The second silly daughter-in-law who likes to cultivate the fertile fields

Chapter 616 Try Making Soap (2)

I saw that after she cleaned all the gardenia petals, she chopped them finely for later use.

Then I took out a small earthen pot and covered it with a piece of gauze. The edge of the gauze hung out of the pot, and then poured the chopped gardenia petals into it, and then put half of the pot in the iron pot. The water in the pot was put into the earthen pot. Seeing that the bottom of the pot would not float on the water, he directly covered the pot and steamed slowly for about half an hour, and the water in the pot was almost dry. From then on, he took a damp cloth and put it in the pot, took out the crock pot, put it on the table above and let it cool slowly.

And there is no need to turn off the fire under the stove, just add two scoops of cold water to the pot, and put another earthen pot filled with rose flowers in it to continue steaming.

While Du Xiaozhu was watching the fire under the stove, he was watching the pot of steamed gardenia petals.

When the honeysuckle was almost ready to come out of the pot, Du Xiaozhu went to test the temperature of the gardenia again. After confirming that it had cooled down, he hurriedly took a large bowl and put the four corners of the gauze together. Lift out the crock and slowly wring out the juice.

Because the petals are steamed in gauze in advance, the flower juice can be squeezed out directly, saving the trouble of filtering again.

Although nearly half a jar of flower petals finally squeezed out only half a bowl of flower juice, Du Xiaozhu was already very satisfied. Although the taste was slightly weaker than that of flowers, it was already very good. Flower juice, she knew that the first step was a success, and her joy was beyond words.

As for the other two cans of steamed flower petals, Du Xiaozhu also temporarily lost interest in them. Anyway, they haven't cooled down yet, and they won't be able to squeeze out the flower juice for a while. Why don't you try making a pot of flower soap first.

Thinking so, Du Xiaozhu was ready to clean up the small stove outside her house.

Since what he was going to make this time was floral soap, Du Xiaozhu wanted to make better soap, so he filtered the remaining plant ash water again and again.

The original layer of gauze has become three layers, but there is no water dripping from the plant gray water. It was not until a moment later that the filtered water was dripping down, and the speed was really slow.

Du Xiaozhu was not in a hurry, let it filter slowly, and he packed up the things to be used one by one in the bamboo dustpan, and put them next to the small stove, so as not to be in a hurry like the previous two days.

Du Xiaozhu didn't act until nearly one-third of the vegetation and gray water had been filtered.

Put the plant ash water into the earthen pot, heat it slowly on a low fire, and add fat oil. Du Xiaozhu doesn't know when to put the flower juice in. If it is too early, he is afraid that the fragrance will evaporate with the water vapor during the heating process. It's too late, and I'm afraid that the fragrance won't penetrate into the soap well.

Du Xiaozhu looked at the fire under the stove with a tangled face, adding more firewood from time to time, and kept stirring the soap in his hands to let it saponify quickly.

This time, what she used to stir was a long bamboo piece, thin at the top and wide at the bottom, which could make the soap liquid more even and save effort.

When Yang Xiuning came back, he saw her sitting by the small stove with frowning and serious expression, so he didn't bother her, but went directly into the kitchen to prepare lunch.

Du Xiaozhu thought for a long time, and finally decided to add the salt in the last step. This time, she compared whether adding the salt early is more conducive to the solidification of the soap or putting it later, so she added fat and oil and added the salt. and put it down.

(End of this chapter)