Half an hour later, Yang and Yue each held a pottery bowl, which contained green and yellow sugarcane juice. Although there were still some impurities that had not been filtered, the two little guys didn't care. While drinking in small sips, they watched the adults fiddling with the objects in front of them.

After the people outside helped to move the stone roller to the backyard, they said goodbye and his husband, brother Zhong, and their aunt's son Yan, and the three of them, plus the newly bought black donkey, began to tinker with the stone roller.

"This thing was made by my sister-in-law according to the wooden pulleys that were squeezed from the county worker's home. It was enlarged by two or three times, making it more durable, and you can squeeze more at a time."

Yunmeng Ze is one of the origins of sugarcane. Officials in the Nanjun also inherited the customs of the Chu nobles. Every autumn and winter, some sugarcane pulp is needed.

As sang in "Chu Ci": "The price of turtles and cannons is a little more than jujube". The cane paste is mainly used for making turtles. It is used for seasoning lambs. It is limited to wealthy families and is not large in quantity. A type like Heifu is more than ten or twenty acres. It has collected hundreds of kilograms of sugarcane and hidden in the cellar. It is really unprecedented.

But the family members had no objection. Over the past two years, Heifu has made a lot of mysterious things, and he can bring surprises to them every time. Besides, the family is no better than that of those days. Heifu's money alone is more than 100,000 yuan. It's no big deal to make some food when he is free and rich.

The operating principle of the stone wheel is as simple as its appearance. The black donkey turns counterclockwise to pull the wooden pole. Under the drive of the wooden pole, the stone wheel on the left will rotate, and the stone wheel on the right will also be driven to rotate through the cleverly placed gears.

There was a suitable gap between the two stone wheels. Heifu asked several hired farmers who were helping him. The servants fed the peeled sugarcane into the rotating stone wheel. The sugarcane was crushed and flattened, making a crisp sound. The sugarcane juice was squeezed out and flowed down into the clay pot that had been placed long ago, and the original cane slurry was squeezed out...

Heifu also spooned a bowl of sugarcane juice and tasted it, but there was only a faint sweetness. Sure enough, it was impossible to complete breeding and improvement in two years. This sweetness is probably not even one-third of the future generations.

But having is better than not. Their family can't finish eating so much sugarcane in a winter. After leaving dozens of kilograms for next year's seed buds, they simply squeezed all the rest. Heifu also wanted to try whether he could make sugar.

One hour later, the containers at home were filled with pots and the main battlefield was moved to the kitchen, precipitating and removing fiber impurities from the cane juice, and pouring them into the newly created iron kettle.

"Yan, you sell malt sugar in the countryside, so you can try to boil the cane juice of this big pot by following the method of malt sugar."

Yan is the son of their aunt, one year younger than Heifu. Their family is a business owner. They work as hawkers in the township and sell malts along the streets to make their own food. These hawkers do not avoid the cold and heat in business, and they have to make the items they sell themselves. This is why Heifu came to him.

Yan was a little nervous. After all, the status of the black husband was different from his past and he was already an official. He first rude to say that malt sugar was made of food, but he had never seen anyone make it with jujube as a forgivable example. He probably couldn't make it.

"The truth is understandable, you can try it, even if it doesn't work, it's fine."

Heifu was sure that although he had never seen the process of making sugar, he could roughly guess the principle, wasn’t it just to remove moisture and analyze the sugar in the sugar slurry?

Yesterday afternoon, he went to Yunmeng Township to watch Yan make malt sugar. I won’t talk about the complicated process in the early stage, but only talked about the last step, which is to precipitate the sugar liquid from the grain, simmer it in an iron kettle with warm fire, stirring it continuously until it is boiled, stopped fire, and cooled down, it is the hard malt sugar that his nephew and nieces like to eat. In addition, there is soft malt sugar, which tastes a bit like sorghum malt in later generations.

Under the urging of Heifu, Yan had to bite his teeth and do it. On the two stoves in the kitchen, there was an open large iron kettle and a small copper kettle. The first stove was burned with dried sugarcane leaves, and the fire was raging. The cane juice was boiled in the iron kettle. At the beginning, the juice was very thin, and when the boiling and evaporating were only one-quarter, it tended to become thicker...

Yan then spooned the sugarcane slurry in the big pot to the small pot, and then boiled it over a slow fire. The sugarcane juice became thicker and thicker, and gradually appeared as a beautiful amber color...

“The most important thing about frying sugar is the heat.”

