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Chapter 13 Refined Salt

Banniang said: "No one in the world will eat beef offal. Only the extremely poor will take it home and cook it."

Su You then remembered that people in the Song Dynasty didn't eat much, and the cook had thrown away yesterday's chicken offal.

A simple and honest villager grinned and said: "That's right, in our village, except for the fatter beef intestines, which are boiled and fed to the dogs, everything else is thrown away..."

Su You's eyes widened: "So wasteful?"

After he finished speaking, he rolled his eyes and said with a serious face: "Farmers work hard, but they can only afford food and clothing. A day's hard work in the market can hardly save a hundred dollars. Every porridge and meal, remember that it is hard-earned, half a thread, half a thread, and always think about material resources."

Difficult. In my Su family village, there is no such thing."

These words made Twenty-Seven Mother freeze there, and Su Baniang even had tears in her eyes: "Uncle Xiaoyao, we are farmers in Longli Mountain, are we really living in such poverty?"

Twenty-seven mothers walked up to Su You and said, "The slave family has learned a lesson."

After saying that, he stood up with a serious face and said to the sturdy man just now: "Shi Da, I will not pursue the matter of the cattle slipping. However, what the young gentleman said is reasonable. Today, I will let you eat cattle offal."

, as punishment, are you convinced?"

"Ah?!" Su You and Shi Da were stunned at the same time.

Shi Da grimaced: "This matter is the fault of the villager. Twenty-seven mothers, we accept this punishment. Thank you for your noble hand and letting me go gently."

But Su You quit: "Wait a minute!"

The twenty-seventh mother put her hands together and said, "What are your instructions, young sir?"

Su You wiped his saliva and gritted his teeth and said: "I am an outsider and should not interfere in your village's affairs. This is disrespectful, so I should be punished. And it's up to me to make the decision. If I don't share the joys and sorrows with the villagers,

That is causing slander and resentment, so I must eat with the farmers today! Cow! Miscellaneous!"

Eight Niangs and Twenty-seven Niangs quickly stopped him, but Su You had made up his mind and even used his seniority to suppress others, so he managed to get by.

After calling two farmers to look for the buried beef offal, Su You secretly wiped his sweat. It was not easy to get a delicious bite.

Hairy belly! Here I come!

After picking up the newly buried beef offal from the ground, Su You directed the two men to move the offal to the stream and set up a formation to clean it.

I caught a kid named Dong'er, who accidentally threw the cow while grazing it. He went back with me and asked the village head for half a catty of wheat flour. He also took a big dustpan and put clean straw poles underneath.

The pole was covered with clean river sand from the stream, and a layer of straw was spread on the river sand.

Eight Niang and Twenty-seven Niang thought it was extremely strange, so they both came over to see what he was going to do.

Su You instructed Dong'er to burn a pile of grass ashes, then drag out a large wooden basin and mix the grass ashes into the basin, then scoop the ashes into the pot and filter them to get clean water.

The water that has been filtered through three layers is very clear and pure. When Su You tried it, it felt a little slippery.

I asked Zhuangtou for half a catty of mustard seeds, and asked Dong'er to grind them into fine powder, add warm water to make a paste, pour soybean oil on them to isolate the air, then cover them with a plate and put them on the stove to keep warm.

By this time, the farmer had already washed the offal and sent it over.

Su You directed the farmer to make a pump out of a bamboo tube, pump water into the cow's lungs, then rub and squeeze it to force out the blood, water and impurities inside.

Don't worry about the beef heart and liver. Wash the tripe with flour and soak it in grass ash water to remove excess fat.

While cutting off the large arteries of the cow, they were also collected with sour oil, scraped and washed, and soaked in grass ash water. This stuff is a delicacy in hot pot.

Then the pancreas is fed to the dogs, and the beef loin is kept for a while before processing.

What's left is beef intestines.

The small intestine is processed first, and the dealer is instructed to rub it with salt to make a powdery liquid, then hang it with flour and wash it.

The same goes for the large intestine.

Soon, several large pots were placed in the yard, filled with clean cow offal.

Su Baniang and Shi Erqiniang looked at each other. This guy kept saying that he wanted to eat coarse food, but before he even cooked it, half a catty of salt powder was removed and two catties of flour were removed first. Isn't this a waste of food?

But looking at the pots of food, they were very different from the dirty internal organs I had seen before. Maybe... they were really edible?

Su You didn't care what they thought. After washing it, he boiled a large vat of water and asked people to hammer the beef bones into pieces and add them to the vat for boiling.

Then someone boils another vat of water, cuts the large and small intestines into large pieces, throws them into the vat and scalds them for a while, then takes them out and asks someone to cut them into small pieces, and then collects all the white fat on the intestinal wall in a small basin.

