Chapter 24: Yeast
After lunch, Yao Lao found the bar manager and explained to him his intention, and bought the yeast material that Jiayi wanted - "sake lees", which is actually sake lees, the residue left over from fresh brewing that has not been steamed.
Sake lees are not a rare thing, and every time the boss brews wine, the lees are sold to people who raise livestock as feed.
But the wine residue can't be fed too much, and if the more livestock go crazy, the loss will be greater. Fortunately, the boss doesn't make much wine, after all, it's such a big town, and you can't sell it if you brew too much.
After eating, I went out of the store, and suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, "Delta Delta..."
Look ahead, the black hole must be a thief's den, wait for me to kill him and leave no piece of armor!
I saw a group of cavalry coming from afar, why do you say cavalry, because they are all wearing armor.
The leader wears a silver-gray full-body armor, with a whole piece of chest armor on his chest, a golden pattern on the shoulders and the gauntlets, and a skirt armor on the lower body to protect the legs.
Jia Yi couldn't tell what style this armor was, so he simply called it full-body armor. After all, I haven't touched armor in my two lives, so I don't know anything about it. But it's certainly not chain mail, because there are no locking rings to connect it.
The whole armor is a little understated but delicate, and it looks practical.
The person wearing this armor is not very old, he looks to be in his 20s, of course, people from the other world are generally precocious, and he may be younger, excluding him if he looks old or good-looking.
The horse under his crotch is also very distinctive, let's call it "horse", because it looks like a horse in the previous life, but it is taller and stronger, and the horse's legs are noticeably thicker.
In particular, it has a pair of horns, a pair of horns to be exact. After all, what grows on a cow is called a horn, and when it grows on a sheep, it is called a horn, and if it grows on a horse, it should be called a horse's horn, if he is a horse.
In other words, if it grows in the mouth...
Ahem, the horns of this horse are not the same as the horns of the bison in the African savannah in the animal world, the horns are bent out on both sides, in a C-shaped, and this horn is bent out from the top and turned around, slightly upturned, in a small S shape.
It's like a steel fork that extends forward.
If it weren't for the wrong number and shape of horns, he would almost have thought it was the legendary pervert unicorn.
Compared to him, the mounts of the 6 people in the back are much more normal, and they look the same as ordinary horses, that is a horse!
He only wore chest armor on his body, and there was no shoulder armor or skirt armor. Looks like it's supposed to be a minion.
A group of seven of them had a spear on their right and a large sword on their left, somewhat similar to the two-handed greatsword on earth, slightly smaller, but larger than all one-handed swords.
"This is the lord's eldest son, who is learning the way of knighthood in the provincial city of Wickham, and it is said that he is about to become an official knight, and after becoming a knight, he will join the knights of the provincial city. Maka said loudly when she saw that Jia Yi was looking at this group of knights.
"Knight, that's a real nobleman. He then sighed quietly.
"Daddy Maca, how powerful is the knight?"
"Do you see the full-body armor worn by the lord's eldest son at the front? It is said to weigh nearly 100 pounds, and some knights are said to have 200 pounds of armor. Such thick armor, standing there for you to cut, you can't even cut. ”
"Moreover, after the knight is armoured, ordinary horses cannot be carried without moving, and special riding beasts are required. Xiang that wildebeest is the most commonly used one. The weight of the pack is fast, and the initiation of madness can pierce the lion with the sharp horns of the head. ”
"It is said that in the east, a riding beast called the ironclad rhinoceros was used as a knight's mount, and its skin was so thick that it could not pierce even a sword. ”
Daddy Maca also seems to have dreamed of being a knight, but unfortunately, he ended up being the owner of a medicine shop.
"So, does the knight have a fighting spirit?"
"Beans? What beans? Horses eat beans. ”
"No, I mean, can a knight cut a sword dozens of feet away, can he split a big rock with a sword?"
"That's a knight, not a wizard, how can he be dozens of feet away. However, it is said that the emperor of the empire was able to kill a brown bear with his bare hands, so he must be able to split a stone. It's just that who knows these legendary things!"
