Chapter 293： "Improved" dark bread

After sending away the army of officers from Spain and the Teutonic state, Marin immediately set his sights on domestic construction. Now that an agreement has been reached, the 18,000 Saxons are young, and they will all belong to Marin's private serfs in the future.

As a feudal landlord, how could Marin tolerate these people for a meal? Therefore, Marin immediately broke up and reorganized the 18,000 strong men and began to build a construction team. Because, Marin plans to dig trenches and ditch ...

Of course, Marin has another task-to expand Orich. Orich, as the capital of East Friesland, naturally cannot be as small as before.

Moreover, the palace where Marin lives now is too small and dark. Marin also plans to expand the royal palace, at least to a place with a large garden.

At this moment, no farmland has been cleared around the city of Orich. Therefore, Marin does not need to requisition farmland for urban expansion.

Although digging trenches is important, Marin feels that it is also important to build new capital. Therefore, Marin decided to divide a group of people in 18,000 young people to build the city of Orich as a construction team.

To this end, Marin sent people to 18,000 young people, selected about 3,000 people to join the masons and mason craftsman, and formed a construction engineering team. As for the other 15,000 people, they formed a reclamation team, which is responsible for digging trenches and clearing canals and clearing swamps ...

In addition, Marin estimated that the Duke of Saxony would redeem those knights with priority. Therefore, the 7,000 regular infantry prisoners of war will not leave at half past one.

Marin naturally will not support them in vain. Therefore, under the care of the soldiers, these 7,000 regular infantry prisoners of war were also used by Malinla as labor ...

As for those knights, Marin really wanted to send them all down to work. However, Marin was afraid of being sprayed by European nobles, and eventually gave up this tempting idea. Last time Marin had let the Musketeers kill a large number of plate armor before riding, and it has already made many people sick. Then send the knight captives to the ground as coolies, it is estimated that they will be hostile to the knight class. Therefore, Marin had to support this group of people first.

Of course, Marin will not serve this group of uncles deliciously and deliciously. Usually, they just let them eat some dark bread. Moreover, these black breads are not the black bread made of pure rye eaten by Marin himself.

He gave those 18,000 young and hardy people not to eat pure black bread. But because he was afraid of holding his hard teeth, Marin ordered that no stones should be mixed in dark bread. In addition, Marin also banned the addition of mud to dark bread. Because, the soil does not digest and affects work.

However, Marin would not be able to eat pure black bread for the prisoners of war. So, what adulteration is used? There must be some wild vegetables, which are originally food and can increase vitamins. Sawdust can be added, and it is rich in cellulose ...

In addition, Marin also introduced a new cheap additive-straw bran ...

He lived in Marin in the countryside and raised pigs at home. Before pig feed became common, pigs were often fed bran at home. There are two types of bran-one is bran, which is obtained by crushing the husks of rice. This bran is very nutritious and is a very good feed. Similarly, there is wheat bran. Of course, at present in Europe, because of low grain production, wheat bran is also an important food, which is mixed with flour to make bread. Even the "pure" dark bread that ordinary people eat contains wheat bran. Only the pure black bread eaten by the nobles separated the wheat bran.

As for another conventional pig feeding material, straw bran is obtained by crushing straw or wheat straw. The nutritional value of straw bran is far behind the grain bran, but it is also a little nutritious. Before pigs became popular in rural areas, straw was the most commonly eaten by domestic pigs. As for the bran, it is regarded as the "fine material" of the pig. Of course, due to the general nutrition of straw bran, fattening pigs do not eat it, because they do not grow long. Generally, straw bran is fed to old sows. Because old sows do not need much nutrition when they are not littering or feeding, as long as they are not hungry. Only when it ’s time to get pregnant and breastfeed, will you switch to more nutritious grain bran.

In other words, straw bran is an anti-hungry thing, but it is not nutritious. Dark-hearted Marin, although it is forbidden to mix stones and soil with bread, it quietly lives in cheap black bread, mixed with straw bran ...

