Huo Guang's eyes lit up as soon as he saw Ganzhe. This thing is a rare commodity in this era. Sweetness is always the taste that people pursue. From ancient times to the present, a beautiful life is always related to sweetness, and beautiful words are also filled with sweetness.
However, the ability to make sugar in ancient times was very limited, and people had very few channels to obtain sweet taste, so they could only rely on gifts from nature.
Historically, in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to India to learn soup-making techniques before the sugar-making technology began. It was not until the Song Dynasty that large-scale planting of sugar cane began in the southeastern region. Only then did we have large-scale sugar, but it was only limited.
It is mainly enjoyed by residents along the southeast coast, which is one of the reasons why the food on the southeast coast is generally sweet.
White sugar was only available in the Ming Dynasty and became a luxury product for a time.
The production of sucrose is actually not complicated, even simpler than refined salt. It is nothing more than three steps of pressing, filtering and boiling.
Huo Guang's eyes fell on Ganzhe. This plant was smaller than the sugar cane he knew before. It looked malnourished. It was equivalent to wild fruits in this era. This area was not suitable for the cultivation of Ganzhe. These things
It was sent all the way, and it was expensive, otherwise Sang Jin would not have given it to Huo Guang as a gift.
Some say that the origin of sugar cane is India and Southeast Asia, and some say that the mountainous areas in the southeast and southwest of China should also be the origin, because according to the way Chinese people name things, if they are foreign things, they usually add "Hu" and "Fan",
"foreign" and so on, so it is possible that China is also one of the origins of sugar cane.
Huo Guang took a bite of the Gantuo, chewed it and tasted it. The sweetness of this variety was not very sweet, and the water content was not enough. In this age of sweetness shortage, it was already a very precious source of sweetness, but obviously
This variety is not what Huo Guang wants.
"How does Aguang taste?"
"Sweet." Huo Guang replied a little against his will. You can't say bitter words in response to a girl giving you something.
While the two were communicating, Huo Zhongru walked in.
"Father, why are you back so early today?"
"Nothing to do today, go home early." It was obvious that he was fishing at work. His job was very easy as long as he didn't check the accounts carefully.
Huo Guang walked up to Sang Jin and scolded Huo Guang: "Ah Guang, what's the matter with you? Ah Jin is here and you let people stand in the yard. Why don't you go into the house and invite people to sit down?"
Sang Jin smiled lightly: "Huo Shaofu, A Guang and I are discussing his use of Qi."
Huo Zhongru looked at the strange-shaped iron blocks on the ground and was very dissatisfied and said: "Look at what this boy has made. What he has made are all strange-shaped things. He starts as soon as he wakes up and doesn't finish until he goes to bed.
, if we don’t take care of it, we don’t have to eat it.”
Sang Jin said in surprise: "Can A Guang do this all day?"
Huo Guang said nonchalantly: "That's about right. Occasionally I feel tired and I just take a rest."
"It's incredible. I train at most twice a day."
It is impossible for a normal person to practice like Huo Guang.
Sang Jin didn't know much about this either, but she knew that Huo Guang's situation was definitely not normal, and she had to ask Gan Fu.
When she was talking happily, Sang Jin suddenly felt pain coming from her abdomen. This was a familiar feeling, and she instantly understood what was going to happen.
He hurriedly said goodbye to Huo Guang and Huo Zhongru.
The two of them noticed Sang Jin's abnormality. Huo Guang, as a good boy who studied biology well, understood that Sang Jin was probably on his period.
Farewell to Sang Jin, Huo Guang looked at the sugar cane beside him, came up with an idea, and started making iron again.
Huo Zhongru looked at Huo Guang speechlessly: "I'm really obsessed."
This time Huo Guang was not refining parts of a steam engine but a sugar cane press.
Two smooth cylindrical iron blocks, two gear links, and a hand-cranked handle. The radius of the handle is made larger to save effort.
This was not troublesome to build. It was not a difficult piece of equipment. Huo Guang quickly built it. After assembling it, he adjusted the gap between the two cylindrical iron rods and started squeezing the sugar cane juice.
As the water is rotated, the juice inside the sugar cane is squeezed out. Then the gap between the two iron rods is narrowed and squeezing continues. After repeating three times, the sugar cane has been flattened, and a basin full of sugar cane juice has been squeezed out.
Then the sugarcane juice is filtered and boiled.
Huo Zhongru came out and watched him boil the sugar cane juice and asked curiously: "Can this thing also refine salt?" Because the steps of filtering and purification seemed to be similar.
"My father is not making salt this time, he is making sugar now."
"sugar?"
"It's something similar to malt and honey."
Honey is a key source of sweetness in this era, but because there is no breeding technology, it is collected from the wild. Honey can be said to be a high-end consumer product.
Huo Zhongru liked sweets, so he became interested and squatted aside to watch. Four maids and Widow Wang also came to watch.
As the sugar cane juice gradually bubbled up and the upper layer of foam was skimmed off, the water gradually evaporated and the liquid became more and more viscous. When it was almost done, Huo Guang stopped.
Finally, use the remaining heat to take away the water, and then stir continuously until the brown sugar slowly turns into sand.
I don’t have much experience making it for the first time, but at least I still have the appearance of brown sugar.
Huo Guang tasted a piece himself and nodded. The taste of brown sugar is almost the same as that of normal brown sugar.
Huo Zhongru was curious and ate a piece, and immediately became happy as soon as he ate it: "Sweet, sweet!"
"Aguang, how did you come up with the idea of making something like this?"
Huo Guang made an excuse at random: "I tasted the sweetness of sugar cane, so I thought about squeezing its juice and trying to make salt. The salty sea water can be made into salt, and the sweet sugar cane can naturally be made into sugar."
"My son is just smart. This intelligence is indeed inherited from me."
Huo Zhongru said enthusiastically: "If Aguang refines it more, this kind of candy will definitely have a big market."
“My father’s sugar cane is not easy to buy and the price is high.”
"That's right, it's a pity, it's a pity."
If you want to produce sugar on a large scale, you must first plant sugar cane and select good varieties.
Aguang looked at the candy in his hand and called the groom over. He handed a jar of candy to the groom and said, "Send these candies to the Sang Mansion and instruct the young lady of the Sang family to stew the sugar with ginger water and take it."
Your whole person will feel warm afterward.”
Seeing Huo Guang asking the groom to deliver sweets, Huo Zhongru said to Widow Wang with pride in his eyes: "Look at my son, he cares about women. He's enlightened. He's enlightened."
The groom did not dare to delay the matter, so he went to the Sang Mansion as soon as possible to find the daughter of the Sang family. Then he told everything according to Huo Guang's instructions, and finally handed the brown sugar to the hands of the daughter of the Sang family.
But the groom could not tell the difference between the two beautiful girls of the Sang family, so he handed the brown sugar to Sang Yu who met him.
Sang Yu was a little confused, but after convincing Huo Guang, he felt a warm feeling in his lower abdomen and felt much better.
It is very reasonable for twins to have their periods on the same day.
It's just that Huo Zhongru had expected that he would get the wrong person, so he was wrong. Sang Yu felt for a moment that Huo Guang gave it to him specially. He didn't expect that this ignorant young man could be so heart-warming and have such a good remedy.
