Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 142 Preparation for Brewing
After Xie Fanxing came back from her uncle's house, she couldn't help sighing, she was still short of money!

There are only a dozen or so taels of silver in my own account, and I don't know how far it is from the silver to buy the mountain, and the difference is not even a star.

It seems that I have to brew wine as soon as possible and sell it for money.

"Eldest sister, why are you so sad?" Fanyue, who was embroidering in the main room, saw that her eldest sister just went to her uncle's house, and her elder sister came in with a bitter face, Fanyue asked aloud.

"Oh! Our family is short of money! This is how it happened..." Xie Fanxing didn't intend to hide it from his siblings, and told them the cause of the incident.

She knew that both Fanchen and Fanri were small experts in making money, but their current identities were not disclosed, which made them restrained when they wanted to make money, and it was hard for them to give out the money they earned with legitimate reasons.

Xie Fanxing thought, she had to find a way to clarify their respective identities.

In this way, their identities have been clarified, and each of them can act to make money.

"Third sister, what did you think about the medical treatment for the county magistrate's wife? If the county magistrate's wife is cured, it would be no small thing for us to buy money from the mountain." Both Fanchen and Fanri asked Reading on the table in the main room, the two of them also heard what their eldest sister said just now, Fan Ri suddenly turned his head and whispered in his third sister's ear.

"It takes us several hours to go to the town, and even longer to go to the county. What reason do we have to go? We are young, so this matter is not easy." Fanchen frowned, and said helplessly.

"Third sister, if we don't go to treat the county magistrate's wife, she may not be able to bear it anymore, and we will have no chance to earn consultation fees."

"Don't worry about this. I heard you said that the county magistrate's wife's symptoms are fine. She will survive the first half of this year. This is not urgent. We still have to find a way to go out for a day or two to treat the magistrate's wife."

After Xie Fanxing knew that their family was short of money, she made wine koji again. Xie Fanxing planned to use sweet potatoes and wine koji today, and planned to ferment sweet potatoes first to see if he could make sweet potato wine.

If it is successful, it will not be a problem to earn two or three hundred taels of silver according to the selling price of the wine.

Xie Fanxing went to the warehouse, and she carried twenty or thirty catties of sweet potatoes to the backyard.

Xie Fanchen saw her elder sister walking towards the backyard carrying sweet potatoes, she thought that her elder sister had already made the wine koji in the past two days, and seeing her elder sister's appearance today, it was time to brew wine.

Seeing this, Xie Fanchen quietly followed behind her elder sister.

"Sister, are we going to start brewing wine today?" Xie Fanchen came to the backyard and asked her eldest sister.

"The brewing process is simple and simple, but also complicated. Now that the preparation and fermentation work is done in the early stage, the work of brewing and producing wine is still to come?

I will take you step by step, and you will know how to do it.Before that, you wash the rice first, and steam about five catties of rice with a wooden steamer. Remember, this time, don’t add shredded sweet potatoes to the steamed rice. "Xie Fanxing explained to Fanchen.

After Fanchen went to steam the rice, Xie Fanxing began to wash the sweet potatoes.

To make sweet potato wine from sweet potatoes, the first requirement is that the sweet potatoes are not rotten and have not been dug with a hoe. If there is any damage, it must be peeled off. Sweet potatoes that have been stale for a long time will have a taste similar to camphor wood. If such sweet potatoes are used to make wine, the brewed The wine has a strong flavor and poor taste, so Xie Fanxing picks the best and freshest sweet potatoes.

After cleaning the sweet potatoes, Xie Fanxing cut the sweet potatoes into large pieces, and put them into the steamer one by one to steam, so that it is easy to steam and steam thoroughly.

After steaming the sweet potatoes, Xie Fanxing put the steamed sweet potatoes into a wooden barrel, and used a big wooden stick to mash all the sweet potatoes.

Afterwards, according to a certain ratio, put down the koji made by yourself before, and add steamed rice to mix and ferment, which can not only increase the air permeability of the fermentation process, but also improve the quality of the wine and increase the yield of wine.

"This is how the preliminary material preparation is completed. After ten days and half a month of fermentation, the smell of wine will come out, and then the wine will be distilled." Xie Fanxing took a black cloth, covered it with a large wooden barrel, and tied it with a rope After tight, cover tightly with a large wooden board.

"It's that simple?" Xie Fanxing thought that wine making would be complicated, but he didn't expect that it would be washing sweet potatoes, steaming sweet potatoes, mashing sweet potatoes and mixing rice, and adding distiller's yeast.

After reading it once, she would be done. Then why are there so few people making wine, she was surprised.

"Wine making is a simple matter, the most important thing is the koji. The key is to distill the wine and the equipment for distilling wine. The equipment for distilling wine is also simple to make. I will let Fanyang make it for us later. That's it.

Of course, it’s easy for the eldest sister to say it, but if she doesn’t know the steps, doesn’t have distiller’s koji, and doesn’t have the equipment for distilling wine, the wine can’t be distilled. "

"Elder Sister said the same thing. Eldest Sister, do the wines made by other people also use sweet potatoes to make wine like you?"

"Winemaking techniques vary widely, and the materials used are also different. For example, sweet potatoes, sorghum, millet, distiller's grains, and grapes can be used to make wine.

If the wild grapes in the mountains are ripe this year, you can pick more, and my eldest sister can use the wild grapes to brew a kind of wine for you.

After this wine is brewed, I think you will like to drink it, Fanchen. "Xie Fanxing thought of this, she glanced at Fanchen and said.

This girl Fanchen likes to eat sweet things, so she must like the taste of the brewed wine.

"Sister, this wine is sweet after brewing!" Xie Fanchen heard her elder sister say that she would like to drink the wine after brewing, so she thought that wine should be sweet when brewed, and her elder sister said so.

"Correct."

"Sister, we're back, look what good things we've brought back." Xie Fanxing wanted to say something to Fanchen when a cheerful voice came from outside the room.

"What good things did you bring? There was a sound before anyone entered the room." Xie Fanxing walked from the kitchen to the main room. She saw Fanwen, Fanyang, Xiaojun, Lu Linyi, and Wu Chen carrying bows The quiver came in, and the four of them were followed by Xiaohua and Fanyu who came in with their things on their backs.

"No! Sister, you can see for yourself!" Xie Fanwen pointed to the baskets of Fanyu and Xiaohua.

"You guys came back after picking wormwood." Fanyue asked.

"Yes, there are a lot of wormwood at the foot of the mountain. The wormwood is tender and big. Xiaohua and I picked some back. After picking it for a while, the two of us picked two baskets and came back." Fan Yu replied with a smile.

"Sister, it's not edible to use this wormwood to make Amy Gu."

"Do it, do it, to satisfy you little greedy cat. You pick out the wormwood, and don't want the yellow and old ones. Fanyang, you can help the eldest sister make something."

(End of this chapter)