Chapter 62 White sugar appears!
"Hey... Brother Lu... I dig yellow mud, and then mix it with yellow mud to make yellow mud water. What is this young master going to do? I can't understand at all." Xia Wu asked at Zhao Lu beside him with a frown.
"Hey... It's right that you can't understand. If you can understand it, then I'll really have to worry. You have to know that if you turn black sugar into white sugar, no one can make it out in the entire Ming Dynasty. That must be a very trick, so it's time to not understand it. And what we have to do is do whatever the young master said.
Don’t worry about other things, all we have to do is believe in the young master.”
Zhao Lu's words made everyone around him nod, and Xia Wu also said, "I just asked, there was no intention of questioning, and I also believe that the young master will definitely not disappoint us.
OK... Zhou Xin, you said, "Where are you, hurry up, I'm going to mix it up..." As he said that, Xia Wu worked hard to mix it up.
Several men worked together, and it took about half an hour to get three buckets of yellow mud water. Then several people carried the yellow mud water to the hut. Everyone walked into the hut. At this time, there was a blazing fire in the big stove.
Zhu Lang sat on the side and roasted the fire. Yan Laojue and Ergou were setting fire here. Zhu Erbao stood in front of the big pot and kept stirring the black sugar in the pot with wooden sticks to prevent the black sugar from being burned.
To burn all the brown sugar into a sticky and turn it into black syrup again, in fact, buying brown sugar is a little higher. After you have a sugarcane field, you can directly squeeze the mature sugarcane into juice, put it in a jar, and then boil it over fire. When it turns into yellow and black syrup, you can directly follow the process.
"Brother Zhao... bring in the three-piece big jar outside." Seeing that the black sugar had almost been cooked, Zhu Lang gave Zhao Lu an order.
After hearing Zhu Lang's orders, Zhao Lu nodded quickly and then took Zhou Xin, Xia Wu, and the big dog out to move the three big jars into the hut, and placed them in the hut according to Zhu Lang's request.
Zhu Lang put a shelf on all three-necked tanks, and then placed a funnel on each rack. The funnel was made of wooden. Then Zhu Lang asked Zhao Lu to stuff the mouth below the funnel with straw. This mouth must be blocked tightly, and it would be troublesome if the sugar leaked out.
"Dad...you use that iron spoon to scoop all the black syrup inside into the funnel. Be careful not to burn yourself." Zhu Lang carefully instructed his father.
"I understand... don't worry, Xiaolang, your father, I am the most reliable person..." Zhu Erbao said, while carefully scooping the hot black syrup into the funnel.
To be honest, Zhu Lang is really worried about his father. After all, his father's brain is not very good. Zhu Lang could not let Zhu Erbao do such a thing, but you have to know that if Zhu Lang didn't let Zhu Erbao do it, then Zhu Erbao would definitely get angry. His father was actually very pitiful. His brain was injured because of the war, so Zhu Lang could only coax it... Zhu Lang felt that his father was very distressing. In order for the Ming Dynasty to become like this, he was abandoned by the Ming Dynasty in the end.
So Zhu Lang felt sorry for his father and was not worth it for his father.
The black sugar syrup was slowly scooped into three funnels by Zhu Erbao. One hundred kilograms of black sugar syrup were filled with three funnels. After the completion, Zhu Erbao looked at Zhu Lang and asked for advice and said, "How is it, a pot is just right, it's all my father's credit."
"Yes... Dad is still good." Zhu Lang also praised Zhu Erbao at the right time, and this praise made Zhu Erbao very happy, and then waited for the black syrup to cool down.
It took about an hour to cool the black sugar. After Zhu Lang and others played the Leaf Show for an hour, they came back to the cottage. The black sugar in the house had already formed into pieces. At this time, Zhu Lang asked everyone to remove the straw under the funnel.
Then everyone started to use yellow mud water to drain the black sugar cubes in the funnel, and then a magical black sugar turned into white sugar appeared, which was almost visible to the naked eye. The black residue that was originally attached to the black sugar was poured by yellow mud water and flowed from the funnel into the tank below with the yellow mud water. The funnel brown sugar cubes turned into white sugar cubes. The top layer was about five inches, which was very white, just like the white sugar we ate today.
"Wow... my god, it's really white. This is amazing." Xia Wu was pouring it on, showing a horrified expression.
Zhao Lu laughed: "I knew that the young master would not disappoint us. With this white frosting, our lives will get better and better in the future."
"Haha..." Zhu Lang also smiled with relief: "Of course, I will marry three wives for each of you in the future."
"Really..." Zhou Xin and Xia Wu both showed expressions of yearning.
Only Zhao Lu waved his hands repeatedly and smiled, "I don't need it. I just need to have our Jingtong. Young Master, you should help me marry three wives, so that my old Zhao family can also grow up."
"Oh... Brother Zhao loves his wife. He is a good man. By the way... He called the women over tonight and ground the candy into sugar sand together..." Zhu Lang laughed.
The sugar at this time is not the same as the white sugar we eat. Although the color is indeed white, the sugar at this time is still a piece of sugar cube, so to turn it into white sugar, it must be crushed manually. (I feel that it should be like this. I looked at the natural craftsmanship carefully. The above records are a line of ordinary words. However, he has a sentence that when the black sand sugar is formed into pieces, then remove the straw, and then pour the black sugar in the funnel with yellow mud water. There are sugar cubes in front, so it is unlikely that some yellow mud water will be poured into white sugar. So I guess there should be a link to crush the sugar cubes, and you can directly make the sugar cubes into rock sugar.)
Soon, a piece of white candy cube like a pyramid was placed in the hut. The candy cube weighed about thirty kilograms, and the spire of the gold tower was black, so it needed to be sawed off. This one could not be sold. The black spire was about ten centimeters below the spire, which was not so white, and the last five inches, that is, about seventeen centimeters of candy cubes were the whitest.
So Zhu Lang divided the candy cubes from a golden tower into three areas. The black candy cubes on them were inserted into the mouths of Big Dog, Ergou, Wang Xue, Yan Shihua and others. The whitest candy cubes in the middle were not the whitest, and they were directly made into rock candy, piece by piece.
The whitest 17-centimeter piece of sugar was crushed into white sand. Zhu Lang called the whitest white sugar Jiangnan snow, a very decent name. This Jiangnan snow, 100 kilograms of black sugar, was boiled, cooled, then poured with yellow mud water, and then crushed. You can get about 70 kilograms, and you can get twenty kilograms of rock sugar and three kilograms of black sugar, and the others will be evaporated directly.
This sugar rate is acceptable.
In this way, the Zhu family started to get busy at night, making sugar-boiled sugar, and specializing in sugar-boiled sugar. Anyway, the whole family was very busy. They cooked three pots of black sugar in one night and crushed about 70 kilograms of white sugar. However, at this time, it was dawn.
Chapter completed!