Next, Jiang Shuyi came on stage. Zhou Zhi was more prepared this time. He put the chili in a small bowl, salt, and sugar in small dishes. The rest was to follow Zhou Zhi's instructions to add oil, shrimp, and stir-fry.

Stir-fry the leeks, add chili pepper, salt and sugar, stir well and serve.

Even though he was a swindler, Jiang Shuyi did all the cooking work by himself. Compared with He Shiqing's dish, there was a little more sugar to enhance the freshness. For this fresh river dish, it was almost like cheating.

This dish is very appetizing and goes well with rice. Later, Zhou Zhi also used the baked dried fish to make a dish of fried dried fish with green pepper and black bean sauce, which is also an excellent side dish.

Noodle cakes are made by mixing flour and cornmeal into a slurry, then heating the pan, pouring oil and pouring the slurry, and then scraping it flat with bamboo chips.

The recipe is similar to that of northern pancakes, but the only ingredient added is chopped green onion.

This is also simple. After just a few glances, the girls felt that they were almost good at it and started to take the initiative.

While cooking, the boys also discovered a fun thing here - Shilu.

This is an ancient tool for squeezing sugar cane juice and making sugar on Zhongba Island, also known as "Tanglu".

The structure of Tanglu is very peculiar. At the bottom is a stone basin, with two cylindrical "luqi" standing side by side on the stone basin.

The luqi is about two feet high and about a foot in diameter. There is a square hole at the top, into which two bearings made of hardwood wedges are inserted.

There is a circle of square holes with the same shape on the right, deep and left, drilled in the middle of the Luqi. After inserting a hardwood wedge, it becomes a "gear".

There is a long wooden shaft on the top of one of the pulleys, which can be pushed and pulled with the power of oxen. This pulley is the driving wheel.

When the driving wheel rotates, the other wheel will also be rotated, and that wheel is the driven wheel.

The gap between the two windlass is very small. If you insert sugar cane between the two windlass, the sugar cane will be squeezed into the gap as the windlass rotate. The sugar juice will flow down and flow into the wooden barrel along the groove of the stone basin.

The process of making sugar by local method is quite complicated. The second process is boiling sugar.

To boil sugar, you need to go through three large iron pots, which are divided into the head pot, the middle pot and the tail pot.

The sugar cook pours the sugar cane juice into the first pot and cooks it over high heat for more than thirty minutes.

While cooking, use a slotted spoon to remove the bagasse and sugar bubbles from the cane juice. The sugar bubbles can be used as raw materials for soju.

Then ladle the sugarcane juice cooked in the first pot into the middle pot, cook for another twenty minutes, continue to remove debris and sugar bubbles, and then pour it into the final pot.

Still cooking over a high fire, and stirring the sugarcane juice constantly with a wooden stick to prevent it from sticking to the pan and burning. After another 20 minutes of cooking, the water in the sugarcane juice gradually evaporates and slowly turns into yellow syrup.

At this time, add an appropriate amount of lime powder, mix well, immediately scoop it into a large wooden barrel, quickly lift it outside, pour it onto the sugar grid paved with straw mats, grind it smooth, and finally slice it, which is called "yellow slice sugar".

If it is poured into small bowls and solidified, it is called "small bowl sugar".

If it is more pure, it will no longer be called brown sugar or brown sugar, but solid sucrose. In ancient times, pure liquid sucrose was called "sugar cane", while solid sucrose was called "stone honey".

Therefore, a general Tangfang requires three masters, one is a presser, who needs to know the pressing techniques such as feeding, pressing, and tipping;

The second position is the fire head. You need to know how to hang the stove, burn the head and tail pots, and let the fire wait.

The most important person is the Tangjiang, who is equivalent to the chief engineer. He must know everything, including blowing water, playing with leaves, putting ashes, lighting sugar, and killing sugar. In addition to the sugarmaker's own skills, he must also know the work of the firemaker and the press.

To produce good sugar, it is necessary to "enough ashes, soak up the fire, and make the bubbles clear", and the upper and lower processes must be coordinated and coordinated.

Sufficient lime means that the lime used as a coagulant must be applied just right.

Fire buckle means that the heat of the syrup should be just right, and the ratio of sugar to water in the syrup should also be just right.

Paoziqing means that the syrup has a clean texture without too many impurities.

Therefore, a truly skilled sugar maker, no matter what kind of land grows sugar cane, only needs to chew a few mouthfuls to know whether and how much ash will be consumed in the sugar water that day.

After the sugar water in the first pot is boiled and combined into the pot, control the amount of ash and put it down at once. The sugar sand that comes out must be fine in texture and good in color.

Therefore, like traditional Chinese medicine, they also have four skills: vision, smell, listening and incision.

Watching means observing, checking whether the sugar water has eaten ashes;

Smell means judging the maturity of syrup through the paste smell of sugar;

Listen, listen to which pot is out of water, let the fire burner add sugar water, and listen to see if the sound of the bubbles is just right;

Cutting means acceptance. Once the sugar comes out of the bowl, you can touch it with your hand and you will know the texture of the sugar and its approximate price.

These are one of Zhouzhi's "essential tasks", collecting and sorting out local intangible cultural heritage.

Like dialect research, this was something Zhou Zhi found for himself. He did not dare to use such a weird and overly Westernized term as "intangible cultural heritage". Instead, he used the simpler four words "traditional skills" to tell

These things like my godfather have cultural value and need to be sorted and protected like cultural relics.

Then the godfather said that this idea is very good. Since it is your idea, let’s start with you.

This is also the consistent education method of godfather Wu Lingjun, who encourages you to speak freely, but since you think you have mastered the truth, please prove it through your own practice before explaining it.

Because practice is the only criterion for testing truth, you can't just be responsible for judging and leave the work of proving yourself right or wrong to others, right?

Zhou Zhi is also convinced by this, because after the advent of the Internet era in later generations, there will be such a large group of people who always just judge easily but never prove it through their own serious research and practice.

In the end, I didn’t even need to judge or think, I just forwarded it.

For example, all kinds of fruits that appear in unprecedented shapes and sizes are all genetically modified; for example, KFC's chicken wings come from chickens with wings all over their bodies; for example, the high-speed rail will be built to Indonesia...

They will never think about important technologies such as genetic modification. They will only use them to solve the big issue of the world food crisis first, so they will definitely use them on staple grains and oil crops first;

They would never think about how much of a breakthrough it would be for organ tissue culture and transplantation in human medicine if there were chickens with wings like that. Such technology could never be used only to make KFC not short of chicken wings;

They will never check how deep the trench is between China and the Strait of Malacca, and whether it is possible to build such a high bridge pier with current technology; or whether there is such floating bridge technology that can withstand ocean currents and storms.

Whatever it is, just turn it around.

Those people also have feelings for their family and country, and eventually they turn into the kind of people who only judge but don't prove; they only criticize and never reflect on themselves - Internet losers and mobs.

In order to prevent himself from becoming such a person, Zhou Zhi had no choice but to obey his godfather's instructions honestly.

Making sugar is a traditional craft on the island. Although it is a neighboring county, Zhou Zhi still collected and recorded it carefully.

In fact, these things are not of much interest to my friends, but the teenagers who are in the second grade of middle school have their own set of ideas, that is, since they have discovered a "novel" thing, they must master it through

to gain a certain sense of accomplishment.
Chapter completed!