I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

Liu Tan thought that the fruit wine could be blended casually, but in fact, the taste of the wine after the blending was simple, whether it was sweet or not, or sour or not, with astringent taste and the taste of white wine mixed in the middle.

Liu Tan was almost sure that if he offered this thing, Chen Ajiao would probably run away on the spot and put his head in the wine.

No, no, no, absolutely not.

This time Liu Tan found something to do again, he had to get out the fruit wine before going back, otherwise...he would rather offer a lower alcohol alcohol than this semi-finished product.

Liu Tan carefully recalled every step of the blending process, and made sure that there was no place where the pear juice would become corrupt and affect the taste. He even took a sip before blending to make sure that there was nothing wrong with the taste of the pear juice, so he blended it .

However, the taste was still not good, so he began to try various blending ratios, and finally found that the slightly better taste was [-]:[-] or [-]:[-].

But the taste is still a bit strange, Liu Tan wondered, does it have something to do with the variety of pears?

At the beginning, he also tried all kinds of white wine mixed with fruit juice, and the taste was not bad, why didn't it work here?

Is fruit wine not acclimatized?

Liu Tanzuo was at a loss for a long time, and began to think about what was different.

First of all, when he first blended, it seemed that there was no sour or astringent taste. Some juices had a slightly sour taste, sweet and sour, but absolutely no astringent taste.

Wait, sweet and sour... sweet!

Liu Tan patted his thigh, he finally knew where the problem was, it was the sweetness, the pears these days are actually not as sweet as those in later generations.

After all, the variety has not been improved, and it still has a bit of a sour taste. The squeezed juice is naturally like this, but it doesn't feel like anything when you just drink it. Liu Tan even likes this taste very much.

But when blended with white wine, no one can suppress the taste of the other. There is no priority. Although the taste is also very rich, this richness...forget it.

Liu Tan immediately asked people to bring sugar to prepare for re-blending. After hearing this, Miao Rui asked cautiously: "Your Highness, do you want sugar or honey or Xiji stone honey?"

Liu Tan's first reaction after hearing this was what else it could be, of course it was... Eh, in the Han Dynasty, there was no white sugar!

Not to mention that there is no white sugar in this year, even the appearance of sucrose was only a matter of the ancestor Liu Bang. Before that, there were only two sweet flavors of caramel and honey.

Both of these can only be afforded by the nobles. Honey requires beekeeping, while caramel is more difficult and requires food.

The grain output is low these days. According to per capita terms, it is hard to say whether that grain can feed the whole country, and caramel is made of grain. It is naturally much more precious to use the starch in the grain to convert it into sugar. Ordinary people naturally I can't afford sugar.

As for Xiji stone honey, it is actually sucrose, which is the kind of ancient brown sugar that is sold online in later generations.

Liu Tan felt his head hurt, none of these three kinds of candies was colorless!

Although the freshly squeezed pear juice is not purely transparent, it is also translucent, and it can barely reach a relatively transparent state after being filtered through multiple channels.

The most important thing is that when blending white wine, there is no need to add too much pear juice. Liu Tan just wants a little more fruity taste, which doesn't seem so bitter and spicy.

For those who have never drunk high-purity baijiu, the first sip will feel bitter and spicy.

A little juice and sugar are nicely balanced.

So the blending is actually a good-looking transparent state.

These kinds of sugar and honey can barely reach a transparent state.

Liu Tan asked someone to bring honey and try to blend it, but the honey added was too little and not sweet enough, and too much honey had a sour taste.

However, honey itself actually has a little sour taste, after all, it contains a lot of acids.

After Liu Tan tried for a long time but couldn't find a balance point, he felt a little dizzy.

He put down the wine cup angrily, turned to Miao Rui and said, "Go and prepare some yellow muddy water for me."

After speaking, she went back to the room and fell asleep until the end, leaving Miao Rui and Bi Gao looking at each other in blank dismay.

Things like yellow muddy water... Let alone the nobles, even the two of them haven't seen it for many years. What does His Highness want yellow muddy water for?

Don't drink too much and go crazy, right?

After a long silence, Miao Rui asked, "Then...are you ready?"

Bi Gao said seriously: "Get ready."

Don't care if His Highness is drunk or not, as long as the order comes down, they have to obey.

It's just that they won't take the initiative to mention this matter when His Highness wakes up, and they won't take the initiative to look for it if His Highness just casually mentions it while drunk.

If they mentioned it, it would embarrass the Fifth Prince.

If it is really useful, the fifth prince will also take the initiative to find it.

It wasn't until Liu Tan woke up that he realized how poor this body's alcohol capacity was. What he drank was fruit wine. For the sake of taste, he mixed a little distilled water and fruit juice, which had diluted a lot. It was put down.

Those wines add up to no more than half a glass.

It seems that Lu Xuan should already be considered a good drinker in this era.

Fortunately, he didn't actually drink a lot of alcohol, and he didn't have a headache yet.

You must remember that when you dedicate your rescue to Liu Che and Chen Ajiao, you must remind them that they are easy to get drunk if they drink too much!

Liu Tan got up to wash up and ate something and asked, "Is the yellow muddy water ready?"

