Fan Xianji looked unbelieving, "You must be lying to me. Just some powder, how can anything be done?"
"Then I'll make some steamed cakes later, and then mix some alkaline water to make ramen."
Soda ash has great potential and is very versatile. Huaiyu's refining method is actually quite backward and very complicated. It produces a lot of waste liquid and is useless, causing a lot of pollution. But it is good to be able to refine it. After all, it solves the problem of starting from scratch.
Some steps.
In fact, the largest downstream application of soda ash is glass.
The most basic raw materials in the chemical industry are known as three acids and two bases, sulfate, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid and caustic soda. Soda ash is commonly known as soda, which is sodium carbonate. This stuff is widely used.
Whether it is making soap or glass, or even steaming steamed buns and making noodles, it can be used for everything.
In fact, there are many natural alkali in nature. For example, a lot of land in Zhangjiakou area contains alkali. After processing, it can become a high-quality edible alkali, also called oral alkali.
Melting and extracting plant ash with water can also produce alkaline water, which can be used for descaling and hair-raising. Especially for Artemisia genus, drying and burning the ashes will give better results.
People in the Tang Dynasty used old noodles to ferment vegetarian noodles, and also used plant ash water to neutralize them to avoid sourness.
However, if it is to be used in large quantities, such as in industries such as manufacturing soap and glass, this method of plant ash is definitely far from efficient.
"I told you earlier, I just ate four yellow-noodle steamed cakes in one go." Cheng Chumo quickly put the two yellow steamed buns in his arms, and then went to serve the mutton soup and pull the strips.
Early the next morning, Huaiyu specially found the owners of Glauber's Salt in Yanjing Village and offered to buy Glauber's Salt.
It can also be made into a laxative.
Boil a whole bowl of slaw in the mutton soup, one noodle is a bowl, add fresh mutton soup, then scoop some stewed soft mutton on top, and sprinkle with green chopped green onions.
Huaiyu specially showed off his skills to Fan Xuanfu. In the evening, he steamed a furnace of soda ash blooming yellow steamed buns. He used millet rice and added some millet rice to grind it into flour. After frying it, he used old flour to make the dough. Finally, he added secret soda ash.
Neutralizes the sour taste of fermented old noodles,
Dried red dates are also added, and the steamed yellow steamed buns are all round and blooming. They are extra fluffy, soft and chewy. Not only do they not have the slightest bit of sourness from fermented old noodles, they are also particularly sweet.
Compared with using primitive methods such as pig pancreas, plant ash, and soap locust, it can not only turn waste into treasure at a lower cost, but the production capacity will also be very large.
"Sweet!" Hou San ate fiercely and only uttered one word.
There are people who want this kind of garbage. The workshop owners are very puzzled, but in the end they can't figure out what the use of this thing is. Now someone is willing to help them clean up and pay some money. They are very happy to reach a cooperation.
"I want all the Glauber's salt in the village."
"What are you buying this thing for? Wu Zhen will just need someone to install it."
"Do you want them all? What do you want them for? Although they can cook leather and make medicine, there is no need for so many of them."
"Hey, she's softer than all the aunties!" Xu Er was surprised as he had just picked up a hungry man as his wife.
"Erlang, you bought those Glauber's salt and wrapped the sebum from the leather workshop. What are you planning to do?" Lu Huairang smelled something and came to ask Huaiyu.
Local powerful people expressed their willingness to give it away for free, but it was not worth much anyway.
In the end, those people took the initiative to lower the price and gave a very affordable discount. After all, after buying so much, Huaiyu just bought all those things as if they were free.
"Hahaha, as long as it tastes good, it doesn't matter." Huaiyu smiled proudly. Adding alkaline water to the ramen noodles not only has good elasticity, will never break, will not break when cooked, and the taste will be very good.
good.
“There’s no sour taste at all!”
Lu Huairang, Cheng Chumo, Wu Huaiyi, Ma Zhou, Wu Junwei, Chen Xing, Zhao Xin, Hou San and others who came here specifically to eat stir-fried vegetables had never tasted this novel steamed cake.
The big yellow steamed buns, smiling with their mouths open, are dotted with red date slices, which are particularly beautiful.
These are now worthless things, that is, when the Qiang people come to buy salt, they give them some salt or sell it very cheaply, and give them cooked leather for use, and the doctors don't need much for making medicine.
