Live streaming life: The ancients begged not to stop

After about ten days, it can be distilled in a distillation vessel. After condensation, you can get the wine. Remember not to use the head of the wine, which contains some impurities. You want the middle part.

After three distillations, alcohol is almost ready.

Daqin

Li Si recorded everything and after careful examination, he discovered something remarkable. It mentioned not only the method of making alcohol, but also the method of distilling liquor.

I don’t know what this wine tastes like, why not try it when I get home.

The video's comments also said that this alcohol could kill viruses and help more soldiers survive. Although Li Si didn't know what killing viruses meant, he knew that it was definitely a good thing if it could help soldiers survive.

The only difficulty is that food is really in short supply now. If we want to produce alcohol in this way, I'm afraid we can't even supply 10,000 people.

You might be thinking, now that we've made this liquor, we can sell it and make money. I think that's unlikely to happen.

Because distilled liquor was introduced during the Yuan Dynasty, it was never the mainstream drink for the common people. Most people drank rice wine and grape wine, while baijiu was only consumed by the poor.

The history of drinking white wine is actually very short. Any propaganda about how many years it has been around can basically be considered fake.

Li Si didn't know why Tianmu said that. He planned to taste it himself after making it. If it didn't taste good, it didn't matter, he could still use it to make perfume.

However, after watching the video, many people will probably make it. That’s okay, at worst you can give it to your wife.

[Our triple-distilled alcohol concentration is about 95%, while the concentration of medical alcohol is about 75%, so it needs to be diluted with water.]

[The exact amount of water to add depends on your calculation ability. Even if you can't figure it out, there must be someone under your command who can. Otherwise, your faction will have some shortcomings.]

There are two main methods for making perfume: immersion and distillation. The immersion method is the simplest. Take fresh flowers, wash them, place them in a clean container, and add 95% alcohol.

[After sealing, let it sit for about three days, then filter to get a clean solution. Continue to add fresh flowers to it. After five to seven times, you will get perfume.]

The distillation process is similar to making alcohol. Fresh flowers are steamed in a double boiler to produce floral extract. Fresh flowers and floral extract are then added to the steamer. After five to seven steaming cycles, perfume is obtained.

If you want your perfume to last, you must have a fixative. Musk, castoreum, sandalwood, or atractylodes can all be used.

【Finally, I got a refreshing perfume. 】

After the video on the sky screen finished playing, the woman already understood what this perfume was. It could make her whole body scented with flowers.

And it can last for days.

I like it just thinking about it!

But women from ordinary families only dare to think about it. This thing requires so much food and fresh flowers, which is beyond the reach of ordinary families.

It would be great if we could save some food to eat.

But powerful women don't think so. These things are too common and they see them every day.

Empress Changsun asked the palace maids to steam glutinous rice overnight and also prepared her favorite flowers. After the alcohol was made, she used the soaking method to make perfume.

Think about the concubines in the harem. Empress Changsun asked them to do more so that there would be no problem dividing the work later.

Qing Dynasty

Empress Dowager Cixi already had perfumes imported from foreign countries at this time, but making this perfume did pique her interest. If the effect was good, it could also save some money.

When the time comes, I will ask a few imperial censors to write a memorial and give myself an additional title.

"Little Li, ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to calculate how much silver it will cost. Get the stuff ready in the next few days. If it's good, you won't have to buy it from outside anymore."