Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 268 It really became
At sunset, the family went back to the yard.

Xie Ji Laozhuang and others asked for help, so they only took the ingredients they sent, and the family closed the courtyard door, started cooking in the kitchen, and had a happy meal.

Huo Nian chattered about playing with Shitou and Tietou in Zhuangzi today.

Apart from going to the countryside with his parents to collect rent, this child has nowhere to play in the mud like this.It's a joy to play so well.Mother had already cooked the meal, and it took him a long time to come back reluctantly after calling him.

Seeing his excited face at this time, Huo Xi couldn't help but give him a cold shot: "I'm going back to the private school in half a month. Have you finished the homework that the teacher asked you to write? Have you finished the big characters that my sister asked you to write?"

Pi Xiaozi froze all of a sudden, pouted and glared at Huo Xi.

He murmured, "There's still a little half left, I'll finish it soon."

"You can't miss your homework. You can go to play tomorrow, but you have to come back to do your homework at night. And you can't play all the time during the day."

"I know, can I go out to play after writing big characters for a while?"

"Well. Then you are full now, go back to your room and write big characters." Send him out.

Seeing Huo Nian languid, Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai felt distressed and wanted to follow, but Huo Xi stopped him.

"Father, you and uncle went to the warehouse to fetch twenty catties of cane sugar, and brought the things we prepared to the kitchen. Mother, you can take that iron pot away and use the new pot we brought."

To boil sugar, only Yang Fu knew, Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai didn't know what the two children were going to do, and they didn't know what they were going to do after preparing so many things.

Huo Xi knew the method of pouring sugar with yellow mud water, but it only existed in theoretical knowledge and had never practiced it.

She has survived the brown sugar, and the operation is simple. Even in the city, brown sugar can be made with gas.

But who ran to test brown sugar into white sugar?It is not easy to find yellow mud in the city. I want to dig a few lumps of soil in the community to grow shallots, and I am chased by the community security for several blocks.

The sucrose is washed with yellow mud water to decolorize it into white sugar, but it is due to the adsorption of yellow mud water.Everyone understands the truth, but sometimes it's easy to see, and it's useless as soon as you do it.

It was first heard that a brown sugar workshop owner in Quanzhou, because the wall collapsed, covered the brown sugar to be cooled with yellow mud, and when it cooled, he found that the top layer turned white, and this was the original white sugar.

The initial production of white sugar is the yellow mud cake covering method, which is also called the yellow mud sealing altar method in many places.

But this decolorization process is time-consuming, labor-intensive and inefficient, and usually takes one to several months.Later, after continuous improvement, the yellow mud water drizzled sugar method was finally formed.

It's just that the method of drenching sugar with yellow mud water varies from place to place.Naturally, the time and labor consumption is also different.Which one to use remains to be tested.

Huo Xi remembered that he used to make brown sugar rice cakes for Chinese New Year.Although the results presented are the same, the methods are different in different places.

In some places, the raw glutinous rice flour is directly poured into a large iron pot, and then brown sugar water is poured in, and then two arms-long rolling sticks are put into the pot and twisted vigorously. Let cool on a plate.

In the middle of this process, several strong and strong men have to be rotated.

If you have made a cake at home, anyone who has beaten egg whites with chopsticks will know that they want to die in the end.

And this twisted glutinous rice is mushy, tens of catties in weight, and so sticky, it's a trivial matter if you don't change young and strong men in turn, and a broken arm is a trivial matter.

It takes several manpower and hours to make a rice cake.It's no wonder that many folk snacks will disappear, because individuals don't want to make them, they just want to buy ready-made ones.

But there is another way.

It is to pour raw glutinous rice flour into a large basin, pour brown sugar water, just like kneading noodles, and glutinous rice flour, mix evenly to make it strong, then pour it into a steaming plate, steam it in a pot, and steam it for several hours.

It only needs two manpower at most, one for kneading the dough and one for burning firewood. Of course, one manpower is also completely enough.

