The Failure Alchemist of the Royal Capital ~My Job Is a Failure So, I’ll Manage My Store Carefreely.~

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One of the regulars at Atelier Daisy’s bakery was an old lady who lived on the opposite side of the road.
She also owned an alchemy atelier and her name was Anastasia (nickname Ana).
She had moved from another country for various reasons.

She was petite and slender, with a slightly bent back.
Her grayish-white hair was tied back, and she wore small round glasses on her face.
Despite her wrinkled face, she was always a kind grandmother who never stopped smiling.

She was loved locally, with people saying things like “When a child has a fever, use Ana’s potions.”

“Hello, Ana-san,” Mina greeted her as she entered the shop.

“Mina’s baked bread is delicious.
I came today too,” she smiled and approached the shelf where the samples of bread were displayed.

“Today’s savory bread is chicken and rosemary-flavored potatoes.
It looks delicious, doesn’t it?”

Ana-san smiled, but muttered wistfully, “It would be even more delicious with cheese on it… I miss it.”

She left with one savory bread and one “fluffy bread,” leaving behind a slightly lonely expression.

Later at dinner time, after the store had closed, Mina told me about Ana-san’s story.

“Cheese is very expensive in this country.
I’ve never even tasted it.
Maybe Ana-san ate it when she lived in another country…”

Cheese was a food that was made in other countries where the church had a lot of power, like monasteries that had their own territories.
They raised cattle and goats to produce milk which was used as the main ingredient.
It was also produced in countries where large-scale animal husbandry was carried out in mountainous areas.

However, in our country, there were no institutions like the church or monasteries that owned territories, and the scale of farming was small.
Therefore, there were no cheese makers, and it was a food that was difficult to obtain.

“Shall we try making cheese with alchemy?” I decided to investigate during my free time the next day.

When I searched for “alchemy recipes for delicious meals,” I found out that cheese was made by fermenting fresh milk and adding a “coagulant.” The traditional method was to slaughter young goats or calves and use the liquid inside their stomachs as a coagulant, but that was not economically feasible.
However, there was an alternative method.

I decided to make cheese.