After all, the cost of straw bran is extremely low. The raw materials for the production of straw bran are the rye straws that are used as fuel for rural stoves. However, one of the headaches for Marin is that the straw bran raw material is easy to obtain, but it is difficult to process in this era.

Because Marin does not have a high-speed rotating grinder, he cannot quickly break rye straw into straw bran. Therefore, at present, the processing method of straw bran is still a primitive stone mill--that is, drying the rye straw on the stone mill ...

However, it is really difficult to grind rye straw into powder. Ten pounds of rye stalks are put on, and it is not bad to be able to grind a pound. If it is replaced with more difficult to grind straw, Marin estimates that half a catty of straw husk will not be ground. After all, wheat straw is more brittle than straw, and is relatively easy to grind. Fortunately, Marin now has built many Dutch windmills to drive stone mills, which does not require much labor. Then, rye straw was everywhere. Although it is a waste of time, adding straw bran to black bread is an excellent cost-saving business practice ...

Originally, Marin was still very disturbed, and felt that his heart was too dark, so that those who work hard to eat bran. In order not to make the taste of dark bread worse, Marin also specifically instructed the bakers to add less straw.

Alas, Kohler, who is in charge of logistics, did a darker job than him. Marin ordered that 20% of the straw be added to the bread, and Kohler directly requested 30% ...

科 In Kohler's view, Marin is definitely a genius to add straw to bread. Moreover, Kohler felt that adding straw was much better than adding stones and dirt.

You know, dark bread with dirt and stone added is almost as hard as slabs and can be used directly for fighting. When eating, it is also particularly tooth decay.

After the soil and stones are replaced with straw bran, the dark bread is not so much like a brick, and it is much softer to eat. Although it can not be compared with pure black bread, it is much better than those "black stick" black bread.

At least, Kohler, who has been eating "black stick" bread for a long time, believes that black bread with straw bran is more like food and tastes better than "black stick" bread.

In this way, under the insistence of Kohler in charge of logistics, all the prisoners of war, except for those knights, usually eat black bread with 10% wild vegetables, 10% sawdust, and 30% straw bran.

In other words, only half of this bread is rye noodles ...

But what made Marin strange is that those prisoners of war who were from civilians did not reject this kind of bread at all ...

This is also Marin who has never eaten real "black stick" bread. The kind of black stick bread that can be used as bricks can be mixed with 20% of soil by the boss of the heart ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Can it be hard after being dried in the oven? Therefore, when eating black bread, it is often heated with hot water. Because you have to use hot water to soften those soil ingredients, otherwise you won't be able to keep your mouth ...

Black bread mixed with straw bran is different. In any case, straw bran is also edible-although the grade is too low. But to the poor people of the Middle Ages, the ingredients in the bread were all edible, and they were already treated well. After all, straw bran can also be digested by the stomach, but it is not nutritional, but at least it is hungry.

Even, Kohler intends to promote the use of straw bran in the country. Because, this technology is too cost-effective. Substituting rye for cheap straw bran itself saves a lot of cost. For business-oriented Europeans, it's a great deal ...

But Marin is opposed to letting his people eat black bread containing 30% of the straw, because he needs a strong national. Although straw bran is edible, it is not nutritious. If the national body is thin and thin, when Marin needs to mobilize the nationals to serve as soldiers, a group of lean monkeys with little strength are recruited.

So Marin has no objection to Kohler promoting hay bran bread in the country. However, the proportion of straw bran, Marin asked to be reduced by half to 15% ...

This kind of black bread with 15% straw bran quickly became popular in East Friesland and became a staple food for residents and fishermen in East Friesland. Then, this kind of bread was also named "Kohler Black Bread" ...

As for the original creator Marin, it was because he felt that the matter was disgraceful, and he gave the credit to Kohler who was in charge of it. But what made Marin startled is that Kohler "has invented" the cheap "Kolle Brown Bread", which has gained huge popularity and made Marin jealous ...