Chapter 331 Made Brown Sugar 2
When all the brown sugar in all the barrels were cold, Yi Niang brought a delicate white porcelain jar and carefully put the delicious sugar into the porcelain jar. One of them could not be put down, so she only put down about thirty kilograms of brown sugar. The rest could only be put away in a thicker pottery jar. The mouth of the jar was tied tightly with oil paper and then wrapped in sealing mud, making it more cautious than making fine wine stored in the kiln.
“It’s so delicious!”
Everyone worked together and almost exhausted, so they turned thousands of kilograms of sugarcane into this little bit of sand powder. Everyone was curious and happy for Liang Chuan. Liang Chuan was thinking about what it was.
Liang Chuan asked them to taste the taste of brown sugar. Everyone put a small piece of brown sugar into their mouths. The taste of happiness spreads in their mouths and the taste is quite sweet. Now is the time when everyone consumes the most physical energy. The body needs energy the most. A small piece of brown sugar immediately replenishes energy for the body.
Nowadays, everyone does not have the concept of diabetes, and they will not say that sugar color changes. In ancient times, diabetes was also called diabetes, which was a disease of wealth and honor. Real rich people also had diseases that only the powerful people had. Ordinary ordinary people could not even eat enough, so it was difficult to think about this disease.
When brown sugar solidifies, it is like a small piece of ice, but when broken open the broken brown sugar with your hands, it will appear sandy. The brown sugar produced by this ancient method is different from the "brown sugar" produced by machines in later generations. Strictly speaking, the brown sugar in later generations is called red sugar. Most of the raw materials are beets. Many trace elements that are beneficial to the human body are absorbed, which is purely to supplement sugar for people.
As for this ancient brown sugar, it is slowly boiled by the cane juice. It retains the beneficial elements in the cane juice in its original state. It is also highly heat-heat, which is an extremely effective health supplement for women. If a mother who gives birth to a child drinks a lot of brown sugar after giving birth, it will be of great benefit to postpartum recovery.
Even when Liang Chuan went to Qingyuan, he rarely saw merchants selling brown sugar or white sugar on the market. It seems that this thing has not yet become popular.
Although brown sugar is very useful, the people do not know how to use it, and they are even more reluctant to use it. Now they have developed it themselves, and the road to promote this industry is still quite long!
"Yi Niang, you should be careful when holding these brown sugars in your hands. The brown sugar in this small jar is more expensive than gold."
Liang Chuan's words attracted everyone's attention. How could they believe that the sweet sand from the juice squeezed from sugarcane was so precious? Maybe it was because the thing was too simple. If they mastered the method, they could make it out. They blinked and were skeptical about Liang Chuan's words.
"Don't believe it. I'll take some to the pharmacy in Fengshan tomorrow and ask how much they are bidding for our brown sugar."
Liang Chuan said confidently that there are several things in modern times and ancient times that are different from the value of heaven and earth. Liang Chuan knows that sugar is the same as spices. Of course, things like salt have also undergone drastic changes, but they are not like sugar.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty went to India to ask for a method of making sugar. Before that, most of the Chinese people ate malt sugar, that is, malt sugar, which is also very sweet, but there is still a gap compared with sugar, and their effects are still incomparable, but they cannot be compared.
The sugar-making industry has developed since the Tang and Song dynasties, but it is difficult to enjoy it entirely for the royal family to enjoy it. There are also places in Sichuan, Guangdong and Guangxi that produce brown sugar, all of which are sent to Tokyo, and they purchase thousands of kilograms a year in court, and very few can be used by the people. It is precisely because of the symbol of royal status that this sky-high luxury product has made the identity of brown sugar ten thousand times that of later generations.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the confidant minister of Kublai Khan, who was the right prime minister, was seriously ill. The doctor prescribed medicine and found brown sugar in it. With the power of the right prime minister, he searched all over the capital, which was later in Beijing, but he couldn't find a pound of brown sugar. In the end, Kublai Khan heard about it, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out three pounds of brown sugar from the palace to treat his confidant.
Both are big names below one person and above ten thousand people. If you want power, power, money and money, it is still difficult to find sugar. It is undeniable that there is war in this, which has led to a complete stagnation of production among the people. However, on the other hand, you can still imagine how precious brown sugar was at that time and how low the output was.
"By the way, are you guys inconvenient? Are there any of you guys doing things these days?" Liang Chuan looked at the five women and asked an inconvenient question.
Everyone's face turned red at first, but seeing that Liang Chuan had no obscene expression on his face, they thought that Liang Chuan would not say anything lewd, and there must be a reason for Liang Chuan to ask this.
Five women looked at me, and I looked at you, and Yi Niang said, "Xiaochai, Xiu'er and Erhua, the three of them were... not very good. Now they often get sick in winter. When they hurt, they are colder than ice. I also took them to see the doctor. The doctor said that the root of the disease is too deep, and it can only be cured and difficult to cure. Alas."
The three of them sank their heads. The harm to them for the rest of their lives, and now they have permanent trauma. How can they not be sad? They were thinking that Liang Chuan thought they were dirty and did not deserve to do this brown sugar job, so as not to dirty the precious things.
