[How many times have I said that? What I inhale is the part of aura that you humans cannot absorb. It does not affect the effect of medicinal materials at all. You must believe it! Old man You's medicinal herbs have very little aura! Or take me to the town one day, Tong Ren Tang has a lot of good medicinal materials! ] Xiaobutianshi began to bargain.
"Okay! Next time I go to the town, I will definitely turn into Tongrentang, let you suck it up!!" Yu Xiaocao found another big sweet potato, and dealt with it with all her strength, casually perfunctory the little Butianshi. Anyway, the next time I go to town, I don't know when it will be.
Liu's work is never slippery, she bent over and kept digging sweet potatoes. Secretly amazed in my heart: In previous years, the largest sweet potato was no bigger than a palm in this sandy land, but this year the rain was not good, so the sweet potatoes grew as if they had been blown, and one was bigger than the other.
I thought that what my little daughter dug up just now was considered the best, but who knew that after a few hoes, what was dug out was not much inferior to that one. Some even surpassed the size of the "King of Sweet Potatoes".
"Mother! This year's sweet potatoes are generally much larger than last year's. The output is estimated to increase a lot compared to last year!" Yu Xiaolian also thought it was incredible. The land is the same, and the sweet potatoes were also seeds left over from last year. How come this year's output The sweet potatoes are like a competition, one is bigger than the other
After digging twice, Mrs. Li sat down and wiped her sweat. She looked at the size of the sweet potatoes on the edge of her field, and the meat on her face was huddled with a smile: "Sister and sister, this year's sweet potatoes will definitely have a high yield. Do you think mother will keep them?" Some to bake for us?"
In previous years, when the yield of sweet potatoes was not good, the sweet potatoes produced were sliced into thin slices and dried in the sun, ground into powder and eaten with other coarse grains for a winter. The pancakes made of sweet potato flour are sweet and chewy, much better than pancakes made of rough millet noodles and bean-smelling bean noodles.
There are not many small sweet potatoes left every year. Occasionally, they will be boiled in a pot, and they taste soft and sweet. It's a pity that you can't eat too much, it's easy to have pantothenic acid in your stomach. Baked sweet potatoes, that taste even more fragrant. It's a pity that Mrs. Zhang thinks it's too wasteful to bake it, because part of the burnt skin must be thrown away.
"Uncle, you have been resting for a long time, hurry up and dig sweet potatoes. If there are so many sweet potatoes, if we can't finish digging today, my grandma will get angry, let alone baked sweet potatoes, even the skin of sweet potatoes will not be eaten!"
Yu Xiaocao looked down on this lazy and greedy uncle, she and Xiao Lian dug a pile, but she couldn't sit up after digging two, people couldn't help but blame her!
Mrs. Li picked up a small sweet potato from the ground, wiped off the soil on the sweet potato with the sleeve of an invisible color, gnawed off the skin with her big mouth, and gnawed on it, not forgetting to help herself absolve:
"Isn't it only five acres of land? I can definitely finish digging today, and I won't delay doing it after a while. Don't mention it, this year's sweet potatoes are not only big, but also sweet. They are much tastier than previous sweet potatoes."
Yu Xiaolian glared at her, knowing that the Sweet Potato Li family could never be counted on every year. She looked up at the twin sister, and couldn't help but said, "Xiaocao, take a break before doing it, don't get tired."
Mrs. Liu straightened up, gently wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said with concern: "Cao'er, you have never done farm work, you should sit and play on the ground. For this kind of work, your mother and your sister can do it."
In her previous life, Yu Xiaocao was also used to farm work. Although she had never grown sweet potatoes at home, digging sweet potatoes didn't have much technical content, so she got started in a short while. Her body, after four or five months of recuperation, and the exercise of going up and down the mountain, is no longer the Yu Xiaocao whose legs were weak when she walked two steps back then. She smiled at her mother, not delaying the work in her hand at all.
