The Cooking Princess - Chapter 110

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Shuel made a subtle expression as he looked at the ’emergency rations’ that Chloe had brought.

The something that could have been bread or cookies was really hard and rough, so Shuel simply couldn’t taste this food at all.

Having been accustomed to Chloe’s high-quality cooking all this time, this was food he absolutely couldn’t eat, so he quickly stopped eating and watched Chloe’s reaction.

Chloe asked Shuel with an expectant face.

“How is it?”

How is it?

“Hmm…”

Shuel deliberately avoided Chloe’s gaze, which seemed full of expectation, and thought.

No matter what, this was really the first dish in his entire life that was even difficult to eat.

How could he tell his lovely fiancée to her face that the dish was almost the worst criticism possible?

Seeing that Shuel couldn’t easily open his mouth, Chloe’s eyes sparkled.

“It’s completely awful, right?”

“Right. Worse than I imagined… huh?”

Shuel, who had inadvertently agreed that it was the worst, looked at Chloe in surprise, but amazingly, she looked pleased!

She suddenly held a hammer in her hand, saying she would show him something amazing.

‘Surely not with that on me?’

Although he knew she wasn’t that type of person, Shuel, who had just agreed that her cooking was the worst, watched Chloe’s reaction nervously.

Chloe took a deep breath and then with all her strength…

She struck the cookie with the hammer!

“Wh-what is this.”

Shuel was bewildered, not knowing how to react to Chloe’s sudden action.

But what was even more surprising was that the cookie she struck with the hammer didn’t break and remained intact!

Only after Chloe hammered it several more times with difficulty did the cookie finally crack.

‘Is that… really meant for people to eat?’

While Shuel was doubting this, Chloe, who had proudly wiped the sweat from her forehead while looking at the broken cookie, added an explanation for Shuel.

“If it’s delicious and you keep wanting to eat it, then it’s not ’emergency rations.’ So I tried to make it as tasteless as possible, but there was a limit to that too. So.”

Her green eyes sparkled with vitality.

“In the end, I thought if I made it ‘difficult to eat,’ people would only eat it in emergencies!”

The idea… the idea was certainly unique. This kind of challenging spirit of hers must have created her current position.

“It’s food you have to crack open to eat. You absolutely can’t just eat it normally.”

Chloe explained that she had put chocolate inside the broken cookie to supplement calories.

Chloe introduced this cookie as Schnieballen (* a famous German confection) and gave a brief explanation.

‘Well, cracking it with a hammer is a characteristic that developed when it came to Korea, and they don’t eat it that way in the homeland.’

But for Chloe, who wanted to create the characteristic of being ‘troublesome to eat’ so people wouldn’t want to eat it normally, it was really the perfect cookie.

If she made Schnieballen ridiculously hard and provided tools to ‘laboriously’ crack it open, wouldn’t the soldiers find it troublesome enough to only eat their emergency rations in real emergencies?

“If it wasn’t ridiculously hard food like this, I think people would just snack on it casually.”

“Ah.”

Shuel, who heard Chloe’s words, understood… well, not really.

‘It doesn’t crack properly, so cracking it would be hard labor too.’

Would they have the energy to exert that much effort in an emergency situation?

Though he was slightly confused, it seemed like if they adjusted the hardness a bit, it would become a reasonably useful item, so Shuel smiled kindly and affirmed Chloe’s words.

Thinking that making it so extremely hard was also a skill in its own way.

“I made dessert before the main food. This is something Shuel will really like.”

Chloe, who apologized for giving him strange food, had a maid bring out various cold-looking foods from the freezer.

“Is it shaved ice?”

If it was honey shaved ice that Shuel had eaten many times before, the soldiers would also eat it very deliciously.

But it would be troublesome to grind ice individually during war.

Shuel looked curiously at the appearance of the dessert Chloe had brought out.

The appearance was somehow… he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what, but it was subtly different from shaved ice.

“It’s a little different! Please try it.”

Unlike the shaved ice she had made before, Chloe added that she had made this one with careful attention to proportions.

Shuel’s eyes widened in surprise as he took a spoonful and tasted it.

“How is it? It’s very delicious, right?”

“Yes. It tastes like peach.”

What Shuel ate was peach ice cream.

“Eating delicious food gives you energy! I can’t help but make emergency rations tasteless, but sometimes there should be special meals like this to boost morale.”

Shuel had requested military provisions from Chloe, who was a cooking specialist, for the same reason.

Peach flavor, mango flavor, persimmon flavor, blueberry flavor, and finally strawberry flavor.

Shuel tasted them all and was amazed that not a single one was tasteless.

Chloe seemed to be trying to solve with overwhelming money and distribution networks the attempts she couldn’t make before due to difficult storage and hard-to-obtain fresh ingredients.

She was properly providing the welfare of refrigerators and ice cream to allied soldiers.

Shuel was confident that soldiers who hadn’t even properly tasted shaved ice yet would go crazy for this taste.

Thinking this, Shuel didn’t bother to hide his flushed cheeks and eagerly ate the ice cream.

Watching those flushed cheeks, Chloe smiled contentedly and thought.

‘Actually, the US military was also really famous for ice cream welfare.’

While she might know about cooking, she really knew nothing about war, so she planned to follow her past life’s memories as closely as possible.

‘Then the problem is how to respond when Cloud, Duke attacks. Is there anything I can do?’

She couldn’t accurately predict exactly how Claude would act in the future.

He might claim his innocence and appeal his grievances, or he might ignore public opinion about himself according to the treason charges and push into the Central Government.

Chloe steeled herself, thinking that she had no choice but to always stay alert so she could quickly respond to any situation.

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While Chloe was developing emergency rations and ice cream and supporting Shuel in building military strength, an important change occurred in the Imperial Palace.

Exactly one month after Claude failed to return to the Imperial Palace without permission, the Emperor made a grand announcement that he planned to establish Shuel as Crown Prince.

Now the situation was completely concluded in Shuel’s favor.

While rejoicing at this fact, Chloe thought to herself.

‘Has the Emperor finally gone mad?’

Perhaps he had obtained proof of Claude’s treason and was thinking of giving Shuel greater power to prevent it.

But what the Emperor overlooked was that Claude’s supporters still existed in the Central Government.

“It seems His Highness the Prince has finally won?”

“That’s right. Still, His Grace the Duke was really exceptional in swordsmanship.”

“Hey now. If you say such things at a time like this, you’ll be arrested for treason.”

Though they were forcing themselves to restrain their words since supporting Claude itself could seem disrespectful now that the Crown Prince had been decided.

‘You can clearly see they’re openly displeased.’

This was also due to the Emperor’s conduct.

Not long after driving the Garnet Family to the wall claiming rebellion, this time he confined the Empress to the Underground Prison and threatened his own illegitimate son the Duke with treason charges.

The high-ranking nobles seemed to think that, just like Chloe and the Garnet Family, Claude wasn’t really plotting rebellion but was being toyed with by the Emperor’s arbitrary test.

‘Please conduct yourself better.’

If civil war broke out later, this would definitely be troublesome.

If rebellion occurred without perfectly separating who was on Shuel and Chloe’s side and who was on Claude’s side, the Imperial Court would be fighting a war while keeping enemies inside.

But there was no clear solution.

Though Chloe racked her brains amid the complexity, she couldn’t clearly provide an answer that even Shuel, a strategic genius, couldn’t immediately come up with.

In the midst of this tense situation, people around her even probed Chloe about when she would marry Shuel!

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