my magic industry

Chapter 13 White Sugar
After returning to Silverfish Street, Old John and Anthony saw the faces of their new family with expressions of shock, anticipation, and inexplicable fear.

After all, they suddenly jumped from the poor class to the commoner class. Young people like Anthony and Hurley are okay, they can quickly accept and adapt to the changes in their living environment, but old John and Lanny who have lived in the slums all their lives Some unrealistic feelings seem to be dreaming.

However, Xia Lin believes that they will soon adapt to this kind of life. After all, people's pursuit of a better life will not be different because of their status.

At noon, although people in this world only eat two meals a day, morning and evening, Xia Lin still took the family to a nearby restaurant to have a delicious and cheap seafood meal on the grounds of celebrating moving and graduation.

Usually the food at home is porridge stewed with vegetables and potatoes and a small amount of incompletely shelled brown rice. This kind of food is not enough for the family to eat. Usually, the needs of the important labor force of Old John are guaranteed first, and then Laney and Hurley's turn.

Therefore, after eating such a delicious meal that almost swallowed her tongue, Hurley obviously became much closer to Xia Lin, the second brother.

In the afternoon, Xia Lin met with Harper to make the next plan, but he still had something to tell Harper to do, which was to contact his classmates in the city, and put [-] mage shield scrolls and [-] one-ring lethal spell scrolls in the Made it in ten days.

Xia Lin gave Harper a commission of five silver coins this time. Seeing that he was full of ambition to contact the sergeant students of the same period, Xia Lin smiled, and went to the stonemason's guild and carpenter's guild to find a craftsman who refitted the first floor. .

There are also some sundries Xia Lin also bought and prepared one by one.

After two days of renovation, the first floor of Xia Lin's new home has changed. The dining room has been completely cancelled, and the wooden dining table has been moved by Xia Lin to her room as a desk, leaving a lot of space.

The [-]-square-meter first floor is divided into front and rear parts by a wooden wall. At the back is a workshop and kitchen with four stoves. There are charcoal and water tanks piled up away from the stoves, and there is still a lot of space. A place for storing raw materials and sundries.

In the front, most of the wall facing the street was opened, and after being re-reinforced, it became a store with a size of [-] square meters. There were wooden shelves and pottery jars on both sides of the store, and a thick counter at the innermost part.

These things cost Xia Lin two gold lents and 45 silver maars.

The centrifuge was already built in Buck's blacksmith shop run by Bessie's father, and Anthony, who was an apprentice there, brought it back last night.

After installing the simple centrifuge shaped like a large iron pot on the wooden frame, soybean oil was applied for lubrication. Xia Lin tried to turn the crank above, but found that it was still a bit laborious. Turning can be very laborious.

But this is barely tolerable. Except for Anthony who is an apprentice in Buck's blacksmith shop every day, there are three strong laborers in the family, he, Harper and his father. They should be able to persist for a while. It would be nice to have a strong slave to replace this repetitive labor.

Spending four silver coins to buy ten pounds of brown sugar for trial production, Xia Lin first poured the brown sugar into the centrifuge, then slowly added water and stirred to dissolve until all ten pounds of brown sugar was dissolved, and the amount of water in the centrifuge was only three or four It's just a rise.

Xia Lin estimated that this centrifuge, which can hold almost [-] liters of water, can process about [-] catties of brown sugar at the same time, which is about [-] pounds in pounds. It seems that the output is not bad.

After the brown sugar was completely dissolved, Xia Lin began to try to turn the centrifuge. With a load of about ten kilograms, the centrifuge turned easily.

After about seven or eight minutes, Xia Lin felt that the time should be almost up, so he stopped turning, opened the wooden cover, and found that the brown sugar solution had clearly layered.

Let Harper bring his own filter cartridge made of silk, muslin, cheesecloth, diatomaceous earth, and burlap layered in a large bamboo tube. Xia Lin scoops out the brown sugar solution and pours it into the filter cartridge. The red solution passes through the filter cartridge After filtering through the inner filter layer, it passes through the small hole at the bottom, and becomes a trickle of clear and transparent trickle that flows into the clay pot below.

