Hydrosols
Du's mother was very fast, and Yun Duo was having lunch with her mother, so Du's mother said back and forth that everything had been prepared and sent to the cloud house. Yun Duo couldn't sit still for a while, and he couldn't wait to go back to the house immediately, and was pressed by his mother to barely finish his meal, and hurriedly gave his mother a salute and went back to his small courtyard.
When I returned to the house, I saw that Xiaocui Xiaohong was cleaning the aluminum pot brought back by Du's mother, and praised these two hard-working little girls.
After Xiaohong Xiaocui cleaned the pots and pans, and the clouds didn't stop taking a nap, she asked Xiaocui to change into a light dress, wash her hands, and start trying to make hydrosol.
Mother Du brought back a lot of dried flowers, and the clouds looked at it, in addition to roses, there were jasmine and lavender, so is there already lavender in this era? This question flashed through Yun Duo's mind, but he immediately put it down, the dynasties are all overhead, what else is impossible, the mirrors inlaid on the incense dresser are all mercury mirrors, the windows are also bright glass, and the potatoes and cornmeal in the kitchen, these things should not have appeared so early, it is estimated that there have been ancestors who have come, so it is not strange to have lavender. But looking at these things, the predecessors may be the main focus on farming, so the technology of rouge gouache is still very backward, and there is still a lot of room for improvement, so that the various recipes in Yunduo's mind can be used.
Let Xiaohong Xiaocui first pick out the rose petals and soak them in the well water, and then tell the two to take the small stove and ice cubes, while the two are not there, Yun Duo held the aluminum pot in one hand and touched the big wooden barrel of the roses in the other, and brought it into the space, and then laboriously overturned the bucket, the dried petals and well water were sprinkled on the grass, and in a blink of an eye it was absorbed by the space, after planting a stubble of flowers, the cloud found that the space absorbed things a lot faster, it used to be just slowly absorbed, it took half a day's work, now as long as it is a plant that is not wanted, Put it on the grass for a while, it seems that this space can be upgraded, but the clouds have not yet figured it out. From the current point of view, it is still necessary to cultivate more land, and the more things are planted, the space will also change.
Straightening the empty wooden barrel, Yun Duo cleaned the roses in the space in the small river first, and then poured them all into the bucket, and then used an aluminum pot, and poured a pot of water into a wooden barrel as high as her, and it was easy to fill it, and the cloud touched the wooden barrel and returned to the house, in the space for a long time, the reality was only half an hour, the cloud finished this, scooped a glass of water in the space with a cup and drank it in one go, sat on the stool and just breathed a sigh, I saw Xiaohong come in with a small stove, the cloud exhaled secretly, the time card was just right, If it's too late, you'll suffer.
Tell Xiaohong to take out the petals soaked in the wooden barrel and dry them for a while, stirring them with salt, in order to seal the fragrance of the roses.
"Huh! Miss, these dried petals look like fresh when you soak them in water. ”
"Ugh! That's right, dried flowers are not dehydrated flowers, they must become flowers again when they are soaked in water! "The clouds are strong.
Simple Xiaohong believed in the crooked reasoning of the young lady, and honestly began to stir the salted "dried petals".
When Xiaocui came back, facing the same question, Xiaohong gave Xiaocui a look that you don't understand, and the clouds had a black line, interrupting the question and answer of the two, urging the two to hurry up and stir.
When all the stirring is done, the cloud fills half a pot of petals, presses a flat stone in the middle of the pot, then puts a bowl on the stone, scoops the water from the wooden bucket and pours it into the pot, the water is lower than the bowl, the lid is upside down on the pot, the ice cubes are filled with it, the low heat begins to distill, and the melted ice cubes are constantly replaced in the middle, and even the lunch is only a few bites of snacks. Repeat until three quarters of an hour, and the rose hydrosol will be cured.
Remove the heat and cool until cool, lift the lid, the bowl is filled with rose hydrosol, but half a pot of petals only get a bowl of hydrosol, or a bit of waste, you must know that these flowers can also be made into essential oils, now there are no tools, and it can only be so wasted.
