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Dec 25.

[personal profile] featheradrift 2023-12-24 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ On the evening of December 25, when he returns to his abode, Yi Sang will find a beautifully wrapped gift package sitting at the front door with his name on it.

Should he open the box, he'll find two cookbooks within: one for savoury dishes and one focused on sweets and desserts. However, these books are not pristine. Whoever gifted the cookbooks meticulously went through both of them to annotate the entire thing with sticky notes. There's a loose page tucked into the front of the savoury cookbook with a list of dishes written on them. It's an order of dishes that Yi Sang should start learning with, from easiest to hardest.

Further inspection of the annotations will reveal an incredible eye for detail: the notes indicate how he should measure how the stove or oven he uses distributes heat, and thus the times needed depending on if said stove or oven is weak or strong; how to look for ripe fruits and vegetables at the market and what would indicate rot when a recipe calls for certain ingredients; why it's important to use clarified butter in this recipe, or unsalted butter in that one, or how he shouldn't use a substitute for this particular ingredient.

The baking cookbook has a note at the front that indicates Yi Sang might be more comfortable starting with this book if he's used to following instructions to a T, because baking is a science and cooking is an art. It's also been similarly annotated, with many explanations about why certain procedures are important for each recipe.

A plain, but durable looking apron has also been included in the package, as well as oven mitts. There's nothing inside or outside the package that indicates who sent it.
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