Chapter seven hundred and twenty first fine, white, fragrant
grateful
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The flour that falls out of the stone mill is very fine, fine enough to be amazed by Irving and other old men who don't usually come into contact with these things. Not to mention women like Rowling who deal with grain all day long.
But at this time, no one cared about that detail.
Because they were startled by another situation. It would not be an exaggeration to say they were shocked. - Why is this side white?
There was a woman at the front who couldn't help but squat down and took out a small handful of noodles from the big wooden basin. First she put it in front of her eyes and looked at it. Then she couldn't help but put it to her nose and gently touched it. Smell gently, then vigorously, deeply.
Because she was standing relatively close, not many people could see her expression from the front at this time.
But just a few of them, at this moment, they all saw a look of deep intoxication on her face. And soon, even Owen and a few other big guys couldn't help sniffing. .——Why does it have such a fragrance?
Not strong, but very positive.
And soon, the fragrance spread throughout the entire place.
Then, after a lot of pushing and shoving, the front area near the stone mill was almost completely occupied by the group of women. Owen and other big men and young men stood aside.
The flour is very fine.
The flour is very white.
But at this time, Xi and Bai temporarily retreated to one side, covered by "fragrance". - How come this side is so fragrant?
In fact, not only them, but also Fang Tian felt a little strange. The quality here was a bit too good.
In the previous life, when Fang Tianlai came, basically, the vast majority of people in cities, or even the vast majority of people in towns and villages, the flour they came into contact with had absolutely no fragrance.
Not to mention the fragrance, it would be good if there is no peculiar smell.
And that flour, in fact, is a kind of "castrated" flour. - In the process of processing wheat into flour, two things are removed, one is the wheat husk, that is, "bran", and the other is wheat. Embryo. That is, "bud".
Why remove the wheat husks? The reason is very simple. The wheat husks are rough and the taste is not very good. Furthermore, it affects the vision. When dark flour and snow-white flour are put together, nine and a half times out of ten, the latter will be chosen.
And later, the pure whiteness of flour could not satisfy some merchants, so a "whitening agent" for flour was specially developed. Flour with a whiteness of only eight or even six or seven points. Once whitened, It immediately became ten or even twelve points, truly "snow-white".
Sure enough, the customer was satisfied and nodded at the "good quality" of the flour.
The merchants are also satisfied. From now on, they no longer have to worry about the accumulated wheat being difficult to deal with. Whether it is accumulated for one year, two years, three years or five years, as long as it is not completely destroyed, the flour produced will be doubled. It's great, just like new flour.
This is a classic example of visual impact on sales.
Therefore, if the wheat skin needs to be removed, it must be removed!
There is another point that makes Fang Tian support removing the wheat skin.
That is, there is a long or short time between the harvesting of wheat and the grinding into flour, and during this time, the wheat will be infected with insects. - How is this problem usually dealt with?
It's very simple, that is to spray pesticides.
Spread the wheat on the field in a thin layer, then use a sprinkler to spray pesticides from beginning to end like watering flowers. In this way, insects and other things will naturally have to stay aside.
To be honest, Fang Tian really doesn’t know how much of the pesticide penetrated into the wheat during this spraying process, and how much remained on the surface of the wheat. However, if you think about it with your toes, how much of the pesticide remains on the surface of the wheat?
, should be the majority, right?
This is the reason why Fang Tian supports removing the wheat hulls during the flour making process.
Removing wheat hulls is for the sake of taste and "visual appearance", and it is considered a kind of finishing process, but removing wheat germ...well, removing wheat germ is actually also finishing process.
Wheat germ is where all the active substances of wheat are. Are active substances? Just from the word "live", if you look at it literally, you can see that it is not very "honest". In fact, this is indeed the case. If the wheat germ is not removed,
, the shelf life of flour will become very short, and if it takes a little longer, it will go bad.
This is of course extremely bad news for businesses.
Therefore, during the processing, the wheat germ must be removed. In addition, because of its special nutritional and health care effects, the price of wheat germ...
To sum up, let’s put aside issues such as pesticide residues and just talk about flour. The flour used daily by ordinary families in the past life can basically be defined as a simple food that can fill the stomach with all nutrients removed.
After eating such flour and its products, you can "not feel hungry", but it can no longer be said to be nourishing.
The most essential part of a grain of wheat is the wheat germ, followed by the wheat husks, and finally, the so-called flour. The flour after removing the wheat germ and wheat husks is the so-called "removing the essence and getting the coarse material"
”, or “buy a casket and return a pearl”.
But that is inevitable in the era of large-scale industrialization or commerce, and there is nothing to say about it.
