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Chapter 74 Ancient Ice Cream

Qi Cheng and his wife are real people who do things. With the tables and chairs in place, Qi Cheng can already knead dough and bake biscuits by himself.Ye Xinyan taught Mrs. Li how to make rice tofu and corn flower stalls. Mrs. Li is a woman who worked in an ordinary farm.

Greeting guests, as long as you put your heart into it, it will be faster to get started, and the two will gradually become acquainted.

With the addition of these two strong laborers, Ye Xinyan and Qi Younian felt much more relaxed.Ye Xinyan discussed with Nanny Jin and Qi Younian in private whether they should raise their wages.

Nanny Jin has seen big money before, so she doesn't care about these things. Of course, Qi Younian also nodded in agreement, but only made a suggestion. After the whole month's settlement is settled and the earnings are good, then the wages can be raised justifiably.

This is the meaning of efficiency wages.Ye Xinyan secretly laughed. It turns out that productivity has developed for thousands of years, but human nature has not changed much. The reward mechanism of the ancients is also like this.

Ye Xinyan had some free time, so she planned the ice drink she was going to make. She didn't have those powerful cheat skills, so she only planned to use the method of pure heat exchange to make ice cream.

She used to hear from the elders of the previous generation that when there was a serious shortage of supplies and no large-scale modern catering enterprises developed, the business establishments in small places used salt and ice cubes stored in the ice cellar to make popsicles and sorbets. of.

At that time, there was no variety of ice cream and ice cream with many flavors, and a few cents a popsicle could satisfy children in midsummer.

Sorbet, on the other hand, is a higher-grade ice drink than popsicles, with more milk and egg yolks.

Sorbet appeared in the summer of this era, it should be a rare business with high profits, and it can take the high-end route.

Ye Xinyan has already figured out how to sell, and rented a small shop next to the largest restaurant in the county, with a more exquisite decoration.At the beginning, they mainly delivered iced drinks and snacks to restaurants.When the guests of the restaurant need it, they will serve it from their own small shop to the diners of the restaurant by passing dishes.

The profits from the sale of iced drinks and snacks are shared with the restaurant.The largest restaurant advertises her small shop, and it doesn't take much effort to make the business a high-end one.

If you can make ice cream, that is the most ideal.However, extracting whipped cream or cream is too difficult for this era. In this era, there are no special dairy cows, and the milk yield of cows that give birth to calves is very low, and there is no business in raising dairy cows.

So she had to settle for the next best thing and make the ice cream that the elders in the village had said.She will do her best to make the sorbet delicate, reduce the ice scum in it, and strive to make the sorbet close to the taste of ice cream.

If the sorbet can be successfully made, the sorbet can be sold for more than a month while it is still midsummer.Even after summer, sorbets are a magnet for the pampered and wealthy.Even in the middle of winter, as long as restaurants and rich people's homes have good thermal insulation facilities, they also have requirements for ice cream.

Ye Xinyan estimated that if the transaction goes well, a lot of money can be accumulated in two months.In autumn and winter, you can expand the business scope of dessert shops and make more casual snacks.In addition to all kinds of desserts, you can also make some soups and various delicate snacks.

If grandpa didn't want to leave the village, he would use the money he earned to buy some fields, rebuild houses in the village, and rent out the fields.In doing so, the life of their family of four will be completely stable.

Fields and real estate are fixed assets.Especially the fields. In ancient times, as long as there was enough land and enough grain, it was the biggest foundation for people's life stability and prosperity.

Just do what she said, Ye Xinyan used her spare time to find out which cows gave birth to calves and where there was a seller of ice cubes.Then prepare cornmeal, eggs and other ingredients for making sorbet.After three or four days of work, the preparations will be done.

On this day, Ye Xinyan first went to buy a small can of milk.Then I went to buy ice cubes and wrapped them layer by layer with tarpaulins, wooden boxes, and quilts.

After finishing the rice tofu stall and returning home, Ye Xinyan didn't even help Nanny Jin make lunch, so she started experimenting with making sorbet.

She cooks the milk first, waits for the milk to cool slightly, then mixes the ultra-fine corn flour, sugar, and egg yolk prepared in advance into the milk, cooks it again, and cooks it into a paste, stirring intermittently while waiting for the milk paste to cool .

Then comes the crucial part of the sorbet.Pour the cooled milk paste into a small thin-skinned iron bucket, and then put the iron bucket into a larger wooden bucket.In the interlayer of wooden barrels and iron barrels, crushed ice cubes and coarse salt grains should be put.

Then you need to keep the barrel as cold as possible.Wrap the wooden barrel layer by layer with quilts and cotton wool, and then wait patiently for the cold transfer between the milk paste and ice cubes to freeze the milk paste.The milk paste freezes for a long time, and the sorbet should be vigorously stirred several times during the period to reduce the ice scum during the freezing process.

After this dazzling busy work, when Ye Xinyan lifted the lid of the wooden bucket, and the ice cream in the small bucket gave off a little bit of cool air, it was already after a nap.

The ice bucket was placed on the stove in the outer room that was not used in summer, and the other three people in the family were almost dumbfounded when they saw the icy ice cream.

Qi Younian was even more stunned. The milk paste in the thin tin bucket was actually frozen, like something frozen in winter.

It took him a long time before he opened his mouth and asked with difficulty: "Well, how did you freeze this thing into ice in this midsummer season?"

Ye Xinyan claimed to make a snack that would make more money than rice tofu, Qi Younian was curious, and watched the whole process.

He watched with his own eyes that Ye Xinyan used milk, egg yolk, corn flour, sugar, etc. to make a paste and pour it into a small bucket.Then mix crushed ice cubes and salt, pour them into the interlayer of wooden barrels and iron barrels, cover the lids, and wrap them with thick quilts.

Ye Xinyan didn't say to make sorbet that can be frozen, and Qi Younian would never have thought that after such treatment, the milk paste could be frozen into ice-like food.

Because Qi Younian didn't know what kind of food Ye Xinyan would make in the end, he still regretted thinking that this snack really took a lot of work. If it took so much time, even if it was made, it might not be sold earlier Convenient and profitable.

In the end, this girl actually made such a heaven-defying thing.This is midsummer, the weather is so hot that it is almost smoking, and the leaves are bringing out frozen food.

Qi Younian was puzzled, and then looked at the interlayer with crushed ice. Now that the ice cubes in the interlayer have melted into water, why did the original milk paste turn into ice?How, how are these two different states exchanged?
Pointing to the wooden barrel, Qi Younian stammered and asked, "This, this is water, right? How can you freeze something that was originally thin?"

Ye Xinyan blinked, she couldn't explain to this ancient grandfather the physical characteristics of salt water, and the relationship curve between the concentration of salt water and the freezing point, right?
She looked at Nanny Jin again, and Nanny Jin also stared at her with wide eyes, waiting for her to clarify.

"That, Grandpa, I also thought of it by accident. Just like in winter, salt water does not freeze. You also know this, right? Don't understand? Pickle jar, let's pickle pickles, no matter how cold the weather is in winter, the pickle jar The salt water doesn’t freeze, does it?” Ye Xinyan explained.

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