Fight the Giants

  Chapter 268 really became

   At sunset, the family went back to the yard.

   Thanks to Ji Laozhuang and others for asking for help, they only took the ingredients they sent. 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 no place 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.

   murmured: "There is still a little half, I can 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 and play after I write 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 your uncle went to the storeroom to fetch 20 catties of cane sugar, and brought the things we prepared to the kitchen. Mother, take that iron pot away and use the new pot we brought."

   Only Yang Fu knew about boiling sugar. 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 knows the method of pouring sugar with yellow mud water, but it only exists in theoretical knowledge and has never practiced it.

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

  But who ran to test the 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 by virtue of 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 of the collapse of the wall, covered the brown sugar to be cooled with yellow mud. When it cooled, he found that the top layer turned white, and this was the original white sugar.

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

   But the decolorization process is time-consuming, labor-intensive and inefficient, usually taking 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 pouring 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.

   During this process, several 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 at the end.

   And this twisted glutinous rice is mushy, tens of catties in weight, and so sticky, it doesn't take turns to change young and strong men, and it's trivial to lose an arm. The problem is that it can't be twisted, and women can't do this job at all.

   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.

  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, put it on the pot, and steam for several hours.

   At most two manpower are needed, one for kneading and one for firewood. Of course, one manpower is also enough.

  As for which kind is delicious, the benevolent sees benevolence 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.

   As for the method of pouring sugar with yellow mud water, since Huo Xi wanted to turn it into a unique business, he naturally wanted to find a more profitable one.

  The method of covering the yellow mud and sealing the altar with yellow mud is unnecessary.

   Several people were in the kitchen. They boiled the newly bought large iron pot, washed all the tiles and other things, and 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 paddle slowly flows into the wooden mold along the funnel.

  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 muddy water.

  The brown sugar bricks are not boiled, put them directly 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, install 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 in the mold is very clear. Whether it can become white sugar in the end still needs to wait for it to cool.

  The last one does not boil sucrose, but only uses yellow mud water to pour brown sugar bricks, leaving black **** 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 the whiter it was.

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

"well."

  The couple scraped out the white sugar crystals. The whole family looked at the white sugar in disbelief. It took a long time before 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, please cover this beforehand, no one can tell. Neither can Nian'er. Just say that it was bought from outside."

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

  The husband and wife packed up their things and went out. Huo Xi and Yang Fu took the wooden mold to the yard, and waited with fixed eyes 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.

  (end of this chapter)