A man travels through time and becomes a widow, only wanting to pursue a career

The fire for boiling sugar should be high at first. Use strong fire to boil the sugar cane juice in the pot. After boiling, reduce some firewood and continue to boil.

Chen Changsheng picked up a large spoon and carefully removed the layer of foam on the surface of the pot. After removing it, he continued to stir.

When all the sugarcane juice in the pot was boiling and churning up and down, Chen Changsheng continued to fish out the remaining impurities in the boiling sugarcane juice and stirred vigorously.

After a while, her hand holding the spoon and stirring felt unbearably sour, and she began to tremble a little. She quickly shouted, "Dafu, come and help me!"

Dafu was chopping firewood. When he heard his mother's call, he immediately dropped the ax in his hand and came over.

He took the spoon and stirred the cane juice, and white steam enveloped the entire stove.

Chen Changsheng shook his sore wrist and then exhaled, "While stirring, observe whether there are any extra impurities in the pot. If there are any, scoop them up."

When making sugar, you must ensure purity. If sugarcane peel or bagasse is mixed in, the appearance and taste of the final product will be completely different.

Chen Dafu nodded, stirred more vigorously, and saw that the juice in the pot began to slowly decrease.

Chen Changsheng asked Erlu to weaken the firewood in the stove and let it burn slowly. The juice in the pot gradually changed from big bubbles to dense small bubbles.

The air is filled with the fragrance of pressed sugar.

The firelight from the stove was imprinted on Chen Erlu's face. He raised the corners of his mouth and asked for credit, "Mom, am I good at controlling the heat?"

Chen Changsheng smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad. I can win the battle if I follow my mother's command."

"The key to boiling sugar is the heat. If the heat is not well controlled and the sugar is cooked too much, the sugar will become stale and not only will it taste hard, but it will also pull your teeth.

If the heat is too low and the water in the sugar juice has not evaporated completely, the sugar scooped out of the pot will not solidify and become a thin and thick sugar batter, and it cannot be stored for a long time. "

After hearing this, Erlu stared into the stove again, carefully controlling the heat.

After all, it is about the 50-50 split, so how can we take it lightly?

The sky began to slowly darken, and the entire sky was filled with a gentle orange color.

The cane juice in the pot basically has no blisters, but is like lava, constantly rolling and making a "gurgling" sound.

Chen Changsheng laughed, which meant that the sugar water was almost ready.

She took the wooden spoon from Dafu's hand and put it into the sugar pot, scooped out a spoonful and looked closely. The color was dark red, the fragrance was rich, and the sugar juice was sticky and continuous.

It's time to get out of the pot.

She immediately shouted, "Dafu, go and bring the tank!"

It was an oil-free and water-free sugar vat that Chen Changsheng had already prepared.

The thick syrup was spooned into the sugar vat, and Dafu stirred the sugar juice in the vat back and forth with a stick.

This link is also very critical. You must keep stirring to let the syrup return to the sand. The whole process must be done in one go without losing any strength until the syrup becomes darker and darker in color and turns into mud.

Chen Changsheng then remembered that she had forgotten to prepare the mold in advance.

She quickly ran to the house, bought two square cake molds from the bracelet mall, and bought oil paper to cover them.

Before it solidified, Chen Changsheng poured the syrup onto the oil paper, just enough to fill a mold half full.

She carefully placed the two molds on the table and waited for the syrup to dry and solidify into blocks.

If you don't want brown sugar lumps and want to make brown sugar, continue to grind the boiled brown sugar with a wooden spatula. After half an hour, the brown sugar will be in the form of powder, and that's it.

Chen Dafu's arms became thicker from stirring the syrup. Erlu was not much better, his whole body was so hot that he was soaked to the skin.

Tonight, I need to take a good bath.

It was completely dark.

Chen Changsheng lit a pine oil candle, sat down in the room and began to settle accounts.

A total of three bundles of sugar cane were used today, with ten bundles each. The sugar cane was not fully mature yet, so each bundle was calculated as five kilograms, and a total of one hundred and fifty kilograms of sugar cane was consumed. There are a total of fifteen kilograms of brown sugar in the two molds, and the output ratio is ten to one.

A piece of sugar cane costs five cents per piece, so the total cost of fifteen pounds of brown sugar is about one hundred and fifty cents.

The price of brown sugar in the market is fifteen cents per catty, and the brown sugar can be sold for two hundred and twenty-five cents.

Today she only squeezes juice manually. If she uses a stone roller, the juice yield will be higher. When the sugarcane is fully mature and has enough juice, it should be possible to produce more than 20 kilograms of brown sugar, and the profit will be doubled.

Chen Changsheng wrote calculations on paper. After finishing the calculation, she went to check the brown sugar in the mold. It had completely dried and solidified, and the softness and hardness were just right.

She unmolded the brown sugar and was about to break off a small piece to taste when she saw Dafu coming into the room with a bowl of water.

"Mom, try it quickly."

Chen Changsheng took it and took a sip, feeling sweet in his mouth.

Before she could ask why the water was sweet, Dafu said directly, "Is it sweet? I mixed the dregs from the sugar bowl with water to make it."

He was about to wash the sugar bowl, but saw that there was still some syrup residue at the bottom that had not been scraped off. Based on the principle of not wasting it, he poured a few ladles of water into it and boiled it while there were still sparks in the stove. Half a pot of brown sugar water.

"Mom, have we succeeded in making this brown sugar?" Chen Dafu asked excitedly.

Chen Changsheng nodded and smiled, "Call your younger brothers and sisters in. Let's all have a taste."

She broke off a corner of the whole piece of brown sugar and divided it into five small portions. Everyone was given a piece, and several people couldn't wait to stuff it into their mouths.

"How sweet!"

"It still tastes rustic."

Chen Dafu's eyes were shining brightly, "Sweet, sweeter than brown sugar water."

Even if they have eaten candy bars from the city, everyone still thinks the brown sugar made by themselves is sweeter.

Erlu couldn't forget the 50-50 split in his mind and couldn't wait to ask, "Mom, if I sell it, how much money can I make? How much can we share?"

Chen Changsheng told the truth, "If you can earn 150 cents, our family will share 75 cents."

"Ah, I have been working hard for a long time to earn this much." Erlu's tone was slightly disappointed.

He and Dafu spent the afternoon greasing silk, pressing juice, chopping wood to light a fire, and boiling sugar. It took them a long time to get so little money. It would be a lie to say they were not disappointed.

Chen Changsheng smiled, "Everything is difficult at the beginning, so don't be dissatisfied with the lack of money. Remember, our family didn't even have ten coppers at the beginning.

We did this for a long time today because the stone roller was out of use. It took almost three hours just to cut the sugar cane and grate the juice and squeeze it. It was also the first time we did it, so everything was a trial and error.

Now I have finally succeeded in boiling sugar. It would be much faster if I could use the stone roller again and save the time of chopping and grating the sugar cane. Do you think so? "

The four people nodded.

"It's getting late. Let's pack up everything. Let's all take a shower and get some rest early. We'll take brown sugar with us into the city tomorrow."

Accompanied by the crowing of frogs, the five members of the Chen family fell asleep.