Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi glanced over at Heather and wondered if it would be save for the girl to handle a knife or not. She supposed that with Mr. Panda watching it wouldn’t be a problem but, just to be safe, Kurumi decided to set Heather with the task of mixing the egg whites.

“Heather, you can mix the egg whites in that bowl over there,” she said gesturing towards a glass bowl on the counter. Seeing as electronics didn’t work at Hogwarts, Heather was in for some serious arm exercise. "You need to beat them until they can make a stiff peak..." Which should keep Heather out of trouble for the time being. Worst that could happen would be her pouring the stuff all over herself.



Losing herself in all the excitement of technically running her first proper baking lesson at Hogwarts, perhaps she ought to put those posters she had made last term up around the school after all, Kurumi had forgotten to introduce Hugo to Heather.

“Oh Hugo!” she squeaked bowing over and over to him in apology. “I am so sorry. This is Heather. She is my best friend in Gryffindor and that is Mr. Panda.” It seemed like many of her friends at Hogwarts kept the company of strange things, but Eino still took the cake with Faustus. “Heather, this is Hugo. He is in Ravenclaw and is another of my best friends.” Kurumi’s cheeks flushed a bit and she attempted to hide the face by sticking her face back into her cookie notebook.

Looking back up at Hugo, she pointed to a portion of the page. “Hugo, do you think you could take care of the simmering aspect of the dish? You just need to mix the cider, lemon zest, lemon juice, and sugar until they begin to boil. After, once Connor is finished with the apples, we will add those and they you need to keep stirring until the mixture becomes mushy.” She gestured towards the counter where everything had already been measured out. "Twinkle and I already finished the measurements, all you need to do is mix and stir." Almost like in Potions, but she left that fact out JUST in case Professor Lafay decided to magically appear in the kitchen and deduct house points for comparing potion brewing to cooking.



"I am glad to hear that," Kurumi chirped as she leaned over to inspect his apple chopping. "I think another apple or so and then we can add it to Hugo's saucepan once it starts boiling." Kurumi glanced back at her notebook. Time for her to take care of the more difficult portion of the dessert.