Chapter 1401 Beating Butter
It was midnight, and everyone in the Mingyue Imperial Capital had fallen asleep. When Fairy Le opened the magic circle, only the guards and palace attendants on duty in the palace witnessed the grand scene of golden light shining in an instant, and they were filled with excitement.
The guards outside the emperor's living hall witnessed a scene that they would remember for the rest of their lives. They did not close their eyes all night and were reluctant to leave when the watch changed at dawn.
When the emperor and the court officials in the Beiting got up and made their morning pilgrimage, they found the golden light shining all over the place. They felt a sense of peace in their hearts. The first thing they did after their morning pilgrimage was to rush to the Chaoxian Palace to meet the immortals.
The monarchs and ministers rushed to the Chaoxian Palace in a hurry, and were told by the palace officials that the little fairy and the immortals had gone to the royal garden at dawn. The monarchs and ministers were stunned for a while, and they could only go to the meeting hall to deal with daily government affairs.
Classmate Le Xiao arranged a magic circle for the Mingyue Kingdom to drive away darkness and gather national luck. At the same time, he also arranged a maze array in the emperor's living room to prevent anyone from entering the array by mistake.
She has great confidence in the magic circle she has set up, and does not need to be guarded in the palace. She also does not like living in the palace, and runs around the royal gardens with her senior brothers to enjoy peace and quiet.
The Royal Garden is located at the foot of the most famous Mount Sanze in the east of the imperial capital of the Mingyue Kingdom. It has mountains and water, an elegant environment, and is a livable place.
The garden was not only a place for hunting and summer vacation, but also a place for military training, including both land and naval forces.
The little Loli chose the Guanlan Pavilion in the garden. The palace in the pavilion is backed by a branch peak of Sanze Mountain and faces a lake. About a hundred miles behind the peak, there is a large river running through the mountain. That river It originates from the northeastern part of the mainland, flows through the Mingyue Kingdom, passes through the east and south, and enters the sea from the southeast.
The river in Sanze Mountain is the largest runoff in the mainland, with abundant water. The lake next to Guanlan Pavilion is not ranked in the mainland, but it is the sixth largest lake in the Mingyue Empire, about the size of Qinghai Lake in Great China. Three times the size, it is the place where naval officers are trained in the capital of Mingyue Kingdom.
Guanlan Pavilion, which is surrounded by mountains and water on one side, is an ideal place for Le Xiao’s students. She especially likes Guanlan Pavilion by the lake.
There are many waterside pavilions and viewing promenades around the lake. On the lakeshore facing Guanlan Pavilion, there is a high platform with promenades and an open-air viewing platform. The platform is about two feet above the ground. There is a two-mile long lake viewing promenade at one end of the platform. , the promenade is open on all sides, where you can watch the lake and have a banquet in the promenade buildings; the
open-air part of the observation deck is five miles long and three miles wide. It is a special military training ground and is also the place where naval forces inspect the school. A docking station for practicing or watching large-scale water canoeing races.
Classmate Le came to the Royal Garden and did not go to live in the palace of Guanlan Pavilion. He happily took the observation deck as his own, took out the palace-style wooden house and placed it next to the corridor. People drifted into the corridor and moved out their own stoves. Oh, pot, let’s get to work making the koji for brewing wine and vinegar.
Jin Maohou carried the conch and went to the river to fetch water. The four senior brothers also cleverly went to the mountains to get spring water and helped the junior sister clean the outdoor terrace of the viewing platform.
A dozen elite young people carefully selected by the Luo family of the Beiting family only arrived at Guanlan Pavilion yesterday afternoon. They had not had time to clean the palace. They never thought that the little fairy and four real people would arrive the next day. They were all shocked. of.
The elites of the two tribes discovered that the little fairy and the four real people had settled down in Guanlan Pavilion. They wanted to visit them but were afraid of upsetting the little fairy. In the end, they did not go and cleaned the Guanlan Pavilion seriously, waiting for the little fairy to move in at any time.
Luo Cheng Yuqi wished Yu Mowen to help his junior sister clean the open-air viewing platform, and instead of meeting the people at Guanlan Pavilion, he wandered into the mountains in the afternoon to collect wild fruits, flowers, plants or fertile soil.
Golden Retriever Roar became the backbone of protecting the little one. In addition to being a bodyguard, he also took on the task of fetching water, once in the morning, noon and evening.
Le Xiaoxiao spent a whole day making various types of distiller's yeast with about 100,000 kilograms of raw materials. The next day, he finished his meditation at the time when his biological clock woke up on time, and started a pot to boil yak milk in preparation for refining ghee.
Ghee is fat separated from cow's milk and goat's milk. Every Tibetan household in the Great Heavenly Dynasty has a bucket for making butter. The tool for making butter is a cylindrical bucket and a stirring rod. Tibetans call it "Jialuo".
There is nothing special about the butter bucket. What is more special is Jialuo. It has a rod at one end and a round wooden board at the other end. The diameter of the round board is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the butter bucket. There are four holes cut out. When making butter, milk and air come out of the round board. The board flows up and down.
