It also needs to be able to heat. Sometimes I still feel cold when I get up in the winter..."
Tom:……
So, madam, do you want an alchemy creation that can both heat and refrigerate and can also make desserts? Let's discuss this. I'll learn a freezing spell, and then you can put me in your dormitory?
It can heat (body temperature), cool (freezing spell), and make desserts.
But Tom was complaining. After thinking about it for a while, he found that it seemed possible. It was just moving the heat from one place to another. As for making desserts, he could use modular thinking - he decided to go back and try
try.
Thirty minutes later, Tom took out the steamed bamboo shoots. Because the temperature used was not high, the plate of jade finger bamboo shoots still retained its unique crispy texture.
Tom took the bamboo shoots out of the plate, cut them into thin slices with a few flicks, and placed them on the plate. Finally, he poured chicken juice on top, and the chicken marrow bamboo shoots dish was done.
The chicken marrow bamboo shoots that were brought out after steaming lost the overflowing aroma of the chicken juice. They lay quietly on the plate and looked like fruits: reddish core, white and tender meat and light yellow skin.
No different than fruit.
If you don't eat the chicken, you'll eat the bones. If you have the meat, you won't eat the slices but drink the soup. This dish is all about delicacy.
Hermione picked up a piece and put it in her mouth to chew. The moment she entered the mouth, she felt the soft yet crisp texture of the bamboo shoots. The minced meat was already soaked in the chicken juice. It exploded when her teeth touched it, letting the delicious taste fill her mouth.
Filled. The innermost chicken marrow feels dense to the touch, just like eating foie gras.
"Delicious!" Hermione's eyes widened.
She couldn't help but pick up another piece and eat it...
One piece after another, she wiped out half of the chicken marrow bamboo shoots on the plate in one go. Only then did she notice that Tom hadn't taken a bite.
Hermione blushed all of a sudden: This is so unladylike, eating so ugly, Tom wouldn't laugh at her, right? She quietly looked at Tom with her peripheral vision, and found that Tom didn't pay attention to the plate of snacks at all.
He was looking at himself with a silly smile on his face.
Looking straight at her, Hermione felt a little embarrassed.
Hermione wanted to slap him on the head and tell him to stop looking, but she didn't have the nerve to do it. She could only ask in a slightly embarrassed tone: "What, what's wrong? What's wrong with my face?"
Something?"
Tom pulled the stool closer to her and said, "Have you ever heard of a word called beauty?"
…
After enjoying the snack, Tom and Hermione left the Room of Requirement. A snack with ordinary ingredients but full of ingenuity made the haze in their hearts disappear. Tom and Hermione followed their usual path
The route back to Ravenclaw Tower. On this route, they would pass by the Gryffindor common room, and in that corridor they would sometimes hear the singing of the portrait of the Fat Lady at the entrance to the Gryffindor common room.
.
However, today there was no singing from the Fat Lady in this corridor, but instead there were many whispers from little wizards. The originally spacious corridor was crowded with Gryffindor House students.
Hermione looked at the students in the corridor and said to herself curiously: "Why don't they go in? Is the entrance to the lounge blocked?"
Tom didn't answer. He roughly guessed what happened. He pushed aside the crowd and came to the entrance of the lounge. When he saw it, the fat lady who was originally at the entrance disappeared. Her portrait was hacked crazily.
After cutting it, the pieces fell to the ground, and a large piece of canvas disappeared.
The scene at the entrance to the lounge was spread by the little wizard in the front row, and at the same time, the panic in Daichi Chi was spread. As more and more people knew about the situation, the scene gradually became out of control.
Listening to the buzzing in his ears getting louder and louder, and accompanied by the echo in the open corridor, it gradually took the shape of a roaring tsunami. Tom took a deep breath and tried his best to face the people crowded in the corridor.
The little wizards shouted: "Quiet!"
This voice briefly calmed all the students. They stopped whispering and looked towards the source of the sound. Although Tom's shout took effect, it could only take effect for a moment. The silence may be lost in the next second.
will be broken.
Tom knew he had to say something immediately, and luckily he had Hermione by his side.
She saw that Tom seemed to want to say something, so she cooperated and pulled out her wand, pointed at Tom's throat and said: "The voice is loud!"
Tom's voice was loud enough to fill the entire floor.
"The door to the common room is blocked..."
The sound was like thunder, and several students who were closer to Tom couldn't help but cover their ears. Although it was so loud that Tom himself was not very comfortable, and Hermione, who was standing closest, even had the illusion that her eardrums had burst. But this
The loud voice successfully filled the ears of every little wizard present, causing them to stop and listen quietly.
"...Professor Dumbledore will be here soon, and the problem will be solved soon. Everyone can go to the auditorium to rest first. It is spacious enough and has enough seats."
Tom first brought out Dumbledore's banner to dispel the anxiety in the minds of the young wizards, then told them that the problem was not a big deal, comforted them, and finally made a suggestion that seemed very reliable. Step by step, he induced the students to follow his idea.
Walk.
It can be said that he is a master of rhythm.
"What's wrong with the door to the lounge?" A voice broke the silence. Percy stood behind the crowd and shouted loudly, "I am the president of the male student union, let me come -"
"Someone tried to break into the Gryffindor common room. It destroyed the Fat Lady's portrait."
The little wizards present were breathless.
"I knew it! It's Sirius! He's here!" A Gryffindor student who looked familiar to Tom but couldn't name his name shouted loudly. He quickly took out a newspaper from his robe and waved it.
, "There have been reports in newspapers before that someone saw Sirius in Duff Town."
Many people were stunned when they heard the name Duff Town. This is a small town very close to Hogsmeade. Sirius's appearance there meant that he had arrived near Hogwarts.
Although it is a bit unbelievable that he appears here today, it is indeed possible in theory.
"It doesn't matter!" Tom shouted again, which made everyone's ears hurt. "Sirius is just an ordinary wizard. We have Dumbledore, we have four deans, we have so many reliable professors - even
Professor Newt Scamander, who defeated Grindelwald, is also here, and Sirius will never become a threat to everyone!"
Newt, who had just run to the fourth floor, also heard Tom's words. He smiled at Professor McGonagall who was walking in front of him, a little embarrassed. You know, Tom Yoder just listed a lot of people,
The only ones mentioned specifically by name were him and Dumbledore.
One by one, names rang in the ears of the little wizards. Listening to these reassuring names, they suddenly realized that Sirius had nothing to be afraid of! No matter how powerful he was, how could he be more powerful than Professor Dumbledore?
So they calmed down completely and headed to the auditorium quietly and orderly. Hermione also pointed her wand at their throats again and said, "Whisper quietly."
"Thank you for the amplification spell." Tom's voice returned to normal. Because he had just shouted a few words at the top of his voice, his voice was now a little hoarse.
Hermione stretched out her index finger and pressed it on Tom's lips, "Shhh - let your throat rest. I'll find you a cup of tea later."
At this time, the first few little wizards to go downstairs met Professor McGonagall.
Percy took a step forward, but he was interrupted by Professor McGonagall just as he was about to say something.
"Take the students to the auditorium," Professor McGonagall announced the order with a straight face. At the same time, she looked at a location upstairs, where a little wizard named Tom stood.