Rebirth Space Farming

Chapter 233 Sweet Potato Flour

"Fengxing, get up quickly, come and have a look," said the genius, Zhuo Feng's eyes were dim, and it was convenient to go out.Not long after, her soprano voice woke Xiao Xian and Feng Xing Qiqi in the room.

Fengxing put on a vest and a jacket, thinking that he might have bumped into some dead rats again. When he first moved in, rats would often come out of the house, and Fengxing would die at any time. .

Before Xiaoxian went out, he heard a refreshing hum in the air.When I went out, I saw that swarms of wasps were circling around the sweet potato field, and it was so dark. If Zhuo Feng hadn't experienced many times of being scared by mice, he would have been screaming again and again by now.Women have a natural dislike for hairy and leggy insects.

"It's wasps. Such a large swarm of wasps really has no way to attack people. Fortunately, this swarm of wasps seems to be quite orderly, and they don't seem to attack people indiscriminately." There is a wasp in the farm, Feng Xing knew it, but he didn't take it to heart.Now that a nest has come, Feng Xing is still a little trembling at the sight of the number of hundreds of them. Looking carefully, the wasp has no tendency to attack, so he took a few steps closer.

"Uncle, don't look at it, it's a good thing to have a swarm of wasps in the farm. It is convenient for pollination and maybe there will be honey in the next year." Xiao Xian recognized the lonely wasp at a glance.I don't know if this swarm of wasps is owned or wild. The wild ones are fine. If they are owned, they will be so angry that such a large swarm disappears.

Xiao Xian already had an idea in mind, let the wasps help pollinate in the farm during the day, and put them in the space at night, which will not delay the daily work of the wasps, nor prevent the wasps from playing a role in the sugarcane seedlings in the space.

After observing for a long time, Feng Xing confirmed that the hornets would not take the initiative to attack people in the farm, and then thought about building a beehive on the farm another day, but the beehive is not an easy job, and it needs the guidance of experienced beekeepers.

The wasp matter can be ignored for the time being, but the farm's sweet potato processing first encountered a problem.

Last night after experiencing Xiaoxian's body shape, Zhuo Feng and his wife put the matter of sweet potato flour on the agenda.

I went to a nearby flour mill and asked, and the people there replied that they would not help with the processing of flour under [-] catties.The flour mill said it was not big, but there was only one flour mill in the whole of Yanqing, and the business was booming, and the people in the flour mill became arrogant. Zhuo Feng said that he wanted to grind dozens of kilograms of sweet potato flour experimentally. Without further ado, they just sent people outside. To put it bluntly, it’s okay to grind sweet potato flour, but if you really want to grind it, a few dozen catties is also the price of five hundred catties.

That's impossible, Zhuo Feng listened, and directly dragged Feng Xing away.

When Feng Xing drove home, he saw his wife was very unhappy. "Why don't we try the local method. When I was a child, there was no flour mill in my village, so we used the local method to make sweet potato flour. How about we go back and ask them if they can borrow the machine? Go back and make it ourselves."

Having lived in Yanqing for more than half a year, Zhuo Feng was convinced of the saying that he would have enough food and clothing by himself, so he turned around and went back to the flour mill.

When the people in the flour mill heard about it, they were also very happy. This young couple is also very interesting. They have never heard of making sweet potato flour by themselves.There was an old-fashioned disused flour mill in the flour mill, which had been idle for a long time, so Zhuo Feng asked Zhuo Feng to pay a deposit of 500 yuan, and rented it to two people at a fee of 100 yuan per day.

Zhuo Feng then borrowed a small tricycle from the flour mill, put the machine on the tricycle, and moved back to the farm.

When he returned to the farm, Zhuo Feng was taken aback. Xiao Xian actually washed all the sweet potatoes that had been piled up in the vacant house a while ago. Spend several hours, can be exhausted half dead.Zhuo Feng was worried about the mildew and deterioration of those sweet potatoes that were dug up a few months ago. When he brought them over, there was no mildew or discoloration. They looked almost the same as the freshly dug sweet potatoes. .

Xiaoxian was happy in the dark, it was good to have a ready-made water-spraying white dragon, spray it with the water in the space, and the sick ones became healthy again.

In order to facilitate the experiment, Zhuo Feng and Fengxing dug up dozens of catties of newly planted sweet potatoes, three varieties, two batches of old and new, and divided them into six piles, each about ten catties.

The old machines in the flour mill are always a bit old, but they work.Small sweet potatoes don’t need to be cut into pieces, they just need to be poured into the top of the machine, and there are two methods of powdering: coarse mixing and fine grinding.

Feng Xing studied it, first picked a few pieces of sweet potatoes and put them in for rough mixing, the flour milling machine made a sound like cement stirring, and the whole piece of sweet potato was cut into irregular pieces.After Zhuo Feng and Xiaoxian caught it with a bucket, they looked at it.

"No, shouldn't it be peeled and processed again?" Zhuo Feng was worried that the skin would be broken, which would affect the beauty of the flour.

"The skin of the sweet potato has high nutritional value. Besides, it needs to be finely processed later, and the skin has long since disappeared," Xiao Xian calculated. If she still needs to peel the skin to make flour, the labor will be astonishingly high.