Carefully poured the rose hydrosol in the bowl into a glass bottle, Yun Duo closed the lid, and explained that the two Xiaohong who had already learned continued to distill the remaining rose petals, and Yun Duo wanted to personally send the first pot of hydrosol to his mother.
"Mother, mother, you see, Duoduo has succeeded."
The clouds were still small, and they didn't care about the etiquette, and shouted before they entered the door.
At this time, Wang Rou had just laid down and was about to take a nap, when she heard the shouts of the clouds, and as soon as she sat up, she caught the little body that ran in.
"Oops! My miss, you can slow down and bumble into something. ”
Cui's mother hurriedly helped Yunduo, and saw that Yunduo quickly climbed onto the bed and snuggled in her mother's arms, before letting go of her hand and taking a step back.
"What did Duoduo succeed? Is it made of hydrosol? ”
"Well, mother, you see, it's fragrant." As he spoke, Yun Duo opened the wooden cap on the bottle and let the mother smell it.
I saw that the glass bottle was a pink liquid, exuding the fragrance of roses, and it smelled very good.
Wang Rou picked up the bottle, carefully poured some on her hand, and gently smeared it, feeling that the flower dew was very mild and not greasy, and was quickly absorbed by the skin on the back of her hand, as if the skin was full of water, tender and tender, and with a faint fragrance, she loved it very much.
"We are really talented, the flower water in our shop is either very oily, or just like water, I don't like to use it, I have never made it like you are neither greasy nor very moist, my mother likes it very much."
"Mother, rose hydrosol has the effect of moisturizing, anti-inflammatory, anti-itching, and delaying aging.
"We are so capable, and in the future, our mother's dresser will be put on Duoduo's rouge gouache."
"Duoduo, even if it's made, let's rest first, you see that your dark circles haven't gone down yet."
Also, I didn't sleep well last night, and I have been busy working since the morning, and Yun Duo is only three years old after all, and he can't hold it anymore.
"Then I'm going to sleep with my mother." The clouds are coquettish.
"Okay, okay, sleep with my mother."
Seeing this, Cui's mother stepped forward to take off her coat, shoes and socks for Yunduo, and served the two to go to bed for a lunch break.
Xiaohong Xiaocui here is still distilling hydrosol seriously, carrying out Miss's words to the end.
Meimei took a nap, and the clouds came back to life in the afternoon. When I returned to the yard and saw that four more bottles of hydrosol had been made, Yun Duo was very happy. said generously to the two: "You have worked hard today, Xiaocui went to tell Liu's mother that she would make a big hoof for one of you at night." ”
When the six-year-old children were officially gluttonous, they were very happy to hear the young lady say that they should let Liu's mother make hooves for them to eat.
Seeing the division of labor between the two, Yun Duo didn't seem to be able to intervene, so he began to study the glass bottle of hydrosol.
I saw that the glass bottle in the hand of the cloud is about 300 milliliters, with a big belly, a long neck and a thin mouth, the glass is translucent, and the color of the liquid inside can be seen at a glance. This is not worth mentioning at all now, but this is ancient times, and this technology is also very advanced. Yunduo once again thanks this crossing senior, what a cow!
The master and servant three have been busy until dinner before all the petals are distilled, a total of seven bottles out, although not much, but can't stand fast, the morning is the beginning of the rush unfamiliar, wasted some time, and then do it smoothly on the fast, one person can also operate, the three of the clouds want to do at the same time, according to this calculation, one person can easily make fifteen bottles one day after another, then the three of them are forty-five bottles, haha, is this the rhythm of batches. The clouds laughed inwardly.
Just the expiration date? There is a natural preservative beeswax in this lipstick, but the hydrosol is additive-free, and now there is no refrigerator, so it is good to say in winter, but storage in summer is a problem. Yunduo decides to keep a bottle and experiment with the expiration date in the warm inner room.