Chapter 40: Food Therapy
Translator: Fan Translation Studio
Proofread by Claire.KK
Housekeeper Liu sighed and continued reminiscently. “She has seen all the renowned doctors in the provincial capital. They said it was not caused by a physical condition but there’s something in her heart.”
“Something in her heart?” Ye Xiaoxian didn’t understand, ‘does this Miss Liu want to starve herself of food till death?’
“One year ago, Miss has been infatuated with a mister but her affection towards him turned out be to unrequited as that mister had already had someone in his heart. Miss has been denying food and tea ever since that happened. Especially in recent days, she is unable to eat anything apart from your cold jelly and flatbread.
Now Ye Xiaoxian had figured it out that Miss Liu’s trouble should be anorexia caused by lovesickness.
When she was taught to be a chef in the modern era, one of the lectures was targeting patients who were suffering anorexia. There are several types of anorexia. One is an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat, one is lovesickness and the other is too much pressure in life.
Though such patients are preferably required to be treated by professional therapists, they can be cured if the food are really inviting.
As Miss Liu’s eating disorder was caused by lovesickness, Ye Xiaoxian had already come up with a solution.
“Housekeeper Liu, I need some cooking ingredients and please help me to purchase them.” Ye Xiaoxian, like a doctor, made a list for Housekeeper Liu, containing eggs, herbs, milk, apples, ribs, lemons, etc.
Ye Xiaoxian had been getting her hand full in Lord Liu’s kitchen the whole afternoon.
Lord Liu’s kitchen was big and there were two long-termed employed cooks and two assistant cooks but now they all became Ye Xiaoxian’s assistants.
Ye Xiaoxian was young, at most fifteen or sixteen years old while all of the personnel there were older than her.
They turned their nose up at Ye Xiaoxian when she just came into the kitchen.
Had Housekeeper Liu not here, they would not even listen to her.
However, when Ye Xiaoxian picked up the kitchen knife and chopped an apple into more than ten chunks in a split moment, they were all stunned.
Ye Xiaoxian chuckled complacently in her mind. “This is just child’s play. You haven’t seen when I carved tofu into a flower.
When they finished their stunning, Ye Xiaoxian started to command them to do their jobs. “This chef, please help me to smash these herbs to juice.”
“This chef, please help me to beat the eggs and make them paste-like. Like this, beat them with three chopsticks and don’t stop.”
“This…never mind, I don’t know how to address you anyway. Just help me to squeeze the juice out of all the apples here.”
What Ye Xiaoxian asked them to do were actually very hard. None of them did it before in their daily work so they had no idea what Ye Xiaoxian was going to cook.
But she was invited by Housekeeper Liu so they couldn’t refuse what she asked.
Seeing that the crew had been on the run, Ye Xiaoxian started to make cream.
She was going to make a steamed lemon and herb flavoured cake with a minty and herby apple juice.
Smelling herbs is in help of decreasing sadness. Its fragrance helps keep a joyful mood and it especially benefits depressed people.
Eating apple helps maintain good mental health and sleep peacefully. It tastes a tiny bit sour which is appetizing and delicious.
Lemon servers to be stimulating the appetite completely.
All the these ingredients are food serving the purpose of making the eater happy.
The chef who was asked to beat the egg whites thought that Ye Xiaoxian was messing with him as no one had beaten eggs like that before.
But later when he noticed that the tips of egg whites started to curl and then became foamy, he found it rather fascinating but still didn’t know how it worked.
His armed was so sore that almost broken when Ye Xiaoxian came and check. At last she said, “It’s okay now. thank you.”
Ye Xiaoxian thought, ‘You wouldn’t need to do this manually but that you didn’t have egg beaters in this era.”