Culinary (Anime)

The **culinary** tradition of Ehrenfest includes many dishes and ingredients that resemble familiar Earth cuisine, such as sausages, bread, tea, and soup. However, it also includes a range of ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques that are unique to the new world.

Usinger her memories from her past life as Urano, Myne was able to recreate or adapt many of the recipes she knew on earth to create new foods in Ehrenfest.

*For Myne's non-culinary inventions, see Inventions.*

# Savory Dishes

## Fluffy Bread

**Fluffy Bread** is made of natural yeast.

## Capellini

**Capellini** is based on the real-world dish of the same name. It is made by chopping plain pasta as thinly as possible, then making a sauce with pome and a mild, mozzarella-like cheese. To emulate basil pesto, plant oil is mixed with salt and either herbs or rigars.

## Cottage Cheese

**Cottage cheese** is a commoners' dish made by adding vinegar to cow's milk. It is popular with families like Myne's that don't have ready access to milk, since it requires much less milk to make than fermented natural cheese.

## Parue-Burger

**Parue-burgers,** or "not-quite okara hamburgers" one of Myne's recipes made with parue pulp, along with parue okonomiyaki and parue cakes. After shaping the parue pulp into a burger-like shape, Myne makes a sauce using the tomato-like pome fruit and covers it with a layer of cheese. Although the parue-burger is more savory than the parue cake, the combination of flavors still brings out a gentle sweetness.

## Parue Okonomiyaki

**Parue okonomiyaki**, or savory parue pancakes, are modeled after Japanese okonomiyaki with the addition of melted cheese. To make it, parue pulp and grated cheese are mixed together in a bowl. Then parue oil, salt, and basil-like chopped lage leaves are added to the batter. Then the batter is poured into a heated pan and cooked until the cheese is crunchy. Myne also recommends adding chopped-up ham and vegetables. Parue okonomiyaki are not to be confused with sweet parue cakes or parue-burgers.

## Pizza

    **Pizza** is made to resemble the real-world dish of the same name. To approximate the taste, Myne made a recipe using dough leavened by natural yeast, a sauce made of the tomato-like pome fruits, and available types of cheese. Because pome are yellow, not red, this dish looks slightly different from traditional pizza. Making a pizza requires access to an oven.

## Karffel Salad

**Karffel Salad** (カルフェサラダ, *karufe sarada*), also called (ポテトサラダ, *poteto sarada*), contains boiled crushed karffels mixed with vegetables and mayonnaise.

## Steamed Potatoes

    **Steamed Potatoes** cut open on one side with a pat of butter on top. Myne used these as rewards for the gray priests who worked the hardest on cleaning the orphanage.

# Sweet Dishes

## Parue Cake

**Parue Cakes,** or "Simple Okara Pancakes," are made from the pulp of parue fruits after they've been drained and pressed for oil. Although most commoners only use the pulp for bird-feed, Myne observed that it had a similar texture to okara (soy pulp) used in Japanese cooking.

To make it, she mixes the pulp with about two teaspoons worth of parue juice, which is milky and sweet. She then adds two eggs and some milk and mixes it into a batter, which she fries like a pancake in a hot buttered pan, flipping halfway through. The resulting parue cake is fluffy and sweet, even without the addition of jam or other sweeteners.

Myne later brings the recipe to the orphanage, where it becomes a favorite winter treat. Parue cakes are a distinct dish from parue-burgers, which are a savory food made with pome sauce and cheese.

## Pound Cake

**Pound Cake** is an easy to make confectionary that consists of equal parts butter, flour, milk and sugar and can be further refined by mixing fillings into the batter or laying creams and the likes on top after baking. It requires an oven to be properly baked.

Apart from introducing this world to the basic recipe, Myne also introduces a variety of different pound cakes. There is the normal one without any filling or toppings and also some using seasonal fruits, tea leaves or liquor. Leise has come up with several variants of her own, after Myne introduced her to the recipe.

## Rumtopf

**Rumtopf** is made by using sugar to draw out the moisture of fruits, placing the fruit in a jar and filling the jar with a distilled alcohol. This is then left for half a year before it is ready to eat. It is a good way to have summer fruit flavours in the middle of winter. The fruits can be used as ingredients for other dishes like Pound Cake or Crêpe or eaten as they are.

# Drinks

## Colde Drink

This drink is made from thinning down juice of the colde fruit, sweetened with honey.

# Ingredients and Condiments

In the Duchy of Ehrenfest, a range of common ingredients are available, including eggs, milk, buckwheat flour, mushrooms and many common types of meat. There are also many fruits and vegetables unique to the local area, many of which resemble real-world ingredients like garlic or strawberries.

## Mayonnaise

**Mayonnaise** (マヨネーズ, *Mayoneezu*) is like the one known on earth.

## Natural Yeast

Myne keeps the recipe secret as her trump card. It is used to make fluffy bread and other dough, like the one for pizza.

## Rumtopf Topping

Rumtopf can also be used a topping for other confectioneries, such as pound cake.

## Rutreb Jam

**Rutreb Jam** is made from the red rutreb fruit that resembles strawberries.

## Salt

The majority of Ehrenfest's salt is extracted from fruits.

## Sugar

Sugar does not naturally grow in Ehrenfest or it's country. Imports from other contries have only started quite recently, which is why only few recipes exist that make use of it. Nevertheless it has quickly gained popularity among the rich and powerful who can afford it.

## Vegetable Broth

Broth made by preserving the water in which vegetables are boiled, used to give soup a richer flavor. In Ehrenfest people believe that the water in which vegetables are cooked can cause illness, miscarriages and infertility, but Myne, understanding that it is perfectly safe to use if you wash and peel the vegetables properly beforehand, teaches her family and chefs how to use it in broth.

# References

1. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 2 Volume 1. Chapter 19: The Star Festival
2. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 2 Volume 2. Chapter 20: The End of Winter Preparations
3. ↑  Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 1. Chapter 16: Long Live Mesopotamian Culture
4. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 3. Chapter 10: Report to Lutz
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1  Ascendance of a Bookworm. Manga Part 2 Volume 2. Chapter 6: Everyone Has a Job to Do
6. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 1. Chapter 12: The Sweet Taste of Winter
7. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 2 Volume 3. Chapter 7: Daily Winter Life
8. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 2. Chapter 12: The Guildmaster and the Hair Ornament
9. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Fanbook 1. Q&A with Miya Kazuki
10. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 3. Chapter 5: Winter Begins
11. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 1. Chapter 21: Intense Battle with Food
12. ↑ Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 1 Volume 1. Apprentice Chef in the Temple