Chapter 327 Hardcore
After the kang room was built, it was left for two days to wait for it to dry, and firewood was burned to confirm that the smoke exhaust channel was smooth.
Huo Xi then started preparations.
No one, including Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi, knew what she was going to do. Huo Xi tried it for the first time, but he didn't dare to let go.
Just said to give it a try.
The servants of the two Zhuangzi and the carpenters of the nearby villages were asked to make a lot of wooden barrels and basins, and prepared brushes, wooden shovels, mops, cotton threads and the like. Lala is a bunch of miscellaneous.
When things were ready, the gate behind the main courtyard was closed again.
Only my own family, Bao Kangzuo, and Ji Laozhuang went in for the experiment.
During the experiment stage, I didn’t dare to try too much. I just poured 30 catties of white sugar into the iron pot, and then poured 10 catties of water into the pot, and started to boil the sugar liquid.
Everyone is so puzzled when they see it, white sugar has just been smelted, why pour it into the pot again, and boil the sugar liquid? Here's what to do.
Before the thing was made, Huo Xi didn't say much, he only said that he was trying to make a new thing.
Huo Xi still has experience in making candy. In the past, he boiled candy to make peanut crisps, rice crackers, candied haws, and snacks such as sanded taro. It was still a small problem to boil candy.
Huo Xi directed Huo Erhuai and others to boil sugar.
The sugar liquid boiled to 100 degrees, and soon there were big bubbles and then dense small bubbles. The sugar liquid began to splash towards the side of the pot. Sprinkle lightly to prevent the sugar solution from splashing.
Turned down the heat and boiled for a while, put a large bowl beside the pot, and Huo Xi began to test the temperature of the sugar.
There is no thermometer, so I can only try it by hand.
During the Chinese New Year, the countryside cooks sugar to make snacks. There is no thermometer. They are all tested by hand, and naturally they have gained some experience of their own.
First, use an iron spoon to scoop into the pot. Watching the sugar liquid fall from the iron spoon, it is very thin, and a layer of sugar syrup hangs on the spoon. Huo Xi knows that the temperature is not enough.
Boil again, put some in a bowl of cold water from time to time, and then take it out of the bowl to see the shape formed by the sugar liquid.
Grab it like a ball of syrup, you can knead the shape at will, and the temperature will be about 120 degrees.
After a while, scoop some more into the water, take it out of the water, and knead it again. It feels a bit hard, and you can’t knead the shape at will. The temperature at this time is almost 130 degrees.
While testing the temperature of the sugar solution, Huo Xi asked everyone to try it. Teach everyone what the sugar solution she wants looks like.
Everyone listened carefully. They all tried it out.
Boiled for a while, and then took it out to see, it looked like a flake, hard, and it broke when folded. It was almost one hundred and fifty degrees. Huo Xi stopped the fire.
Turn off the heat for a while, and try again, the sugar liquid becomes a shape that can be kneaded at will. Huo Xi asked Ji Laozhuang to pour the sugar liquid in the pot into the basin and into the wooden barrel hung with several cotton threads.
Cotton thread has been pre-cooked.
The sugar solution was poured into a basin and a bucket.
moved all the way to the kang room.
Testing the temperature of the basin and barrel, Huo Xi felt that it was cooler than before, so he put them on the kang bed. The temperature she wants at this time is ninety degrees. But there is no way to try it, you can only feel it with your hands.
What is the physical sensation of 120 degrees, what is the physical sensation of 100 degrees, and what is the physical sensation of 90 degrees, can only be estimated.
Put pots and buckets on the kang bed, and ask Zuo to burn firewood on the stove outside. To keep the temperature of the kang bed, the pots and barrels containing the sugar solution were covered with thick mats made of cleaned straw.
Let Ji Laozhuang's wife and daughter-in-law mop the house with a wet mop, and tell them to maintain the temperature and humidity of the kang room.
The two of them were dumbfounded.
Yang and the others were also dumbfounded.
"Xi'er, what are you doing?"
"Make rock candy. Sugar like ice cubes."
What kind of sugar is sugar like ice? Can the sugar still be stored, won't it melt?
"Mother, it's just like that maltose. When selling it, you use a small hammer to break it into pieces and sell it like that. But the one made from this white sugar is not the color of maltose, but like ice, crystal clear. It’s crystal clear, so it’s called rock sugar.”
"There is still that kind of candy?" Everyone was stunned.
"Yes. But I don't know if it can be made. We are going to sell the sugar to Fanshang, so I thought it would be better to make a few more candies. Fanshang will ship the sugar back from thousands of miles. This rock sugar is also durable and can be stored for a long time. "
Jilaozhuang's white sugar is enough to surprise him, and now the boss is going to make another thing called rock sugar. Just hearing the name sounds like a good thing. It brought expectations.
Huo Xi instructed them to pay attention to things. In addition to maintaining the temperature and humidity, they should stop the fire for half an hour every day, so that the sugar solution in the basin will drop by ten degrees every day.
Huo Erhuai and the others didn't understand what the temperature was, but fortunately they could understand, that is, within seven days, the heat should be lowered every day. They all nodded to express their understanding and listened very carefully.
Hearing that it was going to be sold to Fanshang, no one dared to be negligent. Huo Erhuai and Bao Xia even rushed to do the work of mopping the floor to change the water and keeping the humidity indoors.
Without a thermometer, everything can only be felt.
Rock sugar crystallization is definitely possible, but Huo Xi can't guarantee the effect. If the crystallization is not good, it will cost some sugar.
Now that the conditions are not allowed, this homemade rock candy can only be said to give it a try. Huo Xi tried both the southern crystal basin method and the northern disconnection method.
These two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. In the pot crystal method in the south, the rock sugar is stuck on the pot wall, and it takes a lot of effort to knock it off. In the northern thread drop method, you don't need to knock, just lift the cotton thread.
The rock sugar will crystallize around the cotton thread, lift the cotton thread, and tap different sizes. It's just that there will be a cotton thread in the middle of the crystallized rock sugar. When I was a child, I ate old rock sugar in the north and I always ate cotton thread.
Huo Xi tried Bingtang in Zhuangzi, waiting for the result to be a little anxious. And when Mu Yan went to Cheng's house to eat Uncle Cheng's birthday banquet, he was also irritated inside and out.
"Where's Mu Wang?"
"Mrs. Tai said that he was unwell, so she didn't let him come with Madam." Li Yi replied.
Mu Yan narrowed his eyes coldly.
Mr. Cheng is Mu Wang's aunt, and the Cheng family is naturally his serious maternal family. Not only did he not come to see him after returning to the capital, but now he refuses to come over for a meal on his uncle's birthday.
"I will ask the academy for leave tomorrow, saying that he is unwell."
"How many days off do you need?"
"When did you become sensible and when did you come out?"
Leaving one hurdle and two ones, the young master is going to imprison the young master Wang in the mansion. Just hope that the young master's lively temperament can sit still? I'm afraid there will be trouble.
This is not the only thing that bothers Mu Yan.
Cheng Anyuan came over several times, serving tea and water, and waving in front of him. Uncle Cheng, grandparents and others looked happy to see the success.
The veins on Mu Yan's forehead twitched again and again. Endure and endure.
After the meal, Cheng Anyuan Tingting walked over, looked at Mu Yan, and felt a little deer in her heart: "Cousin, my father invites you to the study to talk."
Mu Yanteng stood up: "Help me to sue uncle, I still have something to do, let's go first."
Without looking at her after speaking, he strode out of Cheng's mansion.
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