Chapter 131 Potato Powder
After Mr. Huang left, Zhang An was still staring at these golden eggs.
These golden eggs are very small, just a little bigger than pigeon eggs, and they look similar to wild eggs.
In later generations, some people also went to the mountains to retrieve golden eggs and hatched them, but in the end they were fined.
Those with serious circumstances may be taken in to serve as umbrellas for the country.
But it’s different now. This guy doesn’t have a death-free medal yet.
Zhang An can safely and boldly hatch these eggs.
Holding a night owl in his left hand and a golden egg in his right hand.
Zhang An returned to the room and entered the space directly.
As for the owl, Zhang An didn't think about how to control it.
Just put it in the space and wait until it grows up and becomes familiar with the flowers.
Put it outside again. My yard is too big and it is inside this field dam.
Mountain mice often come to visit me, even though I have a little tabby cat at home.
But it cannot be taken care of by a cat. Wait until the night owl becomes familiar with its own animals before letting it go out to stand guard.
This night owl is the nemesis of rats and snakes.
Hehehehe, all the rats in the house, you are going to be in bad luck.
After entering the space, Zhang An released the night owl and let it go and stay on the fruit tree.
Then Zhang An went to the grass nearby and started looking for silver roosters.
Zhang An just saw it and found that none of his hens had a nest.
So the plan to hatch the egg outside was not feasible, so Zhang An went into this space to look for it.
Check to see if there are any silver chickens hatching eggs in the space now.
Although Zhang An placed a large number of silver roosters in the space, the number has increased again after being here for so long.
Zhang An searched in the grass for a long time and finally found a silver chicken hatching eggs.
It seemed that they had just begun to hatch, so Zhang An directly put the golden eggs into the chicken coop and let them hatch together.
The hen Silver Chicken, who was originally squatting in the nest, looked confused when he was caught by Zhang An.
When Zhang An finally put him back into the nest, he didn't notice that there were too many eggs under his belly.
All Zhang An can think about now is waiting until the fruit trees on his hilltop grow in the future.
When the time comes, release the silver rooster and the golden rooster together.
What a beautiful picture that would be.
After settling the golden egg matter, Zhang An started to do other things.
After planting the trees during this period, Zhang An was quite busy, and he didn't have any time until today.
The trees that were just planted on the mountain have been taken care of by Zhang An during this period of time.
Now it can grow independently, and Zhang An does not need to water it every day.
When the family dug up sweet potatoes and potatoes some time ago, Zhang An thought about making some potato flour and sweet potato flour.
But there was a series of people busy with that, and they didn’t have time, so this matter was delayed.
I haven’t had much time to do anything, and it just so happened that the weather was nice today and the sun was shining.
You can dry the potatoes in the sun later when they are floured.
Otherwise, if we fight from behind, the weather will get cold and there will be no sun in the sky, so there will be no place to bask in the sun.
When the time comes, it will have to be dried on a coal stove, but in that case, the powder will smell like soot.
The potato flour Zhang An mentioned is potato flour, not the potato flour used for hot pot in later generations, but potato starch.
Today's potato flour is not needed for many dishes as it was in later generations.
Zhang An and his friends have a very common way of eating it, and many people have eaten it when they were children.
Mix sun-dried potato powder with cold water and stir evenly.
Pour in the freshly boiled water, and stir constantly. Do not stop halfway, otherwise it will not taste good.
You will end up with a bowl of white, opaque paste.
People in Changqing call it potato flour paste, which is a particularly delicious food.
In the past, apart from eating the potatoes at home, there would be a lot left over.
Most of the remaining people used it to cook and feed the pigs, because no one came to the village to collect potatoes at that time.
Every time adults chop potatoes, they wash them clean and then chop them.
Then soak the potato pieces in water, then take out the potato pieces, cook them and feed them to the pigs.
Then wait until the water in the basin has settled, then pour the water out.
The remaining layer of white powder at the bottom of the pot is potato starch.
No one wants to waste it after drying it.
Not only can it be used when cooking some dishes, but it can also be made into potato starch paste for your children to eat.
Although potato flour is not comparable to meat.
But it is also one of the favorite things of rural children.
They may not know what potato starch is, but when they talk about potato starch, they can all salivate.
This is about the characteristics of starch. The prepared potato starch paste is not sweet without adding sugar.
But after entering the mouth, it will be decomposed by the amylase in the saliva to produce glucose and maltose.
There were not many sweets to eat at that time, and children liked anything with a little sweetness.
This is also the reason why people cut fresh corn stalks to eat after breaking off the corn.
Because these are the desserts they have at their fingertips.
