As I picked at the bland salad, Herbert asked, “What’s wrong? Is it not to your taste?”

Hmm. Is it okay to be honest?

“No, it’s delicious, but if possible, I would like some dressing.”

For now, let’s make sure to praise the taste first.

“Dressing?”

“Yes. Adding that makes the salad even more delicious.”

“Oh? What ingredients does it use and how is it made?”

“Well…”

I took out a blue-covered alchemy book from my bracelet.

Since I had thought about wanting recipes like this before, there had to be a way to make dressing written somewhere.

Flipping through the pages, I found it!

Um, let’s see…

The ingredients are—

• Juice from 1/3 of a lemon
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon white wine
• 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• A pinch of black pepper

Hmm. It looks like the ingredients are easy to obtain. If there’s wine, there should be wine vinegar too.

Now, the method is…

First, squeeze the lemon to get the juice.

Then, just put all the ingredients into the alchemy pot and mix them together. So easy!

Normally, there seems to be an order for adding ingredients, but since we’re using the alchemy pot, it looks like we can throw everything in at once.

“Can it be made right away?”

“If we have the ingredients, we can make it. Um, it seems we can substitute the lemon and olive oil with what we have, so as long as we have white wine and white wine vinegar, we can make it.”

There was something lemon-like among the fruits we picked in the garden, and there was something that looked like olive oil.

We could use the all-purpose seasoning for the salt and black pepper.

“Let’s prepare it.”

While waiting, an old man wearing a white chef’s hat quickly brought over the white wine.

Could this person be the one who made the dish? Though, I have only eaten the salad so far.

“Um, then I’ll put these ingredients into the alchemy pot and mix them!”

I measured the ingredients properly, put them in the alchemy pot, and stirred, swirl, swirl.

And, it’s done!

“It’s ready!”

I poured the dressing from the alchemy pot onto everyone’s salad bit by bit.

Let’s try it right away.

“Digging in! Mmm. This is it! As expected, dressing is delicious!”

Now, I want mayonnaise too. If I could eat it with the dressing… gulp.

Alright, let’s make it!

Using the golden egg…

Since there’s a recipe in the alchemy book, I won’t burn it as long as I use this quantity.

• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 2/3 teaspoon salt (4g)
• 1 tablespoon mustard
• 110g salad oil

Can I use white wine vinegar for the vinegar? I don’t have salad oil, so I’ll substitute it with olive oil.

As for the mustard… I’ll leave it to the versatility of the all-purpose seasoning!

It should definitely balance the flavors.

Now, let’s put it in the alchemy pot and let’s cook♪

“It’s done!”

Yay! It’s been a while since I had mayonnaise.

This richness is just irresistible.

“Mei is being unfair!”

Ermine, sitting next to me, puffed up their cheeks.

Oh, Ermine! Making that face just makes you cuter.

“Oh, sorry, sorry. Would you like some, Ermine?”

“Yeah. What’s that?”

“It’s called mayonnaise. Oh, if we have this, we could make potato salad.”

We could also make scrambled eggs, and it’s delicious to bake mayonnaise and eggs on toast too.

Alright. Tomorrow morning’s menu is settled!

“Mei, this is delicious.”

Ermine, happily munching on the salad with mayonnaise, had mayonnaise smeared all over their whiskers.

I’ll clean it up later… Oh, but I have the clean magic, so it should be fine.

“Mei. May we have some as well?”

“Oh. Excuse me. Please, go ahead.”

When I nodded at Herbert, who was staring intently, everyone simultaneously took a bite of the salad with mayonnaise.

“What is this? Until now, I only put oil and salt, but this has a rich, profound taste. I could eat this endlessly.”

Saying that, Herbert began munching on the salad.

Looking closely, I saw Zeke and the others were eating at an incredible pace.

And we still have the main meat course waiting!