The Economics of Prophecy

The cooking area of the Belmini Chamber of Commerce was on the ground floor of the house, next to the warehouse. It's not as big as a meat factory in Dalgan or a treat factory in Pulra. Still, I can use all three or four pans side by side. Should I say boulder even though the food itself is not the main business?

If I make french toast by myself, it won't compare to our kitchen, which will be buried. If you ask me, it looks like Natalie's house is about the same as mine.

"Is that it? I heard you were done grinding yesterday."

I told Natalie I was pinching the wrap of narcotic cloth like clay on the table. The third time is over. That's what I heard.

"Yes. But I wanted to try again. Um, sorry about the precious sugar."

"No, I don't have to worry about that,"

I looked at her bright red fingers and said. Water work should never be easy this season.

It was just fine in a winter of temperatures and humidities where sugar crystals are easy to make, but with water on, she pushes the task of working out sugar on her own. Because other people, including me, have their own businesses and colleges.

"They lend me such a splendid cooking place, and they let me use the beans for good stuff."

Natalie bowed her head to Shelly next to me.

"Well, thanks to Mr. Bermini."

"... Shelley will be fine by now. It's a good commercial calculation. I told you there might be a new demand for beans, but you can't sit back."

"Let Natalie get this far, I guess it's going to work really well"

From the back of the cooking area, Vinaldia emerged with an anesthetic cloth. As usual, it's an alert rounded gaze, but naturally because it makes you do tasks you've never even heard of.

Yes, there was a trial and error even before we got here. At first I also have a lot of difficulty choosing the wood in the cloth that wraps the sugar. With the sight of fear that precious sugar has been leaking from the cloth and decreasing?

Still managed thanks to the cooperation of Vinaldia, the cloth shop.

"Vina, even Vina was convinced to taste it."

"Oh, yeah. But the quantity will also be very reduced... And Natalie's hands."

Our gaze concentrated on our bright red fingertips.

"Because it's okay. More than that, try it."

Except for the weight from the crate where Natalie was underfoot. Remove the yellow discolored wrap. There is a black liquid buildup under the cloth. In grinding, the sugar was purified manually by multiplying the weight three times.

When the cloth placed on the table was unraveled, a stiffened pale yellow individual emerged. If it wasn't for me, who knows white sugar, you'd be surprised at the difference between the raw material, brown sugar.

The amount of prototype is small. It's sugar anyway. They get it cheaply in the way of exchanging it for our honey in the legend of the Plura Chamber of Commerce, but the cost is still not stupid.

I stretched my fingers to a fine yellow crystal crushed on a plate.

"Yeah, it tastes like this"

It melts all the way over the tongue while still having a slight brown sugar flavor. I can tell how the honey is loose and the size of the crystal is exquisite.

Compatible tools and limited raw materials. Still, Natalie, who reproduced it so far just because I told her what I heard, has her head down.

"Wow. That's totally different from brown sugar. Senior Plura, I regret not being here."

Lilka said.

In order to increase the sweetness of the filling, the degree of refining of the sugar must be increased.

Sugar is made by simmering sugar cane squeeze juice. In other words, there are plenty of plant-derived ingredients left. For example, cane squeeze juice is acidic.

Increase the percentage of sucrose, a compound of sugar, glucose and fructose, except for impurities, such as neutralizing with lime to remove ash juice and sediment. Up to this point it has been done in this world as well. The result is so-called brown sugar.

To be white sugar, in industrial society the impurities are mechanically removed by centrifugation. Removed is molasses, liquids like black tar. I've seen them mixed with bait in the lab of a college shaw jowbae.

Using the water wheel I use with honey may also be mechanized here, but I don't know how long it will take to adjust. I'm hoping for bearings in the future, but I haven't been able to make them big enough to be used on waterwheels yet.

Whatever it is, we have to do it manually during the prototyping phase. As a way of doing this, I proposed a sugar production method developed during the Edo period. It's what we call the Wah San Basin. It is said to be the best sugar for Japanese confectionery.

Even if you say manual, the physico-chemical manipulations you use are basically the same. Because sucrose crystallizes, it separates the crystallized sucrose from the waste molasses, which are liquids.

That's what Natalie was doing earlier, adding water to the sugar she put in the cloth while working on it.

In the Wasanbasin, it's called grinding. Then, multiply the weight and pull out the honey, which is the liquid ingredient. By doing this three times, we can produce yellow sugar with a little honey left behind.

Between brown sugar and white sugar, you just said it was better than white sugar.

Of course, the Japanese Japanese Sanbasin would actually be different because it differs from the type of sugar cane. But by the standards of this world, a high purity with a moderate honey flavour, sugar was definitely made.

"It's delicious, but it's a hell of a luxury."

"... Yes, it's going to be a quarter"

Natalie replied to Lilka's words. Waste molasses earlier, but they're sweet when you lick them. I have heard that the Japanese Sanbasin will have less than half the amount during the purification process. Even lower yields than that. Still, I think it's a fine object considering I got there with my acoustic knowledge and trial and error.

You can expect this.

"Then make me a filling with this Japanese sanbon...... yellow sugar"

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"Done."

The kitchen was full of the smell of boiling beans, a little bit, and three fillings lined up in front of us. Each is made of sugar once, twice, or three times.

"Yeah. It's delicious, Natalie."

Vinaldia, who ate the filling at the far end, raised her voice of surprise. Natalie is also keeping an eye out.

"It's pretty different if you just grind it once, but it's still the third time"

I'm not saying "Sanbasin” to Dada. I guess I still need to do it three times. Given the balance between cost and taste, maybe I should say even twice, but let's still learn from the wisdom of our ancestors here. Though he is an ancestor of another world for this world.

"Next, sugar quantity."

Apparently, the recipe Natalie pursued with brown sugar to the rinse adds a third amount of sugar to the boiled beans, it was. Of course I don't know the recipe for the filling. But was the cake about the same amount of flour and sugar? Let's simply have it added in double and triple.

"This, this is it. This is the filling."

I put it in my mouth. I told him to scream.

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Like me, Natalie and Vinaldia, who tasted the filling with triple the amount, are holding their mouths in their palms and hardening.

"... thanks to the honest taste of sugar, I can clearly see that the flavor of beans makes sense. It's definitely worth something different than honey. So far, it's been delicious."

Shelley said with a happy face.

"It's also thanks to letting me use the best beans. It has all the grains and no chips, so the taste doesn't get cloudy when you boil it."

Natalie said with her hands off her mouth. I see, does that affect places as well? I'm a boulder, vegetable expert. Right, because this is only bean jam.

"And Mr. Vinder. I've never tried to compare it like this before."

"On the same terms, it's best to compare at the same time."

It's close to experimentation.

With the degree of refinement and quantity of sugar, it is actually close to having tried nine flavors. It would be the most efficient way for us, who don't know the recipe for the original world filling, to get to the right answer with the ingredients of this world.

Especially if the measuring instrument is a human sensation. You don't need to be a flavor genius if you use the means of comparison. It's a verifiable method.

Of course, it takes a lot of material, equipment, location and manpower if you actually try to do it.

"Even more delicate adjustments can only be left to Natalie's tongue. Come on, what do you say, Lilka? Isn't this something you can do?

I asked Lilka, who was silent when I ate the reborn filling.

"Mm-hmm. You've certainly gotten better than anything. But I'm still a little concerned about the toothfeel."

"I see. Well, that's the next step."

It's the only negative opinion. Let's respect it.

"Ha!? It's so delicious, I'm still not satisfied."

Vinaldia looked at Natalie. Well, it's not that complicated next time.