Chapter 721: Fine, White, and Fragrant
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The flour that fell out of the stone mill was fine, fine enough to amaze Owen and other coarse people who didn't usually come into contact with it, not to mention women like Rowling, who worked with food all day.
But at this time, no one cares about that detail.
Because they were stunned by another circumstance, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they were shocked. - How is this side white?
One of the women in front couldn't help but squat down, took out a small handful of noodles from the large wooden basin, first put it in front of her eyes, and then she couldn't help but put it to her nose, and gently, and vigorously, sniffed it deeply.
Because she stood relatively close, at this time, not many people could see her expression on the front.
But just a few of them, at this moment, they all saw a deep intoxication on her face. And soon, even Owen and a few other big bosses couldn't help but sniffle. - How does it smell like it?
It is not thick, but it is very positive.
Soon, the scent spread throughout the audience.
Then, in some pushing, the front of the stone mill was almost completely occupied by the women. Owen and the other big men and little hairy men stepped aside.
The flour is fine.
The flour is very white.
But by this time, both fine and white had temporarily retreated to the side, covered with "incense". - How can this side be so fragrant?
In fact, it wasn't just them, even Fang Tian felt a little strange, this side. The quality is a bit too good.
In the previous life, when Fang Tian came, basically, the vast majority of people in the cities, and even the vast majority of people in the towns and villages, had no fragrance in the flour they came into contact with.
Not to mention the fragrance, it would be good to have no peculiar smell.
And that flour, in fact, is a kind of flour that has been "castrated". - From wheat. In the process of processing into flour, two things are removed, one is the wheat husk, which is "bran", and the other is the wheat germ. i.e. "buds".
Why do you remove the oatmeal? The reason is simple, the oatmeal is coarse. The taste is not very good. Furthermore, it affects vision. Black flour and snow-white flour are put together, and nine and a half out of ten will choose the latter.
And later, the white of simple flour could not satisfy some merchants, so the "whitening agent" of flour was specially developed. - The white Cheng dù has only eight or even six or seven points of flour. As soon as it became white, it immediately became ten or even twelve points, truly "snow white".
Sure enough, that's it. The customer was satisfied and nodded for the "good color" of the flour.
The merchant is also satisfied, and no longer has to worry about the wheat that has accumulated over the years. Whether it is accumulated for one year, two years, or three or five years, as long as it is not completely corrupted, the flour produced is twice as good as new flour.
This is a classic case of visual impact sales.
Therefore, for the wheat husk to be removed, it must be gone!
There is another point that makes Fang Tian also support the removal of the wheat husk.
That is, from the time the wheat is harvested to the time it is ground into flour, there is a longer or shorter interval between it, and during this time, the wheat will have worms. INTERVIEWER How do you usually deal with this?
Quite simply, that is spraying, pesticides.
Spread the wheat on the field, spread a thin layer, and then take a sprinkler head and spray the pesticide from beginning to end like a flower. In this way, the bugs and other things naturally have to stand aside.
To be honest, in such a spraying process, how much of the pesticide seeped into the wheat, and how much remained on the wheat skin, Fang Tian really didn't know. However, if you think about it from the toes, most of the residues on the epidermis must be there, right?
This is the reason why Fang Tian supports the removal of the wheat husk in the process of flour making.
Removing the wheat husk is for the taste and "visual sense", which is considered a kind of refining, but removing the wheat germ ...... Well, removing the wheat germ is actually finishing.
Wheat germ is where all the active substances of wheat are located, and the active substances, just from this "live" word, you can see that it is not very "honest", in fact, it is true, if the wheat germ is not removed, the shelf life of the flour will become very short, and the time will be slightly longer, and it will deteriorate.
Of course, this is extremely bad news for merchants.
Therefore, during processing, the wheat germ should be removed. In addition, the price of wheat germ is ...... because of its special nutritional and health care effects.
To sum up, leaving aside the problems of pesticide residues and other aspects, let's just talk about flour, the flour used in the daily life of ordinary families in the previous life, which can basically be defined as a simple thing that can fill the stomach with a qiē nutrient removed.
After eating such flour and its products, it can be "not hungry", but it is no longer nourishing.
The essence of a grain of wheat is the wheat germ, followed by the wheat husk, and finally, the so-called flour. The flour after removing the wheat germ and wheat husk is the so-called "removing the fine and extracting the coarse", or "buying the pearl and returning the pearl".
But that is the inevitability of the era of great industrialization or commerce, and there is nothing to say.
