Chapter 37: A Little Bread
Master David took Keith and Igul on horseback in the woods for an afternoon, and when night fell, they dismounted, sat down in a small clearing by the tree, and ate white bread and jerky with water for dinner.
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In the era of low productivity, the staple food eaten by the people on the continent of Rizel was bread like in the Middle Ages, and the raw material was wheat, while the poor people ate bread with a lot of bran, grass, insects, and small broken stones that were not filtered and filtered.
Compared with the active torture of the Egyptians who participated in bread in the bark and stones, the black bread with small pebbles, small wood, and small insects made by the black-hearted baker grinds the teeth more and hurts the spirit even more......
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When you bite into it, you find that you have bitten half a worm, a small rock, or a small piece of wood...... It's sour!
The real sense of white bread is the harvest of wheat after many times of screening, the wheat in the small stones, small wood, bran and other impurities are screened away, usually the first two or three can basically screen the small stones and small pieces of wood, but the remaining wheat still has a large number of bran needs to continue to repeat the screening many times, until the bran is sifted away to get selected refined wheat flour, the bread made of this refined wheat flour is soft and loose, snow white and soft like a little white pig, first called in the church " "Pandemain", which means refined, sacred bread.
At the beginning of the era of low productivity, this "Pendemain" was only available to a few people, such as the archbishops of the Church, who had long-term tribute food from the faithful, orphaned deacons and orphaned maids who had been trained by the Church since childhood, and the archbishops could have ordered them to sift the wheat in batches and day and night shifts......
Of course, the royal family members of the kingdom are also eligible to enjoy this "Pendmain", but as the leader of the kingdom guarding the kingdom, he will not be willing to give up the bran that is also food, except for the monthly rations of the royal family, the reception of foreign guests and the reward of the soldiers returning from the battle, the king is reluctant to let the royal family members eat white bread every meal, it is too wasteful of food, even if His Majesty the king eats at least no stones and other messy things, After sifting through the clean gray bread once or twice, the royal family also understood the difficulties of the kingdom.
Great magicians with advanced magical attainments can finely manipulate magic, and they can easily filter out impurities in wheat using magic, but the clever great magicians are elusive and noble, who dares to support a strong person of the rank of great magician and above to help you sift wheat?!
And ordinary civilians naturally don't just eat bread so low, because not everyone has a baking stove at home, people get wheat, and the aunts will sift the wheat first, after all, even black merchants will not let their families eat bread with traps, and the bran is also food that will not be sifted off, at least stones, wood, and insects will not be there, and then set up a pot to soak and cook paste, add meat if there is meat, add vegetables if there are vegetables, and finally sprinkle with some black crystals, salt...... A pot, don't expect it to be delicious, anyway, a little nutritious and hungry people are enough to make great merit.
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Of course, if there is a market, there will be people who will specialize in research, and if there are people who research, there will naturally be technological breakthroughs, and even in the wizards' union, which is a bit high and not very high, not everyone can afford to eat "delicious" gray bread.
Magicians don't want to eat chowder and disgusting people, and the broth and brown bread are really not very good in taste and texture in addition to being able to satisfy hunger, not even gray bread, let alone the legendary "Pendermaine"?!
Magicians are a race that seeks the truth, and the reason why they are a race shows that they are full of creativity and curiosity in the breadth and depth of their research on all things in the world, just like in this situation, under the light of the great foodie empire in the dark, under the temptation of "Pendemain", some foodie magicians have become scientists, using their understanding of earth, water, and wind in magic, to design and build windmills and waterwheels with stable structures that can replace manpower!
Windmills and waterwheels can absorb water for flood control, fight swamps, and lift water, and cooperate with water diversion systems to achieve automatic irrigation! The final result is more arable land (transforming swamps into arable land), more arable land per capita (technological innovation saves manpower), and food is doubled!
After multiplication, more grain can be used to raise more chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and the increase of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep and other livestock will have more fertility, and the ability to control weeds and insects will be enhanced, and so on, a new and stronger virtuous circle will be formed.
The wind can be used to separate the wheat and the impurities in it by using the wind blast principle, and the wheat obtained can be milled into whole wheat flour with the highest nutritional value with strong wind power, that is, it is crushed together with the bran, because the windmill can grind it all very finely, so the bread made with this flour is not black at all!
If you don't want whole wheat flour, it's much more convenient and faster to want refined flour than to simply use manpower.
First of all, the bran and wheat are preliminarily milled and separated, that is, the skin is grinded, and then the bran of the wheat and the endosperm inside the wheat are separated by the wind, and finally the wheat endosperm is finely crushed by the wind to obtain refined flour.
Different from the church's conservatism of white bread, thanks to the fact that the Wizards' Guild is like the "Water Element Tower" built in the main city and responsible for carrying the water conservancy system in the main city, windmills and waterwheels have been vigorously promoted in various kingdoms, until now, all countries have achieved food breakthroughs, whole wheat bread, gray bread, and "Pendemain" white bread can be purchased in the city!
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"Iguli, how do you feel after a long day's journey? I see that you look good, can you still persevere?" Master David broke open a piece of white bread that was already very white but was very small, and handed it to Iguli, with a kind face, modern people looked at it and said with almost concern, "Let's eat the bread first, this is the white bread made by the chef of the City Lord's Mansion, it is very fine!"
The white bread "Pandemain" has always been just a legendary delicacy for Iguli, the son of a carpenter in Jiada, and Iguli took a bite after taking it, and the texture was soft as if he had a bite on a cloud, which was really worthy of the reputation of "Pandemain"!
Looking at Iguli's expression, Master David mistook it for eating an ordinary "Pendemain" royal nobleman, "Taste it, right? This is not ordinary white bread, it is white bread with orange juice, and it is the 'queen's bread' that has become popular in Bommerdu!"
Master David's expression was well controlled, but he still couldn't stop being proud, he generously shared the food without defense, and led the team with courage, hoping to lower the vigilance of "Your Highness" step by step, "We have just entered the forest, and there are not many powerful beasts at night, in case the eyeliner in the city is detected, we should be able to travel overnight, and by tomorrow afternoon we can set up camp in a safer place, eat hot food and sleep well, what do you think?"