I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 256 Making Compressed Dry Food
Making compressed biscuits and beef jerky is actually a very simple thing.

The technical content of these two things is not very high.

Especially compressed biscuits.

Ying Changsheng makes compressed biscuits. The material he chooses is of course wheat, because flour is more suitable for making compressed biscuits than rice.

During the Qin Dynasty, the Chinese people didn't like to eat noodles. In fact, wheat was a crop.

It was not until the Tang and Song Dynasties that it gradually became popular and became a real staple food for bombs. In the Qin Dynasty at this time, not many people knew how to eat wheat.

Because the current Qin Dynasty is not very good at processing wheat.

In general.

They all directly put the wheat in a pot for boiling or steaming.

This way of eating tastes extremely unpalatable.

As for why not grind into flour to eat?

The reason is also very simple. During the Qin Dynasty, things like graphite were difficult to make.

Due to the backwardness of productivity, plus I don't know how to eat pasta.

So many people don't know how delicious pasta is.

I don't like to eat it either, under such circumstances.

The crop of wheat is naturally difficult to be popular.

In the current Qin Dynasty, the most popular rice is millet.

now.

Ying Changsheng plans to use wheat to make compressed biscuits.

First, the wheat must be ground into flour.

This is not a difficult task, the reason is very simple, the Great Qin Empire has entered the age of steam.

Although the steam engine is still relatively primitive, although the scope of application of steam is relatively narrow, it does not prevent this thing from happening.

This does not prevent the Great Qin Empire from entering the most basic industrial age.

At this moment, the steam engine is connected to the stone mill.

Driven by the rapidly rotating steam engine, the huge mill disc produced the flour needed by Ying Changsheng in a short while.

Of course these flours are more primitive.

It is also mixed with a large amount of wheat husk.

It needs to be sifted through a fine sieve to get the real edible flour.

It was hard to make the flour.

Ying Changsheng has already started to make it.

Made this compressed biscuit.

At this moment, I only saw him directing a few craftsmen who had washed their hands and said.

"Pour these flours into the basin immediately, and then fetch those ghee according to my instruction!"

Ghee is nothing else but fat extracted from milk.

To make compressed biscuits, in order to ensure the high calorie content of the biscuits, naturally water cannot be used as a concoction.

Oil is perfect.

Of course, the cost of ghee is relatively high.

In other words, its cost is not too high, but it is relatively difficult to obtain.

In the current Qin Dynasty, the cost is too low.

Fatty things are relatively difficult to obtain, and because of the current era, milk is the kind of scalper.

Milk production is too low.

In such cases, ghee is a very expensive thing.

But Ying Changsheng had his own ideas in doing so.

After all, this thing was made for use by senior officials of the empire.

It was for Ying Zheng to taste it himself.

Under such circumstances, of course you have to make them more delicious. As for what oil will be used to make compressed biscuits in the future?

Ying Changsheng had actually already considered it.

That is with canola oil.

Although the cost is still high.

But it's not unacceptable.

Moreover, Ying Changsheng recently planned to ask his subordinates to train those livestock.

Among those cows.

Cows with higher milk production are bred, and then the best ones are selected from generation to generation.

Select the best cows.

In this way, milk production is bound to increase greatly.

After three or five generations, the milk production of cows will definitely be much higher than it is now.

In addition, Ying Changsheng also plans to promote the cultivation of peanuts and other crops in Daqian.

It is not a rare thing here to win longevity with peanuts.

It can be exchanged through the national transportation value.

Ying Changsheng himself has planted thousands of acres of peanuts.

Used to eat.

It's perfectly fine to promote this stuff.

Because the Qin Dynasty was an era when the land was sparsely populated.

There is a lot of land. Under such circumstances, it is completely possible to plant some peanuts and some cash crops.

What's more, peanuts are edible crops, and their fat content is very high, so they can be used as a supplementary food.

now.

I saw Ying Changsheng directing the craftsmen in front of him.

After that flour is poured into ghee.

Ying Changsheng ordered them to add other things.

The difference is fine salt.

Salt is an essential thing for the human body.

If you don't eat salt, it will be harmful to the human body and not beneficial.

People must always replenish sodium.

The same goes for animals.

Under such circumstances, compressed biscuits are used as a military staple food for soldiers.

There must be enough salt added to it.

Of course, you can't add too much.

Because after adding too much salt.

Will lead to a consequence, that is.

This compressed biscuit.

The salt content is too high, that is, it tastes salty, just like pickles.

And this will lead to serious consequences.

Soldiers need to drink a lot of water to quench their thirst.

Considering that the soldiers of the Qin Army are currently attacking Dawan, which is far to the west of the Western Regions.

And the place is too far away from the Great Qin Empire.

Moreover, there are water-scarce deserts and Gobi Desert along the way. Faced with such a march, the soldiers have to find ways to obtain water sources.

It must be extremely difficult.

Historically, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Li Guangli to lead an army to attack Dawan, he encountered a dilemma, which was lack of water.

It can be seen from the documents unearthed in later generations.

At that time, the troops sent by the Han Dynasty faced the dilemma of water shortage repeatedly.

As a result, many non-combat attrition were caused.

Therefore, in the case of water shortage, you must not eat too much salt. It can supplement the needs of the human body, and it is enough. As for too much.

That's easy to go wrong.

Under such a problem.

Reducing the content of table salt is imperative.

In addition to adding salt.

Ying Changsheng also requires a lot of sugar to be added.

That is brown sugar.

Candy is a good thing.

Its caloric content is simply too high.

This thing.

The amount of energy that can be replenished in the stomach by eating it is much more than the same weight of food.

Except for these things.

Ying Changsheng added some sesame seeds to it respectively.

This is more delicious, with some nuts, almonds and the like.

After adding these.

He ordered the craftsmen to stir it up.

Then stir well.

Put it into the pre-prepared mold and make it into regular long strips.

Then put it into the prepared iron oven for baking.

When this is done, bake it in the oven.

Ying Changsheng immediately ordered the craftsmen.

Take out these compressed biscuits and put them in the sun, while there is still sunlight.

Wipe out all the moisture in it.

Only in this way can the effect of long-term preservation be achieved.

While in the sun.

You can’t be idle if you want to win immortality.

(End of this chapter)