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【Story Challenge 】 No.3 Making sweets with Lil Bottles

Japanese version↓↓↓

https://osamposampo.hatenablog.com/entry/2021/06/07/171219

 

Aya and Chii are in the kitchen, looking cross.

There are big mixing bowls, whisks, and some baking molds and things on the kitchen work surface.

They had some lumps of egg white from last night,

so mother said they can do baking by themselves.

The girls were excited.

Aya and Chii can cook very well because they had helped mother many times.

“Just call me when you use the oven, ok?”

She went out of the kitchen.

But there was one problem.

Aya wanted to make financiers with oblong molds.

Chii wanted to make them with heart shaped molds.

Aya said,

“Because that’s what it should look like.”

Chii said,

“Heart shaped ones are better because there are more zig-zags all around.”

 Lil Bottle Rose and Lil Bottle Lavender looked at the girls in turn.

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“I know!”

The girls cried at the same time.

“We can each make our own. We have Lil Bottles to help us”

, and started laughing together.

 

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…What do they mean?

 

Aya took out rum from the fridge and poured some in Lil Bottle Rose and Lil Bottle Lavender.

 

They were surprised!

 

Scent of liquor filled the Lil Bottles.

 

“Just wait here until we call you.”

, she said.

 

...What’s going to happen? 

 

The girls began weighing the ingredients

.

Two lumps of egg white

80 grams of granulated sugar

100grams of butter

40 grams of flour

40 grams of almond powder

Flour and almond powder should be sifted and mixed very well.

Butter should be melted well.

Then Aya and Chii each held their whisks and beat the eggs and sugar in their own bowls, very hard.

The girls put the flour into the bowl.

When it was done nicely mixed,

The girls said,

 

“Now!”

 

Lil Bottle Rose and Lil Bottle Lavender, very promptly, poured rum into the girls’ mixing bowls.

 

What a lovely scent!

 

 The girls kept on mixing while they poured in melted butter.

The batter was nice and ready.

Aya put hers in oblong molds.

Chii put hers in heart shaped molds.

“Mommy”

,Chii called. Mother came in and preheated the oven at190 ℃.

The molds were placed on the baking tray.

It’s not hot yet.

Aya, who is the taller of the two, opened the oven door and mother put the tray in.

Aya, Chii, and the Lil Bottles waited excitedly.

The Room was filled with sweet smell.

Mother took out the burning hot baking tray and laid the baked financiers on cake racks on the dining table.  The edges are golden brown.

It’s perfect.

 

Aya and Chii sat by the table and swayed together while they were waiting for their financiers to cool and thinking, if they shared it to grandpa, grandma, father and mother, how many can they eat?

 

Lil Bottles swayed together with the girls, wishing that the girls would forget to wash them.

They were still filled with the scent of rum.

 

What a lovely scent!

 

 

Story by Nao♪

No.4

https://osamposampo393.hateblo.jp/entry/2021/08/17/160043