The bucket can be big or small, and can also be equipped with a lid. A hole is left in the center of the lid for the movement of the ghee. Ghee can be made cold or hot. Cold making means pouring squeezed milk into the ghee bucket, and hot making means boiling the milk. If you beat again, the oil volume of cold beating is higher and more labor-intensive. It is suitable for seasons with warmer climate. The oil level of hot beating is slightly lower. It can be used in all seasons. You only need to control the temperature yourself.
Cold beating produces more oil, and hot beating can also kill some microorganisms through high temperature to a certain extent, preventing ghee from breeding bacteria and deteriorating during storage.
The yak milk was not boiled, and the light sent away the darkness. The golden lion went to fetch water happily, waiting happily for the dew on the observation deck to be dried by the morning breeze, and used the observation deck as a terrace to dry the spiritual plants.
The spiritual plants that are dried are all "wild" medicinal plants and flowers dug in Dongchen Continent. They are not spiritual plants produced in spiritual fields. They are wild medicinal plants in Dongchen Continent. They are definitely rare medicinal materials brought back to the earth. , N times more effective than traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine pharmacies.
There were piles of medicinal plants in the storage container. The little Loli moved out the piles of medicinal plants with great pride. Each medicinal plant could cover a radius of three to four hundred meters when spread out. Thousands of medicinal plants covered the open-air viewing platform. It is so crowded that when viewed from a high altitude, it is colorful and looks like a magnificent brocade.
After drying the medicinal plants and boiling the yak milk, Leyun moved out a special butter bucket. In order to refine the butter, she did not hesitate to act cute and asked the Five Immortals Sect's real group to help make more than 20 butter buckets of different sizes and high quality. Ghee barrel for making ghee at any time.
Everything produced by real people is of first-class quality. The butter barrels they make are more exquisite than the butter barrels of Tibetans in Province Z, China, and can be regarded as works of art.
The largest of the many butter barrels requires eight adults holding hands to form a circle. The walls of the barrel are two feet thick, the bottom is six feet thick, and the barrel is three feet high.
Such a big barrel requires one to fly into the air to control the Jialuo, so it is only suitable for people who can fly into the sky.
The first time Mr. Le made butter, he used the largest butter barrel. The barrel and armor were hewn from a whole piece of wood. The original material was 120,000-year-old eucalyptus. The outer ring was made of demon king-level demon animal skin and gold. A total of more than a dozen hoops were made to prevent the barrel wall from cracking due to stress.
Such a big bucket can only hold a few hundred kilograms at a time. So Le Xiaoxiao boiled six thousand kilograms of yak milk at one time, poured it into the big butter bucket, closed the lid, and flew into the air holding Jialuo to the Press down, and press the Jialuo to the bottom of the barrel each time, let go, let the Jialuo float up naturally due to buoyancy, and then press the Jialuo down again.
Making butter requires skills, sufficient strength and uniformity. When Tibetans make butter, they beat it several hundred times in the first stage. They stop and rest for ten minutes. If the milk is cold, add some hot water. If the temperature is too high in summer, add some cold water. , and then continue to play. Do not rest in the middle of the second time. It must be completed in one go.
When Mr. Le Xiao was digging for Cordyceps, he observed Tibetan people making ghee and collected a certain amount of experience and knowledge. He also had a pair of external eyes to observe and analyze the data at any time. Making ghee was not a problem at all.
Tibetans beat butter about a thousand times in total. The butter bucket she uses is large and contains several thousand kilograms of milk. Naturally, she cannot stick to the rules and needs to make timely adjustments.
She took her time and controlled the rhythmic blows of the armor. When she continued to hit five hundred times, the golden hair that fetched water roared away and came back. It was too late to express emotion for the medicinal plants on the observation deck, and then turned to I was attracted by the little one, wandering around the bucket in great amazement, and wanted to play with it myself.
Afraid that the Golden Retriever Lion would be unhelpful, Le Yun ruthlessly refused, and only promised to let him try it in the afternoon to appease the big lion. Then she continued, and when she hit a thousand times, she paused, rested for a while, and then opened the lid. At this time, the white yak Some oil has separated from the milk, only partially of course.
Add a little hot water and continue beating.
After beating it repeatedly for more than a thousand times in one breath, the heat was also reached. Leyun rubbed the lid secretly and opened the lid. The fat separated from the milk and floated on the surface like a ball of flocculation.
Seeing the globs of butter, Le Yun rubbed her little hands, took out a large basin, poured most of the mountain spring water into it, then used a bamboo colander wrapped with gauze to scoop the butter out of the butter barrel, and put it in a small basin. , when a certain amount is reached, knead it into a ball and put it in clean water. When all the ghee is removed, knead the ghee ball in the water basin to remove the skim milk.
After removing the skimmed milk, the ghee dough is pure ghee.
The earth lacks spiritual energy, and the amount of ghee produced from yak milk is about 3 pounds of ghee from 60 pounds. Dongchen continent has abundant spiritual energy, and the fat in yak milk is high. One hundred pounds of milk can produce about 13 pounds of ghee.
