Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 764 Snowflake Candy

Use clean chopsticks to dip some sugarcane juice into cold water to see if it can solidify. If it can solidify, you can take it out of the pot and put it in a bowl. After cooling, it will naturally solidify into blocks and become brown sugar.

Brown sugar extracted from sugarcane was available in many places in the Dasheng Dynasty. In addition, some places also refined yellow sugar, which was between brown sugar and white sugar in color.

The price of yellow and white sugar has always been relatively expensive, and it is mostly sold in Shangjing City. However, in other places, it is basically the most common coarse granulated sugar.

There is no pure white sugar here, so in addition to making brown sugar from sugarcane, Hualei also wants to make some white sugar which is rare here.

In some information from the previous life, Hualei had seen many times that white sugar could be made by pouring yellow mud water over it.

It is said that this method of pouring yellow mud on sugar was discovered accidentally by a southern businessman named Huang after the wall of his sugar factory collapsed.

Inspired by the fact that brown sugar covered with yellow mud turned white, after many experiments, this method of making sugar was developed.

After boiling the sugarcane juice into yellow-black syrup over fire, prepare another jar, place a clay funnel on it, plug the hole of the funnel with straw, and pour the syrup into the clay funnel.

Wait for the syrup to solidify, remove the straw, and pour yellow mud water over the syrup in the funnel. In this way, the black residue in the sugar will flow from the funnel into the tank below, leaving white frost in the funnel, which is the white sugar needed by the flower buds.

If the color of the sugar is not white enough, repeat it a few more times and it will be fine. However, this method of operation is only suitable for small batch production of white sugar.

If you want to make more sugar, this method is relatively inefficient. However, there is another similar method to make sugar, which is to pour the boiled sugarcane juice into a large vat.

Then, add an appropriate amount of yellow mud water into the tank, stir it evenly, and let it stand for a while, so that the yellow mud will absorb the impurities in the sugarcane juice.

After a while, the sugarcane juice in the jar will separate into two layers. Carefully scoop out the clear sugarcane juice on the top.

Pour it into the pot and boil it again. When the sugarcane juice becomes thick again, let it cool down and it will become granulated sugar. This method is much faster and more efficient.

In addition to making white sugar with yellow mud water, Hualei also made some white sugar with bamboo charcoal. Powdered bamboo charcoal was added to the syrup.

Then let it sit for a while, wait for the bamboo charcoal powder to absorb the impurities in the syrup, filter out the lighter-colored syrup, add it back into the pot, wait for the water to evaporate, then let it cool and crystallize.

Moreover, Hualei poured some of the boiled sugarcane juice, which was of very light color, into jars, and then inserted many clean thin bamboo sticks into them.

After being sealed and left to stand for a period of time, crystals will form on the bamboo and the inner wall of the jar, becoming the simplest rock candy.

Of course, Hua Lei did not learn the method of making white sugar and rock sugar from bamboo charcoal in front of Zhao Zhizhou. Instead, she and Rong Jin asked Ziyun and Ziyan to try to make some in their own rooms.

The amount of rock sugar produced was very small, only about three pounds, and it was not shown to Zhao Zhizhou. Holding back is also one of Hualei's ways of doing things.

If Zhao Zhizhou is a greedy person, the sugar factory in Changtongzhou will easily get into trouble. Now it seems that Zhao Zhizhou is indeed a good local official.

However, Hua Lei was also worried that money could tempt people, and before she could come up with a better way to restrain Zhao Zhizhou, she had no choice but to hold back.

However, I should think of a way to prevent the sugar factory in Changtong Prefecture from becoming the personal property of Zhao Zhizhou or the next prefect after I leave Xichang Prefecture. I can think about this slowly.

When Zhao Zhizhou saw that the flower buds could actually produce pure white sugar, he was overjoyed.

Therefore, they decided to organize people and set up a sugar factory in the name of the state government. However, this idea was stopped by Hualei.

Hualei and Prefect Zhao said that the amount of sugarcane planted this year was still too small because a lot of sugarcane was consumed in the previous experiments to make brown sugar and white sugar.

Therefore, the remaining sugarcane must be kept for seed and cannot be used for further production. Otherwise, the planting area cannot be expanded in the next season.

If it wasn't for the purpose of demonstrating to Zhao Zhizhou and the people in the sugar factory how to make brown sugar and white sugar from sugarcane, Hua Lei would not have been willing to use even the sugarcane.

Therefore, Zhizhou Zhao excitedly issued a notice, asking the people of the entire Changtong Prefecture to actively reclaim wasteland and plant sugarcane. Sugarcane seeds can be purchased at half price at the prefecture government.

When the sugar cane is grown, it will be bought back by the state government at a uniform price. You know, Xichang has a warm weather and can grow sugar cane twice a year.

Planting in autumn, in spring and summer, you can harvest another batch of sugar cane. When a large amount of sugar cane is planted next year, the sugar factory can be officially established.

The people who had just received the first batch of sugarcane silver were overjoyed when they heard this. As a result, another round of sugarcane planting was once again in full swing in Changtong Prefecture.

Compared to the skepticism when Hualei asked them to plant sugarcane for the first time, this time, after seeing the brown sugar and white sugar made from sugarcane, the people's doubts were dispelled and they were all full of enthusiasm.

Moreover, after Zhizhou Zhao issued a notice on planting and recycling sugarcane, Zhifu Hua also issued a notice saying that after the sugarcane was harvested, Changtong Prefecture would set up a sugar factory and recruit local people to work in the factory.

By then, the sugarcane grown by myself can be sold for some money. If I am lucky, I may be recruited to work in a sugar factory, and then I can get another monthly salary. What a great thing.

Moreover, Magistrate Hua also said that in the next two years, she would help sell the brown sugar and white sugar produced by the sugar factory to Shangjing City first.

When we have money in the future, we can set up a sugar-making cooperative workshop similar to the lychee processing workshop established in Changliangzhou. Then, we can earn money continuously.

The prefect Hua is such a good official! The people couldn't think of any better words to praise Hualei.

Hualei has quickly sent more than 100 kilograms of white sugar produced through experiments this year to Shangjing City and is selling it in her own shop.

Moreover, the sales method is also very special. When the shop sells white sugar, it also sells it in limited quantities, and it also directly displays the agreement for Changtongzhou to pre-sell next year's snowflake candy.

If you are interested in the business, you can go to the shop to check out the sugar in person, and you can buy a pound of sugar on the spot to try it.

If you think the quality of the sugar is good and want to buy it in large quantities in the future, you can pay a deposit, sign a pre-order agreement, and indicate the purchase quantity.