Chapter 170： Looking back we are still... (1/2)

Chapter 170 Looking back, we are still...

Whether it is wheat, glutinous rice, or flour or rice flour, they are all grains.

So, the four went to the rice shop on the next street.

The people here don’t know what the principle of maltose production is, they only know how to do it, but Jiang Yue knows that after the wheat germinates, a maltase will be produced, which can hydrolyze the starch in the glutinous rice into maltose.

Therefore, you need to buy wheat to germinate.

Sticky rice is also to be bought.

However, because this is the south, basically rice is grown. If wheat is not grown, the wheat has to be shipped from the north, so wheat and flour are quite expensive.

One pound of wheat can be bought for ten cents in the north, and fifteen cents in the south.

The flour is milled from wheat, so it is more expensive, anyway, it is more expensive than rice flour.

Jiang Yue did not plan to buy flour to prevent the sugar cubes from sticking, but decided to buy rice flour to prevent the sugar cubes from sticking.

But rice flour also costs 20 cents a pound, because it is ground manually or by animal power. It has to be threshed into polished rice first, and then ground into powder. It takes a lot of work, and there are no machines in this world.

Because the yield of glutinous rice is low, there are few people who plant it, and the price is also high. It costs 30 cents per pound.

In any case, in this town, the minimum selling amount is one pound.

If you buy half a catty, no one will sell it to you at all.

Originally, Jiang Yue planned to buy two catties of glutinous rice, a little wheat, and a few large rice flours. Because of the authentic maltose method, the ratio of glutinous rice to malt is 40:1.

This cost is also lower.

But because this is not the fully automated sugar production in her original world, the fermentation temperature and ratio can be controlled within the most suitable range, but all controlled manually. In order to ensure full fermentation, the best sugar output can be achieved as much as possible. , the amount of this malt should be more, the ratio can be 10 to 1, 8 to 1, or 4 to 1. Anyway, the ratio can be changed.

The amount of malt is less than that of glutinous rice.