"Hey! Second sister-in-law! What kind of fertilizer did you use on your land this year? The sweet potatoes are bigger than the other. Look! This head can't weigh seven or eight catties!" When Yu Jiang finished harvesting the sweet potatoes in his own field and came to help, he looked The sweet potatoes the size of footballs on the ground couldn't help being stunned.
Mrs. Liu shook her head and said with a smile: "The fertilizer is the same as in previous years. It's all homemade manure. Maybe it's because the weather is good this year and the harvest is better than in previous years."
Yu Jiang spontaneously picked up the picket that Li had thrown on the ground, skillfully dug up the sweet potatoes, and said, "Why is my harvest similar to last year's? It must not be the reason. Second sister-in-law, is there any secret recipe for a high yield?" , don't hide it!"
Yu Xiaolian knew that Uncle Third was fond of joking, so she interjected, "Uncle Third, what secret recipe do we need that we can hide from our family? This year's fertilization was done by my mother and I, and it is indeed the same as last year. As for why the yield is so high , we don't know."
You don't know, I know! Yu Xiaocao lowered her head and said while working: "Mother is not saying that farming is relying on the sky to eat. Maybe the gods are pleasing to our family, so they give us more food."
"Hey! I didn't expect our Xiaocao to follow your third uncle and me. He likes to tell jokes. God still depends on people's food! But it's true, God sees that your mothers are always not full, so I will give you more Some food is justified."
Yu Jiang has long been dissatisfied with his second uncle's stepmother. As a junior, I still live in the next room, so naturally I can't say anything, I can only help the poor second sister-in-law and the children with heavy work, and help as much as possible.
"Your family's yield per mu is at least two thousand catties, which is higher than that of others' spring potatoes! Our family's yield per mu is half that of yours, so I just laughed!" Yu Jiang was envious, and the work in his hand But it didn't stop. He is indeed a good hand at work, and his speed alone is faster than the three little grass girls.
With Uncle Santang's free and efficient labor force, and the help of Yu Dashan and Yu Hai who came back from fishing in the afternoon, the sweet potatoes from the five acres of land were harvested before dark, and they were transported home by wheelbarrow.
Looking at the piles of sweet potatoes in the yard, Mrs. Zhang, who had been pulling her face all day long, also burst into laughter. After calculation, this year's yield of sweet potatoes per mu has actually reached 3,000 jin, more than double that of previous years.
Faced with a bumper harvest, Mrs. Zhang finally relented and left some of the smaller ones in the cellar for steaming or cooking in winter. The rest should be cut into slices, and when the sun is good in early winter, dry them out and grind them into potato flour when needed.
"Thanks to the current emperor's blessing," old man Yu looked at the mountain of sweet potatoes, with a sense of satisfaction in his hands, "When I was young, I even had to eat bark and grass roots when there was a famine. Put it all in your stomach, and many people will starve to death!"
Old Yu paused for a moment, seeming to be lost in memories of the past, and then said: "After the sweet potatoes were brought from the sea, there was also a famine. High-yield, storable sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour, and even sweet potato vines, help We survived a terrible three-year famine that saved us from starving to death."
Mrs. Zhang also nodded, and said: "Yes! Sweet potatoes are indeed a good thing. But two meals a day of sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour will make people's stomachs bulge, with acid in the stomach, heartburn, and farting. It's so uncomfortable. If there is a high yield Food that doesn’t burn your heart will be fine!”
"Don't be dissatisfied! Some eat, but still dislike everything!" Old Yu glared at his mother-in-law, and continued to watch them slice sweet potatoes.
There are few kitchen knives at home, and even the iron blades for sickles and hoes are not enough for everyone. And the speed of slicing is also slow. When will this 10,000-jin sweet potato be finished!
Yu Xiaocao remembered the scallop used by neighbors in her previous life to cut sweet potatoes. It was a single-edged blade fixed in the middle of a wooden board. Holding a large sweet potato, press it down on the blade and apply force, and the sweet potato was sliced into pieces. , it is not easy to cut hands.
