143 Sweet Cause
A large proportion of the pilgrims who come to Turnest pray for the recovery of their families, placing the herb in front of the coffin of Saint Aubrey in the hope that it will be contaminated with the spirit – an ancient custom of the Middle Ages.
Now the bishop has reformed this custom by replacing the herbs that these men brought with small pieces of maltose and distributing them to those in need at the altar.
The person who was given the maltose was told to grind it into a fine powder and feed it to the patient with boiling water.
Neustria has long been making beer from malt, but they don't know what it is, and the only source of sweets they use on a daily basis is honey, which is sweetener made from grape juice.
Grape juice sweeteners have long been seen as a cheap substitute for honey, and the juice from grapes is dehydrated to half its original volume, following a method handed down from ancient empires, and then the concentrated liquid is sealed in sealed clay pots and immersed in cold water – a method that is said to preserve the juice for a year
Fermented to spoil – then use it to marinate the compote and also use it to flavor in cooking.
But what about the taste of this flavoring......
Luo Yi can only say that the chef of Neustria has not thought about cooking, but ...... But...... She still doesn't evaluate the results.
There was no sugar cane in Neustria, and the climate was completely unsuitable for cultivating it, so Luo Yi looked for an alternative to sugar cane, sugar beets.
Beets have been sent by Jacob's business partners for trial cultivation in Brad's territory. However, the main use of sugar beets in this year is still as a vegetable, and it will take a long time to improve to be suitable for sugar extraction.
Before the advent of sugar beets that could be squeezed for sugar, she set her sights on maltose.
Maltose is known as starch sugar in China, which is the product of converting grain starch into sugar with the amylase in wheat malt.
When making, the wheat sprouts are chopped first, then mixed with starch-rich grains, and the sugar solution can be obtained after fermentation, and then the sugar solution is filtered, boiled and dehydrated, and cooled to form sugar cubes.
What was distributed to ordinary pilgrims after the service was small pieces of chopped sugar.
There is a limit to the number of sugar bars that can be distributed for free, 30 pieces per day, 60 pieces on Sundays, and 100 pieces on major holidays, on a first-come, first-served basis.
And those who make additional offerings, throwing money into the church offering box, have the right to turn a disc.
The disc is painted with the symbols of the Holy Spirit, the Savior, the angels, St. Aubrey, and the saints, and everyone who has invested money, no matter how much, can turn the disc once.
When they turn the disc and look at which sign the pointer on the disc points to, they get a small candy drawing that is identical to this sign. If you don't have exactly the right little mark, you'll end up with just a small candy cube.
When the pilgrims brought home the candy, they received many praises – sugar was praised by medieval Arab physicians as a cure-all (sugar did not exist in Europe at that time) and was considered a must-have commodity in pharmacies in later years, not for nothing. Even in China, maltose is also evaluated as spleen-invigorating, appetizing, and moisturizing
A good medicine for cough in the lungs.
The people of that era were generally nutritious**, and a delicious candy could quickly refresh themselves, and it was begged from St. Aubrey, which could have a full placebo effect in the hearts of the people.
In China, the spinning of the disc attracts a large number of children who exchange chicken feathers and rags for maltose from vendors, and the method is as attractive as it is in Tournest.
There was a long queue in front of the disc all day long, and they all believed that the healing effect of sugar painting was better than that of sugar blocks, and the higher the level of the saint of sugar painting, the better the effect.
As for whether it involves blasphemy to grind and eat these sugar-made "saints......
Only a complete heretic like Luo Yi would think of this aspect.
Because in the sacrament, the believers were supposed to share the bread and wine that symbolized the Savior's flesh and blood, but this time they just changed the bread and wine to maltose, what's wrong?
If they would believe that they had eaten the Savior's flesh, they would have eaten all the saints!
What's more, in Victorian England, it was still popular to eat mummies to cure diseases!
At that time, it was believed that grinding ancient Egyptian mummies and drinking them in wine could cure various ailments.
People in high society will even hold a special banquet, at which a mummy brought from distant Egypt is brought up, cut and ground and sprinkled into wine, and the guests of honor raise a glass to send this thousand-year-old corpse to their own temple......
Pity the nobles of ancient Egypt, who toiled and spent money to mummify themselves and maintain their immortality for thousands of years, only to be used by the "civilized people" of the British Empire to hold banquets and turned into manure in the stomachs of gentlemen and ladies......
Those who can eat human corpses are not only the raw ones in the rainforest, but also the gentlemen and ladies of the British Empire.
Since even the "civilized people" of the Victorian period could eat thousand-year-old corpses gracefully, what is the point of eating a few pieces of candy in the shape of saints?
The bishop hasn't told them to visualize these lumps of candy as human flesh and human blood before eating them!
Those who have dedicated the sacraments to the Cathedral of Tournest are given a special VIP candy bar as a thank you gift.
Some of these candies were made into the family coats of arms of these nobles, some into castles and cities, and some into angels - all three-dimensional products, and they were drizzled with honey to increase the sweetness - maltose was not as sweet as sucrose.
The production of honey in the diocese of Tournest is now also famous among the nations, and thanks to the widespread cultivation of leguminous pastures, the production of honey in this region has greatly increased, attracting merchants from all over the world to buy it.
Honey contains natural preservatives secreted by bees, which can be left for several years without spoiling, making it ideal for long-distance transportation.
These honeys can be used to make sweets, as well as to preservatives, to make pills, and are widely sold and are a big international business.
In the parish of Tournest, the honey is used to enhance the quality of local wines, which are now also believed to be curative, in addition to daily consumption.
This perception has greatly increased the sales and prices of the wines produced in Tournest.
As for the use of these wines in the treatment of diseases - even Luo Yi did not expect that these wines are believed to have the miraculous effect of safe production!
Although the addition of honey to the wine adds a lot of nutrients, but where to talk about safe delivery, it is good not to harm the mother, the big demon king can't figure it out.
Well, given that bloodletting was considered an effective medical method in the Middle Ages, Victorian doctors would give the mother a dose of **, these ...... Low-alcohol wine is not the most harmful to mothers......