When he made it, Wu Yuanqing found that he was missing sugar, an important ingredient at the top of the top. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time in the first year of Zhenguan, there was no sugar.

China is one of the earliest sugar-producing countries in the world, and there was already starch sugar in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and there is a poem in the Book of Songs, "The Book of Songs, Daya". It means that the land of Zhou is very rich, and even the violets and endive are as sweet as caramel sugar.

Even idioms have a lot of syrup, such as sweet and sweet, and it is fun to make fun of grandchildren.

Caramel is believed to be the first sugar produced in the world, and it is a kind of sugar made by saccharification of rice (starch) and malt, which is viscous and commonly known as maltose.

And caramel can't make white sugar.

In addition to caramel sugar, the other is sucrose, and there are records of sugarcane planting in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

During the Warring States period in the 4th century BC, the initial processing of sugarcane was already recorded. There is such a verse in Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci and Spiritualism": "The turtle cannon lamb has some syrup." The "Zhe" here is cane, and the "Zhe pulp" is the juice obtained from sugar cane.

In the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu, and Sun Liang Biography" written by Chen Shou of the Western Jin Dynasty, there is an account of "Liang made the Yellow Gate cover with silver, and took the sugarcane ...... offered by the Tibetan officials in Jiaozhou". Sugarcane is a liquid sugar that is viscous in shape.

Later, the sugar industry continued to develop, and crystalline sugar, that is, granulated sugar, could be produced, but the decolorization process was not enough, and only brown sugar or brown sugar could be produced.

Wu Yuanqing found that there was no white sugar when he first crossed over to make sweet and sour tenderloin and other dishes, but when cooking, brown sugar without white sugar can also be replaced, and the poor taste is not very big, so he didn't care too much.

But this canned food will not work without sugar, if you don't put sugar, it will be tasteless and not easy to preserve, but if you put brown sugar, the taste is too far behind.

Therefore, the biggest problem in front of Wu Yuanqing is how to get sugar.

However, as a senior otaku, the biggest advantage is that you have more time, read more books and know more things.

Later, when Wu Yuanqing read the novel, he always saw that there was a bridge of ancient sugar making, but the writing was too simple, so he specially went to the top to find information and read it.

The most important thing is the emergence of the yellow mud method.

According to the account in "Tiangong Kaiwu", it is as follows: "Plug the grass in the hole, pour it with yellow mud water, and the black trickle enters the tank, and it becomes hoarfrost inside." The top layer is five inches thick, white and abnormal, called Western sugar, and the lower one is slightly yellowish brown.

This description is too simple and vague, but with the picture inside, Wu Yuanqing knows the specific steps, the first stage is to cover the mud, first heat and steam the pressed sugarcane juice, concentrate it to a viscous shape, and then put it in a funnel-shaped tile bowl, of course, the lower mouth must be sealed with straw in advance. After a few days, the bottom of the bowl was clogged with crystallized sugar. At this time, the funnel-shaped tile bowl is set on the top of the large urn or pot, and then the finished yellow mud cake, that is, the yellow clay embryo, is evenly pressed to the viscous syrup, and then the yellow mud will slowly penetrate into the syrup, and this infiltration process is also the process of decolorization, and all kinds of colored substances will be adsorbed to the yellow mud. When the yellow mud finally slowly sinks to the bottom, that is, when the decolorization is completed.

Then pull the straw from the plug, and the mud will flow from the lower port to the lower container.

When the mud runs clean, all that's left in the bowl is sugar. The middle and upper layers are decolorized, high-grade white sugar, and the bottom is colored brown or brown sugar.

Knowing the specific method of making sugar, it is not difficult for Wu Yuanqing to make white sugar.

In order to make sugar, Wu Yuanqing bought all the workshops that made cane sugar in Chang'an City.

Although he didn't think about inventing something specifically to make a lot of money, since making canned food needed to make a little sugar, he regarded the production and sale of white sugar as an extremely important industry for the samurai.

Sugar is in demand, let alone white sugar, and even the royal family can't eat white sugar like snow.

The sucrose that is a little less in the magazine is a royal tribute, and only the emperor, queen, concubine, and princess can eat it.

Therefore, the production and sale of white sugar will definitely be a profiteering industry.

Wu Yuanqing personally demonstrated the method of making white sugar, and then asked those who learned it to teach others.

Soon, all the workshops began a vigorous sugar production business.

In less than ten days, the first batch of white sugar was ready.

"Yuanqing, is this the white sugar" When he saw the white sugar in the paper bag that was delivered, Yang's surprised voice trembled.

"Yes, it's not bad, mother," Wu Yuanqing said with a grin.

"It's not just good, it's just great" Yang looked at Bai Tangnuo without opening his eyes.

"It looks good, but I don't know how it tastes" Speaking of this, Wu Yuanqing said to the maid Zijuan: "Go and pour two bowls of water"

"I want to drink it too, I want to drink it too" The two little girls dragged the eldest brother's sleeve and swayed it.

"Okay, good, yours are indispensable, pour two more bowls," Wu Yuanqing said dotingly.

"It's so sweet" took a sip of sugar water, and said after smashing it.

"Hmm," the big girl nodded.

Looking at the two little girls who were savoring the white sugar water, Wu Yuanqing shook his head helplessly.

sighed in my heart, this will be put in the future generations, with a family background like the martial arts, who would think that a bowl of white sugar water is delicious.

With the sugar, Wu Yuanqing prepared the guys again, then bought a large number of fruits, washed and cut them into pieces, and began to make canned food.

From the afternoon to the evening, more than 100 cans of various cans were made. This is because Wu Yuanqing was worried that the crockpot was not easy to steam, so he increased the steaming time, otherwise the two hundred cans would have been made.

By the time dinner was over, the canned food had cooled down completely. Wu Yuanqing opened a few cans and let the whole family taste them, in fact, this is not a real can, because it hasn't been left for a long time, at best, it is a boiled fruit in sugar water, but it still gets unanimous praise.

Early the next morning, Wu Yuanqing brought a bag of sugar and ten cans of canned food into the palace.

When he arrived at the East Palace, Li Chengqian was having breakfast.

Seeing Wu Yuanqing come in, Li Chengqian said with a smug voice: "Have you eaten, do you want to drink some white fungus lotus seed soup, this is what my mother made for me personally when she saw that I studied hard, and put white sugar on it, it's very sweet."

"Cut, pull it down, that can also be called white sugar, don't you see white sugar" Wu Yuanqing dismissed.

"I haven't seen it, you've seen it, this is a tribute, only for the royal family" Li Chengqian rolled his eyes.

This kind of conversation will happen in the Chongwen Hall almost every two days, and I don't know if Empress Changsun will only make a white fungus lotus seed soup, anyway, every time Li Chengqian says that his mother personally made a tonic for him, he is drinking white fungus lotus seed soup.

Every time he drank white fungus lotus seed soup, Li Chengqian had to be embarrassed, saying how sweet it was, and Wu Yuanqing had to ridicule the so-called tribute sugar every time, but there was no physical refutation.

But today, hehe.

"The white sugar I eat is snow-white and snow-white, and you can't compare to this thing at all," Wu Yuanqing said.

"Hmph, is it interesting to brag every time" Li Chengqian sneered.

"Why don't you believe it, do you dare to make a bet with me" Wu Yuanqing smiled maliciously.

"Fight and fight, whoever is afraid of whom, if you lose, you will learn to bark in public, dare not" Li Chengqian was full of confidence.

There is a saying that if you don't die, you won't die.

Li Chengqian died by himself, and Wu Yuanqing smiled and agreed. (To be continued.) )