Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 250 Flour Making Tips

In the early morning of the next day, Grandma Xi's family came over very early. Grandma Xi was holding a large rectangular iron pan, and Gao Zhuang was holding a shelf made of bamboo strips in his hand, which would be used to dry the sweet potato flour later.

The aqueous solution filtered from the sweet potato dregs, after one night of precipitation, is a mass of white starch at the bottom of the basin, with clear water on top.

Look at the sweet potato dregs wrapped in cloth, it is already relatively dry.

These sweet potato residues will not be wasted, but can be used to feed livestock.

After eating breakfast, Duomei went to her second sister's house to help take care of the child. She is inexperienced at the moment, but Duoyu and Zhang Chengyuan are also inexperienced. The three of them got together and were tormented by the newborn child. light.

Zhang Chengyuan had to take care of the work in the field, let alone an old man, he couldn't take care of the newborn child, when the child was held in his arms, he didn't dare to move, for fear of touching the child.

Newborn babies have the most feces and urine. At this time, apart from breastfeeding, they just defecate and pee, and sleep the rest of the time.

If the child cries, it is not hungry, it is peeing.

Duoyu prepared some diapers in advance, and Duomei also made some diapers from old cotton cloth and sent them over, but there were still not enough diapers, because when the baby got wet, the baby would cry, and you had to change them and wash them.

Fortunately, the weather is not too cold now, and washing diapers is not too hard work, but washing diapers is Zhang Chengyuan's business. Many beauties are in charge of taking care of their children and making confinement meals for their second sister.

Seeing Grandma Xi's family coming, Gao Mingcheng hurried up to greet him and said, "The weather is fine today, and it's a good time to dry the sweet potato flour."

"Yeah, it's been sunny these days, just a couple of days in the sun. Mingcheng, have you had breakfast yet?" Grandma Xiao asked with a smile.

"Eat, Duomei cleaned the pot, now you can make sweet potato flour. Grandma Xi, you mix the paste, I'll carry the water, Gao Zhuang, you light the fire!" Gao Mingcheng assigned tasks to everyone, and then He went to the well with the bucket tied on a rope.

The bucket for carrying water is not very big, so I lifted three buckets of water in a row to fill the big iron pot with two-thirds of water.

Gao Zhuang had already sat on the wooden pier at the entrance of the stove and lit the fire in the stove.

Recently, the Cheng family in Gaoming has no shortage of firewood. The thin branches are piled together, and the chopped wood is also piled together. When lighting the fire, burn the thin branches first. This burns fast. Large pieces of firewood are more resistant to burning.

If a person wants to stir-fry vegetables and light a fire, then he has to burn a large piece of firewood. Otherwise, after stir-frying the vegetables, he will have to add more firewood. When the time comes, he will be in a hurry and the taste of the dishes will definitely not be good. .

Grandma Xi took He Xiuman to make the paste, and while making the paste, she told her daughter-in-law the secret.

He Xiuman is very serious about learning. Her family has never made sweet potato flour before, because her family has a large population and a poor family background. All the sweet potatoes grown are eaten as rice. How can I make sweet potato flour to eat extravagantly? Woolen cloth.

It is also easy to prepare the paste, it is nothing more than adding how much water.

Because the homemade sweet potato flour does not add anything, but if you buy it outside, alum may be added.

Because the sweet potato paste can only be made into paste but not shaped, after adding alum, it can increase the gluten of sweet potato flour, which can help the vermicelli to be shaped into strips. Another thing, after having gluten, it is not easy to break during transportation. It will fall off, and the taste will be better, and it will not rotten after a long time of cooking.

However, alum contains aluminum, which cannot be metabolized after eating. Eating too much will hurt the brain, so it is best not to eat it.If the sweet potato flour you buy on the market keeps folding in half and is even elastic, then there are likely to be a lot of alum and gelatin in it.

Because it is difficult to shape without adding alum, the homemade sweet potato flour here is not to use a funnel to leak out the vermicelli and set it in warm water, but to spread the paste on an iron plate, and then put the iron plate in hot water to boil Cook for 1 minute. After it is cooked, tear off the vermicelli and spread it on a bamboo rack to dry.

Dry it in the sun for an hour, and when the surface of the sweet potato vermicelli is dry, but not completely dry, you can peel it off, fold it in half, cut the vermicelli into vermicelli, and after drying the vermicelli, you can store it and eat it slowly.

If it is kept dry, it can be stored for a year or two without spoiling.

The water in the big iron pot had already boiled, and Grandma Xiao took a round spoon to stir in the paste, then scooped up a spoonful of paste, poured it on the iron plate, and shook it to spread the paste evenly.

At this time, you can put the iron plate on the water surface in the iron pot. The iron plate is less than the diameter of the big iron pot. It is specially made, so it can just fit in it. When it is put in, it floats on the boiling water.

Grandma fine put the lid on the pot so that it would be cooked faster. She said to He Xiuman beside her, "Cook it for about 1 minute, and it will be almost done. I didn't have a watch before, so I could only estimate the time by myself. If you are not sure, Just lift the lid and poke it with chopsticks. Now it’s all right, you all have watches, you can watch them.”

During the conversation, 1 minute passed quickly.

Grandma Fine lifted the lid of the pot, and a gust of hot air rushed towards her face.