Xiaocao chatted with her father for a while, and when her father came back from the town the next day, he brought back a few blades that met the requirements. Victory done.
Yu Xiaocao made a few thick gloves out of the clothes she couldn't wear at home. With these, she could ensure that her hands would not be cut by zippers.
Mrs. Liu put on worn-out gloves, set up the wooden plank, took a big sweet potato, pressed it hard, and a slice of sweet potato with a moderate thickness fell down.
Mrs. Zhang also took it and tried it, and she rarely boasted: "This scorpion is really convenient to use. Not to mention cutting sweet potatoes, it saves effort. It's really good!"
Taking advantage of the freshness, Mrs. Li worked hard for a day or two, and cut out hundreds of catties of sweet potatoes.
With sweet potato seeds, more than 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes, which would have been difficult to cut in a month, were cut by all the women and men in the family, and they were cut in less than ten days.
Some neighbors who came to visit saw the Yu family's sweet potato chips, so they also asked Yu Hai about them. They went to the blacksmith in the town to make a few blades, and asked Yu Hai to find time to make them into chips. Whose family has few relatives in other villages? Soon, sweet potato seeds spread out from Dongshan Village as the center.
From now on, every sweet potato harvest season will come, people will miss Haoer from the Yu family in Dongshan Fishing Village.
Yu Xiaocao did not expect that for the convenience of her family, a small pirated invention made the Yu family famous in the nearby villages. She is thinking about how to make delicious food with sweet potato flour.
Combining the meager experience of her previous life, plus her own thinking, in line with the principle of making coarse grains carefully, she has come up with a lot of ways to eat.
For example, there are several ways to make sweet potato noodles.
The easiest way is to use the kneaded sweet potato dough and rub it in a boiling pot with a large grater (that is, a grater, which Xiaocao begged my father to get from the blacksmith in the town). Such noodles Relatively thick, about the thickness of a child's finger.
But to be honest, the big dark bowl is not stewed, not oiled and salted, and when you drink it without filling it, your stomach will be bulging and you will be hungry after a while.
The most delicious is the braised noodles. Use a noodle basket to sift out the thinnest sweet potato noodles, knead the noodles with warm water, use the thinnest rubbing gun to wipe the noodles out of the boiling pot and drop them into the boiling water, while the firewood under the pot is still crackling. Then, the noodle maker should finish the dough as soon as possible, otherwise the noodles will melt in the boiling water.
This is a laborious job, and it is usually done when her father is at home. Even if Yu Hai is strong, every time he makes noodles, he is sweating profusely. There are more than a dozen members of Yu's family, and they have to cook a big meal every time. Pot noodles can be eaten. Therefore, when winter comes, Yu Hai's clothes will also be drenched with sweat.
However, the cooked noodles are crystal clear, smooth and chewy to eat, and topped with clam soup and leek foam, it is enjoyable, and it can be called the classic way of eating sweet potato noodles.
You can also rub the well-kneaded noodles into noodles and put them on the chopping board. Add water to the pot and boil them. You can eat them immediately after cooking. They are sweet and delicious. You can also add fresh soup to make stewed noodles, but it is better to rub it in boiling water to make noodles and cook them to eat slippery, and the taste is slightly worse.
There is also a way of eating with thick and thin. It is to wrap the sweet potato dough with white dough and make it into hand-rolled noodles. After cutting it, black and white are distinct. It tastes very tough like white noodles and smooth and delicate like sweet potato noodles. It is also very delicious if you pair it with fresh stewed soup according to your own taste. Delicious food on the table. However, there is a stingy old lady in charge of the family, unless the uncle's family comes back, it is easy not to let the bad luck happen.
In addition, the sweet potato noodles can be pancakes, pancakes, steamed steamed buns, vegetarian buns and dumplings, etc. With Xiaocao's skill in making sweet potato flour, the Yu family rarely went out to buy food in winter.