video | un: wooden sword

[vdovy]

[ Yelena stands before a countertop strewn with baking supplies and utensils, her apron stained from various ingredients, looking equal parts annoyed and frustrated as she uses a rolling pin to massage the tension from her forehead. This shouldn't be that hard.

At first, she thought that she could get away with pretending. Her bakery had recently burned to the ground and reconstruction would take time. Now, it's three years ago and the bakery is miraculously intact. There's just one problem... ]

Okay, I have put this off for long enough. Does anyone know how to bake?

Comments

un: rushman | video

[redhourglass]

Seriously?

( rich widow natasha, or — three years in the past — rich newlywed natasha crooks a brow. )

You can't follow the recipe?

[vdovy]

[ Slapping the palm of her hand against her forehead dramatically: ]

Follow the recipe, of course! Why didn't I think of that?

Do you know how to fold an egg? Because that is what the recipe wants me to do.

[redhourglass]

Sure, how hard can it be?

( spoken by the woman who hasn't baked anything much more complicated than frozen cookie dough )

What are you even trying to make?

un: average sighren, video

[lanclan]

[ His first instinct is to suggest Xie Lian as a helper, but ... something in his hindbrain self-preservation puts him off the idea. ]

Dumplings are easiest, from what I understand. Easily boiled in broth.

[ Wangji would like those, he thinks, if there were some to be had. ]

[vdovy]

Boiling! [ Her shoulders slump with relief. ] That does sound easy. Thank you.

[ She squints into the camera, then, taking in the man's familiar attire. ]

Do you know Lan Wangji?

[lanclan]

You're welcome, and yes. Wangji is my younger brother. I am Lan Xichen.

un: slothbaby

[cosplayqueen]

Call Emilia! She knows all about that stuff. I only know what Ammi tells me to do. :((((

[vdovy]

Emilia! Is there anything she can't do?

[cosplayqueen]

Uh no. She's basically the best at everything. That's why we stan. <3

video; un: owllady

[traaaaaash]

[ Seeing this, Eda snorts in amusement. ]

You look like you need an intervention.

[vdovy]

It's baking that's the problem. Why do we need so many techniques to make bread?

video — un: starburst.

[valeas]

I know how to bake. What do you need assistance with?

( She's trying not to assume 'everything.' )

[vdovy]

I don't know enough about baking to narrow that down, [ Yelena admits. Then she gestures widely at her scattered mess of ingredients. ] But if you happen to know which of these I can ferment to make vodka, we'll be off to a good start.

un: absterge

[downswing]

Perhaps limitations best accepted.

[vdovy]

It would be easier accepted if my bakery burnt down again. Want to commit an arson?

( video | un: jbb )

[traumatology]

What are you trying to bake?

( not that he knows how, he's just curious. )

[vdovy]

Uh. [ She dips under the counter and resurfaces seconds later holding an unattractive mass that somehow manages to look lumpy and flat all at once. ] This was supposed to be bread.

@taken for granite

[rumorate]

I did try to bake a cake for my daughter's birthday myself once?

[Though the uncertainty in her voice says it did not go as well as she would have liked. Grace always made it look so easy, when in practice it was not.]

It was edible?

[vdovy]

Edible would be a significant improvement. How much of it can you remember?

audio | un: off scarlet

[westviews]

I know that's not where a rolling pin is used.

[vdovy]

Better this than bashing everything in sight with it.

[ She heaves a dramatic sigh to illustrate her mounting frustration. ]

un: pillar of the heavens | audio

[inkfire]

What are you trying to make? I'm pretty good, although we get weird ingredients. Had to make cookies on the train, I've never attempted those before.

[vdovy]

Anything edible. I have an empty bakery window that I'm supposed to fill.

un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[scrapgege]

What are you trying to make?

[Run, Yelena, and do not let him touch whatever you are making.]

[vdovy]

I am not being picky. What can you make?