As for which kind is delicious, the benevolent sees the benevolent and the wise sees wisdom.But in terms of benefits, it is natural that the dough steaming method is more time-saving and labor-saving, and has higher benefits.

Since Huo Xi wanted to turn this yellow mud water sugar method into a unique business, he naturally wanted to find a more profitable one.

There is no need to think about the method of covering the yellow mud and sealing the altar with yellow mud.

In the kitchen, a few people boiled the newly bought large iron pot, washed all the tiles and other things, put twenty catties of sucrose... oh, this is not granulated sugar, but brown sugar bricks.

Brown sugar bricks are easier to carry, preserve and moisture-proof than powdered brown sugar.Huo Xi got brown sugar bricks in exchange this time.

Huo Xi first melted ten catties of sugar bricks in a pot, and then set up a tile on the top of the woodcut mold, which was a large pottery funnel. Slip, and then ask Yang Fu to pour cold yellow muddy water into it.

The brown sugar syrup flows slowly down the funnel into the wooden mold.

Huo Xi and Yang's eyes were fixed on the mold.Huo Xi found that the boiled sucrose was a little reddish brown, but the syrup that would flow down was much clearer.

After pouring out the ten catties of brown sugar syrup, Huo Xi tried another method while it was cooling and settling.

Boil the cold yellow mud water.

The brown sugar bricks are not boiled, just put them into the tile slip, wait for the yellow mud paddle water to boil, scoop it and pour the brown sugar bricks.

The process of washing brown sugar bricks with boiling yellow mud water is naturally much slower.It just saves the process of boiling brown sugar bricks, which will save some loss.

A decolorization method, fitted with a woodcut mold.

"Xi'er, is this done? Can this turn sucrose into white sugar?"

Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai stared closely at each other, unwilling to move away, until now they didn't know what the two children wanted to do.

I have never seen white sugar for sale, but these two children said they wanted to make white sugar.This, can you believe it?
The husband and wife stared at the woodcut mold with their eyes.Then staring at various tools, Nawaliu was almost stared out by them.

Huo Xi also stared intently.

In the former method, the sugar syrup on the mold is very clear, and whether it can become white sugar in the end still needs to wait for it to cool.

And the last one does not boil the sucrose, but only uses the yellow mud water to pour the brown sugar bricks, leaving black slag in the mold, and discolored sugar crystals in the tiles, snow-white and snow-white.

This is a bit similar to the method of turning muddy water into clear water.

Pour the muddy water into a container filled with stones, charcoal, and cotton cloth. After filtering layer by layer, the water leaking from the bottom becomes clear.

"Xi'er, is this white sugar?" The husband and wife showed surprise in their eyes.This really became?It's that simple?
Huo Xi took a look, there was a layer of white sugar crystals left in the tile, the whiter it was, the whiter it was.

Holding back the surprise in my heart, I only said: "Mother, quickly scrape them out!"

"well."

The husband and wife scraped out the white sugar crystals. Looking at the white sugar, the whole family couldn't believe it. After a long time, they weighed some with their hands and put it in their mouths. Their eyes widened: "Sweet!"

Huo Xi laughed: "It's sugar in the first place, but it's also sugar when it's decolorized. Of course it's sweet."

The excitement of the family was beyond words, and they tried it again. It was still sweet, and they were pleasantly surprised.

"Father and mother, this is covered in advance, no one can tell. Nian'er can't talk about it either. Just say that it was bought from outside."

Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai nodded repeatedly: "Father and mother know the severity."

Huo Xi and Yang Fu went out after packing up their things. Huo Xi and Yang Fu took the wooden mold to the courtyard, and waited for the sugar syrup poured by the first method to cool down.

　There is one more chapter~ I actually don’t really want to write this kind of plot, it’s a bit like cheating, and I’m afraid that everyone will be too fastidious, and I will have a headache, hahaha.Everyone is welcome to discuss. If you have tried brown sugar to practice white sugar, remember to share your experience.

　　
　
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