Chapter 747 National Height Increase Plan (Part 2)
The cheese made from fresh goat milk is very fragrant and has a light sweetness. Because the lemon juice is added in small amounts and is mainly used as a reaction catalyst, the sour taste is not obvious.
The taste of the several aged cheeses that Zhan Ying found for Luo Chong is very different.
After Luo Chong's observation and tasting, he summarized several characteristics of the cheese. The first is the hardness. The older the cheese, the harder it will be. Cheese over three years old even feels like rubber. It looks like rubber and tastes more like it. Cheese over five years old is like a brick, the kind that can kill people.
Another characteristic is sourness. Perhaps it is due to the fermentation of yeast. The older the cheese, the more sour it tastes. However, it is not the kind of sour taste that can make your teeth sour. In fact, the taste is more similar to yogurt.
Because of the addition of salt, it tastes like a unique salty aroma, like roasted nuts
. In summary, the taste of cheese is quite rich, with salty, milky, sour and sweet, and nutty aromas. These flavors are all dissolved in one, which is quite unique.
The most exaggerated one among them, which Luo Chong could not accept the most, was a cheese with dense blue patterns. The herdsmen had passed it down from generation to generation, and they actually did not know what it was, but Luo Chong knew it because it was moldy cheese, and those blue patterns were actually hyphae.
Of course, such cheese can also be eaten, but it is just moldy, which is nothing. You have to know that the country that eats the most moldy things in the world is China.
Especially the dark cuisine of stinky tofu, as well as other kinds of fermented bean curd and various sauces, are all made from moldy beans, including soy sauce and so on.
So after learning that this thing can be eaten, Luo Chong did not refuse, and ate all the small piece that Zhan Ying cut off. The taste is also very unique, and it tastes richer and the acidity is more obvious.
"Cheese is indeed a good thing, and it is not difficult to make. Perhaps we can try to promote it. However, it is also the staple food of the herdsmen. It is unrealistic to bring all the cheese of the herdsmen to other places in the Han tribe. Let's build a few small workshops to try it out first. We will buy it from the herdsmen with grain. If the effect is good, we will expand the scale." After tasting all the cheeses, Luo Chong made his decision.
"Okay, thank you, husband." Zhan Ying also bowed to thank him.
"Well, there is also the method of making cheese. You should also summarize it carefully, including the seeds of the sour fruit, to see if it can be artificially planted, so that it can be popularized in other parts of the Han tribe.
Although there are not so many cattle and horses in other counties of our Han tribe, there are still many sheep and goats. These are also high-quality milk sources. When we go back, you can also promote the method of making cheese nearby, especially the newly built Muye County, which is the only county in the north of our Han tribe that relies on animal husbandry as its main economy. The added value of cheese must be utilized, otherwise it will be wasted." After talking about building a factory to produce cheese, Luo Chong gave Zhan Ying instructions again.
"Well, I get it. How about this? Let's promote cow's milk cheese directly in the three counties of the grassland, and produce goat's milk cheese in other places of the Han tribe. This way, we can avoid industrial conflicts in various places?" After listening to Luo Chong's opinion, Zhan Ying also expressed his own ideas.
"No need. Let's produce our own. In fact, you don't know much about the life of the herdsmen in the grassland. Although they have a lot of cattle, they actually have more sheep. That is their main source of living materials. The felt for making clothes, tents and shoes, meat, and cheese actually come mostly from sheep.
If you only collect milk, I'm afraid you won't get much. Don't worry, even if the Han tribe makes all goat's milk cheese, with the current population and territory of the Han tribe, it can eat it all, and there will be no local industrial conflicts as you said."
Luo Chong thought for a while and continued, "But The industrial conflict you mentioned makes sense. Although it will not happen in the short term, it will definitely cause problems over time. Therefore, the breeding model of those herders who surrendered to the Han people also needs to be reformed.
You don't have to worry about this. When I come back, I will transfer a group of people from the Sinong Temple to let them start breeding new livestock breeds. In the future, under the management of our Han tribe, all livestock will be optimized and then gradually expand the scale of breeding.
Cattle must be bred into beef cattle, dairy cows, and oxen. Sheep must also be bred into milk-producing, wool-producing, and meat-producing types. Horses must also be divided into draft horses for pulling carts and war horses for riding.
This is a systematic livelihood project. It cannot be completed in a short time, but we can start now. "
"Okay, I'll listen to my husband. Zhan Ying doesn't understand so much. Just make the cheese." Zhan Ying smiled sweetly.
Tang Yao, who was following beside him, couldn't help but be stunned. She really didn't expect Luo Chong's imagination to be so big. The Tang tribe had just introduced and learned livestock breeding technology from the Han tribe. They were ready to improve and optimize the livestock they raised. Not only that, they also wanted to artificially control the livestock breeds and refine different uses for one animal. Let's not talk about whether the Han tribe can do it. This idea alone is amazing.
"Luo Chong, can the Han tribe really do the breed optimization you mentioned?" Thinking of this, Tang Yao couldn't help but ask directly.
"Of course it can be done. It's not a difficult task. It just requires a lot of experiments and time. I call this optimization method selective breeding.
Just like when you plant medicinal herbs, if there are two herbs of the same kind, one grows big and has very good medicinal effects, while the other plant is weak and not very effective, then the next time you plant, which herb's seeds will you choose?" Seeing that she was eager to learn and ask questions, Luo Chong naturally gave her advice and took the initiative to give her an example to explain.
"Oh? So this is breeding, but that is a plant, can living animals also be bred in this way?" Tang Yao, who has been planting medicinal herbs for many years, is certainly not unfamiliar with this. As soon as Luo Chong said it, she immediately understood the meaning of breeding, but she still lacked a lot in terms of breeding.
Luo Chong had to give her another example.
"Then let me give you another example. There is a person with a flock of sheep in his sheepfold. Among them are a few white sheep. Their fur is snow-white and their wool fibers are fine, but they are weak and sickly, small in size, difficult to survive, and have a low reproduction rate.
But in the sheepfold of the neighbor next door, there is a kind of sheep that is relatively large, strong and powerful, cold-resistant, thirst-resistant, and tolerant to roughage. Other sheep must eat grass, but this kind of sheep can survive even if it chews thorns. The only disadvantage is that this kind of sheep is ugly, has dark fur, and is difficult to dye.
So let's assume that we can crossbreed the first kind of snow-white sheep with the second kind of strong sheep? In this way, can we produce a new breed of sheep that is strong, cold-resistant, drought-resistant, tolerant to roughage, and has beautiful fur? "
Zhan Ying widened his eyes again and looked at Luo Chong with an incredible expression. The expression clearly meant to say, "Strange knowledge has increased."
I will recommend another friend's book "The Invasion of the Old Days". The morning light pierced the sky. Is it the morning light of dawn or the afterglow of sunset?
After the darkness falls, will it usher in eternal silence or light?
On the corpses of the old days, is it just a flash in the pan, or is there another turn?
After the old days, a new soul fell into this world destined to be dark.
(End of this chapter)
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