I love farming since prehistoric times

After Priest Yu brought his apprentices in, the originally bustling cave fell silent in an instant.

Yu's apprentices found a convenient place to observe and sat down, and immediately began to carve on the stone slab.

The elderly and children in the tribe who don't need to go out to gather and hunt, all gathered here, and they each found a corner to sit and watch.

Adults put three large stone pots under the "juice extractor" to catch the juice that flows down.

Afterwards, he arranged for Zao and another strong clansman to turn the handle to squeeze the juice. This is a physical labor, and today there are a lot of sweet stalks to be squeezed.

Zao and this tribe are about two meters tall, and their muscles are extremely developed. When they are adults, they think they are as strong as the Hulk.

He also arranged for a clansman to cut off the ends of the sweet sticks and hand them to Sheng.

Sweet stalks with hard tails are not suitable for making sugar. After processing, only the best half of a sweet stalk can be used.

Sheng put three or five sweet stalks side by side between the two juice-pressing tree trunks, and with the turning of the handle, push the sweet stalks to crush, and the juice will automatically flow into the stone pot below, and the squeezed sweet oranges are thrown aside .

Cheng Sui was very nervous, with sweat all over his forehead.

The ancient method of making candy is a test of skill. If you don't master it well, it will not be shaped, or it will be unpalatable. He must concentrate on controlling every link.

The female orcs looked at it and said:

"The sweet stick is too hard, so the juice is not only labor-saving but also fast, which is really good."

"Without this, even the most powerful orc would be exhausted to finish pressing so many sweet sticks."

"The main reason is that I can't squeeze out much juice after being exhausted, and all the sweet stalk residue will fall into the juice, so it won't happen at all."

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Yu instructed his apprentices to draw all parts of the juicing tool without missing any details.

Because of the high efficiency of the juicer, the orc has great strength, and it is done very quickly, and the three pots of sweet stalk juice were squeezed out in a short time.

Put the three pots aside, remove the foam on the surface, place the sediment, and continue to squeeze the juice.The first three pots are almost settled, so let them stop when they are old.

At this time, Rao led the hunting team through the big cave, and the members of the hunting team who watched followed him to hunt.

Cheng Sui let Sheng pour the precipitated sweet stalk juice into a larger pottery pot, only take the juice with few impurities in the middle, and discard all the sediment at the bottom. The three pots just turn into one pot.

The heat of boiling the sugar is very particular. It needs to be boiled on a high fire, then turned to a low heat to skim off the bubbles, then evaporated on a high heat, and finally the sugar is produced on a low heat.

Any one of these four steps will fail if the heat is not in place. Adults are engrossed in watching the changes in the syrup in the pot.

At the critical stage of making sugar with low heat, Cheng Sui made a wooden stick for stirring the syrup, and said: "Stir continuously, I won't stop if I don't say stop."

This process is called "catch water", as the name implies, it is to further separate out the water in the syrup.

When the syrup is so viscous that it takes a little effort to stir it, the water is over.

In the process of natural cooling, it is also necessary to keep stirring, so that the temperature inside and outside the syrup can be evenly lowered, so that the brown sugar can be better crystallized. This is called "sanding", and this process will directly affect the taste of the sugar.

When you see the syrup forming a viscous honey shape and showing a slightly crystal clear appearance when you are an adult, it means that the sanding is successful.

At this time, the syrup is about to solidify, so it needs to be poured into the film quickly.

During the five days of waiting for the sweet sticks to return to sugar, Cheng Sui made more than ten square molds with wood, each with twenty squares.

At this time, these molds are placed on the banana leaves. Under the guidance of adults, Zao Hesheng quickly pours the syrup into the squares.

In the end, dozens of sugar cubes were made out of this pot of syrup, and I was very satisfied when I was a grown-up, because the sugar yield was very high.

Then they juiced three more pans of sweet stalks and set them aside to settle while the sugar in the squares cooled completely.

Cheng Sui was very nervous. He poured all the sugar cubes on the banana leaves and picked up one to taste. He was afraid that it would be astringent or sandless, which would be a failure even if it was formed.

Everyone was extremely nervous, even breathing was suppressed.

After Cheng Sui ate it, he picked up a sugar cube and handed it to Yu, saying: "Ah, my lord priest, it's delicious!" He couldn't call Grandma directly in front of people, and he almost made a mistake.

Yu's excited hands trembled slightly, she took the sugar cube and ate it, and said, "It's denser, sandier and sweeter, better than the ones I've eaten in the Alien Beast King's Court, year old, you've made great contributions to the tribe!"

Cheng Sui happily said: "Then I will continue to do it, Lord Priest, you can distribute these to the tribe and your disciples to eat."

Yu gave a few simple instructions, and her apprentices distributed the first batch of sugar cubes to the onlookers and children.

Ordinary orcs have never even seen cube sugar. They only heard that it is a precious food only available to the King of Alien Beasts. When they ate sugar for the first time, they were reluctant to swallow it, and their eyes were full of tears.

They prostrated on the ground excitedly, first kowtowed to the sky outside to thank the Beast God, then kowtowed to Priest Yu and Sui respectively, and finally sat down and sighed:

"Old lady, I didn't expect to be able to eat top candy before I died, and I would be satisfied even if I died tomorrow."

"I saw Lord Flintblade Priest eating sugar cubes. That made me greedy. I drool a stone bed while sleeping. My greatest wish in this life is to lick a sugar cube. Today I ate a whole one!"

"Grandma, I have eaten the sugar cubes you mentioned. Grandma, the priest said that people will turn into stars after death. I will save half of it to eat when the stars come out at night, and you will be able to see it."

