Lady of the Lord From the East

Chapter 34

Wei Wei, who had harvested a lot of daisies and some herbs, started making essential oils after returning to the castle after the afternoon picnic.

In addition to the distillation method, there is a very simple method for the production of essential oils - the leaching method.

Only the petals of the picked daisies are washed with clean water and then placed in a ventilated place to dry in the shade. The dried petals and olive oil that just cover the petals are put into a pot and boiled over low heat for more than six hours. After cooking, filter the petals with gauze, and what remains is the essential oil.

Of course, the purity of the essential oil produced by this method is not as high as that of the distilled essential oil, but if you need to increase the concentration, you can add the filtered oil to the petals and continue to cook for two or three consecutive times. Considered low.

In addition, another simpler way to make it longer is to pour the petals into a glass jar with warm olive oil put it in the sun for a week, and then put it in a cool and ventilated place for a week, finally Filter out the petals, and what's left is the essential oil.

It should be noted that neither of these two production methods can mix water into the flour and oil, otherwise, the essential oil will easily deteriorate.

Wei Wei divided the picked daisies into two parts, one part was boiled to make essential oil, and the other part was put in a glass jar to be exposed to the sun. The glass jar was made by butler Barton in the morning, and there were dark and colorless ones. , It is not the same as the current glass jars. To prevent breaking, the walls of these glass jars are made very thick, and whether it is dark or transparent glass, there are some impurities in it, but they are not used as images.

Naturally, there is no rubber at this time. These glass jars do not have suitable sealing lids. If you want to seal them, you can only use the cork used in wine bottles. Therefore, these glass jars are habitually made into large bellies and small mouths. The shape, of the jar is more like a bottle, especially the dark glass jar she wants, which looks similar to the reduced version of the wine bottle.

The essential oil made by the sun exposure method is very slow to complete, and it takes two weeks or even longer to see the effect, but the essential oil made by the boiled method can be used in six hours after the petals are dried in the shade and put into the pot. See the finished product.

Wei Wei did the drying of the petals in the shade and the initial potting by herself, but it was a bit embarrassing to add firewood to burn for up to six hours later.

So Penny volunteered to help her boil the essential oil.

Compared to Qin, a maid who is rarely literate and motivated, Penny's ability seems a little mediocre. If it wasn't for her being targeted by Felix at the time, or else Butler Patton's impression of Penny's reckless and uncontrollable mouth, she would have no chance of becoming Wei Wei's maid at all.

Penny is somewhat self-aware of this point, especially though it's not very obvious, but Wei Wei pays more attention to the piano.

After Qin was nominated by Wei Wei to work as an accountant, Penny couldn't help but envy, but she also knew that she didn't have the ability, and at the same time she felt a sense of crisis more or less.

She was worried that she would be replaced by Wei Wei.

So Penny finally grew up a little bit. She kept her mouth shut as much as possible and learned from Qin. Even if she wasn't so competent, she had to be a maid who actively shared her master's worries.

Wei Wei didn't know she was about to get up, but she gladly agreed to hand over the cooking to Penny.

I have to say that although Penny is not very smart and a little reckless, she still works very carefully. Wei Wei said that it would take six hours to cook, so she kept standing by the stove and watched the pot not leave. Stop the fire as soon as the time is up, let it cool down a little, carefully filter it several times to remove all the petals, and carefully send it to Wei Wei for inspection with a can of about 500 ml of refined oil.