Leisurely ancient daily life

Chapter 60 Saltpeter Ice Making
Compared with Lin Fansheng who is gradually getting on the right track of studying medicine, Youran is much more bumpy.

The pastries such as steamed cakes or shortbreads were all successful at the first time, but this time it took her a lot of effort to bake the bread.

Because this simple oven is just a rectangular iron box with two small smoke vents on the top and a small door that can be opened and closed on the bottom.

It relies on adding firewood to the inside, heating up the temperature of the iron box, and then turning off the fire, clearing out the excess firewood, leaving a little charcoal fire, placing the dough on a rectangular wooden board, putting it in, and closing the small lid. After a certain period of time, it can be baked.

But just thinking about it is easy in theory, but in practice, it can ruin Youran.

Because the oven is simple, the temperature depends on the time of burning the fire, which is extremely difficult to control, and how long to bake is also a problem.

So it took several days and wasted a lot of materials to roughly estimate the time and duration.

But it takes a long time. If it is sold as a commodity, the day lily will be cold after a batch of bread is baked, so ah, this method will not work, and the baked bread can only be eaten by yourself.

In the kitchen, in front of the stove.

Bang bang bang, leisurely and expressionlessly smashed the scorched hard bread the day before yesterday with a stone, feeling pain in her heart, and sighed that luckily she could still feed the chicks, otherwise her guilt would be even heavier, you know this But food! !

He quickly mixed the chicken food, took the wooden basin, and went to the forest.

Passing through the backyard and the vegetable garden, the two places are already lush green at this time, at least Youran doesn't need to worry about vegetables anymore.

And the pears, longan, and peppercorns in the forest behind have already begun to bear fruit, and they will be harvested after a while. Thinking of this, leisurely can't help but be happy.

When they arrived at the chicken coop, the chicks were no longer as cute as yellow pompoms, but had grown into half-sized chicks, so the fence was no longer closed, but they were allowed to be raised in the woods.

When it's meal time, Youran can't learn to yell at the villagers, but just knocks on the wooden basin, and the chickens will run back when they hear the sound.

But today I got up a bit late, most of the chicks had run away, only a few sporadically two or three were wandering around the chicken coop, and when they heard the sound, they rushed over.

Pour the chicken food into the food bowl, change the water, and then roughly clean the chicken coop.

Watering vegetables, doing laundry, cleaning...

After the daily housework was done, she went under the wall of the hut in the backyard again, and began to collect the white crystalline substance under the corner of the wall as in the previous two days.

These are saltpeter, also called ground frost, which usually appear in the crisp autumn season, and usually precipitate out in the shape of a shell or salt flower, covering the ground and the foot of the wall, especially in the corners of the pigsty, stables, and toilets.

It can be used as medicine, and can also be used to prepare malachite green glaze. It can also be used as a pigment for multicolored and pastel colors, and it is also one of the raw materials for making gunpowder.

But leisurely wants to use it to make ice! !
Because she forgot where she saw it, it was said that when saltpeter dissolves in water, it will absorb a lot of heat, which can warm the surrounding water until it freezes.

And she also experimented with this yesterday, and successfully harvested a tub of ice, which is simply not too good.

In this scorching sun and unbearably hot days, how happy it is to have ice cubes.

Thinking of this, You Ran couldn't help becoming more motivated. After carefully collecting the soil containing these white crystals, put them in a wooden barrel, add water to soak them, and find a piece of cloth. After filtering, pour part of the filtrate into a large pot Boiling, worrying about the waste of firewood, poured a small amount of it into wooden basins and wooden barrels and let it dry in the sun. These two methods can get saltpeter crystals.

The ice formed by adding saltpeter directly cannot be eaten directly, because it will cause diarrhea if it is bitter.

As for how to make ice that can enter the mouth, it is necessary to place a copper basin in the water with saltpeter, fill it with clean water, cool the water in the wooden basin with saltpeter, and turn the water in the copper basin into ice. You can eat it with peace of mind.

After leisurely tried to make sweet ice cubes with this method, she collected them for a few more days full of joy and excitement, wandered around the village, and successfully collected a small bag of saltpeter.

Originally, she wanted to use this method to make popsicles, but because the ice making time is too long and it is not easy to store, there is also the amount of saltpeter that needs to be used.

In the end, Lei Ran plans to make cold drinks. There is no need for more ice, but it is enough for people to drink a refreshing cold drink when they are sweating and even drinking warm water! !

Of course, she plans to bring Uncle Lin's family to do this together.

Because after a while, if she sold the dim sum recipes, she would be able to earn a considerable amount of silver, which would be enough for her and Lin Fansheng's daily expenses for a long time.

As for Shen Xia's family, the business of Liang's department store was unexpectedly stable, which allowed them to make a small profit. They didn't want the dividends, but continued to throw them in for investment.

Now Liang Erzhuang has also traveled farther to explore the source of goods, and even started cargo transportation, exchanging goods for goods, which is very powerful.

So seeing that both of them are up, one can't forget Uncle Lin's family who have helped him a lot.

"However-"

Just now, he was thinking about Uncle Lin's family, but now he heard Liu's voice, he relaxed and happily responded, "Hey!" and went to the front yard.

"I said you are really careful, this person is at home, and the door is unbolted." Liu joked with a smile, you know her house, even if no one is there, the door has never been locked.

"Hehehe, you have to be careful!" Youran whispered pretending to be mysterious, and glanced left and right, and then pulled Liu Shi into the door, in exchange for her exclamation.

After closing the yard door.

"You...what's wrong with you?" Liu Shi swallowed nervously and asked in a low voice.

"Come here, I'll show you something!" Seeing her nervous look, Youran said with a smile, and led Liu's puzzled face to the backyard.

"My God! Is this really ice?" Liu touched the cold ice in the basin, looked at her in shock, and said, "Are you amazing? How did you do this?"

"It's not that I saw that the oven was not working, and I was tossing the oven so hot that I suddenly thought of ice. When I thought of ice, I remembered a method that I saw by chance, so I wanted to try it. Who knew this Just try it." Youran smiled embarrassedly.

In fact, the failed oven was deliberately mentioned in the words, so that Liu Shi knew that this experiment was not 100% possible, so that he would not be too preoccupied.

"Well, if you have a way, you are already very powerful. The oven is not good, but the ice is good, isn't it?" Liu said excitedly: "But you are really like this!" thumbs up.

It was more embarrassing to say leisurely.

　Hmm... From now on, I will no longer make a decision on meals, thank you for the cute little ones who voted for the recommendation.

　　Let's get real, change it to every [-] recommendation tickets, and a new chapter will be added on the same day!
　　For example, the previous recommendation ticket of breaking [-] will be updated, and the next time it breaks [-], Fanfan will also be updated on the same day!And so on!

　　Finally, after the meal, I will start to work harder on codewords! !
　　The same goes for cuties, whether it is study or work!Come on together! !
　　I love you more than my heart ()

　　


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