Take Zhang An as an example. When Zhang An was born, Wang Fang was not in good health.
So Zhang An didn’t breastfeed for a long time, and basically weaned off breastmilk in a few months.
I grew up drinking rice cereal and potato flour.
The conditions of Zhang An's family were not good at that time. They also received milk powder, but not much.
But this baby An is very picky. Every time he eats it, if there is no sugar in it or it is not very sweet, he will cry.
So every time Wang Fang makes potato flour paste, he will put some sugar.
This is probably the reason why Zhang An has bad front teeth. He eats too much sweets.
But now there is nothing wrong with Zhang An’s teeth.
Even so, Zhang An was not tired of it.
So today Zhang An plans to chop some potatoes and some sweet potatoes and make some flour.
It had been a long, long time since he had eaten potato flour, and he still missed it when he thought about it.
I brought out a bag of potatoes and sweet potatoes from the cellar. Today’s job is to chop them all.
Because there is no crusher specifically for crushing potatoes and sweet potatoes in the village, if you want to grind them into powder, you have to chop them slowly by yourself.
Then I found a big pot and a stubble knife for chopping peppers at home, because Wang Fang used to use this.
Zhang An first washed the big wooden basin at home, and then started to prepare potatoes and sweet potatoes.
It’s really a bit slow to wash so many potatoes by myself.
Then Zhang An looked at the road. Zhang Tie was running around with a bunch of children. He thought they must be quite idle.
So Zhang An decided to target them.
"Zhang Tie, come here, I have something to ask you."
When Zhang Tie heard Zhang An calling him, he ran over with his friends.
"What's the matter, Brother An?"
"Are you guys okay? Come over and help me wash the potatoes."
As for Zhang An asking them to do something, they Everyone is very willing.
Because from past experience, every time Zhang An asked them to do something, he would give them some hard work.
This is the kind of treatment you don't get at home. After all, all the work at home is for nothing, and if you don't do it well, you'll get beaten and scolded.
The money given by Zhang An was not much, just a dime each time.
This dime sounds small, but it is the most appropriate.
Because if there were too many Zhang An, it would be easy to spoil them into bad habits.
When you have money, you become bad. This is not just for men, it applies to everyone.
Children of this age are no exception.
Now one dime can buy a lot of things, enough for them to buy the snacks they want.
And this can also teach them a lesson in advance.
If you want to get what you want, you have to take practical actions.
This is what their generation must know in society. Especially Zhang Tie, who now knows how to save money without spending it.
The doll army in the village just did it without any hesitation
One or two people found a handful of hay and placed it next to the big pot of potatoes. Squat down.
Pull up your sleeves, hold a big potato in one hand, and start washing with a straw handle in the other.
With their help, Zhang An quickly washed a large pot of potatoes.
After that, Zhang An asked them to continue washing, while he picked up a knife and started to chop the potatoes in the basin.
Many people see that their children love to help Zhang An with things, and most of them think it’s okay.
On the contrary, I felt that Zhang An was helping them control their children, which was a good thing.
Compared with letting them run around, it is more reassuring to squat in one place and play.
But there are a few adults who feel a little uncomfortable. Why should we control our children?
It was just that they knew that Zhang An gave the money, so they thought it was nothing.
After Zhang An found out later, he stopped asking his children to help with things, not wanting to leave any quarrel with others.
Zhang An used a stubble knife at first, but in the end he found that the chop speed of the stubble knife was not as fast as that of a kitchen knife.
I decided to switch to the big kitchen knife at home, and the speed was indeed improved.
Moreover, Zhang An felt that even a kitchen knife was not enough, so he started chopping with a kitchen knife in both hands.
I chopped up a big pot in a while.
Zhang An chopped the potatoes very finely, because the starch is in the pulp of the potatoes.
Only when you chop it into enough pieces, you will get more starch.
After the chopped small potato pieces are soaked in water and washed back and forth several times.
The starch in the potatoes will dissolve in the water. Wait until the water in the basin becomes clear.
Just take out the potato pieces and use them to feed pigs or fish later.
Just like that, a pot of starch came out.
"Brother An, are you making potato flour?"
Zhang Tie and the others asked Zhang An when they saw Zhang An doing this.
"Yes, I'm making flour."
"Then we don't need any money. When you finish making the flour, you can stir the potato flour into a paste for us."
I can see this. The little kids also like to eat potato flour paste. Now they don’t even want money and want Zhang An to make it for them.
“You also like to eat, and you don’t even need money.”
“Hey, Brother An, I can’t buy potato flour paste with money, and my mother won’t make it for me. ”
These brats are acting pretentious now, a bit like combing their hair like adults and imitating what adults say.