After rough mixing, the sweet potato cubes are processed for the second time, and it is the turn to finely grind them into sweet potato lumps. The sweet potatoes from this batch have completely lost the appearance of sweet potatoes, and they look like pomace.

After rolling, use clean water and a large bucket of gauze (the gauze and large buckets are borrowed from nearby farmers, and you don’t need to pay, just replace it with a few catties of sweet potatoes) to filter out the useless sweet potato dregs and pour them out. The starch in the sweet potato is left in the bucket covered with gauze,
This job is not easy to say, and it is even more difficult to do.Six piles of sweet potatoes weighed over [-] catties, and the borrowed buckets were not enough, so I used all the pots and pans at home.It is used for processing during the day, and it is precipitated for another night. When it comes together the next day, there is water on the top of the container, and sweet potato powder that settles below.After draining the water, the sweet potato flour remained at the bottom of the container like cement.

This is not considered to have been made into sweet potato flour. Fengxing went to the city to buy a few clean sheets, borrowed some bamboo fences to dry vegetables, and set up a few benches to scoop out the still wet sweet potato flour. Come on, like making glutinous rice balls, put the sweet potato flour in the sun to dry.The sun at the end of July was very strong. After one day, the sweet potato flour was dried and turned into dry powder particles that are similar to those sold in the world. The first batch of self-processed sweet potato flour in Yanqing Farm was finished.

Zhuo Feng put away the dried sweet potato powder particles, and then weighed the scale. After getting the weight, he took out the sweet potato powder and the sweet potato powder ratio given by the flour factory as a reference, and compared with the sweet potato powder made by the three of them with their own methods. In contrast, the mouth can't close.

"The proportion of the flour mill is that ten catties of sweet potatoes can roughly produce about one catty of sweet potato flour. Our sweet potatoes, the old batch, depending on the variety, purple sweet potatoes have the highest flour yield, and about ten catties can produce two and a half catties. The flour yield of the worst baked potatoes is about one catty. The flour yield of the newly dug up batch of sweet potatoes is even more astonishing. About 1 catties of new purple potatoes can produce four catties of flour. Baked potatoes can also yield about two catties. Half a catty of sweet potato flour." This figure was beyond the expectations of the three of them.

After the amount of sweet potatoes in the farm increased, the price also went down. The wholesale price was about two yuan a catty, and the purple sweet potato was better. The most common sweet potato powder costs eight or nine yuan per catty.This is all without adding other flours. According to the people in the flour mill, no farmer is stupid enough to use 100% sweet potato flour for sale. The most common way is to add flour in a one-to-one ratio.

After such a calculation, a catty of purple sweet potato flour will earn twice as much money as a catty of purple sweet potato. It is possible to earn such a high profit difference from a single agricultural product to an agricultural and sideline product. This is why Zhuo Feng and his wife All unexpected.

After finishing the calculation, Zhuo Feng had the guts to go to the flour mill again, "Five hundred catties is five hundred catties, when they see the flour yield of our sweet potatoes, they must stare wide and beg us Give them sweet potatoes to process."

Xiaoxian was also secretly happy. On the night when the sweet potato flour was ready, the aunt and nephew worked together in the kitchen, mixing the flour to make vegetable glutinous rice balls for eating. The glutinous rice balls made with six kinds of flour have different tastes.Newly grown sweet potatoes have more sweetness and viscosity.The sweet potatoes planted early taste refreshing, and with the color of purple potato powder, in a pot of glutinous rice balls, there are green leaves floating, purple sweet potatoes sandwiched, yellow sweet potatoes, and some chopped green onions and dried shrimps are dotted on it. When it was out of the pot, the three people who had been busy for a few days ate it upside down.

After eating, Xiaoxian went back to her room to do her homework for the summer vacation. Zhuo Feng packed up the sweet potato flour and put it away. She didn't plan to sell these six bags of sweet potato flour processed by her own mother, and kept them as souvenirs. also good.

"The matter of sweet potatoes is a good start. There is also the matter of pickled sweet potato leaves. There is no need to rush back to Shandong to ask my mother. A few days ago, when I took several generations of sweet potatoes to give to the grandmother who baked sweet potatoes, she said She pickled the sweet potato leaves, saying that they were tender sweet potato leaves harvested by her family in the past years, and some of them were made into pickles, I brought some back, just ate those when I served glutinous rice balls, I think the taste is good." Good news one This time, Zhuo Feng became more energetic with joy.

In the next few days, Fengxing and Zhuo Feng first took the unsold old sweet potatoes piled up in the warehouse to process and make flour, and then asked some local farmers to help dig sweet potatoes and cut sweet potato leaves. It was about mid-August At that time, things in the farm were very busy.Bags of processed sweet potato powder were piled up in the empty room. The potato leaves were marinated with the help of the handy baked sweet potato lady and her daughter-in-law.

"Everything is ready, it's only due to the east wind." One night before August [-]th in the Gregorian calendar, a small meeting was held in the Yanqing farm. "The rest should be to sell these agricultural and sideline products."

This time, Fengxing had the opportunity to show off, "Don't worry this time, I have already thought of someone who can help us solve the sales problem."

(End of this chapter)