Chapter 103 – Culinary Class Concludes

On the Friday of the week of the third-years’ first monthly exam, all the first-year young witches had learned to make every dish in 《Learning Culinary Magic from Scratch》 using culinary magic: two types of bread, two types of vegetable soup, and three types of grilled meat cutlets.

“With that, we’ve covered everything in the introductory culinary magic course.

If you wish to further study culinary magic going forward, the basic approach is the same as what we learned in class—first familiarize yourself with ordinary cooking procedures, then attempt magical cooking.

For more advanced material, you can refer to these three books: 《The Culinary Atlas of the Continent of Valen》, 《The Selection of Ingredients》, and 《The Making of a Chef》.

The first-year library also has quite a few distinctive cookbooks. Everyone can choose what to study based on your own interests and preferences.

If you want to try making more delicious food, keep working hard!

Next week’s curriculum will have some changes, so please pay attention to the class schedule.

Class dismissed!”

Lady Amisha left as soon as she finished speaking.

“What does that mean?” The kitchen knife Iris was controlling clattered onto the cutting board. “There won’t be any advanced culinary magic classes or anything like that?”

“Probably not!” Mo Lan said while looking toward the Arcane Stove’s switch, and the next second it turned itself off, extinguishing the flame.

Then the large clay pot on the stovetop floated up on its own and settled off to the side.

The aroma of food instantly swelled and spread outward.

Iris sniffed the air, her head turning toward Mo Lan’s mobile kitchen.

She flicked her wand toward the cupboard, and a small bowl carrying a spoon came flying over.

Iris caught the bowl, tucked her wand into her school robe pocket, and brought the bowl over to Mo Lan’s stovetop. “It smells amazing! What is this?”

“Mushroom and chicken claypot rice!” As Mo Lan spoke, the small bowl of sauce on the stovetop flew over to the pot and poured the sauce evenly inside.

The small bowl returned to the sink, and the rice paddle followed right after, tossing the rice to mix everything together.

“It’s ready!” Mo Lan said.

Iris quickly brought her bowl to the edge of the pot, and the rice paddle scooped a spoonful into her small bowl—chicken, mushrooms, greens, sesame seeds, and rice, all mixed together, looking incredibly appetizing.

She took her bowl and stepped aside, and the next young witch holding a bowl took her place.

A long line had already formed behind them.

Scenes like this had become a regular occurrence ever since Mo Lan had mastered everything in the textbook and started trying to use culinary magic to recreate the Earth foods in her memory.

Her cooking skills were not an issue, and after systematic study of culinary magic, she could now control one utensil or ingredient at a time without any pressure, occasionally even having the spare attention to chat.

She couldn’t control multiple utensils at once yet, so her cooking speed hadn’t improved—sometimes it was even slower than doing it by hand—but she basically never failed.

So she always made a little extra each time, letting the young witches have a taste.

This time was no different.

She controlled the rice paddle to scoop one spoonful for each young witch. It wasn’t much, but it was enough for a taste.

After everyone had theirs, the rice paddle scooped a heaping, overflowing bowl of claypot rice into the large bowl that had been waiting nearby.

Mo Lan picked up the small spoon beside her, lifted the bowl, and took a big bite. “Mmm~ That’s the flavor!”

She was eating dinner, while the other young witches were just having a sample. Their small portions would be gone quickly if they ate fast, so they were all savoring it in tiny bites.

Tender, silky chicken. Rich, savory sauce. Springy chunks of mushroom. Perfectly distinct grains of rice. And the fragrant, crispy crust at the bottom of the pot. Every one of them ate with their eyes narrowed in bliss.

After savoring every last bit, Iris sank into deep reluctance. “Culinary magic class is over. We won’t get to taste Moira’s Earth cuisine anymore! Is there really no advanced culinary magic class?”

“Probably not. The Headmistress already recommended reference books for us to continue studying. From here on, culinary magic should mainly be self-taught.”

Mo Lan said between bites of her meal:

“When I have time, I’ll slowly put together a collection of Earth recipes and submit it to the Headmistress to be added to the Academy library. If you all like them, you can copy them down and learn.”

Maybe she could even earn some Magic Gold Coins as a reward from the Witch Council for the recipes! But that would have to wait. She still hadn’t finished her current workbook proofreading assignments.

Looking at the first-year required reading list, the Academy taught magic needed for survival and daily life.

The culinary magic course also only concluded after all the young witches had completed their learning objectives. Those who finished early would start their own in-depth research during class.

Clearly, the Academy’s goal was not to train every young witch into a Culinary Witch—it simply wanted all young witches to master basic cooking skills and the methods for learning culinary magic.

With a foundation and methodology in place, those who wanted to continue studying in depth had a clear direction for improvement.

Those with poor talent who didn’t want to waste time on culinary magic would learn the basics and gradually let it go.

In summary, every young witch was required to learn the fundamentals. Beyond that, it was up to individual choice.

“I’ve given up any hope of achieving anything in culinary magic!” Cheryl said.

She had been the very last witch in the class to successfully complete the pan-fried pork cutlet with culinary magic, consistently one step behind everyone else throughout the entire culinary magic curriculum.

Now that the course was over, she actually breathed a sigh of relief. “But even if I’m done with culinary magic, I still want to learn a few more simple and tasty dishes with regular cooking!”

What she had learned in culinary magic class only ensured she could have bread to eat, meat cutlets to eat, and soup to drink.

If she could only eat those every day, it would be far too miserable.

“That’s exactly what I was thinking!” Alba said.

There were quite a few young witches who felt the same as the two of them.

In fact, across the entire first year, strictly speaking, the only ones with culinary magic talent—those with a real chance of breaking through to Advanced level or above and earning the title of Culinary Witch—were Mo Lan, Sylph, and Vasida, three young sorceresses with Limitless talent, plus Iris alone.

Many young witches’ culinary magic talent was so limited that even breaking through to Beginner level would be difficult.

So their goal was simply to have a few dishes they were good at and enjoyed eating, so that when it was inconvenient to buy food, they could make something themselves to satisfy their appetites.

As for raising their culinary magic level—they didn’t dare dream of it.

After finishing her meal, Mo Lan directed her cooking utensils to gather together, then waved her wand and cast a cleaning spell, washing them all spotless in one go.

During this period, she had been busy proofreading workbooks, but that didn’t mean she hadn’t been doing anything else.

While reading, she would simultaneously attune cleaning tools.

She had long since finished attuning all the cleaning tools in her Cleaning Tool Card.

Although she hadn’t yet become skilled enough to control all the cleaning tools for cleaning at once—currently only one broom was responsive enough that she could split off just a sliver of attention to have it sweep the entire dormitory—she had already mastered the technique of converting mana into water elemental force for direct cleaning. Using it to wash dishes was no problem at all.