"I thought it would be delicious, but I thought that no one liked to eat it at all, saying that there was no water radish and water ......"

Dry? Cooking?

Blinking, Xu Wenlan said in her heart that this thing is not so edible!

It's really no one to recognize the goods, but that's good, others don't recognize the goods, and she can live in strange goods.

Squatting in front of the stall, Xu Wenlan played quickly with a small abacus in her heart.

Hit through, when eating sugar a few times, the most is to eat pine nut candy sweet mouth, that is made of starch sugar, that is, maltose, usually cooking or other use sucrose, this sucrose is produced from sugarcane, this sugarcane is a rarity for the current Northeast, unlike later generations, once in season, all over the street, even the Northeast also eats.

The road is far away, and it can only be used by horse-drawn carriages and ships, and the products from the north and south are not lucky, and the dry goods are fine, and this fresh thing is not accessible at all.

Because of this, the sugar in the Heishui grocery store sells at a high price, fifty or sixty yuan a catty, which is more expensive than salt, so Li's sugar jar is always locked, for fear that someone will steal it.

If she grows sugar beets and then makes sugar from them, won't this money be much more profitable than growing grain?

As soon as the decision was made, Xu Wenlan looked at the bag next to him: "Uncle, how do you sell this kind of child?" ”

The uncle, who was complaining, said in a voice, as if he didn't expect Xu Wenlan to ask the price, hesitated for a while, and then said, "If you want to buy it, call the adults in the family." ”

Xu Wenlan smiled: "Uncle, don't worry, I can call the shots." As he spoke, he shook the purse in his hand, and turned back to Bai Shengwu: "I don't believe you asked my brother." ”

Bai Shengwu smiled, although he didn't tear down the stage, the meaning was obvious: What do you know? Know what farming is all about? And buy seeds!

This will not have the heart to fight with Bai Shengwu, and talked to the uncle who sold beet seeds for half a sky, and wrapped his two bags of seeds for one or two silver.

The uncle took the money, didn't say much, didn't even pack up a basket of beets on the ground, and just turned around and got into the crowd.

Bai Shengwu laughed twice: "You weren't deceived, were you?" Look at how fast people slip away, eighty percent are afraid that you will chase after you to ask for silver. ”

It could really be.

Probably I planted my own beets and smashed them in my hands, which would only be regarded as throwing out the trouble.

That's because you don't understand, it's not that beets are bad.

was laughed at by Bai Shengwu, and Bai Yingkui, who even came to help, was dumbfounded.

Bai Yingkui didn't say anything, just glanced at the Zhu family, and the Zhu family transported his anger for a long time on the road, and finally appeased Xu Wenlan: "This loss is also a blessing, I have been a pawn once, and I have learned well twice." ”

dared to love one or two, and she was fooled by a loss.

Xu Wenlan was angry, and explained with kind words that this beet is made of sugar, and he can make a lot of money when the time comes.

But no one in the family believed it, but hehe, even Bai Shengwen was skeptical when he came back at night.

Angry, Xu Wenlan took the basket of beets to verify it first.

She really doesn't know how to make this sugar, but of course it should be boiled.

A basket of beets was washed and chopped, and thrown into the pot to cook, Zhu couldn't persuade him, so he could only help add firewood. The sugar boiled for two hours, and everyone who stayed in front of the stove at night nodded straight.

But when the pot was opened, only the soup boiled out was left after skimming the beet pieces, but what boiled out was a pot of dark brown and dark red syrup, Xu Wenlan blinked.

Zhu Shi was happy: "Don't say it, this beet can really make sugar." ”

It's sugar, but this one, it's brown sugar, right? Isn't it sugar from sugar beets?

No, sugarcane first produces brown sugar, and then crystallizes before it becomes white sugar.

Bai Shengwu, who hadn't slept yet, joined in the fun, took the cold Sanhe noodle steamed bun casually, dipped it in the syrup and sent it to his mouth, took a bite of it, and dipped it again: "It's so sweet, this is delicious, sweeter than maltose......"

He felt good, but Xu Wenlan was worried, this just boiling out the syrup can't sell for much money, but how can he make white sugar?

Even if there is no modern industry and cannot produce it in large quantities, only white sugar can be sold at a high price.

The whiter the more expensive, and the price of those redness and yellowing can't go up.

Hearing her sigh, Bai Shengwen patted Xu Wenlan on the shoulder, didn't speak, and took the book back the next day, saying that it was borrowed from Guo Buluo's mansion.

"Heavenly Creations?" Xu Wenlan has heard that it seems to be a book written by a person from the Ming Dynasty, and it is said to be like an encyclopedia, but what does this have to do with her sugar production?

As a result, I was really shocked when I opened it, and I dared to love how to make sugar in the Ming Dynasty, although the output is not to be thought, and it must not be compared with the industrial age, but at least people really have this method.

The next day, according to the experiment in the book, I bought a large vat and thought of a big funnel made of tile.

Straw is stuffed into the hole under the tile, which is probably the role of filtration. Then pour the sugar juice into the tile slip and pour it with yellow mud water, which is probably the ancient adsorption decolorizing agent, which not only decolorizes, but also plays the role of a detergent like lime and carbon dioxide.

Don't really say it, you can't accept the wisdom of the ancients, this one is really made of white sugar, but this will be called frosted sugar, probably taking the meaning of sugar white as frost.

The big vat at the bottom is full of impurities, and all that remains in the tiles is sugar.

Although the production was a little second, it was still a success in the end.

Xu Wenlan was a little excited, and naturally proposed to grow sugar beets.

The Bai couple hesitated, although this beet can be made into sugar, but it will also get a small pot of sugar with a basket, and it will be troublesome to make in the end.

And this land has just been cleared, how many crops can be produced, no one has a spectrum in their hearts, and then let Xu Wenlan plant this sugar beet that no one has ever planted, but it is hanging.

Xu Wenlan herself also knows that she may not really make money in the first year, don't look at how much money she made before, but those things are just selling for a trick.

Like selling Guanyin lotus, such a pretty money will make a lot of money once or twice, and there will never be such a good thing in the future, even if it can be sold, it will definitely not be sold at such a high price. Even in Heishui, no one may be willing to spend money on those small meats, unless they have been to big cities or even the capital, there may be those young ladies who love a small and delicate are willing to pursue them.

It seems that this meaty craze can't be fried, and it has to take the industrial route. But when it comes to planting beets, she is not very sure in her heart, and she has no bottom in her heart in the first year of planting, so Zhu persuaded her, and she obediently left only five acres of land to plant beets, and the rest was planted with corn and soybeans according to her father's wishes.

Corn and soybeans are easy to grow, how many years have Bai Yingkui planted them, but no one has planted this sugar beet, or Xu Wenlan is grinding it herself, first raising seedlings and then transplanting them to be safer, if you really order the seeds in the ground, what if they don't grow well?