Miao Rui said hastily: "It's ready, what's the use for Your Highness?"

Liu Tan said in a deep voice, "Make candy!"

Miao Rui and Bi Gao were full of doubts, and it was because of their excellent professional quality that they did not ask.

Liu Tan asked people to prepare a large amount of Xiji stone honey, and then prepared a vat and tiles, which are often called funnels in later generations.

Because Xiji stone honey can be regarded as a finished product, Liu Tan has no need to wait for it to crystallize, so he can directly pour the Xiji stone honey with yellow mud water.

This time Liu Tan didn't do it himself, not only did he not do it himself, but he stayed far away, lest the yellow mud splashed during the pouring process would stain the clothes.

With Liu Tan's prudence, this time he still only found a dumb slave, and there was no one left beside Miao Rui and Bi Gao.

Whether it is distilled wine or white sugar, these two methods are very simple. Although the principle behind it needs technological development to gradually find out, but do you need to figure out the principle to make money imitating things?

The dumb slaves present are okay, they don't have any ideas, and they don't think anything of the suspicion of spoiling things on the whim of the master.

The extravagance and waste of the nobles these days is more than this, and this one is already considered good.

Miao Rui and Bi Gao are full of curiosity.

So far, Liu Tan's things are quite miraculous, except for the grape seedlings whose life and death are uncertain. I don't know what he will make this time.

Then they witnessed an even more miraculous thing - the originally black and red Xiji stone honey turned into a pure white color little by little!

After the yellow mud water was poured, there was actually a white object close to five inches above the tile leak, showing a grainy feel like sand.

Liu Tan ordered people to search for all the white sugar on top and put it in a small clay pot.

Liu Tan asked someone to fetch a silver spoon and tasted it a little bit, um, it tasted pretty good.

Although the white sugar is still a little different from the white as frost he imagined, with a slight yellow tint, but the result is already very satisfactory to him.

Liu Tan asked people to continue to produce more sugar, while he took the sugar and prepared to continue to fight with fruit wine.

After tossing and tossing for a long time, he finally managed to produce a pear wine that tasted good and looked good, and then he continued his efforts and asked someone to get some pomegranates. This is also thanks to Zhang Qian, who brought the pomegranates here.

However, Liu Che did not force the pomegranate tree to be planted, so that one more person would not be threatened by castration.

Compared with perry wine, pomegranate wine can be said to be full of color and fragrance, and the transparent red color is really pleasing to the eye.

Liu Tan also wanted to make other fruit wines, but unfortunately, the fruit storage technology is not developed enough these days, and there are not so many types. In addition, there are not many contacts with the south, and many fruits from the south have not been passed on.

In the end, he had no choice but to give up. After thinking about it, the white sugar was already out, so why not get some rock sugar.

Rock sugar can be made from granulated sugar, the only thing needed is alum solution, which is extracted from alum stone.

Of course, alum had already appeared in the Han Dynasty, so there was no need for him to extract it painstakingly.

It's just that when he was about to boil the sugar solution, he was a little at a loss, what is he doing now?

He was obviously studying how to grow grape seedlings just to save Li Xi, but how did he make such a bunch of things now?

Liquor, blended fruit wine, and sugar and rock sugar... Is he an ambassador sent by a big foodie country to spread food culture?

Although Liu Tan wondered what he did, he continued to make rock candy.

Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he wanted to wait until the grape seedlings were completely fine before going back.

It's just that although he knows what to use for rock sugar, he still doesn't know the ratio. In the end, he can only experiment a little bit. In fact, the main thing is to figure out the ratio of sugar water and alum solution.

After wasting a pile of sugar water and seeing Miao Rui and Bi Gao's mouths twitch, he came to the conclusion that the ratio of white sugar to alum solution was close to ten to one.

The rock candy that came out this time was very beautiful, and the transparency looked even clearer and more beautiful than some crystals with poor texture.

Miao Rui and Bi Gao couldn't help but grow their mouths when they saw the finished product.

In the eyes of these two people, everything that Liu Tan did was like magic.

Liu Tan didn't think there was anything wrong, he just thought that if he went back, would he have an explanation?

He even asked people to make wooden models, which are called molds in later generations. There are various shapes and shapes, including some animal images that are very out of shape in the eyes of later generations, and there are even dragon and tiger models.

Liu Tan gradually regained the pleasure of making handicrafts back then, and poured the prepared sugar solution into it. This time, he did not forget to brush the mold with oil for easy demoulding.

It's a pity that there is no vegetable oil these days, only animal oil, which may have a bit of a smell, but it shouldn't have much effect.

There is no vegetable oil... Liu Tan stopped his thinking after only two laps in his mind.

No, it's too dangerous. If this goes on like this, he won't be a prince or a cook!

After he finished making the sugar figurines of the Chinese zodiac plus a set of dragon and tiger sugar figurines, he finally got good news—the grape seedlings from the cuttings had begun to grow smoothly, and there were signs of new leaves emerging.

After Liu Tan heard this, he rushed to the greenhouse immediately. He lay there and watched carefully for a long time before he saw the not so obvious sprout.

Gladly, Liu Tan rewarded all the dumb slaves, and then said with great anger: "Let's go, go back to the palace!"