The Sage of Einar

Einar, who was looking at some glass jars, smiled because he knew it was the ketchup he had prepared.

To make it, he had boiled chopped tomato without seeds, onion, cloves, cinnamon, and bay leaves in a steel pot.

These ingredients had been boiled for half an hour until completely soft.

Once they were ready, Einar removed the cloves, cinnamon, and bay leaves from the pot.

To be able to place sugar, honey, vinegar, salt, and some peeled garlic cloves in the mixture.

When everything was combined, he used a wooden tool with which he began to crush all the ingredients.

After a while of squeezing all the mixture until it is completely integrated, he put it in using a strainer.

The result, a very watery red liquid, was placed back in a steel pot where it began to boil for a while until the water evaporated to leave a thick and good-smelling mixture.

When the mixture was ready, he placed it in sterilized glass jars, where he later sealed them using a water bath.

Einar, when he stopped remembering how he had made the ketchup, took one of the jars and took it to his family so that he could taste it in the food he would prepare.

In the afternoon, when everyone was sitting at the table, they looked at the delicious fried fish on the table as well as the salad and bread that Einar had prepared.

"Well, after working for a few days, I was able to take the time to make the new seasoning.

I know you all like mayonnaise, but ketchup is the other king of condiments. Almost any food can be better enjoyed with it.

That's why I'd like you to try it. Just put a little ketchup on your food. "

Laura, without wasting time, took the ketchup jar and spooned three tablespoons over her fried fish.

After this using her fork, she cut a piece of fried fish with ketchup and opened her eyes.

The bittersweet flavor stimulated Laura's taste buds because it was something she had never tasted. It was a new flavor that she liked so much that she began to eat her fried fish without saying a single word.

Everyone, seeing this, decided to try it. So, like little Laura, everyone was amazed by the taste of ketchup.

Especially Laisa, who was already showing pregnancy symptoms like cravings. She didn't even say anything when she placed almost a quarter of a jar of the ketchup on her plate.

Einar, seeing how his family fell in love with ketchup, only smiled as he wondered how they would react to the fries once the first potatoes were harvested.

After the meal, the whole ketchup jar was gone. Almost two liters of ketchup were not enough for a family looking for new flavors.

Laura, who was completely full, looked at her dad with a sad face. "Dad, we can eat ketchup again. I'm interested in being able to eat such a tasty condiment again."

Einar smiled and patted his daughter's head. "Don't worry. Last month Dad built 5 new greenhouses even bigger than the first one we made.

One of them will be used to raise lemon, orange, olive, and apple trees, while the other four will be used exclusively to sow the important seeds of our nation.

What are tomato, pumpkin, corn, potato, and peanut, we will also try to sow seasonings although I do not know the temperature they need.

This month another 10 greenhouses will be built with all the surplus population that will be arriving by a merchant who arrives first.

That is why from March we will have a stable supply of tomatoes, so we must control the amount of ketchup we eat even for a month.

You can promise dad that you will control yourself if you do… "

Einar leaned close to his daughter's ear and whispered, "I'll give you some of my ketchup but don't tell the others."

Laura was happy and hugged her father by the neck while giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks, dad."

While this was happening in the imperial palace in the new greenhouses, things were going quite well.

"Remember that we have to sow the three seeds together as Herald Einar explained to us that the three seeds complement the nutrients of the earth."

One of the slaves who was sowing the seeds looked at his partner. "Who would say that in this glass building a place with such a unique temperature could be created.

If the island had this temperature, we would all be comfortably working."

The slave who was holding the sack of seeds laughed. "You are very funny to say that, but you should know that things are not that simple.

I was born in the southern part of the island of Ireland, as the Vikings called it, in that place docks are common and the number of insects is annoying.

But look at the island. There is not a single fly or mosquito, because they can't survive the weather, they all die and that's good.

You know I can leave the food on the table and it won't have fly larvae or insects trying to contaminate my food.

Well, that's what my daughter says. It still makes me strange to know that pests are not born in dirty places but that they are born with eggs.

She even explained how he had seen some things on dirty animal skin called mites and their eggs through a microscope.

Knowing that she doesn't have to be a slave and that she can be a carefree girl just to focus on studying makes my life happy.

I'm even sure that in the future she will be able to be some important person in the kingdom. "

The slave he was sowing smiled and worked harder. "All our families have that opportunity to be able to improve themselves and not just continue to be oppressed by a nobleman.

Maybe that's what I like the most about the Nordic kingdom. The nobles are just like us and they must work.

But we can get a title of nobility if we work hard, it's something I never thought we could get.

I have to say that I am proud of this system without mentioning that with the constitution; we know the laws that govern us.

You know, my father lost a hand when they blamed him for stealing something from the nobleman he worked with. In the end, the culprit was the son of the nobleman.

But as a simple commoner, he could not defend himself, but now if something like that wants to happen. We can have a fair trial.

I think the future is bright for us in the Nordic kingdom. "