When Liang Chuan heard what Yi Niang said, this was not just right: "You start tomorrow, scoop a spoonful of brown sugar every day, cook a bowl of water and mix well and drink it. This thing is very good for your body!"
Brown sugar becomes high in heat due to boiling brown sugar for a whole day, so it has significantly improved various menstrual symptoms such as dysmenorrhea caused by uterine cold, cold hands and feet, large or small amount during menstruation, black color, etc. Xiaochai and others are ruined too hard, and the cold air invades the body and now it has accumulated damage to the uterus, and this generation cannot get pregnant.
Although brown sugar cannot be used to make a comeback, it can at least make them feel better and finally come in handy.
Ye Xiaochai and the other two were already as cold as water, but they didn't expect that Liang Chuan would use this to use it, he claimed that he was more expensive than gold to help them nourish their bodies. Their daughter's relationship was more direct, and tears flowed down her ground. There are still people in this world who would pity their three tragic willows, so how could they not be moved?
Shen Yuzhen was born in a brothel and always saw intrigues and deceiving power and money transactions. The human nature in the cave has long been destroyed to some extent. Here, a group of people who are suffering from the world have reached a warm feeling.
"Why did you cry? I didn't have such good things before. Now I won't give it to you first. Could I keep it for others?"
They knew that Liang Chuan was actually quite stingy, but this was limited to him and those around him. He was so generous that he wanted to pick stars and have moons. This is why after they came down from the mountain, they would rather follow this stranger than return to their homes.
Yi Niang collected the prepared brown sugar, and she had to scrape off every small piece and put it away. Not only because this thing is precious, it is also good for their women's bodies. What the third brother said is never wrong.
Liang Chuan and others meticulously cleaned the sugar, bamboo tubes, fire drums, fences, gauzes, and chain stoves. Now they are in the food industry, not other service industries, and they cannot tolerate any mistakes. Otherwise, the things they manufactured will not be hygienic and will break their stomachs if they eat them.
Many small workshops in the countryside produce good things, but if people see the production environment, they may lose the desire to eat and drink in an instant. Naturally, they do not realize the importance of hygienic environment to food, and do not have that much cost and energy to clean up every day.
Liang Chuan naturally doesn’t want to make such bad money. If he wants to do it, he has to make high-quality products!
Those five large iron pots are really treasures. They boiled brown sugar for a day after low heat. After cleaning the sugar residue in the pot, there was no trace of sticking money. After rubbing it with a cloth, they immediately returned to their original state. The wisdom of the ancients was really great. Liang Chuan sighed again that if this craft was excavated in later generations, the value would not be known. However, people have long relied on coated non-stick pots. Will they have more eyes on the treasures of their ancestors?
The most regrettable thing is that the sugar yield rate of sugar cane is too low. The sugar seeds now are not as carefully selected as the excellent varieties selected in later generations. Sugar cane specially used for sugar-pressing is still the earliest sugar cane. Perhaps under natural selection, the sugar yield rate of sugar cane juice in sugar cane itself is relatively low.
Six or seven thousand kilograms of sugar cane, only a few dozen kilograms of brown sugar were produced, and the sugar yield rate was only one percent. Liang Chuan felt extremely distressed. He was not very professional about this industry, and he was even helpless in increasing the sugar yield rate at the moment. He didn't know which link was wrong.
After Yi Niang packed the candy, she carefully put the pottery jar and porcelain jar in the cabinet and locked it. The family had been busy for a day, but now her stomach was still empty, so she quickly raised the fire and opened the stove.
Liang Chuan thought about the whole process from beginning to end. After all, he had no experience in cooking candy for the first time. During this period, he was in a hurry to ask people to make up for it. Today, his luck was pretty good, but there was no problem. Otherwise, if one link was messed up, others would make mistakes.
In fact, the sugar trowel is quite simple. Just feeding the cane, so two people are arranged here. One is responsible for driving the scalpers. When the sugar juice in the pressing pot is full, the sugar juice is poured into the bamboo tube and flows into the iron pot to start cooking the cane. The other is only responsible for feeding the cane.
As for the sugar boiling room, Liang Chuan is more busy with the process of rushing water and moving the pot. He has to keep stirring the cane juice in the pot and remove the impurities after the bubbles. He either moves quickly or has enough people, and one person is just enough to keep a pot.
Only seven people on my hands have barely met their ideal requirements. The reason why I am so tired today is that every place feels like putting out a fire. After finishing one place, I have to go to another place to take charge. If I have enough staff, I can do my own job and boil the candy, and I won’t be tired.
During the last part of the sanding process, Liang Chuan thought about it carefully. The mold will have to go to Fengshan for the carpenter to slab a few tomorrow. The brown sugar you make in the future can not only be square, but also more convenient to take it out of the mold. The brown sugar just started from the pot is high in temperature, and it also requires a person to stir and cool it, which is time-consuming and laborious.
This link can save another manpower.
Chapter completed!