Yan was not so nervous at this time. He said so to Heifu, and at the same time, he skillfully scooped the slurry with a spoon, poured it into the pot, and judged the ripening degree of the sugar water from the time of drawing the silk.

Having said that, frying sugar with sugar cane juice is not the same as malt sugar. For the first time, Yan failed to control the heat and fryed it burnt...

"Official doctor...I..."

Yan was very panicked and thought he had messed up, but Heifu picked up a piece of it stuck to the bottom of the pot, put it in his mouth, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

“A little burnt and bitter, but also sweet!”

The direction was right, so Heifu asked Yan to continue his efforts. The second time, Yan was more focused on his spirit. He adjusted the fire to a smaller size, scooped up the thick syrup with a dagger spoon, and squinted his eyes to observe the brushing of the syrup flowing down naturally.

Finally, when he was sure that he could, the fire stopped. The kettle was filled with golden red syrup, which had become extremely thick, hot and sweet. They were scooped into the pottery bowl, and gradually turned into red tiles in the cold weather...

At this time, when she smelled the syrup outside, Yang Heyue, who had been unable to control herself, squeezed in. Hefu cut two pieces of candy and stuffed them into their mouths. A sweetness penetrated into his throat, mixed with a unique burnt fragrance...

"Uncle Zhong didn't lie, it's really sugar!"

"It can really fry the sugar!"

Yan Ye tried the piece carefully and couldn't help but be overjoyed. To be honest, apart from the fact that the first time I didn't have enough experience, the sugar cane juice is much simpler than making sugar with wheat, beam and other grains!

"But why is this sugar red?" Most of the sugar he makes is white and light yellow.

“Because it’s called brown sugar!”

Heifu named this sugar and licked it. The familiar smell seemed to be back in the days when he cared about his girlfriend's period and bought brown sugar to make boiled water in his previous life...

The past is like smoke, not like a different life, but really two lives are separated.

But the question arises again. They only made large pieces of brown sugar, as white as ice and snow. How did the sugar be made?

Heifu rolled his eyes, how could he know?

The reason why brown sugar turns red is that there are many impurities in the sugar cane itself. How to remove impurities and how to precipitate granulated sugar and white sugar? I am afraid that someone will have to find someone to explore those processes slowly. Yan in front of me is a good candidate.

First of all, he is the son of his aunt, and he is a relative of the black husband, and he is trustworthy. He is also a business owner, and even if he sells brown sugar in the market, it is not illegal.

According to Yan, it is profitable to make more brown sugar. This product is cheaper than the "sweetened" sausage, and the process is simpler.

However, after they squeezed all the 400 kilograms of sugar cane from the cellar and fryed sugar, Yan was not so optimistic because everyone had been busy for most of the day before they fryed about ten kilograms of chunk brown sugar...

"The sugarcane needs to be improved. The sweetness is too low, and it must be increased at least two or three times."

Heifu was very distressed. After a day of exploration, the process of frying sugar was relatively mature, but the raw materials could not pass. The worst thing is that this cannot be solved in a year or two, and it has to be done slowly.

Heifu decided to plant hundreds of acres of sugarcane in his own field next year!

As for the ten kilograms of brown sugar I have made today, I will put it at home to eat it myself. Maybe I can ask my uncle and sister-in-law to try it and make a sweet and sour fish to taste it?

Vinegar was found in the Zhou Dynasty and was called "virgin" (xi), which is a must-have item in the family. There is a story about neighbors borrowing vinegar in the Analects of Confucius...

Blackfu moved his index finger, but a sharp female voice came from outside.

"What's so fragrant?"

Yan stuck out his tongue: "It's my mother here."

Sure enough, Zhong Ye outside smiled and said, "It happened that my aunt came. Yan made good candy. Auntie, try it."

"It's so sweet...Is it made by Yan? Let's pack a few pounds for me and take it back to try it."

Heifu and Yan looked at each other, and they didn't want to leave the kitchen. Yan was born to be afraid of his mother, while Heifu couldn't stand the aunt's urging her to get married as a matchmaker. After three days of his return, his aunt recommended five girls from his hometown to him...

Sure enough, my aunt's screaming voice had moved to the mother of Heifu, who was working in the yard, and reported to her: "Sister-in-law, what you told me is done! Today I asked Heifu for a good marriage! The grandson of the three elders in the hometown, who is only sixteen years old, looks like a Zhou Jun, and has a good figure, so he can be a good match for Heifu!"
Chapter completed!