Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 249
The iron sheet is placed on a clean basin. After the sweet potatoes are ground into pieces, they will naturally fall into the basin and become white sweet potato residues. These sweet potato residues contain a lot of starch. Sweet potato flour is made by extracting starch from these sweet potato residues. made.

Grandma Xi took He Xiuman to grind the sweet potato dregs, while Gao Mingcheng went to the house and took out some clean white cotton cloths. He cleaned the cotton cloths first, and then waited for them to be used.

Add a little water to the ground sweet potato dregs, stir well, put them into white cotton cloth together, filter the dregs, and then get a starch-containing aqueous solution.

After the aqueous solution is precipitated, it is white sweet potato starch.

The sweet potato starch is mixed with water to make a paste, which can be used to make sweet potato flour, or the sweet potato starch can be dried and preserved.

Sun-dried sweet potato starch can be mixed into a paste at any time to make sweet potato powder, and it can also be used for cooking. It can be used as meat tenderizer powder to make the meat tender and smooth. It can also be thickened and eaten directly.

After mixing the sweet potato starch with water, pour it into the pan with oil, and keep stirring like this, and then it will become a paste. After seasoning, continue to stir until the paste is mature and becomes a jelly-like sticky substance. It can be plated and eaten.

This is also an emergency recipe in winter when there is a lack of fresh vegetables.

When Gao Mingcheng and the others get fresh starch, they will make it into sweet potato powder, so there is no need to dry it. After making sweet potato powder, they will dry it in the sun.

Gao Mingcheng went outside the house to get some wood, and then used the wood to build a simple shelf, with triangular wooden stakes on both sides, and a wooden pole the size of a wrist in the middle, and then took out the large and small pots at home , placed under the wooden pole.

After making preparations, he pinched the four corners of the white cotton cloth with his hands and said to Gao Zhuang, "Bring a pot of sweet potato dregs."

"Hey."

Gao Zhuang responded, picked up a pot of sweet potato dregs, and poured it on the white cotton cloth. The water passed through the white cotton cloth and dripped directly into the basin below, while the sweet potato dregs remained in the white cotton cloth.

With Gao Zhuang's movements, the cotton cloth became heavier and heavier, but Gao Mingcheng's wrist was steady and did not shake. When the pot was finished, he squeezed the sweet potato dregs wrapped in the cloth with his hands to squeeze out all the water inside. Come out, and then ask Gao Zhuang to pour another pot of sweet potato residue.

After pouring two pots, the sweet potato scum wrapped in the cloth was a little too much, and it could not hold any more.

So Gao Mingcheng tied the four corners of the cloth to the horizontal wooden pole, relying on gravity to make the remaining water drip into the basin.

At this time, the water in the basin is white and turbid. After standing for a period of time, the starch sinks and the clear water floats up, and the sweet potato starch is successfully separated.

If the color of sweet potato starch is not white but brown, you can also add some clean water to stir and re-precipitate after pouring off the water.

Some dirty things will float in the water, and after settling, just pour the water out.

The work is not complicated, but each item takes time.

The four of them worked hard for two hours before grinding all the sweet potatoes into sweet potato residue.It was said that four people did it, but as a pregnant woman, He Xiuman did the least. Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang were the ones who were busy.

In the evening, Duomei came back from her second sister's house. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw a lively group of people working.

Seeing her come back, Grandma Xi asked her if Duoyu was doing well and if the child was doing well.

Duomei naturally said yes, and briefly talked about the production process of Duoyu. He Xiuman listened carefully, with a serious expression.

In a few months, He Xiuman will also have a baby, so she naturally pays special attention to this related topic.

Many Mei went to the kitchen to cook, and Grandma Xi and He Xiuman were also preparing to go home.

Gao Mingcheng asked them to eat here, but was declined.

Gao Mingcheng didn't urge them to stay, but said: "Grandma, the sweet potato starch can be deposited overnight, so come over tomorrow morning to make sweet potato flour!"

"Okay, I'll bring the tools for making sweet potato flour tomorrow." Grandma Xiao agreed with a smile, so she and He Xiuman went back to the old village first, leaving Gao Zhuang here to finish.

Gao Zhuang poured the last of the sweet potato dregs into one of the cloth bags, and then helped Gao Mingcheng tidy up the pots and buckets he had taken out.

"Brother Mingcheng, let's come back tomorrow morning." Gao Zhuang waved to Gao Mingcheng and left with a smile.

In the process of washing sweet potatoes and grinding sweet potato dregs, a lot of water was used, but the well in Gaoming Cheng's house was really good, and there was no tendency to bottom out after carrying so many buckets of water.

The water for washing the sweet potatoes will not be wasted just like that, but poured to the corner of the wall, where some flowering trees are still planted.

After the people left, it was getting dark. Gao Mingcheng checked the tools under the eaves and made three big bags of sweet potato residue. On the wooden frame, there was a row of three simple bags made of white cotton cloth, which were filled with The sweet potato dregs were filled, and the basin below was also filled with aqueous solution.

The aqueous solution is still in a cloudy state and takes time to change.

"Ming Cheng, it's time to eat." In the kitchen, Duo Mei shouted loudly.

At the dinner table, the two chatted while eating.

"My second sister's family also has a lot of sweet potatoes, but they were afraid of spoilage, so they chopped up the sweet potatoes and dried them in the sun, saying that they are used to cook porridge in winter." Duomei said.

Her family didn't have a cellar, her father was in poor health in the last few years, and there were only four daughters in the family, so they didn't dig their own cellar.

Later, after Manyu and Zhang Chengyuan got married, Zhang Chengyuan wanted to find a place to dig a cellar, but he was squeezed out and refused to dig. So until now, there is no cellar at home.

After the sweet potato is dug out, if it is not placed in the cellar, it will be easily broken, and it will be wasted.

They are all planted with hard work. No one is willing to waste them. If there is no water, they cannot be made into sweet potato flour for preservation, so they can be dried directly in the sun.

Sun-dried sweet potatoes can be preserved until winter to cook porridge.

Gao Mingcheng said: "His family doesn't have time to make sweet potato flour this year. How about you ask your brother, do you still want to dig a cellar? If you want to dig, you can dig next to our cellar. When you dig here, no one dares to say anything. "

"Okay." Duomei responded, and then talked about the newborn with a smile.

But Gao Mingcheng listened lazily. In his previous life, Duomei also took good care of this nephew. If the family had a stutter, they were willing to share it with him. Later, when the family became rich, they even paid for the tuition of the nephew. This nephew is also a student. Seed, took the exam all the way to the capital, and finally worked and bought a house in the capital. He might not come back once a year.

Afterwards, many beauties talked about this matter, feeling aggrieved, but Gao Mingcheng didn't say anything, after all...he also covered the tuition fees of his nephews and nieces, and there were rewards for good exams.

And when his nephews and nieces grew up, they didn't treat him very well.

So in this matter, he and Duomei are on par.

Now seeing that Duomei is interested in this nephew again, Gao Mingcheng thought to himself, the plan to have a baby should be brought forward!
When Many Beauty has her own child, that love will naturally be transferred.

And in this life, he will raise his children with Duomi, and feel the joy and fatigue of being a father.

As for other people's children, if it's good, it's good, if it's bad...it's none of his business!
Let parents take care of their children!
(End of this chapter)