After everyone's daily rated course was changed to self-study, Tang Clan's subordinates did not have fixed tasks, and they were not usually too busy, and they were basically more conscious in their free time, but they did not delay many classes because of this.

After all, being able to read and learn calligraphy is something that no number of people can ask for, and it is wasted that I have such an opportunity, in Tang's words, it is to be punished by God.

Moreover, their own family members also have the privilege of letting their husband guide them alone, and the conditions for studying are much better than others, so how can they not be satisfied.

But like today, because there are important things, this study naturally has to be put down for the time being.

Zhang Xingyuan and Sun Dingwang took the prepared malt and put it into the nest and mashed it.

Others are responsible for washing and draining the sweet potatoes before removing the skins.

The matter of sugar production had to be kept secret, and everyone could not come in a big way, so they kept it in their own house.

At the moment, they are in the experimental stage, and they can't use all the sweet potatoes at once, so what if they break it? You have to experiment over and over again.

It just so happens that there are two large pots at home, all of which are used to cook sweet potatoes, which can cook more than 100 catties.

They decided to divide this batch of sweet potatoes into three days, 120 catties a day, and cook them in two pots at the same time.

In fact, they prefer to make one pot a day, divided into six trials.

After all, only by experimenting enough times can you become more proficient in making methods.

It's just that Zheng Linchu's side seems to be in a hurry about sugar production, so they have to shorten their schedule.

After cleaning the sweet potatoes, the next step is to put the peeled sweet potatoes with water in a large pot and steam them over high heat with firewood.

After the sweet potatoes were cooked and melted, the four men divided into two groups, each took out the water from the pot and the sweet potatoes and put them into a large basin, and then added the mashed malt.

Pieces of sweet potatoes must be mashed into a puree, and after being closed with water, they should be mushy.

Soon, the knocking sound of 'dong dong dong' continued to sound in the Xue family's mansion.

Pounding mashed sweet potatoes is a lot of hard work, and it doesn't take too long.

After it becomes a paste with water, it can be left for a period of time to proof.

Proofing the sweet potato paste, and then squeezing the juice is a time-consuming and laborious step.

Similar to washing sweet potato flour, this paste is poured into gauze for filtration, and the slurry water is filtered out.

To collect as much sugar as possible from the sweet potato paste, the sweet potato pulp left on the gauze should be constantly rinsed with warm water when straining.

One hundred and twenty pounds of sweet potatoes and so much water made of paste, to wash out all the sugar, this is a big project.

The men are responsible for squeezing the sweet potato paste from the gauze to squeeze out the juice, while the women are responsible for adding warm water to control the temperature.

The water temperature is high and hot, and when it is low, you can't squeeze out the juice, so it's still quite troublesome to deal with.

Everyone got up in the morning, and by lunchtime, the juice had not yet been squeezed out.

It wasn't until the end of the day, when the cooks began to cook dinner, that they were finally filtered out.

The next step is to boil the juice, which is also the most important step.

The quality of the boiled sugar depends on this step.

In this process, the juice is poured back into a washed cauldron.

The big room and the second room are exactly one pot per family, and each room is responsible for its own pot.

The whole process of boiling concentrated sugar water over fire takes at least two or three hours.

And boiling sugar is a technical job, the heat is extremely important, the initial fire should be fierce, boiled with high heat, and gradually reduce the heat later, and stirring while boiling, so as to speed up the boiling speed, but also to prevent the bottom of the pot from burning, affecting the quality of the sugar.

The sugar boiling process cannot be interrupted yet, and it has to be done in one go.

The pot of the big room is replaced by Xue Yuhai and Sun Dingwang, and Zhang Xingyuan and Xue Yuhai are naturally responsible for the second room.

The Shen family and the Liang family are responsible for lighting the fire, and the two sisters Xue Xuanjing are responsible for observing the color of the slurry and controlling the heat and other precautions, as for the Tang family, they are naturally in control of the overall situation.

As the water evaporates, the slurry in the pot becomes thicker and darker in color.

When the color of the syrup turns reddish-brown and the chopsticks are placed in the pot to stand upright, the syrup is ready.

Among several men, Zhang Xingyuan has the greatest strength, and the speed of agitation is also fast, and the syrup in the pot in the second room is also boiled earlier.

After tossing and turning all day and waiting for so long, the finished product is finally coming out.

Except for the few people who burned the fire and continued to stir, everyone else gathered around the pot to observe the results.

Smelling the burnt aroma coming from the pot, the Tang clan led by him was extremely excited to take out a pair of chopsticks, carefully erect them and insert them into the pot, and the chopsticks stood upright in the syrup as they wished.

All right!

The excited crowd went to get chopsticks and wrapped them in syrup.

The bright syrup is wrapped around the chopsticks, bubbling warmly, and the fragrance is simply intoxicating.

Their Xue family really made sugar!

Many people can't wait to take the good-looking syrup into their mouths to taste, but Xue Xuanjing, the little girl, as the person in charge of this pot of syrup, is quite serious about separating the two chopsticks, pulling them out of the sugar shreds, looking at their appearance and viscosity, and carefully confirming whether it has been completed.

After making sure that the syrup was really as described in the recipe, she put it in her mouth, and the sweet smell with residual warmth filled her mouth and conquered her taste buds.

After tasting the taste, Xue Xuan reluctantly slurred his lips, and then went to take the jar prepared in advance and scoop it into it for sealed storage.

Half of the rest is taken out to make shredded sugar, and to make shredded sugar, the syrup is cooled, then wrapped around a wooden board, and drawn over and over again until it is drawn to the thickness of a silk thread.

When the second room has begun to draw, the syrup in the pot in the big room is also good.

Everyone then wrapped up the syrup to look at its appearance and taste, and confirmed whether it was a qualified syrup.

As for the rest, it will continue to boil and evaporate the water until it is formed and becomes a finished caramel product.

When they entered the sea, everyone sealed the sugar from the two cauldrons.

One day's hard work made 120 catties of sweet potatoes, and the final product, the three add up, almost 20 catties, which is equivalent to six catties of sweet potatoes can be made into one catty of sugar.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes and participated in the boiling with your own hands, everyone wouldn't dare to imagine that they could only sell sweet potatoes for more than a penny to make a pound of sugar.

Whether it's the syrup, or the shredded sugar, or the lump of caramel candy, it is really as sweet as honey, and it is much sweeter than what is sold on the market.

If this kind of sugar is sold, even if it doesn't cost two hundred dollars a catty, how can there be one hundred and fifty questions, right?

It's a hundredfold profit!

It's completely beyond their usual realization.

However, when they calmed down, they also knew in their hearts that the reason why this sugar was so expensive was because it was so scarce.