Rice pounding is a very ancient and practical agricultural production activity, and its history can even be traced back to the early history of human civilization.
It has been born since the earliest days of slash-and-burn farming in the early days of human civilization. It has been spread in the Yan Kingdom for thousands of years. It was not until the emergence of modern mechanical processing that it gradually replaced this ancient agricultural production activity.
But even so, this ancient skill can still be seen in the vast rural areas of Yan State.
Chung, pronounced with the same sound, means to put things in a stone mortar or mortar and pound them with a pestle.
This is an ancient hieroglyph, with the character "mortar" at the bottom, and the upper portion in bronze inscriptions and small seal scripts showing two people holding a pestle, which vividly and vividly expresses the meaning of this character.
Once you understand the meaning of this word, it will be very simple to restore this ancient agricultural production activity.
Find a container that is strong enough, put the rice in it, and then use a heavy object to pound it continuously until all the rice husks are broken and the rice grains are exposed, which is the completion of the rice pounding process.
In the vast rural areas, this container is usually a mortar made of stone. The more primitive and ancient one is to use a tree stump to burn a pit.
As for the tools used for pounding, wood, stone, or metal can be used, as long as they are heavy enough to pound the rice husks.
The method used by Chen Xin is to use metal materials to make a large bowl and a metal rod, then put the rice into the bowl and pound it with the metal rod.
Because the rice was not dried, and he did not pound all the rice, but only processed a little for cooking, it was enough to pound the rice in a big bowl.
Put the golden rice into the bowl, pound it with a metal rod, and watch the rice shell gradually break, revealing the light brown rice grains inside. It is a very joyful thing to feel the joy of labor.
Especially since these rice grains have not been dried in the sun, they still emit a faint fragrance, which makes people feel more happy and makes Chen Xin look forward to tasting the rice grown by himself.
Since Chen Xin only pounded a bowl of rice, it didn't take him much time to finish it.
It's just that the rice and bran have not been separated at this time. Obviously, they cannot be cooked directly if they are mixed together. They also need to be screened to separate the rice and bran.
The most traditional method that Chen Xin knows is to use a flat basket to sift the pounded rice bran mixture together. The rice grains are heavier and will fall back into the basket under the action of gravity potential energy after being sifted. The bran or grains are relatively small. If it is light, it will be blown away by the wind during the screening process.
And the dust mixed in the rice grains will also fall down along the gaps in the flat basket, leaving only clean rice grains in the end.
However, Chen Xinxin did not have a flat basket at this time, and it was impossible for him to make one by himself? Because the flat basket was made of bamboo strips, where would he find bamboo in the apocalypse
If you use metal materials? Then you are simply asking for trouble? How much effort does it take to sift an iron flat basket
So at this time, we need to use more modern methods.
Sifting rice itself is a very classic and simple application of physical knowledge. Although the ancestors who did it may not have been able to understand the physical principles contained in it, it did not prevent them from doing so.
And knowing that the principle of sifting rice is to use the difference in weight between rice grains and chaff to use the wind to take away the chaff and chaff, then things will be easier to handle.
Chen Xin only needs to make a blower, blow the mixture of rice and bran through the blower, and blow out the bran inside.
It is not difficult to use a blower, especially since it does not require too much wind to separate the bran from the rice. Even an electric fan or a hand-cranked blower can do the job.
With the help of the system, he made a hand-operated blower on the workbench, and added a funnel to the air outlet of the blower, and made a hole on one side of the funnel to facilitate the separation of chaff, and Chen Xin could easily to obtain clean rice grains.
He carefully collected the blown bran in a small bag and put the light brown rice grains in a bowl. Chen Xin could not wait to taste its taste.
Wash the rice grains with water and put them into an iron pot, add an appropriate amount of water and cook them together. The rest is just waiting for the rice to be cooked.
While waiting for the rice to be cooked, in order to celebrate today's harvest, Chen Xin went to the food storage room and cut some Jinhua ham and Iberian ham, picked up a cabbage, canned pork and canned tuna.
Iberian ham is a raw ham, and the best way to eat it is to eat it freshly cut and raw.
Although it can also be used to make salads or eat it with bread and fruits, or it can be used to make soups and other hot dishes, the former has no conditions and the latter is too wasteful.
So Chen Xin just cut a few slices and planned to use them with rice.
Jinhua ham can be used in a wide range of applications. It can be used to stir-fry cabbage, stew soup, or even just spread on rice and simmered together. It is delicious.
Therefore, when it came to processing Jinhua ham, Chen Xin cut half of the ham into thin slices and planned to put it on the rice, while the remaining half was chopped into pieces and planned to be used for stir-fried cabbage.
As for canned pork and canned tuna, these are just simple side dishes after heating.
Humming a pleasant tune while chopping cabbage, Chen Xin felt that he had found the joy of cooking after a long absence.
Being able to take the chef certificate test as a non-professional chef is enough to prove that Chen Xin really likes cooking. However, the lack of ingredients after the apocalypse has caused him to be unable to use his cooking skills and can only eat ready-made food. It really makes him want to I have been holding back the urge to cook for too long.
Although there are still only a few simple ingredients now, one or two dishes can be made together.
Compared with the simply seasoned shelter food, the meal he was preparing in front of him was equally simple, but the taste and the happiness and satisfaction it brought were completely different.
The former just fills the stomach, while the latter brings real enjoyment of food.
In this extremely cold and dark apocalypse, it is a very luxurious act to enjoy the happiness brought by real food.
But I have to say that in many construction games, abundant food can increase the happiness of the people and improve the morale of the warriors. This is really true and very reasonable.
Eating well and eating well can indeed give people a great sense of happiness and satisfaction.
Chen Xin had the deepest understanding of this when he added Jinhua ham to the rice and as the rice gradually cooked and emitted a rich aroma, Chen Xin swallowed his saliva. (End of chapter)