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[ It turns out the reason the book was so expensive, still unreasonable but not without its merits, was due to the level of detail that sprawled down the pages explaining techniques for each recipe. Shouto spends half an hour skimming through recipes, searching for one that doesn't scrawl over four pages. He earmarks a few two-pagers, flipping to the end before backtracking and weighing his options. Fixated on his mini project, thoughts of Innocence and its implications ebb into the background while he starts searching for ingredients and equipment looking crestfallen when he falls short three times. By the time he's on his sixth iteration of fruitlessly scavenging through the cupboards and fridge, he's a little surprised to find every item called for and quickly gets to work.

A pan hits the stove and in goes some form of cream and salt. He sets the flame to low as called for and lets the mixture warm up before setting it aside. He works efficiently, going back to read the recipe book, spread open on the kitchen counter next to the stove, every few minutes. It's a two-pager with 'Vanilla Crème Brûlée' neatly written on top.

He can hear Allen talking in the background, and nods every now and then when he's not trying to figure out what he's supposed to do next. Surprisingly, the more text on the page means, the less he can free-hand and do what he wants. The fact that the book is so detailed means he's boxed in with absolutely no lines like 'salt to taste' otherwise he'd put in way too much or too little. No, he's given an exact amount of salt to add and follows every step to the letter until he has the cream in 'wide, shallow ramekins'. He can't even free-style what he puts it in which is a very good thing otherwise, he would have opted to put it all in one bread pan.

There are indeed a lot of eggs to crack and there's less instruction here which means Shouto smashes one when he hits it too hard on a 'hard surface'. He cleans up the mess and tries again. This time, the cracking is better, but the pulling apart, not so much. He ends pulling the two halves apart with way too much force and the egg goes SPLAT! on the wall breaking the yolk as it slides down the wall. That too gets cleaned up. Looking very serious on his third attempt, he ends up cracking the egg and very carefully pulling it apart. Success! Now... how to seperate the yolk. He pours the egg in his palm and slowly opens his fingers letting the whites slowly fall into the sink like some kind of slime. He ends up breaking a few yolks still but at least they're separated from the whites! When he's done he washes the mess in the sink and his hands, including down his arm where the egg whites slid all the way to his elbow. By the time he's done separating the five yolks, his apron, courtesy of Allen's instance, is an eggy mess with random egg shell attached to parts of it. Thank god there's no flour in this recipe!

Allen may notice a few eggshells in the yolks and save himself from taking a spoonful of custard and hitting eggshells by removing them while Shouto is busy cleaning himself up in the kitchen sink. If he sees Allen trying to take a taste of the cooling cream in the pan, he'll be reprimanded. When he returns, sort of clean, he gets started on the second half of the recipe and is soon filling ramekins to the indicated height, yes it even tells him how much he should fill it. Ramekins filled, he sets them on a baking tray and starts pouring water inside the tray when Tim decides to land on his shoulder which has him go ramrod stiff. ]