Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 203 Tanglu
Next is Jiang Shuyi. This time, Zhou Zhi prepared more fully. Put the peppers in small bowls, salt, and sugar in small plates according to their portions. Leek, stir fry, add pepper, salt, sugar, stir well and finish.

Although he was lazy, Jiang Shuyi did all the operations from the cooking on his own. It also had a little more sugar than He Shiqing's dish, which was almost equivalent to cheating for this river fresh dish.

This dish is very appetizing, and Zhou Zhi also used the baked dried fish to make a stir-fried dried fish with green pepper and tempeh, which is also an excellent side dish.

The noodle cake is made into a paste with flour and corn flour, and then the cake pan is heated and oiled to pour the paste, and then scraped with bamboo slices.

The method is similar to that of northern pancakes, but there is only one ingredient—chopped green onion.

This one is also simple, after just a few glances, the girls also felt that they had almost mastered it, so they took the initiative to do it.

During the cooking time, the boys also discovered an interesting thing here - Shilu.

This is an ancient tool for squeezing sugarcane juice to make sugar on Zhongba Island, also known as "Tanglu".

The structure of Tanglu is very peculiar. There is a stone basin at the bottom, and two cylindrical "Lujiao" stand side by side on the stone basin.

Luke is about two feet high and about a foot in diameter.There is a square hole at the top, and two bearings made of hardwood wedges are respectively inserted.

There is a circle of square holes with the same shape, which is deep on the right and shallow on the left, in the middle of each piece. After inserting a hardwood wedge, it becomes a "gear".

One of them has a long wooden shaft on the top, which can be pushed and pulled by oxen. This Ludong is the driving wheel.

When the driving wheel rotates, another luke will also be driven to rotate, and that lug is the driven wheel.

The gap between the two pulleys is very small. Insert the sugar cane between the two reels, and the sugar cane will be squeezed into the gap with the rotation of the reels, and the sugar juice will flow down and flow into the wooden barrel along the groove of the stone basin.

Indigenous sugar making process is quite complicated.The second process is to boil sugar.

Cooking sugar has to go through three large iron pots, which are divided into the first pot, the middle pot and the tail pot.

The sugar cooker pours cane juice into the first pot and cooks for more than 30 minutes on high heat.

While cooking, use a colander to remove the bagasse and sugar bubbles in the cane juice.Sugar bubbles can be used as raw materials for shochu.

Then scoop the cane juice boiled in the first pot into the middle pot, cook for about [-] minutes, continue to remove the sundries and sugar bubbles, and then scoop it into the final tail pot.

Still cook over high heat, and use a wooden stick to stir the cane juice constantly to prevent the pan from sticking to burnt.After another [-] minutes of cooking, the water in the cane juice gradually evaporated and slowly turned into yellow syrup.

At this time, add an appropriate amount of lime powder, stir well, immediately scoop it into a large wooden barrel, quickly lift it outside, pour it on the sugar grid laid with straw mats, grind it, and finally slice it, which is called "yellow slice sugar".

If it is poured into small bowls and solidified, it is called "small bowl sugar".

If it is purer, it will no longer be called brown sugar or brown sugar, but solid sucrose. In ancient times, pure liquid sucrose was called "cane sugar", while solid sucrose was called "stone honey".

Therefore, a general Tangfang needs three master craftsmen, one is a squeezer, who needs to know the squeezer techniques such as feeding, branching, and tipping;
The second is the fire head, which requires skills such as hanging the stove, burning the two pots at the head and the tail, and letting the fire go.

The most important one is the sugar craftsman, who is equivalent to the chief engineer. He has to know everything, from blowing water, playing with leaves, putting ashes, lighting sugar, and killing sugar, as well as the work of the fire head and the squeezer.

To produce good sugar, it is necessary to coordinate and cooperate with the upper and lower processes.

Ash foot means that the lime used as a coagulant should be placed just right.

Huokou means that the heat of the syrup should be just right, and the ratio of sugar to water in the syrup should be just right.

Paoziqing means that the syrup has a clean texture without too many impurities.

Therefore, a truly skilled sugar crafter, no matter what kind of land the sugar cane grows, just needs to chew a few mouthfuls to know whether or not to eat ashes and how much ashes to eat for the day's sugar water.

After the sugar water in the first pot is boiled, grasp the amount of ash, and put it down at one time. The sugar sand that comes out must be fine in taste and good in color.

Therefore, like traditional Chinese medicine, they also have the four subjects of hope, smell, listen, and cut.

To look is to observe, to check whether the sugar water is eaten or not;
Smell is to judge the maturity of syrup through the taste of sugar;

Listen, listen to which pot is out of water, let the fire head add sugar water, and listen to whether the sound of the bubble is just right;
Everything is acceptance. After the sugar comes out of the bowl, touch it with your hand, and you can know the texture of the sugar this time and the approximate price.

These are one of Zhouzhi's "essential work", collecting and sorting out local intangible cultural heritage.

Like dialect research, this is something Zhou Zhi found for himself. He didn't dare to use such a weird and overly westernized term as "intangible cultural heritage", but used the simpler "traditional skills" to tell Things like my godfather have civilized value, and they need to be sorted out and protected just like cultural relics.

Then the godfather said that this idea is very good, since it is your idea, let's start with you.

This is also the consistent education method of godfather Wu Lingjun, who encourages you to speak freely, but since you think you have grasped the truth, please prove it through your own practice before explaining it.

Because practice is the only criterion for testing truth, you can't just be responsible for judging yourself, but leave the work of proving yourself right or wrong to others, right?

Zhou Zhi is also convinced of this, because after the advent of the Internet age in later generations, there will be such a large class of people who always just judge lightly, but never prove it through their own serious research and practice.

Even in the end, there is no need to judge or think, just forward it.

For example, all kinds of fruits, as long as they appear in shapes and sizes that have never been seen before, are genetically modified; for example, KFC’s chicken wings come from chickens with wings; for example, high-speed rail will be repaired to Indonesia...

They will never think about important technologies such as genetic modification, and will only use them to solve the big topic of the world food crisis, so they will definitely be used in staple food and oil crops first;
They will never think about how much a breakthrough will be made in organ tissue culture and transplantation in human medicine if there is such a chicken full of wings. Such technology can never be used only to make KFC not lack chicken wings;
They will never check how deep the trench between China and the Strait of Malacca needs to go, whether it is possible to build such a high pier with the current technology; or whether there is such a pontoon technology that can withstand ocean currents and storms.

Whatever it is, turn it right.

That kind of people also cherish the feelings of family and country, and eventually transformed into the kind of people who just judge, don't prove; just criticize, and never introspect - Internet dicks and mobs.

In order to prevent himself from becoming such a person, Zhou Zhi had no choice but to obey his godfather's instructions obediently.

Making sugar is a traditional craft on the island. Although it is already a neighboring county, Zhou Zhi still earnestly collects and records it.

In fact, the friends are not very interested in these things, but the teenagers who are in the second stage have their own set of ideas, that is, since they have discovered a "novelty" thing, they must master it by mastering it. to get a sense of accomplishment.

Therefore, the second-year teenagers had a complete confrontation with this "Tanglu" - without this stone roller to squeeze out sugarcane juice, this trip to Zhongba would not be perfect.

(End of this chapter)