Chapter 1773: War Without Victors (223)
As Albert had expected, Shanna's search for cooks quickly came to nothing. It wasn't that no one had considered becoming a cook, but even if they wanted to, they first needed to know how to cook. Those willing to try would help Dobby in the kitchen and learn how to prepare decent meals, but strangely enough, everyone who tried soon gave up.
All that could be said was that, on this culinary wasteland known as Britain, there simply wasn't much fertile ground for cooks to survive.
As for Isobel and Katrina's trip to France, it likewise did not surprise Albert. Given the current state of development in the magical world, there were naturally no such things as assembly lines. Behind every Beauty Potion was a potioneer painstakingly brewing Potions, which had directly made potion-making a highly sought-after profession in France.
The only thing that surprised Albert was that they were not using the sort of huge cauldrons he had imagined, capable of brewing hundreds of doses at once. Instead, they used cauldrons Catherine had specially commissioned. Supposedly, if the standard procedure was followed, each batch produced twelve standard doses of potion.
Honestly, the efficiency was terribly low.
When Albert had brewed Brain Boosting Potion last time, he had used the kind of large cauldron that could produce hundreds of doses in one go.
Of course, he also understood why Catherine had chosen to do things that way.
It was difficult to fully standardize potion brewing; it could only be kept within a certain range.
The larger the quantity of potion being brewed, the greater the possible margin of error, and the more likely the brewing was to fail. Once a batch failed, that month's profits could easily go down the drain.
Thus, Catherine's so-called