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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jul 15, 2024 3:11:49 GMT
After a while of smashing these bags of candies with rocks, the candies inside were resembling more and more like small shards or sprinkles. When it seemed like these candies couldn't be smashed any more than they already had been, Kaya and Hawkeye both stopped and took a breath."I think it is safe to say that we're finished with our current objective," Hawkeye said. "I agree," Kaya responded with a nod. "Come on, let's go see if she has anything else she wants us to do."
At that moment, Coco approached the partners and stated how impressed she was with their work on smashing the candy. They both blushed a little bit in response, although it would be short lived when Coco realized that the candy that the candy they had spent that time smashing was fruit candy, so it wouldn't go with the chocolate at all.
"So what were doing this whole time with the candy was pointless?" Kaya asked. She was rather annoyed that she had gotten that workout done by smashing the candy that couldn't be used for this current project. Coco then assigned new tasks to Kaya and Hawkeye. For Kaya, she was expected to take the powdered sugar and start slowly melting it down, constantly stirring it in the process. Meanwhile, Hawkeye would help incorporate the honey into the sugar as soon as the others came back with some. The way she spoke made it very clear that she knew what she was doing, and it would turn out well as long as Kaya and Hawkeye did the jobs they were assigned. "You can count on us," Hawkeye said to Coco with a confident look on his face. Kaya grabbed the powdered sugar and poured it into the pot, melting it down and slowly yet constantly stirring it. She looked a tad bit uncertain about it at first, but after a while she seemed to be getting the hang of it. Meanwhile, Hawkeye waited for the honey to be delivered so that he could help add it in to the melting sugar pot, and it would be added in as a slow drizzle just as Coco had requested. Of course, that depended on if the other Digimon were going to come back with honey in the first place. No matter; Hawkeye would keep a lookout for that team. If they do arrive, he'd be the first to know of their arrival.
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Post by cocoazielman on Jul 15, 2024 4:18:55 GMT
"We work with the tools that we have, miss and I am attempting to be an optimist." Cocoa said as she strutted and gathered up the powdered hard candy. "If they bring us good fruit, then this hard candy will go deliciously. I am hoping and praying for this natural vista to be as fertile as it seems. No use panicking before the oven's on fire." She said, dusting off her apron before pausing, perking up and looking over to the oven that was, indeed, not on fire. She nodded softly to herself with a smile.
Once the two were to work they saw the other digimon burst out of the underbrush from all over the edges of the clearing where the village lay. One of them had a bundle of sweet, shiny berries cupped gingerly in her wings. Another had something that looked like a length of bark hoisted over his head. One of the digimon was lugging fistfuls of grasses hoisted out of the ground still clodded with earth at the roots.
And indeed, one of the digimon was holding, with the tenderness and care of a priceless treasure, a honey cob so overflowing with honey that it was falling in thick droplet's over the digimon's face.
Cocoa had left Hawkeye with the tools for the job. A colander with a thin rag of what felt like burlap laid across the inside.
"Now, what I want you to do is put the honeycomb in the bowl and very slowly, gently, and evenly begin smooshing it against the bottom. We want a thin, gentle drizzle. Big, fat globs could gum up your partner's stirring speed, make airholes in the bubbles and then somebody gets a popping bubble of boiling hot liquid sugar to the face!" She said with the warning stare of someone who had 100% had that happen to her before. "But that won't happen. Positivity!"
Cocoa stood looking down at the fruit in front of her, turning the berries over in her hands, leaning in to sniff them. Both trying to figure out if they were safe to eat and then popping one between her molars gingerly, taking a long moment to absorb the taste.
"Tart. Sour, even. That's citric acid, alright." She said, looking down at the berries like she was interrogating them. Her eyes squinted in deep thought, tapping the end of her cane against the ground before suddenly she lit up like someone had set off a firework. "Kaya, Hawkeye, once that mixture is in the bowl and softly bowling, come here. I have need of those graceful hands of yours."
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Aug 24, 2024 2:33:37 GMT
"Well, if you're gonna be confident about the fruit, then so will I," Kaya said as Cocoa began gathering the powdered hard candy. She raised her fist in a confident manner as she smiled at the candy maker. "I'm sure those Digimon will bring back some good fruit to go along with it."
As Kaya and Hawkeye were working, they would indeed see the Digimon return with bundles of berries, grasses, and of course honey combs. While Kaya was still stirring the sugar, Cocoa handed Hawkeye what he recognized as a colander with a thin burlap rag laid across the inside of it. She instructed him to gently push the honey comb against the bottom of the colander, allowing the honey to gently drizzle into the sugar. She also warned that fat globs could interfere with Kaya's stirring speed, making air holes that could pop and burn Kaya. "W-Well, I'll be sure to not have it come to that," Hawkeye said. He took the honey comb and placed it into the bowl. "I've never worked with honey straight from the comb back in Shibuya..."
"It's not too different from honey in packages back home, I don't think," Kaya said. "Now come on, that honey won't add itself!"
Kaya and Hawkeye would proceed to work together once more, with Hawkeye slowly drizzling in the honey while Kaya continued to stir. The two of them weren't unfamiliar with baking, as they liked to do it sometimes back home, so the work they did was not amateurish by any means. After finishing up the task, Cocoa called over the duo once again to help with something else. The two would clean up as best they could and head on over to where Cocoa was. "What do you want us to help with this time?" Kaya asked. She noticed the bunches of fruit that was in front of Cocoa, so Kaya guessed that this next job would be involving that. Cocoa did say that she needed graceful hands, even though Hawkeye had wings instead of hands, but that was besides the point.
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Post by cocoazielman on Aug 27, 2024 2:23:36 GMT
Cocoa flexed her fingers nimbly, laying out in front of herself a trio of berries, a small twig she straightened out with her thumb and forefinger to make a toothpick and turning to her two helpers.
"We are at near the finish line I promise, I need to get you two resting before you start feeling the callouses I've given you." She said with a joyful twinkle in her eyes that made it very hard to tell if she was joking or not. "Couldn't be simpler, but we need to do it briskly and with some grace." She said, laying out the powdered candy in a large bowl and a thin sheet of cloth in front of her. "Three berries on each twig, making sure to leave enough to hold onto at the base." She said, putting each of the berries in their place, perfectly centered and without looking down. "A quick dip in the mixture you've left to simmer for me." She said, dipping the stick with a little twirl of the skewer to turn the drizzle of molten honey-sugar into a cute little spiral at the top of the candy. "A quick once over in the dusted candy." She said, lightly rolling it along the top of the bowl. "And we set them down to rest, far enough apart that they don't get stuck to one another." She said, conducting the whole process without actually looking away from Kaya and Hawkeye, like her body was conducting the actions with a totally different set of neurons than the ones using her mouth.
"Don't dunk it too much in the sugar or it'll get caked on in globs, roll in the dust gently to avoid clumping and no matter how much trouble you are having getting them onto the skewer do not look to closely unless you fancy a squirt of citric acid to the surface of the eye." She said, turning back to the floundering Digimon who was still at the oven getting everything ready on his end. "This is the home stretch, you two. I believe in your abilities totally, once everything is done, dust yourselves off and pat yourselves on the back. Find a good seat and I promise you a lovely show..." She winked knowingly and walked away
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