The heroine of Kuai Chuan Zhi's family only farms

Chapter 1375 [1374] Tofu (4100)

Being nagged by Ding Wei so loudly every day, everyone was not used to it at first, and changed their attitudes, but only the sisters brushed their teeth in the morning and evening, Ding Xiang was also forced by her sister to do it, and the rest of the family got up in the morning After brushing once, they feel that this is enough, and there is no waste of toothpaste.

Ding Wei also found it difficult to change this concept, so she simply let them go.

After the autumn harvest, the weather became colder, and their days became full of sweet potatoes. There was no way, sweet potatoes had a high yield, and they were the main crop on their side. Compared with them, corn was even more expensive. At this time, Sweet potatoes seem to be free of money. She eats sweet potatoes for three meals a day, and she farts every day while eating them.

When the sweet potatoes didn't come down, they ate sweet potato leaves every day. Now that the sweet potatoes came down and the sweet potato leaves were gone, they ate radishes and cabbage. Ding Wei looked at her figure of dry-stirring green beans, and she wanted to cry without tears.

There is less work in the autumn harvest, and my father can ride back every day, and my mother does not let her go to work in the field. Her main responsibility every day is to take care of the house, prepare three meals a day, and wash the family's laundry. Clothes, when you have time, you can go to collect firewood, dig the last batch of wild vegetables before the frost, and eat wild vegetables to get the little shepherd's purse in the first month and the white wormwood in the river beach.

Dad has become more confident since he officially settled down in the tractor factory. Of course, he has not given up reading books because of this. He often goes to the bookstore to buy some books about machinery and reads them back. If he doesn’t understand, he asks Grandpa Ma. Not to mention how happy it is to have such a capable expert and professor by my side.

It was the Chinese New Year, when there was no work in the team, my mother took the two sisters to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town.

Although the items on the shelves of this supply and marketing agency may not be as complete as those in the community canteen, but after traveling for so long and seeing so many dazzling products, it still reveals the excitement that belongs to children to some extent.

Compared with their mother who only saw the display of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the two sisters only saw orchid roots, cat ears, chicken cakes, snowflake cakes, canned food, candies, melon seeds, etc. In front of the glass counter, they grabbed the table and went to Looking inside, my younger sister Ding Xiang pointed to this from time to time and asked, "Sister, what is that?" ', Ding Wei will explain patiently every time.

At this time, my mother also bought salt for [-] cents a catty, soy sauce and vinegar for [-] cents a catty, a box of matches for [-] cents, soap for [-] cents a piece, and loose wine for [-] yuan a catty. The rice on the side is three, six, nine, etc., the most expensive is three cents, and the cheapest is one cent. Because this is not a grain station, only a little grain is placed.

In addition, there are a lot of vegetables and soy products that don't look very fresh on the counter. Maybe it's because of the afternoon that they don't feel very fresh.

On the way home, my mother asked Ding Wei with a puzzled look: "The gypsum stew you asked me to buy can really be made into tofu?"

It’s been a long time since I ate tofu. Just in time, Ding Wei saw a tofu stall in the supply and marketing agency selling brine, so she asked her mother to buy a pack of gypsum brine powder for a dime. This time, she thought it was a good deal, so she asked her mother to buy it.

And after making tofu once, the brine can be kept by itself, so you don’t need to buy it again, and you can buy tofu that can be eaten all winter for a dime, why not do it?
"Mom, I've had enough sweet potatoes. Don't we have soybeans? Let's try making tofu, shall we?"

Zhao Qingqing looked helplessly at the brine in her hand, "How do we know the ratio, I'm also used to you and let you do whatever you want."

"What's the matter, if it's not cooked properly, it will be tofu brain, if it is too much, it will be hard tofu, and if you compress the hard tofu, it will be dried tofu. Mom, practice is the only proof of the truth. If it succeeds, this thing will be eaten again. It’s not bad for your stomach, let’s try a small bottle, it doesn’t cost you much, it’s better than queuing up here every day to buy tofu, this winter consumes a lot, you may not be able to buy it early, it’s better to make it yourself.”

The Ding family didn't know that Ding Wei was a master at making tofu, and Zhao Qingqing only thought she was joking, but she didn't expect her eldest daughter to soak two catties of beans after returning home. Alright, why are you still soaking two catties, what if you fail?"