In fact, not to mention the urban residents who do not have the conditions, even those rural and even mountain villages that have the conditions to grow their own wheat, basically do not grind their own flour, but change the flour.
The reason is simple, affordable and trouble-free.
As for nutrition, no one cares about it, or they don’t know what it is. But even if they know it, it’s hard to say what they will do. Habits and the practices of others around them determine everything to a large extent.
They look at each one one by one.
So don’t talk about the 21st century. In terms of the most basic daily pasta, in addition to being able to eat as much as you want, it is better than the ancients. In terms of quality, it has completely declined and is completely different from the ancient times.
If you could score 100 points in ancient times, you can only score 20 points in later generations.
This is a previous life.
In this life, wheat is absolutely "original", there is no doubt about this. What we eat is also "whole wheat flour", there is no doubt about this either.
but……
Everything is afraid of a "but".
But in the process of processing wheat into flour, it can be said to be shoddy. Perhaps, the processed stuff can only be called "wheat flour", but not "flour".
Don't talk about being delicate. Do they dare to process it into a more even thickness?
He casually took out a handful of wheat flour from the compound and put it in his hand. Whether it was Fang Tian or anyone in his previous life, he could get a feeling——
Hitting hands.
That's right. It's just a hand blow.
The whole thing is very thick, and on top of that the whole thing is very thick, it also has uneven thickness.
But something like this can be used to make dry bread without any problem. :)
With their technical means, can they process it more finely and uniformly?
able.
Absolutely.
But here, it involves the so-called habit problem.
Everyone does it this way, and it doesn't affect the bread making, which is time-consuming and laborious. - Is there something wrong?
So all this time, Fang Tian had no intention of correcting them. It was just a pain in the ass to do so. But now, there is free and abundant water power at his disposal. There is no need to use it in vain, and it also allows these bumpkin to see it.
What else can flour be!
That's how it is now.
In the big wooden basin under the stone mill, a lot of flour has accumulated. They are piled together like a miniature hill, a small snow mountain.
To sum up this flour in three words, it is fine, white and fragrant.
Because the stone mill is very large, from the input of wheat to the final output of flour, the wheat and flour are crushed countless times in between, so "fine" is a matter of course.
Because it went through a sieve basket in the middle to remove the wheat bran, the "white" is also natural.——
In fact, because the process is simple, only about 80% of the wheat bran is removed. Strictly speaking, the flour that comes out is not that white. But as the saying goes, you can only find out when you compare it. Compared with the original gray-brown flour, the current one,
Naturally, it blinded the eyes of everyone present.
It's like there was a woman in China who thought she was not very white in her previous life, and then she came to Africa and stood among those black girls, wow...
There is no need to say anything, you are the best in the world!
This is the current flour.
And because it is ground very finely, the wheat germ is completely separated from the wheat bran and evenly dispersed in the flour, so the current flour is still very "fragrant".
This fragrance is emitted by the germ in the wheat. It is also the fragrance that Fang Tian discovered after possessing the magical power of smell. People can smell it even when they are not hungry.
Seeing everyone in the venue sniffing their noses from time to time, Fang Tian couldn't help but smile.
This is true for flour alone. If such high-quality flour is made into steamed buns, steaming snow-white and fragrant steamed buns, I wonder how you will behave? But...
Tsk, Fang Tian found out that he was actually greedy for it.
Now he is confident that he can resist any delicious food, but he actually becomes greedy just thinking about steamed buns. How is this so unreasonable...
As for the fermentation of steamed buns, Fang Tian already had complete technical reserves in the process of making wine. In other words, with wine, it means that the birth of steamed buns is not far away, just like having electricity.
, rice cookers, induction cookers and the like will always come into being.
Looking back on my past life, it seems that this is indeed the case.
Wine appeared in the Shang Dynasty, followed by the Zhou Dynasty. At the latest during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, steamed buns should have been produced, but at that time steamed buns were not called steamed buns, but "steamed cakes" or something like that.
The camera turns back to the present.
The sun gradually moved away until the western sky became rosy, and it was time to have dinner.
Today's dinner was almost entirely catered by Fang Tian. Of course, he is a designer or a chef, a chef or something, and he only talks but does not do anything. Most of the hands-on parts are actually done by Luo Lin and other women.
Even the little ones such as Little Berg and Little Qiqi were happily jumping around after lining up in a row, stretching out their hands, and being washed clean by Fang Tian repeatedly with a long "waterspout"
, laughing happily, and joined in the process of making dinner.
Of course, their production is purely for fun. (To be continued...)