The exciting Quidditch training has finally come to an end. For most players, their schedule of activities for today has come to an end temporarily. The next thing to do is to go home, take a good bath, rest, and digest today's receipts.
However, for Luna and Hannah, the real things to look forward to on this day have just begun.
According to the previous agreement, Elena will serve the dinner - this is a delicacy that the two of them have been looking forward to for half the summer vacation.
Under the leadership of Tina Scamander, the "Nana Nana" combination of one large and three small children left the Jurassic Quidditch pitch, walked through the seaside town-style streets of Bournemouth, and returned to the town.
Scamander's house somewhere.
Although according to Mrs. Scamander, the town is not too complicated and they can go out and buy some small things on weekends.
Unfortunately, in Elena's eyes, any street with more than three corners is not much different from the legendary Minoan labyrinth. In addition to finding a direction and brute force, any so-called intuition or counter-intuition will make it difficult.
She is lost.
Fortunately, the other two little wings are pretty reliable in finding the way.
Elena only needs to find a way to fill their bodies with her superb skills, and then she can naturally make various requests to them, such as... lead the way, lead the way, and help her with the secret of her poor sense of direction.
Cover.
However, as time goes by, the sense of surprise and temptation brought by common European cuisine is rapidly declining.
Women, especially little Luoli, have never been so reliable in terms of credibility.
In order to prevent Luna, Hannah and others from being exploited by complicated centenarian monsters such as Grindelwald and Dumbledore, Elena had to continue to introduce new dishes and new entertainment methods to consolidate her influence among the wings.
authority in the heart.
On the other hand, if she wants to conquer the Scamanders in just one month, Elena really needs to think carefully about the dishes she needs to cook, instead of completely copying the ones in school.
A set of practices.
The variety of dishes needs to be as rich as possible, but the selection of ingredients needs to be as simple as possible;
The texture and taste should be full of surprises, but the cooking method should not be too difficult to imitate;
The cooking concept requires imagination, but the interpretation of details needs to be as precise and precise as a machine;
The non-magical world provides a complete diet system, and magicians must also find a suitable entry point for improvement and participation;
…
All kinds of factors are added together, and the answer is readily apparent.
pig!
As one of the first animals domesticated by humans as livestock, it is the pinnacle achievement of animal husbandry civilization so far.
In human civilization recipes, the development of the parts and methods of pigs that can be eaten has reached the extreme.
…………
Scamander's house, on the edge of the meadow outside the tree house.
"Today, this week...well, this month our main course is this!"
Elena pointed to the big white pig at her feet, which was probably four or five times her weight, and said happily.
"I made a rough estimate. Based on the food intake of the five of us, this pig should be enough to last for a month!"
The Yorkshire Large White pig can be said to be the most widely distributed and famous large pig breed in the world. Because of its large size and rapid weight gain, many countries have chosen to introduce it to their own native pigs for crossbreeding and breeding.
The excellent Large White pig breed was produced - in the era before Elena lived, most of the pork consumed came from this Large White pig.
You know, China, which ranks first in the world in terms of pig production and pig slaughter, is definitely the country that loves pigs the most in the world.
Of course, Elena, who comes from a country of big foodies, has a lot of confidence in how to make good use of all parts of the pig - cooking on fire is her area of expertise.
However, compared to the confident Elena, the other three "Nanana" looked much more confused.
Hannah and Luna have great trust in Elena's cooking skills. After all, they have been together for a whole school year. As the designated testers of the Hogwarts kitchen, they are very aware of Elena's talent in cooking.
.
It's just that in their minds, pork doesn't seem to have much to look forward to.
When they were at Hogwarts, what they ate the most was fried bacon, smoked bacon, and various sausages, minced meats, and pork knuckles. Generally speaking, they tasted a bit greasy, but occasionally they were okay to eat with other foods.
, but if you keep eating...
Luna and Hannah couldn't help but look at each other, seeing the same worry in each other's eyes.
Although meat is delicious, the thought of eating sausages and bacon for a month is too uncomfortable, right?!
On the other hand, as a person who has raised children and has decades of experience in home kitchens, Ms. Tina Scamander’s considerations and concerns are obviously more specific and practical than those of the “Two Xiaonas”.
.
"Dear little Elena, it's not that I don't trust you as the head chef of Hogwarts."
"Actually, I'm looking forward to the next dinner...but before that, we may need to solve a problem first."
Mrs. Scamander shook her head and pointed with some confusion at the whole pig she had just bought from the slaughterhouse.
"Have you figured out how to turn it into pieces of meat?"
If "Miss Hogwarts Chef" hadn't repeatedly emphasized that, according to Tina Scamander's original thoughts, it would be almost impossible to deliberately go to the Muggle slaughterhouse to buy this kind of meat that has not been cut by the butcher.
