My whole family is dancing

Chapter 278 It's too hard to boil sugar
Baijia's brown sugar workshop officially opened fire, and the celebration ended with the sound of firecrackers, and then everyone dispersed, because the workshop was going to be closed, and they couldn't enter at will in the future.

Baifuer stayed behind as a technical guide, and the two cold stoves were fired together, and the dry wood swept by the flames was burning in the stove in an instant, and when the fire was hot, the split wood was carefully put in pieces, the first in the row The cauldron was quickly heated up.

Now the pot is still boiling water.

"This stone mill works well. When the sugar cane goes in, the sugar cane water is squeezed out."

"Oh, why is this sugarcane water so green, it doesn't look right."

Bai Fuer stood aside and didn't explain to everyone, just said: "That's right, you can see that it was a little yellow at first, and it gradually turned green."

"The bagasse is piled up on the side, and if you wait too long, you will carry it to the corner over there, and dry it in the shade as firewood."

The stone mill came quickly, and soon a large bucket of sugarcane juice was produced. A strong wooden pole was built beside it. A large cross was hung in the middle of the wooden pole. The four corners of a large piece of gauze were firmly tied to the four corners of the cross. It is a big bucket, and what we need to do now is to scoop the sugarcane juice just squeezed out into the gauze and filter it, and the filtered sugarcane juice can be poured into the first big pot.

The person who burned the fire sighed, "No wonder this stove can't stop burning. Such a big fire can't boil the first pot of water quickly. I think a lot of tongues of fire have gone to the back of the hole."

Bai Changfu nodded, "The first pot of water in the row has boiled, and the last pot was a little hot just now. It seems that it won't be able to open until the afternoon."

Baifuer frowned slightly. These days, she has been trying hard to remember the process of making sugar in large quantities. This is different from the small troubles at home. It took a long time for the water in the first big pot to boil, so you know the quality of this pot There is nowhere to go.

"We just turned on the fire, and the whole stove is not completely dry. This pot has been cooking for a long time, and we must remember the next pot. The requirement of this first pot is to bubble quickly."

"What do you mean, it needs to be boiled quickly, and there will be a problem with slow boiling, that is, the sugar in the sugarcane juice will be lost."

"The whole pot of sugarcane juice can be fully foamed with a strong fire. If the small bubbles are slowly opened like this, the big problem is that the fine residue inside cannot be removed. When the time comes, the sugar that comes out will be bought back and melted in a bowl. , there will be scum left at the bottom of the bowl, and this pot of sugar can basically be judged to be defective."

Wang Quan didn't understand, "Little Boss, can you burn your scum with a big bubble?"

Baifuer shook her head and pointed to the boiling pot. There was already a lot of foam floating in the pot. She picked up a specially made large spoon and began to skim the foam. She explained while skimming:
"This is skimming. When the fire boils, there will be big bubbles, and the slag inside will be mixed with these bubbles, and we can skim them out."

"This step is very important. Whether our brown sugar is good or not depends on this step. At this time, the fire must be stable and even. Don't be big or small, which will affect the bubble. It depends on your skillful hands. Have you ever made bone broth at home?"

"Now that the ladle is deep, the delicious soup will be beaten out together. If the ladle is shallow, the clumped bubbles will be broken, and the scum inside will leak out."

"Anyway, this pot of brown sugar is almost useless. You all have to try it."

A group of old men, who have never touched a spatula on weekdays, and don't know how to handle it with a big spoon.

Bai Fuer urged, "Hurry up, this can't last long."

Bai Changfu gritted his teeth, and the first one stretched out a big spoon, which scattered the flakes of froth with one stroke, and then went to skim the first one, this time it went deeper, and the froth was skimmed up. Half a spoonful of the sugarcane juice below was also skimmed off.

It happened that the three sisters-in-law of Li's family came to watch the excitement, and Baifuer asked her mother to demonstrate on the spot. Wen stepped forward to see it and said, "This can't be done. After a long time, the scum will disappear, and the scum will disappear." Can't get it out."

"Hands should be light and fast. If this thing is spotted, just throw it away with a spoon. Don't be slow. The slower you go, the more the foam will disperse."

Seeing that she struck quickly, she quickly wiped off the foam floating on the top, and the men were a little ashamed.

"It's not a big deal, just practice more."

Bai Fuer thought about it for a while, and saw that the water in the second pot was already boiling, so she took out a new gauze and asked her father to hang it on the second pot in the same way as tying a cross.

"Now clean the second pot, scoop the sugarcane juice in this pot into the gauze and filter it again, and filter the small scum that was leaked just now."

She ordered the people below to move one by one, and when the first mouthful was freed, the sugarcane juice that had already been squeezed was poured in again.

The men were ready to skim the foam with a spoon again, and in order not to waste it, they found a clean bucket to pick it up for second use.

The whole workshop is busy, and the outer courtyard is a stall of Baichangqing's sugarcane. From time to time, someone will bring sugarcane there and laugh for a while. There is no way to make money.

The yard was also busy, the mule pulling the stone mill was very excited, and kept talking about the sweetness of the sugar cane, only the people in the kitchen were nervous.

The busy state lasted until mid-afternoon, and the pot of sugarcane in the morning finally turned into sugar.

"Come and see this sugar, our first pot."

The sweet smell of brown sugar permeated the surroundings. The brown sugar in the pot was dark red in color. Baifuer stretched out his chopsticks and dipped it a little. After blowing it to cool down, he ate it. The sweetness in the mouth had a sandy texture of brown sugar, and it quickly melted in the cavity. up.

"Okay, get ready."

Everyone's faces were flushed, and there was nothing they could do. Firstly, the humidity in the kitchen was too high, and their foreheads were covered with drops of sweat mixed with righteous energy water.

The second is that it is too difficult, their hands are stiff, if you want to know the price of brown sugar, their worth is only a few catties of brown sugar, how can they fix it if they waste it.

It can be said that it is not easy.

The big wooden board that held the sugar had been cleaned and oiled. Seeing that there was not much sugar, a piece of bamboo was placed in the middle to partition it. The syrup was poured on the partitioned wooden boards, and the templates were surrounded by borders, so you don't have to worry about the brown sugar flowing out or slipping away.

The next step is to flatten the brown sugar to the same height as the wooden board, and wait for it to cool.

The sky is naturally cold, and it was already completely cold after two sticks of incense. Wang Quan came over with a steelyard, and then they had to keep trying to measure how big it would be exactly one catty.

Looking at the brown sugar that has been cut into pieces, Bai Fuer also feels that it doesn't matter. Let everyone try this pot. It is not easy to sell.

(End of this chapter)