Chapter 100: Sugar Extraction and Winemaking
A month later, in the early morning, Surin and Felicia were lingering in bed, and although they could only take advantage of their hands and mouths, they were both happy to do it.
Although Su Lin tried to forcibly break through the last step many times, but in the end he failed, at this time he hugged Felicia's naked and tender body again, and said weakly in his mouth: "Wife, you just let me eat!"
"When I'm hungry, I go to breakfast. ”
With that, she kicked Su Lin down again, and then slowly got dressed and got out of bed.
After getting up from the ground, Surin also slapped her on the buttocks, causing her to be scolded for a while, and then quickly slipped out.
Now that the Titney and other goblins have dug up the warehouse, and are now plastering the warehouse with cement, it should be almost finished.
After breakfast, Su Lin went to the warehouse to inspect, and after entering, he saw that there was a cave of tens of thousands of square meters that had appeared in front of him, and after being smeared with cement, it was now also new.
And there is a cave of several thousand square meters inside, which Surin specially requested at this time, which will become the treasury.
After the visit, Surin asked Kersma to have the grain piled up outside to be moved to the warehouse, and at the same time asked people to start preparing for planting.
When he arrived in Loggo, Surin found that the weather here was like spring all year round, and it could reach two crops a year, so it was necessary to take advantage of this property.
In addition, all kinds of vegetables planted before have also been harvested, and Melson directly froze them with freezing, and then put them in the innermost part of the warehouse, which should be stored for a long time.
At the same time, he also received news from Schleiman, that the sugar mill had been built, and now he was ready to install a series of equipment.
Hearing this, Su Lin hurriedly came to a workshop by the river, only to see a pile of parts on the ground, and then installed it with Shuliman.
This sugar extraction device is divided into three parts, a conveyor belt, a guillotine, a wooden mallet, and a guillotine and a wooden mallet more than one meter long are installed on a conveyor belt six or seven meters long.
The guillotine is used to cut the sugarcane into pieces, the mallet is used to smash the cut sugarcane into juice, and the sugar extraction device is mainly used to squeeze the juice, and then the sugarcane juice is boiled into sucrose.
The conveyor belt is made of cloth, and a rectangular wooden block is helped underneath, and the rotation of the gear will jam the wooden block, thus driving the cloth to move together.
Before, Su Lin only told Schulriman the detailed operation principle, but he didn't expect that it took them a month to really study it, and he was also very happy.
Until noon, they installed each device, looking at this sugar squeezing device with only more than a hundred gears and dozens of bearings, Su Lin also wiped the sweat on his forehead, his eyes were full of joy.
At this time, Felicia and Scienne Debi also walked in, looking at the device and being very curious, not understanding what it was for.
Schuliman was also full of smiles on his face at this time, he had never seen such a sophisticated device in his life, and he couldn't help but admire Su Lin.
"Okay, let's test if it can work, right?" Su Lin gave the final order, looking good, but it still had to be able to move.
"Howler. ”
Then Schleiman ordered the switch to be turned on, and only to see a man link a bearing to the rotating waterwheel outside, and then the gears turned one after another, making a clicking sound.
At the same time, the conveyor belt also moved slowly under the drive of the bearing, and the guillotine in the front was also lifted, and then fell heavily, and then the mallet in the rear also hammered up quickly and at a high frequency, hitting the wooden board below to make a knocking sound.
At this time, Su Lin also picked up a sugarcane that had already been washed and prepared to test the effect, he first stretched the sugarcane under the guillotine, and the sugarcane was instantly cut into two ends, and the broken part of the cane also fell on the conveyor belt and slid backwards.
At this time, Schleiman also picked up the section of sugar cane and put it under the mallet, and immediately the sugar cane was quickly hammered by the mallet, and it was flattened in an instant, and the sugar cane juice also flowed into the barrel below.
Felicia and the three of them in the room were also shocked to see the dazzling rotating gears and bearings, and they were so surprised that they didn't know what to say.
Seeing their expressions, Su Lin also laughed, maybe this is the impact of the mechanical device on the people of this era, although it is only a semi-automatic device.
After finally making sure that the sugar extraction unit was in good working order, Surin also asked people to start juicing while having people go up the hill to cut the sugar cane back.
At this time, Su Lin carried back a bucket of squeezed sugarcane juice, preparing to boil a pot of cane sugar by himself.
Once in the kitchen, he poured the sugar cane juice into it, and then let Eve light the fire, while he kept stirring it with a stick.
