Nicolay Burkhradt - Pov.
Location - Mountain range | Valley.
"Ufff .... ufff .... ufff ..."
Inside a mountain range, you could hear my heavy breathing. Surrounded by immense floral trees displaying his imposing figure to the sky, I could feel my body give way to the pain, no matter how hard I applied my limbs they would not agree to listen to me, it makes a lot of sense despite having an evolved body I still have the body of a child At ten years old, the current limit of my developing muscles did not allow me to go any further.
Releasing a sigh, I dropped my battered body to the ground, looking up at the view of the huge trees reaching up to where my eyes allowed me to see my body relaxed a bit.
It had been a month since I started training, it was not very difficult to learn about the Wesen after all I had full knowledge from my other life, so for now, I focus on physical practice. The fighting style that his father taught at first glance seemed very attractive but when I started to practice I only needed the practice to know that the style is very simple they are only sword strokes and the occasional foot movement, I could not wait but it was in medieval times martial arts as I know them do not exist, the medieval style is a more forceful blow and goodbye head.
I seriously doubted finding a stylist, who will dedicate himself to perfecting his fighting style that was fine for me even though I could not find a teacher it is not as if he will need one in the first place. In my head all the modern fighting styles from my previous world were kept as manuals, I was seriously beginning to love this skill.
That is why this month I put aside normal style and began to train in the art of Japanese sword or Kenjutsu the movements were repeated like a movie in my mind and I only had to physically recreate them I had planned to use a style of two swords. I always liked how anime or movie characters looked when they stabbed two swords, I was aiming for that and of course, creating a katana was the first step.
Things at home are improving a lot, from the beginning I could see my parents spying on me while I was training with the wooden sword. They probably wanted to know how I'm doing it doesn't bother me, it helped me to consecrate myself faster with the label of genius.
Something strange that happened just a few days ago my father returned from his trip to the north, he seemed to smile when he saw me next to my mother welcoming him according to the memories I had never seen my father smile, even though I knew that he only acted like that to prepare for the previous owner of the body seemed to think that his father hated him seriously.
It turns out, apparently, I already have a fiancée. It sounds absurd, but that's the way it is, without knowing it. I'm involved in a whole medieval romance television drama. Fuck according to father the girl is the eldest daughter of Eddard Stark the guardian of the north you can imagine my reaction when I heard the name, and the surprise did not remain there because the daughter bears the name of Sansa Stark my brain stopped at that moment I seriously wondered if I had the wrong world and ended up in Game of Thrones.
I knew there were references, but it seems like it's more than that everyone in the north is named after the characters I know, thank God there were no Lannisters the last thing I wanted was to have to deal with a crazy family full of incestuous.
This caused doubt in me, they may have the names of the characters but will they also seem? And if this is the case to whom the drawings in the book or the actors in the series according to father and mother Sansa is very beautiful to the point that more than seven houses are fighting to take her I doubt very much that she is like the actress in that case, since at At least, in my opinion, she was not as beautiful as the character is painted in the drawings in the book.
If so many people are after her, she is like a modern supermodel, she should be very beautiful, I admit that it moved my curiosity, I do not consider myself a gigolo or someone who only looks at external beauty, but who would not want to marry a woman like that, and even more so that it bears the name and possible appearance of a character from one of your favorite sagas.
Well, it doesn't make sense to think about it anymore. What's done is done, I'm already committed. I have even more pressure due to how popular the girl is, but that is also an opportunity in four years there will be a tournament in the capital where all the houses compete or rather the knights and heirs challenge each other to know who is better, something quite Exciting I will use that tournament to make it clear that Nicolay Burkhardt the next heir to the Valley is invincible.
Releasing a sigh, I proceeded to get up from the ground, stretching my body with some warm-ups, I smiled slightly, I had finished the training for today since I had something important to do, his first invention in this world.
Upon arriving at the castle I was greeted by two maids, both of whom were the most traveled in the house and of course the most experienced were as a family.
"Young sir." They both spoke at the same time.
Nodding I asked, "Is everything ready?"
"Everything is ready and prepared for the young lord's specifications." One of them replied.
I smiled "Excellent then let's go."