"Mom, if we fail, let's drink soy milk and tofu brain, okay?"

Zhao Qingqing looked at her speechlessly, and after a while, sighed: "All right, all right, you fix it, I'll see what you can do!"

Their family has a mill, and now every household needs to grind grain. There is a super big mill under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village. Let the brothers help.

The beans that have been soaked overnight are not too strenuous, but turning the millstone is tiring. The four of them circled the millstone for more than two hours, and finally ground the soymilk finely. During this process, the proportion of adding water also needs to be mastered. , too much should not be too thin, less should not be too thick, she usually comes based on the feel, and rarely pays attention to the specific ratio.

After that, it is filtered with gauze. Because there are too many foams, when cooking in the pot, you should also use a spoon to skim off the foam on the surface. The next step is to witness the miracle.

When the pulp is released, it should be filtered again with gauze, and it can be marinated when the temperature is naturally lowered to 80-85 degrees.

Dilute the brine powder with water in advance, make brine according to the ratio of 1:1.5, add an appropriate amount of salt, (it is advisable to have a little salt precipitation) the temperature of the slurry.

Then use a spoon to slowly turn it up and down in the bucket at 80-85 degrees, and slowly add brine. When flocs appear, the brine discharge is small, and when 80% flocs appear, stop the brine, and sprinkle brine on the liquid surface. .

When squatting in the cylinder, stand still for about 10 minutes to allow the protein to fully coagulate.

Their family did not have a special tofu forming box, so she just found a few wooden boards and nailed them with nails, and took out the gauze. When the family held funerals for grandma in the early years, they left a lot of white cloth, which is relatively thin. It can be used as gauze temporarily. These gauzes have been cleaned. She spreads the gauze into each prepared wooden box, and then starts to put the bean brains. Do not stir before putting the bean brains. After pouring the tofu into the box, Then fold the four corners of the exposed cloth in half to cover, put a layer of clean wooden boards on it to buckle, and finally put two large stones of similar weight to press on it. This is a rapid prototyping method.

Using the existing conditions, she tossed and tossed for a whole morning, and finally made the tofu before cooking at eleven o'clock. Two catties of beans yielded five or six catties of tofu. Although it was not as thick as the tofu I bought, it still had little fingers It was so thick, and then she broke it off and put it into the mouth of the shocked mother: "How about it, does it taste like the one you bought?"

Zhao Qingqing looked at Ding Wei in amazement: "Tell me, where did you learn it?"

"It's in the newspaper. There is a method of making it in the newspaper. I remembered it and wanted to try it. I didn't expect it to be successful. Mom, do you think I'm a genius?"

Zhao Qingqing didn't know what to say for a while, the tofu she ate was really the same as the one she bought, and she even thought it was made by her daughter, it was more delicious and sweeter.

She looked at the tofu in front of her with a sigh: "So, our family won't need to buy tofu anymore?"

Ding Wei nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, Mom, I can cook whenever you want. It's very convenient to stay at home."

Zhao Qingqing waved his hand, "Since there are so many tofu, I will make tofu buns for you today, okay? It happened that I made noodles last night. I originally wanted to steam the buns. Now that I have tofu, let's eat buns."

The two elder brothers were also excited, Zhao Qingqing generously cut out two pieces and handed them to the third and fourth.

"Go, send a piece to your uncle's and aunt's. Let's just say that you guys made it. If they want to eat it in the future, order it in advance, but you have to pay beans. One catty of beans will give them two catties of tofu!"

Ding Wei pursed her lips and laughed: "So the remaining catty is our hard work?"

"Of course, I just watched you tossing all morning, so hard, we have to make money! So Weiwei, you will teach mother how to do it later, I must learn it, and when I learn it, I will also give it to your grandpa and grandma Send a few catties over, if you are not at home, mom can make some by herself to satisfy her mouth craving."

Ding Wei nodded: "What's so difficult about it, we'll soak three catties of beans tonight, and I'll teach you how to do it tomorrow."

In fact, Ding Wei knows that it is easy for her to say, but it is not so easy to learn. After all, making tofu also needs to master the heat and texture.

Of course, the tofu made by their family will not be sold. At least before 83, there was no way to realize currency equivalent exchange in the true sense. If someone really exchanges beans for tofu, and my mother happens to have time, it should be is allowed in the policy.