"Wizard, Daddy Maca, is there really a wizard in this world?" Jia Yi asked curiously, but he didn't notice the complicated look on Yao Lao's face when he heard the word wizard again.
"I don't know that, I haven't seen it anyway, but I think there is. The world is so big, and there is nothing strange about it. ”
Kayi saw the pair of cavalry walking away, and suddenly saw the knight in the lead turn his head, and saw Kayi through the gap in the crowd, the two looked at each other, and pink bubbles seemed to overflow in the air.
Okay, it's time to get started. End of book!
Well, in fact, the previous paragraph is nonsense, Jiayi is still a little radish head, and no one will have any thoughts about him. And the leader is actually not a neurotic who kills his whole family at a glance.
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The waiting cavalry went away, and Jiayi asked Yao Lao to buy a pound of flour.
The so-called flour is actually just wheat ground, bran and everything in it, and black-hearted merchants will even mix sand into the flour. It tastes rough and rough.
Jiayi didn't buy these to eat, or rather, not to cook them now.
He wanted to make a little old noodles out of these.
Old noodles are the seeds of the noodles, and there are many yeasts in them, and they are used as bacteria when the noodles are raised. Generally speaking, the old noodles are left with a small ball when they were made last time and left for the next time.
When I was very young in my previous life, Jiayi's family used old noodles to steam steamed buns. Although it is located in the south, the family also grows wheat. I will also steam some steamed buns and stuff to enrich the recipe.
Speaking of which, in terms of agriculture alone, the land in his hometown is quite good, and he can grow rice, rapeseed, wheat, cotton, soybeans and many other food and cash crops.
Because I don't eat noodles often, my mother usually buys yeast powder noodles when she makes noodles for the first time, and she will leave a small ball of noodles and put them in the bag of noodles.
When this generation of noodles is finished, I will no longer keep the old noodles, and continue to buy yeast powder to make noodles next time.
Because the flour will absorb water, when the old noodles are placed in the noodle bag, a layer of flour will be glued to the surface to keep the surface of the old noodles dry, reduce the miscellaneous bacteria from the outside to mix into the old noodles, and maintain the quality of the old noodles.
The yeast inside will remain active and ensure the continued use of the old noodles. Passed down one by one, it can be passed down for a long time, a long time...
However, there are often lactic acid bacteria in the preservation process of old noodles, and there will be a unique sour taste after a long time, so when using old noodles to make noodles, you need to add edible alkali to neutralize its sour taste.
The longer the old noodles are left, the more lactic acid bacteria will remain, the more sour the taste will be, and the more skill will be required to use them.
And the fermentation of old noodles is very slow, in the past, my mother kneaded the noodles, covered them with a damp cloth, put them in a hot pot with residual temperature to wake up, and then cut them into pieces and steamed them.
Later, the old noodles were inconvenient after all, and the children were all in other places, so the mother gave up using the old noodles. Occasionally, steamed buns are also steamed with baking soda.
After all, baking soda is heated to produce carbon dioxide, and it does not need to wake up, more aspect. It's just that in the end, it's still not as delicious as old noodles and yeast fermentation.
Jiayi prepared these things in order to make a piece of old noodles and cultivate yeast. At present, the fermentation of these wines is not very sufficient, and the lees are more wheat grains and other things, which need to be cultivated before they can be used better.
For eating, Jiayi is still very rigorous.
In my previous life, I hadn't seen Jia Yi spend so much energy, and it was too easy to get it at that time.
When they arrived at the pharmacy, Yao Lao and Maca settled the accounts, cleaned up and prepared to go back. Daddy Maca also gave a small packet of maltose to Kaichi.
On the way back, another few hours passed, and I finally rushed back home in the evening.
On the way back, I didn't have the spirit to go, Yao Lao was fine, I was used to it, but Jiayi had pain in both legs, and he didn't even have a pair of good shoes for several hours on the mountain road.