Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Now that fate has given her another chance, how can she not be moved?

Although Qingxia didn't show it, Wei Wu could still see that she was a little moved, so he spoke again.

"Qingxia, you should have drunk brown sugar water!"

"Well, a woman can't go a hundred days without sugar. In the past, when my family was a little wealthy, I would drink it occasionally."

As Qingxia finished speaking, Wei Wu took out a bag of white cotton candy that was as white as salt.

"Come, taste this white thing of mine."

As he spoke, Wei Wu tore open the bag and poured some sugar into Qingxia's hand.

Looking at the delicate white sugar as dense as snow, Qingxia felt a little reluctant.

However, under Wei Wu's gaze, she still put the sugar to her mouth and licked it gently with her tongue.

The moment the sugar dissolves, a sweet taste like nectar is released in the mouth.

Unlike brown sugar, white sugar does not have that strong sugarcane flavor, only a very pure sweet taste.

The novel taste made Qingxia, who had never eaten white sugar before, couldn't help but lick the white sugar in her palm like snowflakes again.

At this time, Wei Wu spoke up:

"Nowadays, all the sugar in Daming is black or dark red, but I have a way to make this kind of white sugar."

"Next, I plan to buy a few workshops to specialize in making this kind of white sugar. I've even picked a name for it: Snowflake Candy."

"As long as you can get it out there, you won't have to worry about not being able to sell it, but the price is very high, so the accounts need to be supervised by someone you trust."

Wei Wu then told Qingxia the method of making white sugar. It was actually not difficult, but the steps were a bit complicated.

Like brown sugar, the juice is first squeezed from sugarcane, which is then filtered to remove the sugarcane dregs.

At this step, the brown sugar begins to be boiled. Turn the high heat to low heat to evaporate the water and it becomes brown sugar.

But white sugar is different. There is a related record in "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature", which is called the yellow mud water sugar sprinkling method.

Many people in later generations have tried but failed to produce white sugar. In fact, they fell into a misunderstanding.

The records say yellow mud, and they really used yellow mud. In fact, the so-called yellow mud water refers to kaolin, also known as bentonite.

Because the natural soil color in Guangdong and Guangxi is mainly red.

Therefore, kaolin is called loess, and yellow mud water comes from this.

This kind of soil has super strong adsorption properties and can remove impurities. Many food and pharmaceutical factories still use it in later generations.

To make white sugar, after filtering out the dregs, you need to add kaolin to the sugarcane juice and stir it for six hours.

Then let it settle for about two hours. After all the impurities have settled to the bottom, take the clear sugar liquid on the top.

But this is not the end. The process will be repeated two or three times and then boiled with clear sugar liquid.

Evaporate about two-thirds of the water in the sugar solution.

The remaining molasses, when it solidifies, becomes the white sugar in The Exploitation of the Works of Nature.

Qingxia listened carefully, afraid of missing any key steps.

She waited until Wei Wu stopped drinking water before she took the opportunity to ask.

"Master, can you make white sugar as white as yours this way?"

However, Wei Wu shook his head.

"No, this is just the initial white sugar. It's not as white as the one in my hand. There's another step next."

In fact, we are almost there at this step.

The resulting sugar color is not as white as the industrially produced white sugar in Wei Wu's hands, but it is also very good.

But since he is going to do it, of course he has to do it to the best of his ability. How can his product not be a top quality product?

"The molasses needs to go through the final step, which requires making a small tool. I call this thing a honey separator."

"Just think of it as a spinning disc, and place it in a container like a bucket or a vat."

"Sprinkle the boiled molasses little by little on top, and use the rotation to turn the crystallized thick sugar liquid into white frosting."