Once inside the castle, I went to the kitchen with the maids walking behind me. I was quite happy because today I was going to bring to this ancient era something that I had liked a lot during my other life.
When I got inside I could see the things prepared for the invention by thundering the fingers of my hands I made myself to a strange metal pit with boiling water under burning firewood, I slid my hands towards a tray full of corn in grains, carefully let the grains fall in the water.
He had thought that it would be best to create that they would give the best results for both his family and the business, in a way something that will benefit not only his need to eat good things but it will increase the power of the house.
Two things came to his mind, one was the famous 'Tortillas' in corn flakes, this was very famous, especially in Latin America, there was not a house that did not have tortillas on their tables for breakfast, they were quite rich to accompany any meal much better than the Today's tasteless and extremely stale bread.
And the other of course something that everyone consumed in unusual quantities.
The sugar.
This idea crossed his mind when he came across the pleasant discovery of a natural cane mound in the territory of the Valley that for some reason nobody seemed to pay attention to it, man that is the same as spending all day with a treasure in your yard and not know it. At this time no one knows the plant this left me laughing for just a few minutes.
Now from discovering it to making sugar are two different things. Even though I know the steps to make it, the little technology of the place was an impediment, that is why during this month I was trapped in the steps to create it.
Contrary to what everyone thinks doing it is much more difficult than simply looking for the sugar content in your house.
Sugar processing can be divided into the following stages:
Harvest: cutting and harvesting of the sugar cane.
Storage: The quality, the content of sucrose, fiber, and the level of impurities are determined. The reed is heavy and washed.
Sucrose is, sucrose, common sugar or table sugar is a disaccharide made up of glucose and fructose.
Its chemical name is alpha-D-Glucopyranosyl - (1 → 2) - beta-D-Fructofuranoside, and its formula is C12H22O11.
It is a disaccharide that has no reducing power on Fehling's reagent and Tollens's reagent.
The sucrose crystal is transparent, the white color is caused by the multiple diffractions of light in a group of crystals.
Cane chopping: The cane is chopped in machines specially designed to obtain small pieces.
In this case, I had to carefully chop the reed manually until I had enough.
Grinding: By pressure, the juice is extracted from the cane. Hot water is added to extract the maximum sucrose contained in the fibrous material.
Clarification and refining: In the clarification, the temperature of the juice is raised, a clear juice is separated. It is also possible to refine it by adding bones or lime to help separate insoluble compounds. It is also usually treated with gaseous sulfur dioxide to whiten it. Not all white sugar comes from a refining process.
This was a very difficult step to separate the clear juice from the sucrose took several days of intensive care on the fire, without industrial machines to do the work everything had to be done manually, the lime on the other hand Fortunately it was not that difficult to create.
Lime, is a natural product used both in the past in its ancient world and today, it is peculiarly obtained in the Sierra in some kilns built in stone, called "ladders", destined exclusively for this purpose the limestone rock, Raw material used and abundant in Sierra Espuña, was introduced into the limescale, so that with the heat generated by burning firewood or other combustible material for 3 or 4 days without interruption it was converted into carbon dioxide on the one hand and quicklime on the other. When the lime was turned off and the already calcined stones were removed, they easily crumbled into quicklime.
The chemical process that leads to obtaining quicklime from limestone rock is as follows: CaCO3 + heat = CO2 + CaO. Where CaCO3 is calcium carbonate (the main constituent of limestone), CO2 is carbon dioxide and CaO is calcium oxide or quicklime.
Evaporation: The water is evaporated from the juice and syrup or syrup is obtained with an approximate concentration of solids soluble from 55% to 60%. The syrup is purified in a clarifier, the operation is similar to the previous one to clarify the filtered juice.
Crystallization: Crystals (sugar) and liquid are obtained from crystallization.
In the sugar industry, the crystallization process is carried out by evaporation. By removing water from the solution, the stability and growth of the sugar crystals are guaranteed.
To do this, the concentration of sucrose in the solution must be kept at a point where the transformation from liquid sugar to a solid-state (crystals) is viable.
This point of concentration is called the supersaturation index. In such a way that if the index is very low (less than 1.0) the crystals dissolve and if it is very high (greater than 1.3) the formation of spontaneous crystals occurs, which damages the quality of the final sugar.
