Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapters 27. Lactose Intolerance

"Sorry Miss, it's not that I don't want to accept a gift from you, but I can't drink milk..."

A man came to Elona when she asked her workers who had not drunk her milk at all.

The man was dark brown and wore a simple tunic. Her height is not much different from Elona's. Somewhat strange, because in this fantasy world the average Elona saw was a tall man strapping like Art or Mr. Stan. Well at least, higher than Elona. But this man before him was almost on equal footing with her.

"Why?" Elona asked curiously.

"Since childhood I could not drink milk, because after that I must have diarrhea." the man tried to explain, looking at the milk drum that Elona brought from her residence with a frightened look.

"Oh, huh? Have you ever been to the doctor?" Elona asked again. His brain turned rapidly thinking of something.

"Never, Miss. But my mother also experienced the same thing."

So, a genetic disorder? Elona drew the conclusion in her heart.

"Other than milk, what else can't Uncle eat?" ask the girl again.

"Cheese, Miss. The effect on me is the same as drinking milk."

"When did that happen?"

"It was once, when the late Mr. Edward, Nona's father, held a banquet in the town hall and invited the villagers. There were a lot of foods that contained cheese back then, but I couldn't enjoy them." said the man, glaring at past events. "The diarrhea I felt afterwards was excruciating!"

After listening to all of those things, Elona paused for a moment and thought.

If the mother also experienced, this means decreased in the family. But, cheese also she can't eat?

Oh, what don't you...

"Never drink milk before?" Elona asks complementary things even though she already knows what happened to the man.

"No. but my parents replaced it with rice boiled water,"

"Water stew of rice.. oh, tajin!" sahut Elona, greeted with astonished gazes of the residents who participated in listening to the conversation of the girl with the old man.

"Tagin? What'sthat?"

Oh yes, how could they possibly know the earth language term for rice boiled water.

"Sorry, it's nothing." muttered Elona. "So all this time, never drank milk other than cows?"

"No, Miss. I couldn't drink goat's milk either." replied the man, but Elona shook her hand.

"Not the one from the goat, I mean the one from the nuts! For example, so is soy milk."

"What?! Soy milk?" the citizens asked in unison, then a second later they laughed.

"Miss Elona is all there is! Since when can soybeans be milked, hahahaha!"

Elona was confused to see it. Because from his experience on earth, drinking milk made from nuts is very common.

"Oh, that's not what I meant." said Elona preventing their laughter from continuing. Then the girl realized something. "Oh, wait. All this time, how do you eat soybeans?"

"meaning?" one of the residents asked back did not understand, "Of course we eat it, directly as ordinary beans or as a complement to soup."

"Never treated as anything else...?" asked Elona doubtfully.

"Indeed, what else are the uses of soybeans other than for soup supplements?"

Elona widened her eyes after hearing the question back.

Here goes!

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And here he was, the young lady was in the kitchen, in her residence of the City of Armelin. One kilogram of soybeans is ready on the table, along with sugar, pan, salt, and ready-to-drink water.

Elona circulated a glance at the materials before her. He thought for a moment.

I kind of forgot... How do ya, how to make soy milk? Just boiled, right?

After listening to the explanation of a worker who could not drink cow's milk since she was a child, Elona came to a conclusion.

The old man was suffering from lactose intolerance, which is not able to consume the sugar contained in animal milk. So, he also cannot eat animal-derived food products that contain lactose such as cheese or yogurt.

If on earth, children who suffer from lactose intolerance will be given an alternative to drinking milk other than animals, namely milk made from nuts. The most common is soy. Actually said as milk was not appropriate, because it is true what the residents said earlier. Soy cannot be milked. Soy milk is actually soybean essence. Because the color is white like milk, it is often referred to as soy milk.

"Leave just boiled so soft, then crushed to become liquid... right, yes?"

Elona muttered to herself, taking 250 grams of soybeans, and then putting it in the pot. Then he added water, and lit a fire. The waiters who were also in the kitchen at the time helped her start the fire with firewood.

"Miss, what's cooking? Miss wants to eat something? Let us prepare!"

"No, I'm not hungry. I'm doing an experiment with soybeans, hehe." Elona explained with a smile. The servants nodded their heads.

"Oh, I see, good luck, miss. If you need help, just call us, yes!"

"Thank you!" elona said, then turned her gaze back to the pot before her.

Honestly, Elona does not remember the recipe of soy milk. All he knew, if to get the essence of food, it would just be destroyed. At this time the girl is very sorry why the smartphone does not exist in the world where she lives now. Because if there is, he can quickly make sure through the search engine site whether what he does is right or not.

After boiling the soybeans with boiling water for five minutes, Elona raised her pancake.

"Miss wants to crush those soybeans?" asked a cook as soon as he saw his employer taking a set of cuttings and sticks from the dish rack.

"Eh? Yes, Uncle."

"Wear the seasoning grinder only." suggested the cook. Then he took out a manual machine made of bronze. It was shaped like a long glass with a bowl underneath, and there was a twisting stalk on it.

"Oh, you can also wear it. Thank you, Uncle!"

Elona returned the torn set back to the shelf. Then the girl put the soya beans that had been filtered from the boiled water into the grinder, and added water.

With the help of a waiter who turned the grinding stick, Elona got a bowl full of soybeans that had become porridge.

The girl then prepared a clean pot and filter cloth. He put the soybean porridge on the cloth, and Elona wrapped it. Then with

slowly, Elona squeezed out a lump of porridge in the cloth. Some liquid came out from inside. Elona made sure there would be no bean dregs coming into the pot, leaving only the saripati.

Once again, Elona brought the pot to the stove. This time, the contents were a white liquid with no dregs. After breaking the fire, slowly the girl added enough salt and sugar, then stirred it to mix well with soy milk. There are froths that appear during boiling. Elona lifted the foam and threw it away. After five minutes, he poured the pot into a glass.

Elona's eyes instantly became sparkling as well.

"Waahh! It's so!"

Elona let the soy milk first so that the temperature becomes normal and can be drunk by him. The girl was impatient and fanned the white liquid to cool down quickly. He wanted to drink the results of the experiment immediately.

After a while, Elona touched the surface of the glass. The temperature is normal. Quickly, the girl grabbed the soy milk, preparing to down it straight away.

"okay! Happy drinking!"

"..."

"*HOEK!! What the fuck?! Why is it so stinky??"

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