In fact, not to mention urban residents who have no conditions, even those rural areas and even mountain villages that have the conditions to grow their own wheat basically do not grind their own noodles, but change their noodles.
The reason is simple, affordable, and hassle-free.
As for nutrition or anything, no one cares, or they don't know. But even if you knew, it was hard to say what you would do. - Habits, as well as the practices of others around them, determine a qiē on a large extent, and they are all looked at one by one.
So don't say anything about the 21st century, in terms of the most basic daily pasta, in addition to being able to eat freely, it is better than the ancients, in terms of quality, it has completely declined, which is not the same as in ancient times.
In ancient times, if you could score 100 points, you can only score 20 points in later generations.
This is a past life.
In this life, wheat. It is absolutely "original", there is no doubt about this. Eating is also "whole wheat flour", and there is no doubt about this.
But......
Everything is afraid of a "but".
But in the process of wheat to flour, it can be said that it is shoddy. Perhaps, the processed thing can only be called "wheat flour", not "flour".
Not to mention delicate or anything. Do they dare to process it to a little more even?
Pick up a handful of the usual wheat flour in the compound and put it in your hand, whether it is Fang Tian or anyone in the previous life, you can get a feeling-
Hands.
That's right. It's a hand.
The whole is coarse, and then on the basis of the whole is very coarse. It is also uneven in thickness.
But something like that. There is no problem with using it to make dry bread. :)
With their technical means, can they process it a little finer, a little more evenly?
Yes.
Absolutely.
But here, the so-called habit problem is involved.
Everyone does this, and it doesn't affect the bread making at all, and it takes time and effort to process it. - Is there something wrong?
So all along, Fang Tian didn't correct their thoughts, doing that was purely a pain in the ass. And now, with free and quite abundant water power, it is available. Don't use it in vain, and by the way, let these soil buns see what kind of flour can be!
That's what it is now.
In the large wooden basin under the stone mill, a lot of flour has accumulated, piled together, like a miniature hill, a small snowy mountain.
And to sum up this flour in three words, that is, fine, white, fragrant.
Because the stone mill is very large, from the input of wheat to the final output of flour, the wheat and flour in the middle are not known how many times they have been crushed, so "fine" is a matter of course.
Because the wheat bran was removed after a sieve in the middle, the "white" was also taken for granted. ——
In fact, because of the simple process, only about eighty percent of the wheat bran is removed, and the flour that comes out is not strictly speaking. But as the saying goes, there is a comparison to discover, compared with the original gray-brown mixed flour, the current one naturally blinded the eyes of everyone in the field.
It's like a woman in China in the previous life who thought she wasn't very white, and then came to Africa and stopped in the middle of the group of black girls, wow......
Needless to say, you are the best white in the world!
This flour now, that's it.
And because it is ground very finely, the wheat germ is completely separated from the wheat bran and evenly spread in the flour, so the current flour is still very "fragrant".
This fragrance was emitted by the germ in the wheat, and it was also the fragrance that Fang Tian had discovered after he had that olfactory power, and people could smell it even when they were not hungry.
Seeing everyone in the field sniffing their noses from time to time, Fang Tian couldn't help but smile slightly.
This is the case with flour alone, and if you make such a high-quality flour into steamed bread, steaming snow-white and fragrant steamed bread, I wonder what kind of expression you will make......?
Tsk, Fang Tian found out that he was actually greedy for himself.
Now he is confident that he can resist any food, but he is hungry when he thinks of steamed buns, how unreasonable is this......
As for the fermentation of steamed buns, in the previous process of making wine, Fang Tian already had complete technical reserves. In other words, with wine, it means that the birth of steamed bread is not far away, just like with electricity, rice cookers, induction cookers and so on.
Looking back on my previous life, it seems that this is indeed the case.
In the Shang Dynasty, there was wine, and after the Shang was Zhou, at the latest in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, steamed bread should have been produced, but the steamed bread at that time was not called steamed bread, but called "steamed cake" or something.
The camera pans back to the present.
The sun gradually shifted until the western sky was darkened, and it was time for dinner.
And today's dinner, almost all of them are arranged by Fang Tian alone, of course, he is a designer or a chef, the chef, he only speaks and does not use his hands, and most of the hands-on parts are actually operated by Rowling and other women.
Even the little ones such as Little Berg and Little Qiqi were also in high spirits, and after forming a row, stretching out their hands, and being repeatedly washed clean by Fang Tian with a long "waterspout", they jumped and laughed, and joined the process of making dinner.
Of course, their system is purely for fun. (To be continued......)