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With experience, the second batch of candy was quickly made, and distributed to the priest's apprentices, as well as the three clan members who helped out, and Sheng Chi. Everyone was very excited and kept talking about how delicious and sweet it was.

All day long they were making sugar cubes, and they finished all the sweet sticks that covered the cave, and it was evening.

Cheng Sui distributed more than ten sugar cubes to the three helping clansmen, which made them very happy.

You must know that a sugar cube can be exchanged for a horned beast if taken to other tribes, but they are not going to exchange it for meat. They have no shortage of meat now, so of course such a precious thing should be treasured.

At the age of adulthood, take out some sugar cubes and let Rao distribute them to other tribesmen, each of them can taste a piece.

After the hundreds of people were divided, he still had a lot left, so he gave half of it to Yu, and asked Yu to bring it to other priests to taste.

Originally, he could not distribute it to all the clansmen, but only a little to the three clansmen who helped, but he just wanted to make the clansmen happy, and it would also help him accumulate his reputation and prestige.

In the future, he also wants to engage in planting and animal husbandry in the tribe, all of which need the trust and support of the tribe to do so.

In the evening of that day, the whole Hushan Mountain was echoed with cheers one after another.

Sitting in his own dam and looking down, the setting sun dyes everything on the ground with a warm orange.

The children were chasing and playing, some adults prostrated themselves on the ground to thank the beast gods, some kissed each other on trees, grass, big rocks, etc., some were cleaning up pots and pans...

Rao and Jiangchu returned home together after distributing the candy to the tribe, Rao was still holding a little hoofed beast in his hand.

Cheng Sui ran to his parents and said, "Where did this sheep come from? We can eat roast lamb now!"

Rao said with a smile: "Master Priest said that you have made great contributions to making candy, and I rewarded you. Do you want me to kill you now?"

Cheng Sui noticed that the sheep seemed to be breastfeeding, so he immediately said: "I won't eat the roast lamb, let's keep it for the milk."

Sheng immediately came over and said, "It's not good, the smell is very strong, it's good to eat meat."

Cheng Sui asked Rao to tie the sheep to the shed, while running to get the stone pot, he said: "I have a way to remove the fishy smell, and it will be delicious when I make it."

He asked his two elder brothers to help hold the sheep. The sheep here are bigger than calves, and they milked half a pot of milk at a time. The freshly squeezed milk is particularly smelly.

Then he washed some ginger, pounded out the ginger juice for later use, then added half a pot of milk with appropriate amount of water, almonds and sugar, and cooked it slowly over low heat while stirring constantly.

I made a lot of brown sugar today. When I took it home, I used clean bark to burn activated carbon, took some brown sugar and re-boiled it into syrup, put the activated carbon into the syrup, boiled and filtered repeatedly.

Activated carbon is the key to turning brown sugar into white sugar. The carbon has a strong adsorption capacity and can absorb all the impurities in the brown sugar. Finally, white crystals are obtained, which is white sugar.

After the milk in the pot came out with small bubbles, he immediately poured the milk into the pot with ginger juice, and after cooling, he got half a pot of milky milk with thick and mellow ginger juice.

Finally, he sprinkled some walnut kernels and various dried fruits on top, which made it look more beautiful and delicious.

He divided the ginger milk into six portions, one for each member of the family, and kept a bowl to give to the priest grandma later.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Grandma came to his house on her own initiative. The priest was very busy, and Grandma seldom came to his house. I don't know how she has time today. Of course, the whole family is very happy.

Cheng Sui hurriedly brought out the reserved breast milk and said, "Grandma, I originally wanted to have my dad deliver it to you later."

Yu sat on the stone bench and said while drinking, "It's really delicious, Sui is getting stronger and stronger."

Sheng exclaimed: "It's so fresh, so fragrant, so slippery, so sweet!" In fact, when the milk was boiling, his mouth watered, because he could smell the fishy smell gradually disappearing, and the milk fragrance became stronger and stronger.

Rao and Jiang Chu also drank very satisfied, and even the eldest brother who usually doesn't like to talk couldn't help but praise a few words.

The adult's stomach is very full, because they just had dinner not long ago, but the ginger juice and milk are so delicious, he still feels a little bit unsatisfied after drinking it.

At this time, a cry piercing the clouds came from the top of the mountain, and when he looked up, he saw a huge and incomparable Fengshen pterosaur flying in the front, followed by a group of even bigger Fengshen pterosaurs.

Obviously the leading Fengshen pterosaur is still underage, but its size is already frighteningly large, not much smaller than the group of adult pterosaurs following behind.

Rao exclaimed in amazement: "One of the animal forms of Yizhi is the Fengshen pterosaur. The leader must be Yizhi. We all thought he would die. Not only did he not die, but he became the leader of this group of Fengshen pterosaurs. What happened to him? Did it?"

Cheng Sui didn't care about obsession, he just thought, it's getting dark, why hasn't Xue Bao come back?

After he made sugar cubes for the first time this morning, Xuebao disappeared without a trace. He left some goat milk for Xuebao just now. Cats like the fishy smell. After a long time, the smell will dissipate and it will not be so delicious .

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The author has something to say:

It is said that sugar is really precious. Until the Middle Ages in Europe, sugar was often eaten by nobles. In order to show that their families were rich, the nobles would make desserts sweet.

Modern Europeans especially love to eat sweets, because the sweets they ate in the past were a symbol of status, and gradually everyone ate sweeter and sweeter.This is the reason why any of the famous desserts in modern Europe are unbearable to the Chinese.

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