Uncle and aunt came to their house because they were surprised. Seeing that the tofu was really made by themselves, the expressions at that time were really wonderful.

"These kids are really amazing. They can be successful even if they mess around? Does this mean that we will all have good luck in the future?"

Mom jokingly said: "That's no problem, but you have to pay the beans,"

The aunts immediately burst into laughter: "It's needless to say, you have worked so hard, we may not know whether it is good or bad, don't worry, when we really make tofu in the future, the two of us will come to help, and we will not let you suffer."

Ding Wei is not worried about them stealing lessons. After all, she didn't intend to let her mother do this hard work. Making tofu is too tiring and makes little money. If my aunt and the others are interested, why not teach them?

After almost 1980, the land reform and land subdivision came to households. At that time, she planned to let her mother open a restaurant or something, and the land would be planted for uncles and aunts, and it would be enough to give them some rations every year. Compared with farming, 90s Business is easy to do, she has a lot of ways to make money, as long as her uncle and aunt don't do too much, she doesn't mind sharing a few ways to help them get rich.

She thinks that her little brother has the potential to start a business, because he doesn't like to study very much, but he is quite clever, and he will settle accounts if he picks and searches. A good direction to go.

Compared with the fourth brother, the third brother can sit still and read books very seriously, but for the time being, it is not clear whether it is the material for reading. When he is in junior high school, the difficulty of classwork will increase. Towards the direction of college students.

At noon, my mother made two kinds of fillings, one is spicy spicy tofu filling, and the other is non-spicy cabbage tofu filling. This is Ding Wei's idea.

The skin of the multigrain bread was a little black, but this did not affect the fragrance of the filling, and Ding Wei was almost moved to tears when she bit into it.

"Mom, after eating sweet potatoes for half a month, I feel like I'm about to become a sweet potato. This tofu is so delicious, so delicious."

"When the sweet potatoes didn't come down, you thought about roasting sweet potatoes every day. When the sweet potatoes came down, you ate them every day, but you didn't want to. Fortunately, your dad still has a salary. Otherwise, with so many children in our family, we would really have to eat sweet potatoes every day." .”

There are a lot of sweet potatoes distributed this year, but there is little food. Who doesn't want to eat the sweet potatoes first, and then release the food, otherwise how can they wait until the summer harvest comes out?
Even if you eat sweet potatoes every day, there is a rational plan. It is not that you can eat as many as you want.

Now the way of eating sweet potatoes has been tried by the local people. Dried sweet potato powder is mixed with grain to eat steamed buns. Sweet potatoes and grain are boiled and eaten together. , and some are steamed and patted into cakes and fried to eat. The most delicious way is probably to leak them into vermicelli, and eat cabbage stewed tofu vermicelli.

Ever since she knew how to make tofu, her mother, aunt, and the others discussed soaking beans and learning to make tofu whenever they had time. She also taught them everything, and by the way, she also worked out some ratios for making dried tofu, tofu skin, and tofu brain , Mom studied hard, and my aunt sighed over and over again that she was smart, while despising her children.

"Why are they all children? Your family is smarter than mine. This girl is really powerful. Just look at it casually and remember it. The key is really done. Tell me, how much she has grown up. , sister-in-law, you are really lucky, this fifth child is not easy!"

Mom also felt honored, but she kept a low profile, "It's fine for our family to know about it, don't talk about it outside,"

The aunts naturally also know this reason: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, we have already gained a lot of money by following the school, how can we go out and talk about it? But this tofu has been eaten these days, and I didn't even say anything about it from my mother's house. , Let’s just say it’s the tofu I bought. I used to think that eating tofu was a luxury, and I had to spend money to queue up to buy it. Now it’s good, and I can make it if I want to eat it. It’s like cooking. This is something I couldn’t dream of before. !"

The mystery of soy products is that it can be made into different varieties with more water and less water. If you are tired of eating tofu, you can also make tofu skin, dried tofu, and even yuba. They are all natural and pollution-free, with a bean flavor It is a rich first-class food, delicious, not inferior to meat at all.

　If I have time tonight, I will write another chapter!It's the last day of the month. We are all struggling for our lives. I wish you all healthy and worry-free every day and every month.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)