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It takes about three hours from the time of adding ingredients to the finished product. Taking advantage of this time, Li Anran began to guide the cooking of sugar.

After seeing that a better life was coming, Zhao Da and Zhao Er, who was never a lazy man, worked overtime to create a lot of simple filters.

After a series of procedures such as dissolving miscellaneous sugar, preliminary filtration, secondary filtration, third filtration, simmering over low heat, crystallization and honey separation, snow sugar is obtained. Because the color of miscellaneous sugar is too poor, coupled with the boiling process

According to the loss in sugar, each kilogram of miscellaneous sugar can be extracted at most six taels, and under normal circumstances only three to four taels can be extracted.

But compared to the output ratio of only 50%, the price of snow sugar is at least ten times that of miscellaneous sugar, and it is likely to be higher. The most important thing is that it is not sold yet.

While he was busy making sugar, Li Anran did not forget about the barbecued pork in the oven. After constantly flipping and adjusting the positions, the meat hanging in the oven could be heated evenly, so that there would be no undercooked parts or spots.

The place was already scorched.

When the first batch of roasted barbecued pork finally came out, all the miscellaneous sugar that Zhao bought the day before had been used up, and only the last batch of snow sugar was still being cooked.

“It smells so good!”

“It smells so good!”

"This meat is very nice."

"That's right, that's right."

"Guji..."

"Guji..."

Just as Zhao Dazhao and Zhao Er were surrounding the freshly roasted barbecued pork, expressing their opinions with joyful expressions on their faces, loud abdominal rumblings started to sound one after another.

After working all morning, there was no time to prepare food. Li Anran simply used up the remaining bone soup and made ramen for everyone.

This time the side dish is no longer bacon, but freshly baked barbecued pork. The four Zhao brothers were a little reluctant to eat it at first. After all, the meat not only looks great, but also smells great.

You know it tastes good. Such good meat must be sold. It would be a waste to eat it yourself.

Fortunately, Li Anran finally got through the work of the Zhao brothers on the grounds that if he couldn't even taste the meat he was roasting this time, how could he roast it well in the future? The piece of meat was one centimeter thick.

The outside is crispy and the inside is soft and tender. Because it is well marinated, the full gravy is perfectly sealed inside by the outside of the barbecued pork.

The only thing that made Li Anran a little dissatisfied was that the fishy smell of the wild boar meat was still a bit strong. Although he had tried every means to remove it, some of it still remained. Fortunately, the barbecued pork was grilled, and the smell of wild boar meat was still strong the first day.

It is marinated in a sauce prepared by grinding various spices and miso. If you don't taste it carefully, you won't be able to taste this little bit of flavor.

After lunch, with the expectation of the four Zhao brothers, Li Anran ordered the roasted barbecued pork and the boiled sugar to be loaded into the car together.

Although the Zhao family's cattle had recovered, they were still in the recovery period, so they had no choice but to go to the family elder Zhao Qingshan's house to borrow an ox cart. For this reason, Li Anran also specially asked Zhao Da to send two roasted barbecued pork and a small bag.

Xuetang, although the four Zhao brothers were somewhat heartbroken about this approach, none of them raised objections.

Soon, Zhao Da, who went to borrow a car, successfully drove the ox cart back. After loading a basket of roasted barbecued pork and a bag of sugar candies into the car, Zhao Da and his wife drove the car.

Rush to Lantian County.

Originally, Li Anran wanted to do other things, but considering that almost all the funds of the Zhao and Zhao families were invested in barbecue and sugar candies, he could only put those other plans on hold for the time being. However, he did not do so.

So he took his time and took Zhao Er with him to dig a cave along the hillside and prepare to build a simple small charcoal kiln.

At the same time, she did not forget to ask Mrs. Zhao to cut open the river mussels that had been vomited for two days after changing the water several times, and took out the meat inside and cleaned them.