Processed whole pig.
The trouble is only one aspect, but more importantly, there is no way to start - maybe her husband will have more experience in this area.
After all, as a well-known master of magical animals, Newt Scamander occasionally dissects magical animals for research, but as far as Tina is concerned, she has always bought finished products directly from the butcher shop before, and has never handled them personally.
Breed large livestock.
"How to become meat? Isn't it already one?"
Elena looked at Mrs. Scamander with some confusion, shrugged and answered very naturally.
"If you have a knife and a workbench, wouldn't it be enough to just cut and sort?"
"No, I mean..."
Glancing at Elena, who was probably not as big as the Yorkshire pig, Tina Scamander thought for a while and continued to add.
"You see, there are some differences between cooking and butchering. Although there are many magical animals in our family, there are only no house elves like those in Hogwarts Castle. It is still early, and the butcher shop in Bournemouth should still be there.
It's not closed, we should be able to find some reliable No-Maj butchers there to help with processing..."
A top chef is not the same as a good butcher.
Maybe Elena does have some talent in cooking, but no matter which angle Tina looked at, this series of physical and technical work, such as dismantling a whole pig and separating meat and bones, was too much for this little witch.
A little more difficult.
"Butcher? No-Maj...butcher? Um, you mean Muggle butcher?"
Elena was slightly stunned at first, and then quickly understood Mrs. Scamander's worries.
In fact, Tina Scamander's worries do have some truth. If it were before learning magic, it would be difficult for Elena alone to handle the whole pig slaughtering and dismantling process, even with Bennett.
Neither can Father Si.
Just like anatomy in biology and medicine, butchery is also a very basic craft.
This is not a process that can be accomplished simply by relying on brute force.
Without the correct force technique, disassembly method, knife direction, and overall thinking, if you handle the whole pig indiscriminately according to the way of mincing meat in the home kitchen, on the one hand, the bone and meat fragments will be mixed together, and more importantly, it will destroy the whole pig.
Less important organizations.
Because of this, house elves are used to handle pigs, cows, and deer at Hogwarts.
In fact, in Elena's opinion, whether it is the house elves at Hogwarts or most of the butchers on the European continent, after all, they are still quite unsatisfactory in terms of slaughtering and processing ingredients.
place.
This is not because their skills are lacking, but because the poor recipes on this continent limit their imagination.
You know, it is different from the monotonous cooking methods of pork such as sausages, slices, and elbows in continental Europe.
In the far Eastern continent, pigs are actually the same thing in the eyes of top chefs and cooks - cold pig ears, cabbage stewed pork, couple's lung slices, sweet and sour pork loin, charcoal grilled pig nose tendons, salt and pepper large intestine, cold pig skin, Dongpo
Meat, bandit liver, Mushu meat, pickled pepper kidneys, pork stewed vermicelli, kelp and ribs soup, pork and green onion dumplings, spicy roasted brains...
It's a pity that before that, Elena had no better choice besides performing secondary processing on those already decomposed pieces of meat. After all, she was still just a little over one meter long luoli, with no brute strength.
far from enough.
However, times... have changed.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Scamander, don't forget my identity."
Elena smiled slightly, reached into her neckline, and took out a delicate and small black metal cross necklace.
"Whether it is the butchers in the non-magical world or the house elves at Hogwarts, they are actually a little rough and casual when handling the precious meat of pigs. A pig, after being completely disassembled, has at least more than a hundred
Here are some ingredients.”
"Your identity? Well, um..."
Tina Scamander glanced at the small cross in the girl's hand, her expression slightly strange.
If she remembered correctly, this should be an ornament often carried by some Muggle religious believers in the non-magical world - whether it is the scene at this moment or the words from the girl's mouth, it seems that people can't relate to it.
Come together.
"So...Miss Kaslana, are you a believer?"
Watching Elena squat down and carefully place the black metal cross in her hand on the big white Yorkshire pig in front of her, mumbling something, Tina Scamander hesitated for a few seconds and became a little unsure.
asked.
"I see, do you need to perform some prayer rituals before going to the slaughterhouse?"
"Prayer? Believer? What are you talking about?"
Elena blinked in confusion, took out her wand and lightly touched the small cross placed on the pig.
“vera verto”
next moment.
The dark metal cross quietly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Only a hole, smaller than the eye of a needle, was left on the Yorkshire white pig's skin. The other end of the hole was connected to a necklace glowing with a strange black light, which was tightly wrapped around Elena's right hand.
But inside the body of the Yorkshire pig, which is invisible to people, extremely thin sheet metal rapidly grows and extends along the gaps between the bones and muscles. In less than a few seconds, it is completely covered with all the muscles in the large white pig's body.
, tendons, fat, and bone gaps.
Elena stood up with a smile, waved the chain wrapped around her finger, and said softly.