Chapter 1460: Dried bananas and afternoon tea

In fact, the bananas were returned with the rubber. Of course, not fresh rubber, but dried bananas. There is no refrigerated ship this year, and it is difficult to bring fresh bananas back. It is not impossible to get it, but the cost is too high.

Adding the method of making ice with saltpeter and storing a batch of bananas is not a problem. However, in this way, the cost of transporting bananas from Cuba to the mainland of the North Sea country is soaring ...

Canned bananas are not difficult to get, but Marin has eaten canned bananas and it feels bad. In his eyes, the sour fruit of pineapple is the most suitable for canning.

As for bananas, Marin is more accustomed to another way of eating-dried bananas ...

The preparation of dried bananas is very simple. Peel the ripe bananas and slice them directly. Then, bake and dehydrate directly. If the weather is fine, you can also take out the sun. After all, Cuba ’s scorching temperatures are high, and sometimes the exposure is as good as baking. But in the early stage, it must be hot baked, because it dehydrates quickly. If the dehydration is slow, bananas will easily deteriorate.

Then, you can take out the bag and pack the dried bananas. Vacuum packaging is best to avoid mildew. Of course, the heat sealing method “invented” by Marin was popular in Cuba. That is, after the dried bananas are packed in oil paper bags, they are placed on a high-temperature drying table for high-temperature sterilization. Then, take the opportunity to seal with glue. In this way, the effect is almost the same as the can seal. Even if the residual air is sealed together in the oil paper bag, because the air in the oil paper bag is also hot when sealing, it is impossible for bacteria to survive. The dried bananas packed in this way can be stored for more than a year as long as they are not opened.

In this era, the best preserved food is the best food. Because the traffic in this era is too backward. It may take several months to transport food from place A to place B. If something breaks in three or five days, it cannot be transported to its destination intact.

Especially the sailors of the big voyage, it is impossible for them to purchase new foods conditionally within a few days. At sea, it is often impossible to purchase new food for several months, and can only eat stored food. Dried bananas, a kind of food preserved for more than one year, is naturally the best choice. Moreover, the dried bananas have a sweet and sweet taste, which is a fine snack.

However, its cost is quite low. Especially in tropical regions like Cuba, it is very suitable for the growth of bananas. It's just the beginning now, and later, there may be banana trees everywhere. In that case, the cost of bananas will be very low. According to Marin's knowledge, many poor African countries in future generations, people usually live on bananas. They couldn't afford any other food, but there were so many bananas, they walked out of their cottages, and they were everywhere in the woods. Sometimes, orangutans rush to pick bananas to eat. However, the conditions of the tropical rainforests in Africa are so good that there are plenty of bananas, so people and orangutans do n’t have to kill and kill bananas. Everyone you pick yours, I pick mine, I can eat ... Of course, that is West Africa, tropical rain forest climate. Switching to the East African prairie, there ’s no such thing as good ... So, most of the famine in later generations happened in East Africa, and West Africa did n’t hear much about it-people have tropical rain forests, and if they get into it, they wo n’t be eaten by beasts, bananas, wild fruits Ah, so much. And if a muscular man can starve to death in the tropical rainforest, this man is not saved, and he will die earlier ...

The process of making bananas into dried bananas is also very simple and the cost is not high. Bananas are ready-made, just pick them. There is no cost for the drying process, so I just went to the forest to pick up some firewood. As for the oil paper bag, other countries may find it expensive. Marlin has a modern paper mill in Canada, and the oil paper bag is still very cheap.

In the future, when the scale of banana trees on the other side of Cuba expands, Marin intends to use dried bananas in bags as a standard for sailors. At the same time, there must be regular supplies in the army. This gadget is low-cost, delicious, and durable, and belongs to the best military food.

However, Cuban bananas have not yet been mass-produced in mass production. At present, there is a banana plantation. The dried bananas in bags can only be supplied in limited quantities. Since it is a limited amount, it is naturally for the noble class.

So, at night, Marin called Orich ’s nobles and held a dried banana tasting conference. Everyone ate dried bananas, drank draught beers, bragging, and were happy. Because they are all aristocrats, not the army's gangsters who drink hard liquor, drink some draft beer, Marin did not get drunk again ...

After the tasting session, all the nobles present unanimously praised the dried bananas. Everyone thinks that dried bananas are as good as the fried peanuts to eat when drinking, and hope that more will come later. Marin naturally does not refuse, anyway, the cost of this thing is also low.

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However, it seems that the dried bananas of later generations are different from this ... the difference is that the dried bananas of later generations are more golden in color and look more attractive ... and the dried bananas eaten by Marin are a little bit Black, there are many black spots ...

Marin searched the memory and finally found the reason-it turned out that there was a sulfur fumigation link in the production of dried bananas in later generations. This link can make the food bright, that is, the golden yellow in Marin's memory. Moreover, the sulfur dioxide gas fumigated by sulfur is poisonous, and its process is also a process of killing poison ...

However, Marin is very clear that even after this processing, the dried bananas are more beautiful. When fumigated, the poisonous gas of sulfur also penetrates into the dried bananas ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Although the amount is very small, such dried bananas cannot be Eat more, especially not to let children eat more.

It is Marlin who now makes his dried bananas without sulfur fumigation. Although they sell a little differently, they are much healthier and can be safely eaten by children such as Caesar and Robert.

In the next few days, Robert and Ma Yun and Ma Li (born by Ferris), who were several years old, used dried bananas as a staple food and refused to eat. Only Caesar seemed to be mature, not greedy, but dried bananas as snacks like afternoon tea.

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Speaking of this afternoon tea, Marin also made it out. Marin opened the Ming Dynasty trade routes and brought back a large number of tea bricks. So, the next step is the promotion and sale of tea.

However, if Europeans do not have the habit of drinking tea, tea will not be able to open the market. Although European monarchs are also popular drinking tea, it is not regular, and it is not consumed every day. After all, tea is not cheap now. Generally, only a VIP visitor, or a good mood, will drink a cup of milk tea. So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to study the style of later generations in Britain-get an afternoon tea ...

That is, at three or four in the afternoon, Marin will summon all the officials who work in the front yard of the palace, drink milk tea, eat biscuits and pastries together in the pavilion of the front yard of the palace.

Afternoon tea and occasional tea are two concepts. Occasionally drinking tea, the consumption of tea is very limited. Maybe, drink it a few times a month. Drinking afternoon tea is not the same. This is a habit and should be done every day. If all nobles have the habit of drinking afternoon tea, then the sales of tea ...

In this way, under the leadership of Marin, the habit of drinking afternoon tea became popular in the aristocratic circle of Beihai. As for tea, there are so many tea bricks in the Marin warehouse. You can store black tea bricks for ten years. Just a few gold coins ...