Huaiyu had been struggling for so long, using the alchemy knowledge he learned from Zhongnanshan and the chemistry knowledge he had studied for many years. In fact, he was attracted by the by-product of salt boiling in Yanjing Village, Glauber's salt.
Cheng Chumo grabbed the first bowl and sucked a large piece of noodles into his mouth, "Ah, the noodles are really different today. They are quite chewy and unique..."
But Huaiyu said that he would buy it at the price they sold it for before.
The prospect of refining Glauber's salt for pharmaceuticals is also very good. Put Glauber's salt into various watermelons, cucumbers, bitter melons, winter melons, etc., and a layer of frost will form on the surface of the melons. This frost can be scraped off to become watermelon frost and other good medicines for clearing fire and reducing swelling.
If you add some borneol, mint, etc., it can be ice cold.
The waste grease scraped from tanning leather and the Glauber's salt produced by boiling salt are all worthless waste that needs to be cleaned up. After refining and processing, it can be turned into soap or toilet soap.
"Why is it so soft and fluffy? When I squeeze it with my hand, it forms into a small ball. When I loosen my hand, it becomes fluffy again. It's amazing!"
After several people ate it, they were all very curious, "Today's pasta is different from usual. The steamed cake is softer and fluffier, and the strips are more chewy. How did you make it?"
"What secret ingredient is added to today's steamed cake? It's not like we have never eaten yellow-faced steamed cakes before." Cheng Chumo exclaimed, "This is the best yellow-faced steamed cake I have ever eaten in my life."
"Anyway, there are piles here. Now that the village needs to be rebuilt, I plan to simply buy them and transport them away to make it easier to rebuild. As for their use, I plan to use them for medicine. I have a Qianjintang in Chang'an, which is a medicine shop.
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But if you use it to refine the oil, filter and purify it, and then process it with soda ash to undergo a saponification reaction, you can get soap. Add some spices, etc., and you can make it into soap.
Boiled with radish and Glauber's salt, it can be well purified and then processed into Xuanming powder, which is a commonly used medicinal material for many diseases.
Fan Xuanfu, who was born in the Duke's palace, couldn't stop after taking a bite.
There are more and more piles, and they are all piled up into mountains.
"That's called yellow steamed buns, not steamed buns."
"Don't worry, I specially made a strip today. Today's strip is guaranteed to be very special, stronger and better looking!"
Several other people were not willing to lag behind and rushed forward to grab.
There used to be an industry in Yanjingzhai, which was leather tanning. The livestock industry in Longyou was relatively developed, and a large number of skins were traded with the Qiang people, so there was also a leather-making industry here. When making leather, you have to scrape off the sebum, leaving no trace behind.
The sebum is all waste.
Lu Huairang tried several times to ask Huaiyu what secret recipe he had added, but Huaiyu ignored him at all.
"Don't worry, everyone has a share, I've expected you to come." Huaiyu said with a smile.
"Yes, it has to be called yellow steamed buns. Who can make steamed buns so fluffy and soft?" Cheng Chumo quickly agreed, as long as there is still some left to eat tomorrow, call it yellow steamed buns or steamed buns.
Then he reached a cooperation agreement with the leather tanning workshop owners. From now on, all the sebum scraped from the leather tanning workshops would be processed by Huaiyu, who would wrap it up at a low price.
Nowadays, in Chang'an City, the bath beans, facial medicine, hand grease and other things used by wealthy people are incredibly expensive. Previously, Huaiyu trial-produced some fragrant rice noodles in Chang'an as small gifts for Qianjintang to attract customers, and the effect was quite good.
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In the end, Huaiyu had to agree to those guys that he would continue to steam the same yellow-faced steamed cakes as today and make strips tomorrow.
"Have you finished talking about Prince Consort Lu's salt well? The Salt Temple is about to be repaired, and I will invite the Salt God soon." Huaiyu changed the subject.
"Well, I was about to tell you that everything has been negotiated. I will come forward in person. Can those guys still be ignorant? Erlang, we are going to make a fortune this time. Now we are just waiting for you to invite the Salt God back and restore the salt well.
Brine is flowing out."
All is ready except for the opportunity.
"Very good, I'm ready now, so let's respectfully invite the God of Salt to return to his throne tomorrow!"