Spin: The crystals are separated from the liquid.
This was the most time-consuming process of all, it still hurts just to remember it. Centrifugation is a method by which solids can be separated from liquids of different density employing a rotating force. The centrifugal force is provided by a machine called a centrifuge, which gives the mixture a rotational movement that causes a force that produces the sedimentation of the solids or the higher density particles.
For obvious reasons, I didn't have a centrifuge machine so I had to improvise. It was not easy but I was able to create a manual machine that created the closest thing to one, it is driven by different pairs of harnesses and a rotating shaft with enough force can recreate the rotating movement of a centrifuge.
It is very functional but very laborious.
Drying and cooling: The wet sugar is dried and cooled to room temperature.
It was a lot of work but finally, before my eyes was an earthen jar full of refined sugar, it did not look as appetizing as the original but towards work, the feeling of achievement in me was something incredibly gratifying.
Without losing the smile, with a wooden spoon, apply the sugar to a large bowl of water filled to half its capacity. After a good stir, place the bowl on the table and with a knife cut a couple of clean oranges.
Using my strength I squeezed all the oranges into the bowl, the look of the maids was one of infinite curiosity. I could hear them whispering behind me like all the gossipers who appeared in the kitchen entrance once I finished with the water I moved towards the boiling pot with the corn kernels.
Taking out the hot water carefully, I proceeded to carefully remove the cooked corn and place it on a metate.
A metate is a large curved stone with a smaller one in the shape of a long tube, this was very used in my previous world even in the modern era, like forgetting the food made by granny the best that can exist.
With force, I began to grind the corn, thanks to my physique I could apply more force without getting tired, on the other hand, the cooks were taking care of the pork stew that they had prepared under my strict recommendation.
After about 20 minutes on the metate, there was a large ball of dough, bathed in a bit of lime, kneading it for a few seconds.
"Young sir, what is that?" Asked one of the gossiping maids who can't stand the curiosity.
I smiled "This is called dough, it is necessary to create a new type of food that will perfectly accompany any meal."
I could hear the gasps of amazement and disbelief among everyone, even my mother was in the place watching carefully.
With agility and class, I took a ball of the freshly made dough and began to pat it until it grew to a regular size and placed it on a smooth stone griddle over a wood fire.
I repeated this process until the whole place on the stone was full, the pleasant smell of cooked dough began to permeate the kitchen, in the end after several minutes I had a good amount of tortillas made, I took a few and distributed them with everyone together with some orange water on the spot wanted to see her reaction.
I didn't have to wait long to hear gasps of shock.
"For the gods!."
"W-what is this."
"It is so rich and smooth !."
"I can't explain it but ... It feels so nice soft to the touch it melts in the throat and leaves a feeling of satisfaction much better than stale and tasteless bread, it would go perfectly with food this is an invention divine young master!"
"Shit have you tried the young lord's brew yet !?
"Rich!."
"Too rich !."
"I can't stop taking someone, give me yours and finish mine!"
"Get lost !."
The more I listened, the more proud I felt, I can understand them very well, I looked at my mother who was still surprised by looking at the omelet and the glass of water in his hands.
"And how are you mother?" I asked for.
She looked at me in surprise "Very rich! So this is what you were trying to do with All those strange things that you were doing all this time, for a moment I was worried that you were doing strange things. How did you come up with something like this Nicky?
Weird things? Man, did you think I was crazy? I smiled at my mother and replied
"I was just tired of eating that horrible bread, so I decided to create something much better that would satisfy my need for goodies. Also, I increased these things to use in a trade."
Mother's eyes shone slightly in contemplation without letting her answer continue.
"You can think of it this way, the wine export business is the most lucrative in the kingdom, but not all people particularly like women in high society. So you think what I like to call 'fresh waters 'non-alcoholic sweets for those moments of relaxation or meetings where something nice to drink would always be welcome, so now imagine that the Burkhardt House has a monopoly on this new drink selling and exporting it to the whole kingdom, and I'm not just talking about a flavor I have many for a change. "
At this moment the mother's eyes were open, I could see how it went from a surprised look to an excited one, it was a little scary to see her so I could feel the emotion in her predatory smile.
"Very good! ... You sure are my son hahaha !."