Because the filter layer in the filter cartridge is dense, the filtering speed is not fast.

Xia Lin felt that he could make a few more filter cartridges, fix them with wooden frames, and replace them with larger pots at the same time. Otherwise, the time cost would be unbearable according to the current efficiency.

After finally filtering all the brown sugar solution, Xia Lin poured the clear sugar solution into a small iron basin, placed it in an iron pan filled with water, and heated it in a water bath.

The purpose of heating in a water bath is to control the temperature of the solution. If it is heated directly, the sugar precipitated from the sugar solution will easily oxidize and change color.

As the sweet smell spread in the air, after about half an hour, Xia Lin successfully obtained a hot sugar solution with a high concentration, and put it aside for cooling and crystallization.

After a busy afternoon, Xia Lin's small sugar workshop finally got the first batch of about six pounds of sugar.

"What is this?"

Hurley, who watched for a long time and didn't know what Xia Lin was busy with, looked at the pure white sugar grains in the iron basin, and asked Xia Lin curiously.

"This is white sugar, you can all taste it!"

Xia Lin didn't have much desire to explain, he was busy scraping dark brown molasses from the bottom of the centrifuge.There are still many unseparated sugar crystals in these molasses, and he does not continue to separate them out of efficiency considerations. Anyway, this sweet sticky substance is also a very good commodity.

"So sweet!"

Hurley carefully picked up a pinch of white sugar and tasted it, and the pure sweetness in her mouth immediately made her eyes light up.

"White sugar? I think Ellen's gang of nobles will definitely pay a lot of money to buy it!"

Harper also tasted the sugar and said with certainty.

"Of course, it costs forty copper pes to buy a pound of brown sugar, and it takes two pounds of brown sugar to refine one pound of white sugar. Counting other costs, my white sugar can be sold for a silver mal!"

Xia Lin calculated the cost and found that the yield of white sugar from brown sugar was only a little over half, so he set a price that seemed quite high for his own white sugar.

The products of this world are much more abundant than those of the European Middle Ages in the previous life. Sugarcane is planted in large tracts in the south of the empire. The price of brown sugar is acceptable for ordinary people, but the cost of white sugar makes it only target the high-end market.

After thinking about it, Xia Lin realized that he had to think of some marketing methods to promote the sales of sugar, otherwise he might not see the huge profits brought by sugar in the short term.

"A Silver Mal!?"

Harper's and Hurley's hands that were reaching out to Bai Tang trembled, and then they looked at each other and retracted their claws in unison.They didn't dare to taste such holy food that was shining with silver brilliance.

"Will it be too expensive?"

Old John on the side also frowned and asked worriedly.

In the past few days, Xia Lin's big money has gone far beyond the comprehension of the world of this 40-year-old middle-aged man. It is always the input of a few Jin Lunte who have not seen it in the past year. He was really a little terrified, for fear that his son would lose all the money he made with mysterious magic.

Now Xia Lin said that this kind of white sugar can be easily sold for a silver marr, which really made Old John a little hard to understand.

"Don't worry! The price of white sugar will only be higher than what I estimated for one silver mal!"

However, Xia Lin was quite confident about her white sugar.

Although the source of sweetness in this world is much wider than that of the European Middle Ages in the previous life, the price of honey is still high before learning artificial beekeeping. Although brown sugar is full of flavor, it has a disadvantage. That is, no matter what kind of pastry you add brown sugar to, the final pastry will definitely have a strong brown sugar taste.

White sugar is a pure sweetener, which can easily complement other fruits and spices to make pastries with richer flavors. This alone is enough to determine the market for white sugar among nobles and merchants.

What's more, in order to open up the sugar market, Xia Lin thought of a pretty good idea just now.

(End of this chapter)