Salt and sugar must be present in every modern household, as these two seasonings have become an indispensable part of life.

But in ancient times, due to the backwardness of the sugar industry, although the price of sugar is not particularly outrageous, it is not an ordinary snack.

For salt, people may grit their teeth and buy it, but if it's sugar, then you have to think about it.

Therefore, ancient people rarely ate sugar directly, and they would buy some candy cubes and share them with children during the Chinese New Year.

In ancient times, the most wanted snack for children in ordinary people may be a candy bar.

This is why children in ancient times seemed so ecstatic when they saw a candy cube.

As for some Tang Dynasty historical TV series, the protagonist buys small sugar people and rock sugar gourds for the people he likes at every turn, but there are also such cases, but only for the children of rich families.

Commoners have never been, and have never had the money to be so extravagant.

Filling your stomach is already a luxury, how can you dare to be so extravagant as to buy candy to satisfy a touch of sweetness in your mouth?

However, these things are not a problem for Ningbei.

The sugar industry was underdeveloped in ancient times, but he Ningbei is a modern person who has traveled to the past!

And with tens of thousands of brains and knowledge!

He casually learned a few methods of making sugar, which was enough for the ancient people to afford to eat sugar.

After all, there is more than one raw material for sugar production, and sugarcane and sugar beet can be used as raw materials for sugar production.

If you can't do it, you can still use wheat to make maltose.

As for the types of sugar, the options are even more diverse!

Sugar is different from salt, which is basically used for cooking, and sugar can be made into white sugar, brown sugar, sucrose, sugar cubes, rock sugar, maltose...... There are many kinds of them, and the production steps are similar.

In other words, as long as there are raw materials, he can make these sugars.

And the main thing is that the price of these sugars is not the same.

Ningbei can make them one by one like making a chain set, and then sell them at a higher and more expensive price!

As long as he doesn't get remembered by the red-eyed, he can even cut leeks all the time!

While Ningbei was writing down the method of making sugar, the audience began to discuss the two seasonings of sauce and vinegar again.

The reason why these two seasonings are put together is because unlike the several necessities mentioned above, sauce and vinegar are the most typical seasonings.

In that era when there was no certain thirteen or certain chicken essence, sauce and vinegar were the icing on the cake of food!

It's an appetizing existence!

Soy sauce can add color to food and make it look very appetizing!

Without soy sauce, the braised pork wouldn't look so appetizing! Many foods can also appear to be clear and watery.

Vinegar, on the other hand, adds an appealing sour taste to food.

The sour taste makes people drool and secretes special enzymes that make you want to eat more.

Therefore, these two seasonings are the purest seasonings.

In the last century, the most common seasoning in people's kitchens may be oil, salt and vinegar sauce, and the one that has no money to buy oil is salt and vinegar sauce.

I have to say that with sauce and vinegar, even boiled dishes become unique!

And the way these two seasonings are made is actually very different, regardless of the previous steps, the main process of making the two seasonings is fermentation.

It's just that the raw materials needed are different from the molds needed for fermentation.

To make soy sauce, you need to use raw materials with high protein content, such as beans, wheat, and bran.

To make vinegar, you need raw materials such as rice husks, sorghum, and rice.

Secondly, mucormycetes are used in soy sauce, and different types of soy sauce are selected differently.

The process of vinegar is first alcoholized, then acidified, and inoculated with yeast.

Speaking of which, vinegar is a bit more troublesome to make than soy sauce.

This may also be the reason why the sauce is ranked first in the 'firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea'.

It's almost a rule that things with complex craftsmanship tend to be more expensive.

And the people who have no money still account for the vast majority of society, so they will definitely choose relatively cheap seasonings.

The use of soy sauce is higher than that of vinegar, so most people in ancient times would give preference to soy sauce if they did not have the money to choose.

I have to mention here that sauce actually represents two meanings, one is the soy sauce we are familiar with, and the other is sauce.

In fact, to put it bluntly, soy sauce is a derivative of sauce.

Because the history of sauce is much older than soy sauce.

So the way the two are made is similar.

The most common sauce is probably soybean paste.

Although both are made to add color and flavor to food, since the advent of soy sauce, sauce has become a bit of a separate one.

For quite some time, the common people regarded the sauce as a dish, and the sauce was directly served with the sauce.

Compared with cooking, some manual workers prefer to eat simple and convenient sauce, using sauce to make porridge or go down to the nest.

And according to this characteristic, the intelligent and industrious people also made pickles, that is, the most primitive pickles.

Of course, the main reason is that pickles are cheap, convenient, easy to store, and delicious.

But that's all for later.

Seeing that the audience had already listed the methods for making vinegar and sauce and soy sauce, Ning Bei couldn't help but be a little moved, and he even subconsciously said:

"Don't worry, I will definitely write down your kindness in Ningbei. When I travel to the Tang Dynasty and become a rich man, I will definitely set up a monument for everyone to be admired by future generations! ”

Ning Bei said this very seriously.

Ever since he knew on his first day that he was going to travel to the Tang Dynasty, he had already begun to preconceive about bringing himself into the lives and identities of the ancients.

No matter what you do, Ningbei has to think about things from the perspective of the ancients.

For example, how to thank these viewers who may not have even been born in ancient times with eighteen generations of ancestors.

The difference of more than 1,000 years is enough to pass on more than 30 generations.

Therefore, it is possible that the ancestors of these viewers have not yet been born......

In ancient times, there was no communication equipment, and if you want to be remembered by future generations, then you can only pass on the name of the history book or set up a monument.

But books are prone to damage and loss, and even if they were printed on books, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not know these people.

All things considered, then you can only erect a monument!

There is no need to bother writing down their exploits when erecting monuments, there will definitely be descendants who will make up a perfect story for them.

That's enough.

Although the modern monument may be a very unlucky way, in ancient times, the people who could erect the monument were all hanging!

If you don't have some ability, who will erect a monument for you?

Although Ning Bei really wanted to thank these audiences, when these words fell into the ears of the audience, they became another meaning.

“？？？ Isn't a monument for the dead? ”

"Are you kid cursing me to die early?"

"What's the matter, I gave Brother Bei an idea, and Brother Bei treated me as a dead man? Sure enough, it's a good brother! ”

"Brother Bei, I think you should not erect a monument for us, if you have the money and leisure, it is better to go to the hospital and have a look, I think you are a little bit of that serious illness......"

"I'm a psychiatrist, and I think the anchor's hysteria has reached an extremely serious level......"

"It is recommended that the anchor go to the doctor and add a ......"