Chapter 174 Home Economics Class

The water flows eastward, and the leaves fall.

Before we knew it, the cool breeze blew through the streets and the time passed quietly.

The weather was still sunny. Xia Yu, wearing a sky blue apron, stared out the window silently. What he saw was a mixture of green and yellow. Although it was the end of autumn, there were still many trees that remained green.

I don’t know how long it can last, but the weather is just right now, neither cold nor hot, so it may last for a while.

"We are going to make deep-fried food today. Students, please stop fooling around and do it seriously."

At the podium, the home economics teacher is assigning tasks for this class.

Since the 1990s, the Japanese government has listed home economics as a compulsory course, aimed at cultivating students' self-reliance. Content includes washing vegetables, cooking, washing dishes, as well as tidying up the room, doing laundry, etc.

The purpose of this course is to cultivate children's food culture, instill healthy eating awareness, develop independent self-care abilities and a positive attitude towards life. Home economics classes are generally included in the regular courses of elementary, junior high and high schools.

Today's home economics class is about learning fried dishes, and the theme is a very classic fried food - croquettes.

Although it is called croquette, in fact this fried food has nothing to do with cola. The correct name should be Japanese fried meat croquette, or fried meatballs.

As for why it is called croquette, it is because the name of croquette is taken from the French word croquette, and its Japanese pronunciation コロッケ is similar to the pronunciation of the Chinese word "cola", so croquette has another name.

The teacher's nagging voice had not stopped yet, and Xia Yu continued to be distracted.

He didn't need a teacher to teach him how to make fried dishes. The method of making fried food was included in the top cooking skills that he had exchanged for fifty sunshine points from the system.

Not to mention croquettes, he can even make tempura with ease.

More than ten minutes later, after the teacher on the podium had finished the demonstration, the students below could finally start making croquettes by themselves.

It is not difficult to make croquettes. You just need to chop the fillings into pieces and shape them into a pancake. Then spread them with wheat flour, egg liquid and bread crumbs. Finally, fry them in a pan until both sides are golden brown.

"Don't throw away the chopped stuffing. Coat it with egg liquid, coat it with bread crumbs, and fry it until both sides are golden brown. The kids next door are crying with envy."

While Xia Yu was mumbling to himself some jokes that only he knew, he casually put the croquettes into the pot. It didn't take too long, and with the sizzling sound of frying, the croquettes in the pot were ready.

"Wow, I didn't expect that you, Xia, are so good at making fried foods. You're amazing."

At the side, Yamazaki, who had also easily made the croquettes, came over and looked at Xia Yu taking the croquettes out of the pot and putting them on the plate, and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Of course. I'm a man who can even make fried food at the top level."

Xia Yu first boasted subconsciously, and then glanced at Yamazaki. Yamazaki also arranged his fried croquettes at this moment. He stacked them into a fragrant "croquette tower".

"You did a great job, the color and aroma are perfect."

"Hey, by the way, do you know the legend about croquettes?"

Seeing that Li Xiaolang seemed to have noticed this as well, a smile flashed across Yamazaki's narrowed eyes, and he pretended to be serious and spoke in a scientific manner.

"It is said that before croquettes were introduced to Japan from France, the French held a croquette competition every year. Whoever made the largest croquette would be the winner. The previous winner made a croquette with a diameter of more than ten meters, and no one has surpassed it to this day."

"More than ten meters..."

After hearing Yamazaki's scientific explanation, Li Xiaolang, who was listening, was surprised and said unconsciously: "Croquettes need to be fried, right? Do they have an oil pan that is more than ten meters long? It's really big." What an honest child.

Xia Yu glanced at Li Xiaolang, who seemed to have believed it, and suppressed his smile, saying, "So the winner at that time did not heat the pot with a gas stove or firewood, but directly used the volcano to heat the pot and oil."

"A volcano?"

Li Xiaolang imagined the scene, looked at the smiling Yamazaki and Xia Yu with some suspicion, and asked doubtfully: "Are you guys lying to me?"

"How could we lie to you?"

Xia Yu, Yamazaki: (-ω-)-ω-)
Li Xiaolang: (_)
"Well, maybe I'm just ignorant."

Li Xiaolang nodded, looking at the small frying pan in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh: "The French are really amazing."

Xia Yu, Yamazaki: (〃￣︶￣)人(￣︶￣〃)
"It's a pleasure to work with you." ×2
After successfully fooling the honest child again, Xia Yu happily picked up a fried croquette he had made. Just as he was about to taste it, a familiar exclamation suddenly came from not far away.

“Oh hey——!”

When I looked over, I saw that the person who exclaimed was, as expected, Sakura.

I don't know what Sakura did, but black smoke suddenly came out of the oil pan in front of her, and Sakura in front of the oil pan was also dancing around, at a loss.

Seeing that the smoke was getting thicker and the teacher had no time to go over to help, Li Meiling who was nearby came to the oil pan in time, and then calmly and quickly turned off the gas stove that was heating the oil pan.

Without the fire, the oil pan that was still emitting black smoke gradually cooled down, and the endless black smoke disappeared.

Seeing that the oil pan no longer emitted black smoke, Li Meiling breathed a sigh of relief, and Xiaoying, who was originally panicked, also felt relieved.

"Is it okay?" The teacher came over and asked worriedly.

"No, it's okay." Sakura shook her head, feeling a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, the Home Economics teacher clapped his hands, attracted everyone's attention, and then warned: "Other students should be extra careful too. If the oil is too hot, it will turn out like what happened just now."

"Yes!"×N
Seeing the commotion was over, Xia Yu picked up the croquettes he had fried and walked over. While signaling to the people who had calmed down, he asked curiously, "What happened just now?"

"Sorry, it's my fault." Sakura lowered her head guiltily.

She was supposed to put the croquettes into the frying pan just now, but because she was afraid of the sizzling sound when putting the food into the frying pan, she missed the best time. This also caused the oil temperature to rise and black smoke came out directly.

If Meiling hadn't reacted quickly, she would probably have had to wait for the teacher to come and help.

Thinking of this, Xiaoying thanked Li Meiling who was about to leave: "Meiling, thank you for helping me turn off the fire."

Hearing this thanks, Li Meiling paused and said in a slightly serious voice: "Kinomoto-san."

Hearing the tone that sounded like a reprimand, Sakura said awkwardly, "Um, I'll be more careful next time..."

However, the expected scolding did not come. Li Meiling suddenly turned around and asked somewhat embarrassedly, "Where is Sister Zhenshu's store?"

"Eh?"

(End of this chapter)