There is already a layer of light brown powder skin on the iron plate. The sweet potato starch is white, but it will change color after cooking. This is like a fresh sweet potato. After cutting, white juice will emerge from the cut surface, but after a while After drying, the juice will turn light brown, and the same is true for the discoloration of sweet potato flour.

The fine grandmother used chopsticks to fish out the iron plate from the hot water, then lifted the powder skin inside skillfully, and spread it on the prepared bamboo rack next to it.

Immediately afterwards, Grandma Fine mixed the paste with a spoon, and poured another spoonful into the iron plate.

Every time you make vermicelli, you must stir the paste, because the starch will precipitate. If you don’t mix it, then there will be thick starch below and clear water on top.

While doing it, Grandma Xi taught He Xiuman all the skills.

He Xiuman also listened carefully and memorized it carefully.

Gao Mingcheng was also watching from the sidelines. At this time, he started to put the bamboo strip racks in the yard outside to dry. It is best to find a place that is leeward and sunny, so that it will not be blown by dust.

Just like that, Grandma Xi took He Xiuman to make the vermicelli, Gao Zhuang lit the fire, and Gao Mingcheng helped to dry the vermicelli in the yard.

After the surface of the vermicelli was dry, he went to get a knife and a chopping board, folded the vermicelli in half, and cut it into strips.

The gluten of pure sweet potato flour is not good. If it is too dry in the sun, if you fold it in half, it will be broken directly.So when it is half dry and half wet, cut the vermicelli into strips.

After cutting into strips, put them in a large dustpan to dry in the sun.

Gao Zhuang's family has about [-] to [-] catties of sweet potatoes, plus more than [-] catties of Gaoming Cheng's family, so there is still a lot of sweet potato starch. Now it is made into vermicelli, and the whole process is quite long.

When Duomei came back to cook lunch, she found that their sweet potato flour was still not ready.

The stove at home is two big and one small, with two large iron pots and one small iron pot. The small iron pot is used for steaming rice, and the big iron pot can be used for cooking and cooking.

Generally, there are only two pots, one big and one small, but when new houses are built later, because the conditions of the villagers are better, and every household feeds pigs, the stove has two big ones and one small one.

When building the house, the craftsman asked Gao Mingcheng how to build the stove, and he instinctively said this, so the craftsman made him a big stove.

There is a pot that is mostly empty on weekdays, but now this pot comes in handy for cooking pork vermicelli.

Today is the day of the old market in Junling. Early in the morning, Duomei rode a bicycle to Junling to buy fresh pork, half of which was given to her second sister, and the other half was eaten at home.

The fat meat was chopped up and boiled to make lard, and then poured into the well water. Because of the large number of people, half a pot of water was put in.

After the water boils, you can put the chopped sweet potato vermicelli into it for cooking, then put the lean meat in it, and when it is almost cooked, put some vegetables in it.

After seasoning, it can be out of the pan, a simple lunch.

Gao Mingcheng was holding a sea bowl of Suofen, and he ate it very happily.Although this vermicelli is not particularly strong, it is also smooth and delicious, and it tastes special.

"Delicious! This sweet potato flour is delicious!" Gao Mingcheng praised without hesitation, not only praising Grandma Xi's sweet potato flour, but also Duomei's cooking skills.

Many beauties pursed their lips and smiled, bowing their heads to eat the powder.

It was also rare for her to eat sweet potato flour. The sweet potato flour was filled with pork, and the taste was really good. So, the few of them ate up all the sweet potato flour in the bowl, not even wasting the soup.

Seeing that He Xiuman likes to eat sweet potato flour, Grandma Xi immediately said to Gao Zhuang: "I said that Xiuman would like to eat sweet potato flour. This year, we have grown some sweet potatoes."

Gao Zhuang smiled, thinking of the conversation he had with his grandma when he was planting sweet potatoes.

Gao Zhuang was tired of eating sweet potatoes, so he didn't want to eat more. Naturally, he didn't want to have more varieties, but Grandma Xi wanted more varieties. The reason was to make sweet potato powder for He Xiuman to eat.

Who ever thought that the dry weather in the second half of the year would not only reduce the production of sweet potatoes in the field, but also there would be no well water to make sweet potato flour.

Fortunately, Brother Mingcheng has a well!

Once the sweet potato vermicelli was made, it took a day to make, mainly because the production efficiency was too low!You can only make one piece of vermicelli at a time. Although it only takes 1 minute to cook, it takes a long time to add up. After the water evaporates, the water level in the pot drops, so you have to add water to boil again.

In the afternoon, all the sweet potato flour was ready.

Gao Mingcheng has a scale at home because he needs to collect medicinal materials. He weighs all the sweet potato flour, and then divides the sweet potato flour according to the proportion of sweet potatoes produced.

Grandma Xi wants to ask Gao Mingcheng to share more, the reason is that Gao Mingcheng's family's water and firewood were used.

This stove, which has been burning for a day, does use a lot of firewood.

Gao Mingcheng was naturally modest, but Grandma Xiao couldn't help it, and finally charged a few catties of sweet potato flour.

As for the sweet potato dregs, they were all given to Grandma Xi's family. Gao Ming Cheng's family didn't raise pigs, and the cattle and sheep didn't eat them very much.

Although these sweet potato dregs have lost some nutrients, they are still good feed for pigs.

(End of this chapter)