Chapter 23 Iron Pot and White Sugar (Please recommend!)

Chapter 23 Iron Pot and Sugar "It is arc-shaped, surrounded by a thin layer of iron sheet. It will be placed on the fire to cook..."

"Anyway, the iron pot I'm talking about looks roughly like this." Bruno handed over the sketch he had drawn.

The blacksmith carefully took the blueprint from Bruno and looked at it carefully: "I can do it, but it will take some time..."

"Do it as soon as possible. If you do well, you will be rewarded."

"Thank you, sir." The blacksmith said gratefully.

I picked up the wine that Lister brought and took a sip. The taste was okay, a little dry, but no different from the wine on Earth.

It’s just that Bruno has never liked the dry taste of wine. He prefers mellow white wine, which is much more comfortable to drink.

Thinking of this, Bruno suddenly remembered the beetroots he had seen in the kitchen before.

Why not... take advantage of the free time now and try to make sugar? Although there are not many beets in Idar Territory, there are some, but most people simply eat them as vegetables and only use them to make beet soup.

After all, even on Earth, sugar production from beets appeared much later than sugar production from sugarcane.

Unlike salt which is a necessity in life, sugar is a complete luxury in this world and can only be enjoyed by the aristocracy.

Because in this world, it seems that the only way to get sugar is by harvesting natural honey in the wild and squeezing sugar from sugarcane.

However, there was no sugarcane in the eastern part of the Norman Empire. Not just in the eastern part of the empire, at least in Bruno's impression, there was no sugarcane producing area in the entire Norman Empire.

If the great nobles wanted to eat sugar, they would either hire people to look for wild honey in the wild, or purchase it from the Kingdom of Basel, the Norman Empire's southern neighbor.

The Kingdom of Basel is located in the southeast of the Norman Empire, not far from the Territory of Idar. It is a major producer of sugarcane and exports large quantities of white sugar to the Norman Empire every year.

But it is precisely because of this that the price of sugar has remained high.

"Liszt, have someone collect all the beetroots in the kitchen... Never mind, I'll just go over there..."

The Earl's second arrival still made the castle's cooks a little nervous, but it was much better than at the beginning. At least they were not in a rush.

When the cooks heard that the Earl came for beetroots, they breathed a sigh of relief and quickly moved out all the beetroots accumulated in the kitchen.

"So many?" Bruno asked in surprise, looking at the pile of beetroots placed in front of him.

"As your Excellency tells you, beets are very cheap, so the kitchen has plenty of them."

"That's a lot of work. You guys can start right now and squeeze all the beets for me."

"Juicing?"

"Yeah." Bruno nodded.

It is not difficult to make juice, as there are special tools in the kitchen. The difficult part is to squeeze the juice from so many beetroots… However, since it is the order from my master, I will do it at all costs.

All the cooks and servants in the kitchen went into action at the same time. Some were responsible for washing the beets, while others were responsible for operating the machines. After a while, red beet juice began to flow out from the side of the machines.

Then came the filtering and heating process. Bruno found the gauze he usually used for filtering and repeated this process several times. The beet juice began to look a little viscous.

Bruno took a spoon and took a sip. The beet juice didn't taste very good, but it did have a light sweetness.

"Would you like to try it?" Bruno called to Liszt.

Liszt carefully scooped a spoonful, tasted it, and his eyes gradually widened: "Sweet! This is sweet!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the servants present all widened their eyes. This is... sugar water? So beets actually contain sugar?

The actions of my master are becoming more and more unpredictable...

However, the sugar made in this way is just brown sugar, which tastes and looks inferior to white sugar.

The method commonly used on Earth is activated carbon adsorption, and the so-called activated carbon can actually be replaced by charcoal or mud.

Although it is winter now and it is necessary to burn fire to keep warm, there is no charcoal in the castle. After all, incompletely burned charcoal will produce toxic gases.

If charcoal was needed, they would have to go to the blacksmith's workshop to ask for it. However, Bruno was unwilling to wait, so he ordered someone to find a pile of mud and pour it into the brown sugar water.

Everyone present looked at each other, confused. Why was mud poured into the originally good brown sugar water? It was really a waste of things...

However, with constant stirring, the originally deep red sugar water gradually lost its dark outer layer and slowly became clear.

When the sediment is almost complete, you will start filtering to remove all the soil that was originally poured into the sugar water.

After going back and forth several times, only clear sugar water was left.

The next step was very simple, just simmer it slowly over a fire, but at this step, Bruno suddenly realized a very serious problem, his iron pot was still missing! Looking at the clear white sugar water, Bruno felt like crying but had no tears.

But... Bruno looked around and thought that the clay pot he usually used to make soup... should be able to be used.

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The cooking process was extremely long, so Bruno didn't stay here to watch it all the time. He asked Lister to look after it and went back to the study to organize the books on magic.

Around dusk, Liszt finally knocked on Bruno's door.

"Master, the sugar is ready!"

I went downstairs excitedly, but I didn't expect that old Ford was there too. A group of people were gathered around a table, probably looking at white sugar.

"master."

Seeing Bruno coming, Old Ford asked impatiently: "Is this white sugar...really obtained from beets?"

"Of course. Hey, get out of the way... Let me see what the sugar I made looks like..."

Pushing aside a few servants, Bruno saw a small pile of sugar gathered together.

I just dipped a little with my hand and put it in my mouth. It tasted good, that familiar taste.

“How much is this?”

"A little over two kilograms."

"So little? Did you steal some?" Bruno asked. As far as he could remember, he used a large bucket of beet juice.

"It's a lot, sir. It's very good to be able to produce so much sugar." Old Ford defended the somewhat panicked servant beside him.

As he was speaking, he saw Bruno pick up some sugar and put it into his mouth.

"master……"

Old Ford, who was standing by, felt a little distressed and quickly wrapped the candies in paper.

"These candies can be used to exchange for many things, Master, please eat less."

"What are you afraid of? Now that we have a method to make sugar, why should we be afraid of not having white sugar in the future? While I have some free time these few days, I plan to personally participate... uh, no, I plan to personally supervise and build a sugar-making workshop."

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