The little loli has an external eye and knows how to control the strength and rhythm. She uses the best way to make butter, and the milk yields more oil. One hundred pounds of milk can make about sixteen pounds of butter, because skim milk still needs to be purified. In the
end It also needs to be left for a period of time to allow the water to evaporate. The weight of the ghee will become less and it will not lose too much.
Overall, 6,000 kilograms of milk ends up being about 950 kilograms of pure ghee.
That kind of output also made the little Loli very satisfied. She made the ghee balls into individual balls, took out a row of bamboo racks and placed them in the corridor, put bamboo dustpans on the racks, put the ghee balls in the dustpans, and covered them. gauze.
The milk separated from the ghee is still useful. When boiled in a pot, some solid matter will form, which is milk residue, and it is also a very good nutritional supplement.
Le Yun put the lotion in a pot and boiled the milk residue. After it boiled, she took out the large pot, set up a wooden stick and a tofu frame with gauze on the pot, poured the milk residue into the lotion and filtered.
The filtered milk residue is placed in the frame of making tofu, squeezing out the water just like squeezing out the excess water in the tofu. The whey from which the milk residue has been filtered can also be used as a beverage, drinking water, and feeding to livestock. Either way.
While the little Loli was boiling the buttered lotion, she also used a large pot to boil a pot of yak milk again. After she filtered out the milk residue, the newly boiled yak milk had become hot in less than a stick of incense. Work again to make ghee.
This time, she used a large bucket, which was still about 6,000 kilograms. She also took out a medium-large bucket and filled about 3,000 kilograms of yak milk for the golden lions to try.
Golden Retriever went to get water first, and waited eagerly when he came back. When it was time to start working, he excitedly jumped into the air and held the wooden pole with his two paws to learn how to make butter.
Afraid that the big lion would waste his precious milk, Le Yun first taught the golden lion how to use its paws and how much strength to use before letting him operate alone.
Jinmaohou is quite open-minded and eager to learn. The little one said that if he dares to start before the end and waste milk, his spiritual food will be deducted.
In order to avoid being deprived of spiritual food, Jinmaohou worked hard and got started quickly. He was also praised because his butter bucket was small, so he finished it first. He quickly changed jobs with the little one. He helped make the butter and let the little one go. Extract the separated ghee.
The advantage of having a helper is that when the little Loli fished the butter out of the bucket, filtered it with water, washed it, kneaded it into a ball and cooled it to dry, the butter on the Golden Retriever's side was almost beaten, so she went to fish out the butter again. Filter and boil the milk residue to get freshly boiled yak milk.
After filtering out the milk residue from the second batch of lotion, Le Yun followed the principle of striking while the iron is hot, took out a bunch of demon king-level demon beast bones and a bunch of spiritual plants, threw them into the whey, and started a fire to make the brine broth. .
Golden Retriever knew that the soup made from whey extracted with ghee was prepared for the little one to make spiritual food. He squealed happily and turned into a slimy pet, clinging to the little one and acting cute. When a new pot of yak milk was boiling, he snatched the big bucket to beat the ghee. So that the little one won't get tired.
Making butter is a strenuous job, which is no longer a problem for Nascent Soul monk Lolita. However, it is still a time-consuming job and cannot be rushed, so you can only make three barrels of butter a day.
When the third bucket of butter came out, the sun had already set. Le Yun didn't even bother to fish the butter out of the bucket. She first collected the medicinal plants on the viewing platform, then fished out the butter, filtered it, and boiled the milk residue.
In line with the principle of sharing the worries of the little ones, Golden Retriever took on the great job of controlling the fire at night. Le Xiaoxiao went back to his cabin bedroom, then slipped back to the space, and planted trees with the two cute little foxes and little Huihui. They were busy. Halfway through the night, I took the little cutie back to the cabin to meditate.
The spiritual energy in the space is not as good as that of Dongchen Continent, and there is not much work in the space. In order to let the little fox and little Huihui absorb more spiritual energy, Le Yun left the two little cuties to play in the wooden house when she went to work. Anyway, they were in her bedroom. There are taboos so no one else can enter, and there is no fear of being discovered.
On that day, we dried medicinal plants and made ghee as usual. We boiled about 10,000 kilograms of milk at one time and made ghee three times a day. We could extract more than 3,000 kilograms of ghee from 30,000 kilograms of milk every day.
The combination of one person and one lion made butter for another three days, and the broth was boiled for three days and three nights. The bones were melted by the stew, and the soup was like yak milk, with a fragrant fragrance.
Classmate Le Xiao divided the stock into five parts, added different spiritual plants to each and boiled the brine. The brine was simmered for a day and night before it reached the heat to make the braised pork.
The little one was busy making spiritual food, and Jin Maohou was responsible for making butter. He fetched water and made butter at the same time.
In a blink of an eye, it was August 13th, and the four senior brothers from the Yulan Sect returned gracefully.
(End of chapter)