Chapter 250 The whole courtyard is filled with sweetness
Glutinous rice can be used to make sweet fermented glutinous rice, and of course it can also be used to make equally sweet malt sugar.
The chopped malt and malt seeds are like the baking powder sprinkled on the glutinous rice when making fermented rice. The amylase contained in them can bring out the sweetness in the glutinous rice.
It’s like there are digestive enzymes in the mouth, and the more you chew rice, the sweeter it becomes. This is also maltose.
These are all chemical principles, essential for medical students.
For Chu Yue, a talented student, it was an easy task.
The freshly steamed glutinous rice is too hot and can easily kill the amylase in the malt, so the glutinous rice needs to be cooled before mixing the two together.
Cover with a piece of white gauze, place in a cool place and ferment for six hours.
After six hours, the malt and glutinous rice had fully reacted. As soon as the white gauze was opened, a slightly sweet fermentation smell could be smelled, and a lot of water had been produced in the large basin that was originally filled with it.
This moisture is the sugar water forced out from the glutinous rice.
The next step is filtering. Use coarse-meshed white gauze to filter out all the sugar water little by little.
If you squeeze the remaining malt and glutinous rice mixture hard, you can squeeze out a lot of sugar water.
Chu Yue didn't waste anything. Although she had no shortage of food, she had seen too many people in this era who couldn't afford a bite of white rice. Cherishing food was something everyone should do, so she squeezed out all the sugar water.
Finally, a whole iron pot of sugar water was obtained.
Next is the last step in making malt sugar, which is also the most difficult step - boiling the sugar.
Because the fire and the large iron pot needed are not suitable to be placed in the Lingbao space, you can not only enjoy the changes in the speed of time flow, but can only do it slowly in the real world, bit by bit.
Chu Yue calculated the amount of sugar water she needed. She couldn't use high heat, so she had to use low heat and boil it down into syrup bit by bit. It would take at least eight or nine hours, which was longer than running a marathon.
During the sugar boiling process, you need to stir it from time to time to ensure even heat and prevent the bottom from sticking to the pot.
If it gets burnt, all her hard work for several days will be wasted.
So once you start the fire, you cannot leave the stove and someone must be watching it at all times.
Therefore, Chu Yue picked a morning time, starting from when Lu Yuanbao left for school, and started making candy.
After breakfast, Lu Yuanbao saw that the fire was still burning in the kitchen, emitting steam. He stretched his head to look into the kitchen curiously, but Chu Yue pushed him back and prevented him from looking.
Lu Yuanbao was unconvinced and asked with his bright eyes, "Are you making something delicious again?"
"Yes, it is delicious." Chu Yue nodded, "But I can't tell you what it is now. When you come home from school in the afternoon, it will be almost ready. Then bring Da Zhuang to eat together."
Lu Yuanbao was still very curious about what was in the kitchen and how Chu Yue could cook so many delicious foods he had never seen before. But Chu Yue didn't say anything, so he could only bear it.
After school in the afternoon, he wants to rush back as soon as possible.
but--
Lu Yuanbao asked again, "Where's Tan Rourou? Can she come eat with us?"
Recently, Tan Rourou gets along well with Lu Yuanbao and Chen Dazhuang. They go to school and go home together every day. Although Tan Rourou still loses her temper sometimes, she no longer quarrels with Chen Dazhuang like before.
Chu Yue thought of the proud little girl and nodded, "If she wants, she can come along."
Tan Rourou's family can't even finish the most expensive White Rabbit milk candy, so they probably look down on her homemade malt sugar.
At this time, Chen Dazhuang's energetic shout was heard outside the house.
"Yuanbao—come out—go to school—"
Chu Yue handed the water bottle to Lu Yuanbao and patted his shoulder. "Go to school."
"Okay, bye, Mom."
Lu Yuanbao ran out of the yard and walked quickly towards Chen Dazhuang. He could still hear their happy laughter.
As time goes by, after the water is evaporated over low heat, the sugar water slowly begins to turn into syrup.
At the beginning, the syrup squeezed out of the glutinous rice is milky white. Slowly, the milky white liquid becomes turbid and the color does not look good, but this is a normal process.
After a period of time, the turbid color gradually turned into the color of old gold.
It looks like bronze, or like the color of sugar when making braised pork belly. [Image]
When it was boiled into this color, the whole house was filled with a sweet fragrance. The fragrance drifted out and could be smelled by everyone passing by, attracting the attention of many sisters-in-law.
"Do you smell it? It's sweet! It's coming from Captain Lu's house. It's so sweet, it's so fragrant that it makes my mouth water."
"Captain Lu has been away for the past few days, and I've noticed Miss Chu hasn't been heading into the city anymore. Is she making something delicious at home? How much sugar did she use to make it so sweet?"
"Sister Chu is rich, and Captain Lu is happy to pamper her. What's wrong with eating a little more sugar? Captain Lu doesn't care, and you're still thinking about it?"
"I'm not just thinking about it, I'm envious! Just smelling the fragrance makes me happy. If I could eat so much candy in one breath like Miss Chu, wouldn't I be in heaven?"
This sister-in-law told the truth. In the 1970s, white sugar water was used to entertain guests. It can be seen how precious white sugar was. People would not even eat a bite of it on ordinary days.
How much sugar is used to emit such a strong sweetness?
The sisters-in-law were talking about it, and Chen Fengying knocked on Chu Yue's door directly.
"Sister Chu, it smells so good - did you cook something delicious? Can I go in and take a look?" Chen Fengying said what she wanted to say directly without hiding anything.
Chu Yue liked Chen Fengying's personality. When she glanced behind Chen Fengying, she saw a group of sisters-in-law hurriedly hiding their heads.
She smiled, pretended not to see it, and invited Chen Fengying in as usual.
"Mrs. Chen, feel free to come in and take a look. I used the wheat you gave me last time to make something."
Wheat? Sweetness? Sugar?
When Chen Fengying entered the room, she was full of doubts. When she saw the pot of golden syrup in the iron pot, her eyes widened.
"This... this... is all sugar? It's really all sugar..." Chen Fengying looked at Chu Yue with wide eyes.
Chu Yue took a clean chopstick and dipped it in the syrup. Because it was not yet fully boiled, it was not in the form of a thick syrup, but in the form of drops of liquid.
But it's enough to taste it.
Chen Fengying took the chopsticks and took a sip. "Oh my god, it's so sweet! So sweet! Sister Chu, such a big pot of sugar, you said it was made of wheat... wheat?"
Wheat = sugar?
Chen Fengying has been a farmer for many years, but she never knew about this.
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