In addition to blanching the beef offal, he used a spoon to slowly remove the foam from the beef bone soup vat.

The farmer had cooked the beef and left some of the tender meat for the two ladies to make ingredients. The rest was marinated in large chunks, and then some people came over to help.

At this time, the person whom Ba Niang sent to get the Thirteen Fragrance Powder came back.

Su You asked people to sew half of the medicinal powder into a gauze bag, picked a stone, washed it, tied it, and sank it into a large vat to make soup. He also added a lot of peppercorns and ginger slices.

While letting the dealer boil the intestinal oil, remove the hairy belly artery, rinse it with water, and cut off the lung slices, hairy belly, and yellow throat.

The children were all assigned to pick celery, coriander, shallots, wash ginger and peel garlic.

The women cooked rice and prepared vegetables.

Although there were many people and many things to do, Su You's command arranged everything in an orderly manner, and everyone exerted maximum efficiency.

Twenty-seven Niang whispered to Banniang on the side: "Banniang, if Xiaoyou becomes the head of the village, provides food and accommodation, and makes ten guan of money a year, there will be no problem at all."

Ba Niang chuckled proudly: "Our little uncle will study to be a Jinshi master in the future. Every porridge and rice should be remembered as hard-earned, half a thread, and constantly thinking about the financial difficulties. These words are Zhuang's words.

Can you tell it in your head?"

Twenty-seventh mother covered her mouth and smiled and said: "I want to tell my ancestors about this and add it to the family motto. Ouch, what is it about that smells so good?"

Ba Niang also smelled it at this time and swallowed: "Yesterday, Uncle Yao made a chicken blood soup with chicken blood. It tasted extremely delicious. How about we set an example today?"

Twenty-seventh mother sniffed: "Well, that makes sense. After all, Xiaoyou is a guest. There is no reason for guests to come and eat water while the host eats beef. I have decided that I will share the joys and sorrows with Xiaoyou and the bankers!

"

After saying this, both of them felt a little shameless and couldn't help but look at each other and giggle.

Salt is the thing that Su You can't stand the most in this world. After finishing cleaning up, Su You called Zhuangtou over and, as he didn't say, purified the salt.

The rice and noodles were fine, and the offal was left to the young master's liking, but the salt had to be bought with money. The head of the village didn't dare to make the decision on this matter, so he ran to report it to the twenty-seventh mother.

Twenty-seventh mother waved her hand: "Just listen to what the young master of the Su family wants to do. There is no need to report it."

The next step is to boil salt, filter, burn lime, and grind soy milk.

Just burn the plant ashes, and what you get is a potassium carbonate solution.

Lime is common and necessary for farms. After burning, calcium oxide is obtained, and water is added to form a calcium hydroxide solution.

Then it's time for magic.

Mix straw ash water and lime water to obtain potassium hydroxide alkali solution and calcium carbonate precipitation.

Add saturated brine with potassium hydroxide alkali solution to generate magnesium hydroxide suspension, and remove the magnesium ions in the brine.

Then add plant ash water, use potassium carbonate to generate calcium carbonate suspension, and remove calcium ions in the brine.

Then add soy milk, and use the complexing effect that occurs when the protein encounters salt to condense the suspended solids and impurities in the suspension into clumps.

After filtration, sodium chloride, sodium sulfate and potassium salts are obtained.

Finally, through heating and crystallization, the vast majority of sodium chloride is precipitated out by utilizing the principle of different crystallization temperatures and concentrations of different salts, and the remaining liquid is evaporated to dry water and becomes a mixed crystal of mainly sodium sulfate and potassium salts.

When a bowl of snow salt and a few bile pills were placed in front of Ba Niang and Erqi Niang, everyone was dumbfounded.

Twenty-seven mothers dipped their fingers into the snow salt powder, put it in her mouth, and sighed: "It has such a pure salty taste, not even a hint of bitterness or astringency!"

After saying that, he picked up a gallbladder pill with his hand and prepared to lick it. Su You quickly stopped him: "This is a gallbladder pill. The bitter taste that disappears from the snow salt is concentrated here. It can be used to make tofu.

But you can’t just taste it like this.”

Twenty-seventh mother has now become a big fan of Su You, she nodded stupidly and said: "Oh..."

Su You asked: "Has the person who went to pick out Guanyin soil come back?"

Only then did Twenty-Seventh Mother come back to her senses from the snow-white bile pills: "I'm back, I'm back."

Su You said: "Then let him pick out the whitest Guanyin soil, use the same method I did in the morning, stir out the mud, filter, stir, let it stand, and settle. Use gauze to absorb water."

Twenty-seven mothers said: "Then eight mothers and I will deal with this matter first."
Chapter completed!
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