"Why do you keep stirring, no matter if it doesn't work?" Shi An said distressed when he saw that sweat was also on his forehead at this time.
"You don't understand, I'm doing this to speed up the evaporation of the water in it without getting scorched. Surin explained as he moved, he also knew that it was a physical job, and that it was still a long time, so he asked Felicia and the others to come in turn.
An hour later, Shi'an saw Su Lin and the others who were sitting next to him eating, and couldn't help but say, "Okay, no, I'm almost exhausted." ”
Hearing this, Su Lin also stood up and took a look, and found that the sucrose juice in the pot had become viscous and mushy, so he asked Shi'an to stop.
At this time, the air in the room was filled with a sweet fragrance, and everyone couldn't help but stretch their noses and inhale and inhale.
After Su Lin tasted it, a sweet taste in his mouth suddenly dispersed, and he also showed a very enjoyable expression, then looked at them and said, "From now on, you don't have to worry about running out of sugar to eat." ”
When the three of them heard this, they immediately came over and began to taste it, and the first expression of the cane sugar in their mouths was that their eyes widened, and then the movements on their hands and mouths couldn't help but speed up.
Then Surin put the cane syrup into the special square wooden box, and then waited for it to dry and continued, and took it out whenever he wanted to eat it.
For the rest of the year, the people in the town were basically busy with two things, one was cutting sugar cane, and the other was picking grapes.
It was now the end of September, and the grapes were almost ripe and would rot in the ground if he didn't pick them, so he decided to harvest the grapes and start making wine.
However, the difficulty of wine production is very great, the grapes of this era are very simple, after fermentation, they can be stored in wooden barrels for a few months, and the requirements for wooden barrels are not high, and they are not used in oak barrels.
However, there are many processes involved in real winemaking, which generally involves picking, screening, peeling, maceration, fermentation, pressing, and maturation into barrels.
Every step of the way is very important, and for this reason he has also built a special brewery, which is also equipped with an assembly line.
At the same time, he also selected a few young children to follow him to learn about winemaking, after all, he could not be in charge of this all the time.
Fortunately, there are a large number of oak trees in the Loggo area, so there is no material to make oak barrels, and now Starr is looking at the oak trees from the mountains with the thousands of soldiers.
At this time, the two Swell brothers were standing at the door of the winery with five or six children about the same age, who were the winemaking apprentices selected by Surin this time.
After taking them in, the first thing I saw was more than a dozen large pools with a diameter of seven or eight meters, which were used to hold grape juice.
Then Surin led a few of them to the work station, and saw a number of people picking the grapes, removing the spoiled ones, and removing the stems at the same time, and then pouring the grapes into the pool.
At this time, Felicia and Shi'an also walked in with more than a dozen girls, and she also opened her mouth to ask Su Lin, "Why did you call us?"
Su Lin pointed to the grapes in the pool and said, "Let you go in and trample them!"
"Stepping on it with your feet?" Shi An asked with an incredulous expression when she heard this.
"You can use your head, okay, let's go wash your feet first!"
With that, he led them to the river to wash their feet, and in modern times, some traditional wines have been made using this method of stepping on grapes.
Then Shi'an and a dozen other girls walked into the pool, and then began to step on it, and some even danced in it.
After a while, the grape juice had already seeped out of the pool, and then Surin explained to Swell: "The next step is called maceration fermentation, the grapes are soaked together with the grape skins, the purpose is to extract the pigments, tannins and flavor substances in the grape skins, and the fermentation is to convert the sugars in the grape juice into alcohol, and the time is generally two to four weeks. ”
Shi Wei and a few other children were also listening carefully at the moment, although they didn't understand what Su Lin said, but they just followed it.
"In the meantime, you have to stir it every day, and be careful not to let the skins float on it, because then you can build bacteria and ruin the wine, you know?"
"Understood," they replied in unison.
"Do you know why wine is red? It's because the pigments in the grape skins are incorporated into the wine. ”
Hearing this, Surin also nodded with satisfaction, the subsequent pressing and maturation of the barrel will take a few weeks before it can be carried out, and the oak barrel and press should be ready by then.
Looking at the assembly line and busy people in the winery, Surin feels like he has returned to the modern era, but it will take at least half a year to drink the wine.
At the same time, he asked Titney to dig a wine cellar dedicated to storing wine, which also had a great impact on the quality of the wine, and then it was not just the wine, but the money.