This world had a more complete salt production process... They didn't even eat coarse salt usually; it was snowflake salt that had been filtered multiple times through brine, which was quite an impressive product already.
This was very advanced technology, and Mana was not involved in the process; Yila did not need to improve it any further.
However, sugar, which was just as important as salt, was very scarce in this world... No, that's not quite right. This world did not lack sugar content but lacked something more pure.
Sugar, or rather... sucrose (modern sugar production)
But it was very difficult to make it that cheaply.
This world had no sugarcane, no sugar beet... not even good substitutes, making Yila speechless. However, wheat was ultimately the same, so Yila had some ideas.
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"Just like this, wrap the steamed glutinous rice and malt in cloth... then squeeze out the juice."