"Okay, you go ahead and wash it, I'll give you the money, and when it's dry, I'll make potato flour paste for you."
"Okay."
Listen When it comes to Zhang An, these Zipiwazi guys are extremely happy.
When washing the potatoes and sweet potatoes one by one, they became more serious.
After chopping the first pot, there is still a second pot.
It took Zhang An all morning to chop more than one hundred kilograms of potatoes from the cellar.
The starch content of potatoes is generally around 15 to 20 percent.
Especially the potatoes dug during this time should have the highest starch content in the whole year.
Zhang An estimates that it will weigh twenty or thirty pounds even if it is dried in the sun.
After taking the precipitated potato starch to the third floor to dry it, Zhang An was ready to start chopping sweet potatoes.
It’s time for everyone to eat now, and the children in the yard were called back to eat by the adults.
Before leaving, they reluctantly looked at Zhang An’s potato starch.
Zhang An smiled, took out some change, and gave it to them one by one.
Ask them to come back at night. The potato flour has not been dried yet.
After it dries in the evening, stir the potato flour into a paste for them.
When they heard what Zhang An said, they went home to eat.
After dinner in the afternoon, I saw Zhang An making flour, and Wang Fang also started to prepare some dried sweet potatoes.
Dried sweet potatoes, also known as dried sweet potatoes, are very simple to make.
Wash the sweet potatoes, peel them or not, cut them into strips and put them in a pot to cook.
But don’t cook it too well, otherwise it will be easily burned or broken into pieces.
Usually you have to take the sweet potato fries out of the pot when the water in the pot boils.
Be careful when fishing, otherwise it will break easily.
After the sweet potato fries are cooked, it is time to dry them.
If you want to make dried sweet potatoes delicious, you cannot save the effort of steaming and drying them three times.
Nowadays, people don’t have much snacks. People with children usually make some and give them to their children as snacks.
In later generations, not many people would be willing to do it. Mainly because there were factories specializing in it, and it was quite cheap to buy it in stores.
But no matter how cheap the food sold in the store is, it is still clean and safe to eat at home.
When it gets dark and late at night, the army of dolls who came to wash potatoes and sweet potatoes during the day came to Zhang An's house one by one.
Zhang An is considered a big foodie, and these guys are considered snackers.
Take out some of the recovered potato flour and pour it into the pot to start mixing.
This time I did a lot, and just using chopsticks is no longer useful.
Zhang An could only use a spoon to break up the starch.
Because there is too much to make, the method of brewing it with boiling water will not work.
You can only put it on the fire and stir slowly while heating.
Zhang An also took out bee sugar and dropped some into it, but not too much.
Because Zhang An’s honey is very sweet, if it is too sweet, it will easily affect the taste of the potato flour paste.
While Zhang An was stirring the pot over the fire, the children below were a little impatient.
One by one, they lay down next to the coal stove and watched Zhang An stir, their mouths almost watering.
Finally, under their eager eyes, a pot of potato starch paste was ready.
Zhang An only poured half a bowl of noodles, but a large pot came out.
There was no need for Zhang An to shout, Zhang Tie had already taken out the bowl from the cupboard.
When he came to Zhang An's house, it was like returning to his own home.
Zhang An scooped out a bowl for them and asked them to eat by themselves, being careful to burn it.
There was still a lot left in the pot at the end, and they ate it very deliciously.
Zhang An's greedy mind also came out, and he took a bowl and scooped out a bowl for himself to eat.
Well, it still tastes like when I was a kid, much better than sesame paste.
The children around the table ate very carefully.
I eat it bit by bit with chopsticks, reluctant to take a big bite.
It’s a bit like when Zhang An was a child, he bought a popsicle but was unwilling to bite it.
I just licked it with my tongue, fearing that it would be finished in two bites.
It seems that I am afraid that I will finish it in two bites and then only see others eating.
"Hurry up and eat. I still have some in the pot, and there will be half a bowl for each person later."
Seeing that they were reluctant to eat, Zhang An had no choice but to speak.
When they heard Zhang An say this, they ate more.
After they all finished eating, Zhang An began to clear away the dishes.
The little glutinous rice dumpling that originally ran out to play with everyone came back again.
"What's wrong, little glutinous rice dumpling?"
"Uncle An, let me help you wash the dishes."
It turns out that this little guy was thinking about eating something by himself. Helping with the dishes.
No one else came, she was the only one thinking about this.
"Go and play with them. I will wash these bowls in a moment, and you can't reach our dishwashing table."
Zhang Anxiao Then tell her that this is why Zhang An prefers this little girl.
Although he is young, he is very sensible and polite.
(End of this chapter)