Chapter 560 Compressed Grain
"Haha, it's successful. Just say that I have obtained the true teachings of the Grand Commander, and you still don't believe it." Ding Qilin said proudly.
"It's so messy!"
Just when Ding Qilin was proud, Shi Huaiyi suddenly said.
Ding Qilin quickly put the rice in the iron pot into the jar on the table.
"It's good that I can eat it." Ding Qilin said.
Rice is not a novel thing, but it is a fresh thing for these lieutenants who have always entered the kitchen, mainly because they make food themselves.
When Li De was thinking about the development plan, he had the problem of military food. How to carry it and preserve the food as much as possible for a long time and also had a rich impact, which could replenish the soldiers' energy.
So, rice was made casually by Li De in his research to use as a snack. Who would have thought that Ding Qilin would have seen it and learned it after reading it.
When the captains gathered together, he began to show off.
Shi Huaiyi tasted it very fragrant and soon fell in love with the taste of this snack. Then he started to make it. In this way, the office barracks where Li De was located became the place where the commanders tried to make rice.
There were some discussion sounds coming from the house. If you didn't know, you would definitely think they were plotting something.
Li De looked at Xue Jing and turned around and gathered with them and said, "Actually, this is just a way to eat. If you want to get more energy, you have to make rice cakes."
Just then, Li De ignored the prepared rice flowers and directly added water to an iron pot and added a small amount of sucrose to boil them. Then he simply fryed the rice flowers in the pot.
He took out the lumps of rice with a turn-over pot.
"Governor, this is all stuck together, just eat like this?" Shi Huaiyi said curiously.
"Of course not." Li Dedao.
They have seen that the rice is no longer as refreshing as before, and it is too soft and not very good.
Li De did not give a long answer and directly asked someone to take the rice outside. After a while, he took it in and separated the rice into small pieces with a knife.
"You guys try it now." Li Dedao.
Shi Huaiyi was anxious and picked up a piece and took a bite. When he savored, he looked enjoyable and wanted to know what it tasted. They seemed to have forgotten that no one of them had divided a piece.
"It's refreshing, very crisp and sweet!" Shi Huaiyi said.
I saw several lieutenants who had no intention of listening to him continued, and they all rushed to taste it. The sweets were not very popular, and not everyone could afford them at this time.
Although the children of the generals have family resources, they have eaten candied haws like food made of sugar. They all hope that candied haws can be made in winter, and the taste has long been remembered in their memories.
Now they have tasted something better.
"Grandmaster, this kind of food may be used as military food?" Li Dedao.
"Of course, it's just that sucrose is limited and cannot be made in large quantities." Li Dedao.
The food he wanted to study was Shaqima, a food that mainly uses eggs as raw materials, which can be used as military food, provided that additives can be developed to allow the food to be preserved for a long time.
Li De was very cautious when studying chemical science, and he had to undergo repeated trials and repeated trials when he made them.
Most of these things were carried out in secret, and the test site was Li De's exclusive carriage. Can a carriage hold so many things? In fact, Li De's exclusive carriage is not one.
Several modified carriages carry many essential things inside, and the layout inside has everything, which is equivalent to a mobile palace and does not waste too many resources. The things carried are necessities.
Beaker test tubes are made from glass workshops in Youzhou. When craftsmen do not produce glass jewelry, they will produce various chemical tools according to the requirements.
Cups, plates, and glass bowls are all made in complete sets. These things are money-making things, and they are not all flowing into the market now.
The reason is very simple, Li De is not short of money now.
He Bida was not disappointed. He knew that sugar cane sugar was very expensive, otherwise the candied haws in winter would not have become the main top-quality sold in Youzhou City. The merchants who were rushing for candied haws formed a deal in a year.
There are also many merchants who imitate it, but the taste is always worse without sugar. For wealthy families, of course, they have to buy authentic things to be decent.
The merchants serve them and go to Youzhou to wholesale candied haws in winter. In the first year, the merchants were pretty good, but this year the number of merchants doubled.
Fortunately, the Pioneer Military Trading Company in Youzhou City has been prepared for a long time and can sell it at a good price according to the amount of goods stored.
The snow in the Bingcheng is much bigger than that in Youzhou City.
Li De ordered the soldiers to make fried rice. The expanded rice is still a bit chewy. It is usually a benefit for the soldiers to eat as snacks. These rice is made into a fast piece.
Although sucrose reserves are limited, it still has sweetness after dilution, which can have a better taste and taste.
In winter, in the barracks, the soldiers eat rice and snacks and listen to the people in the barracks telling stories. They are all popular novels, and the bizarre stories attract them.
Everyone heard this with relish. Li De was very encouraged by this kind of activity. Now the soldiers are literate, so letting them read more will help them develop the habit of learning.
Reading some novels can help them pass their boring time and relax them.
There are very few entertainment activities in winter, and there is nothing to do after the necessary exercises every day. It is impossible not to find some things for them.
Now that I have developed a habit, Li De will make some delicious snacks every few days and then give them to the soldiers to taste. Anyway, they are trying to make compressed biscuits.
Eggs, meat, various grains are steamed, cooked, crushed, dried, baked, etc., and finally they must be pressed with hard wooden stakes.
The compressed biscuits are extremely hard. Sometimes they are pressed too hard and cannot be put into the mouth. They are loose and cannot achieve the compression effect. After countless failures, they can only find the adaptive hardness.
As a result, the guards around Li De would rather lead the team to run than come to try it. They ate too much. If they were too hard, they would soak them in hot water. They would have to wait for a long time.
Then after eating, mixed with water, they will get a stomach up after eating too much. The feeling of fullness makes them feel particularly uncomfortable, and they need to eat two less meals to digest.
Li De didn't stop by then because the compressed biscuits were really full.
After successful test, mass production began. After testing, this compressed biscuit can be stored for at least twenty days after drying. After testing throughout the winter, Li De has confirmed that the actual storage time will be longer.
Because you need to make compressed biscuits, you need a large amount of eggs, meat and cereals, among which there are ginseng, beef and sheep bone meal, and other foods that can supplement calcium and increase trace elements.
The military city is ready for combat, and everyone knows in their hearts that they will go to the battlefield in the past winter.
Chapter completed!