Although there was a lot of wild boar meat left over, most of it was used to make bacon, bacon, bacon and barbecued pork. For Li Anran, what he needs most right now is money, so eating meat is just a matter of time.

I can think of another way. Fortunately, in the past two days, the boys of Zhao Da and Zhao's family were not idle. They touched a lot of river clams, eels, loaches, etc. by the river and in the ditch.

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As for why there are so many river fish but no one comes to catch them, it’s actually very simple. It’s mainly because no one knows how to eat these things to make them delicious. Take the wild boar meat we got before, for example, even though it’s so big

One head. If you just drag it directly to the county town and sell it, it won't actually sell for much at all.

Who told people in this era to not eat pork at all? Not to mention the Tang Dynasty, even in the Song Dynasty, pork was considered cheap meat. Because the smell was too strong, only ordinary people ate it. As the old saying goes, every slaughter is done in a righteous way.

Dogs. In ancient times, dog meat was more popular than pork. Moreover, it is said that Zhang Fei during the Three Kingdoms period sold dog meat.

Of course, it is just said here that it does not matter what kind of meat is sold. But it is true that pork has not been taken seriously, otherwise there would be no poems written by Su Shi.

Su Dongpo wrote an ode to boiling pig's head in "Notes on Qiu Chi": "Wash the pot, cover it lightly with water, and press the wood head deeply. Don't teach me. Yellow pig is as cheap as dirt. The rich will not eat it, and the poor will not know how to cook it."

, Sometimes I make a bowl at home, and I know that I am satisfied and don’t care about it.”

When he was relegated to Huangzhou, this great literary figure once wrote a song about cooking meat: "The pork in Huangzhou is good, but the price is as low as dung. The rich refuse to eat it, and the poor don't know how to cook it. Slow down the fire, use less water, and the heat will be better."

When it is sufficient, it is beautiful by itself.”

At the current price of pork, a domestic pig weighing 200 kilograms costs between 1,000 and 1,200 yen. On average, it is about 5 to 6 yen per kilogram. To say whether the price is low, in fact

It’s not too low. But don’t forget, it’s the first year of Zhenguan. Affected by the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, prices in the Tang Dynasty, which has not yet fully recovered, are far from as low as they were during the heyday of Zhenguan.

Fortunately, Li Anran has his own solution to the problem of pork being too fishy. Why the pork in later generations has a lighter taste all depends on one word, fan!

All you need to do is castrate the boar. Not only will the fishy smell of the pork be reduced, but the temper will also become milder, eliminating the need for two pigs to fight after being fed for three days. Considering that this method was unthinkable in ancient times

For example, Li Anran asked Zhao Da to buy a half-sized piglet from the county market and prepare it for experiments.

With a large number of river clams, loaches, eels and other river fresh food, even if the money earned from pork and snow candy still needs to be invested in turnover, Li Anran does not have to worry about having to rely on simple meals to fill his belly.

Digging a kiln naturally did not require Li Anran to do it himself. Zhao Er, who had eaten all he could in the morning and at noon, with the joy of an upcoming "bumpy harvest", dug with all his strength until he felt very satisfied.

Seeing that the earthen kiln for burning charcoal was quickly dug, he turned around and looked at the earth-and-wood structure of the house. Li Anran was thinking about setting up the brick kiln and burning some bricks later, even if they were inferior bricks.

I can also expand the house when I get out. But then I thought, it would be better to take things step by step. Anyway, it is still summer, so there is no need to think about this aspect for a while. Moreover, only the four Zhao brothers can use it now.

It's too busy at all.

After the charcoal kiln was dug, Zhao Er was not idle. He quickly picked out the most suitable charcoal from the firewood pile at home, and then began to work on the charcoal needed for the barbecue later.

Seeing that everyone had something to do, and that he had many plans, but could only sit idle because he did not have enough start-up funds, Li Anran couldn't help but look forward to what Zhao Da would gain from this trip to the county.
Chapter completed!