The taste of simple boiled meat slices changed dramatically just because of the addition of this plant starch. This also made Zhang Heng feel better, and he shouted excitedly: "Witch, this is called starch."
Without waiting for Wu to respond, he quickly cut out a piece of jelly from another clay pot, and this time he ate it directly. Well, the taste was as good as expected. Although it lacked salt and flavor, the original taste of the jelly was enough.
It made him eat a pound.
After the witch tasted it, he shouted again: "King, it's delicious!"
"Well, let's invite Shang Mei and the others to share the meal together." Zhang Heng thought for a while and said, and then kneaded some starch in the same way. This time it was easier. There was no need to wait for the water to evaporate, and it could be put into the pot directly. This is the same as making glutinous rice.
Powder is the same principle. It will turn into powder only when it needs to be stored for a long time to avoid mold.
Starch is also commonly used starch. Biologically speaking, it contains a large amount of glucose, and glucose also contains carbohydrates, which is very helpful for supplementing nutrition. Glucose is the first choice for infusion and intravenous drip. Zhang Heng recalled his high school biology knowledge, and he was not good at biology.
Okay, I can only recall roughly, there may be some discrepancies, but the difference shouldn't be big.
Even if the nutritional value is not considered, the taste alone is worth trying to make starch, because starch is widely used in cooking. Even in every household in the village, starch is always available, but it is usually sweet potato starch.
Starch can also be used to make vermicelli, but the process is a little more troublesome. Zhang Heng will not consider it for the time being. It is already quite good to be able to extract starch.
It's summer outside. If I had a bowl of jelly, my sister would definitely like the taste. Moreover, the price of starch alone is relatively high. He saw that ordinary starch in bulk costs sixty-seven in the grocery store where he buys salt.
It costs 1 yuan per kilogram, and the ones in supermarkets are more expensive. This is pure starch. The packaged version is much cheaper, but looking at the parameters on the packaging, it is no longer pure starch, and there are cheap goods in it.
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Not to mention everyone excitedly eating rough jelly and powdered meat slices, Zhang Heng took a few more sweet potatoes and experimented. The final result surprised him. The starch color of sweet potatoes is grayer. This alone is not as good as this one.
The one named "White Potato" has a good color, and then I compared the taste of the jelly. Well, they all have their own advantages, but if I choose from a real person's perspective, I will still choose the White Potato jelly.
Cook the meat slices soup, but it is better to use sweet potato starch, the soup is thicker. Then try to coat the meat with flour and fry the meat with fat. The sweet potato starch is a little thicker and spicy, and the white potato starch stir-fries the meat and it looks very tender. If he comes
Of course, the choice is sweet potato flour, but if you are older or have more picky tastes, you may choose white and red flour.
After this comparison, sweet potatoes are still stronger, because sweet potato starch is just a by-product, and sweet potatoes themselves have a wider range of uses. There is no way to eat white potatoes raw. Zhang Heng tried it just now, and his mouth was full of dregs. Although the fresh taste is strong, it has a wide range of uses.
Hard to swallow.
I was thinking about how to make use of white potatoes. Although the functions of white potatoes overlap with those of sweet potatoes, it would be a pity to give up white potatoes like this, because after all, white potatoes are the original product of the original space.
After a while, Zhang Heng shouted: "Yes, the biggest advantage of white potatoes is that they are easier to grow. There is no need to water, weed, or fertilize. You only need to plant them into the soil to get a harvest. Moreover, they are perennial and do not need to be planted every year."
They all cultivate the seedlings alone..." With this thought, my thoughts opened up.
I have made some mental calculations, and my mood is naturally good. It is already autumn, and there is no urgency to transplant the sweet potatoes. The most urgent thing is to consider how to deal with these sweet potatoes. The tribe's population alone cannot eat them all, and some of them will rot.
"Wu, follow me." Zhang Heng shouted.
Soon he began to do something that was half the result with twice the effort, which was to weave a funnel from tiny arrow bamboos. This was definitely a challenge for him, but if it was woven, it could be used for many years due to the quality of the arrow bamboos.
You can also open up the witch's mind during the process and teach the witch the concept of weaving. You can immediately take the bamboos stored in the tribe, which are basically the size of your thumb. They should be left behind because they are too big to be used as arrows.
, but it is just right for him. The bigger the bamboo, the better.
Nowadays, with his strength and the roughness of his palms, weaving bamboo products is no longer difficult. When he was a child, because his hands were too tender, he would get cut and bleed when weaving bamboo strips. Of course he still remembers the method, but what he lacks is proficiency.
"Wu, look at it. Let's choose the trunk first and burn out the main frame of the funnel." The indispensable thing for weaving hard bamboo is to use fire. As the temperature increases, the bamboo will become softer and harden again after cooling. Nanzhu
This is how the outer ring of the steamer is burned.
But you can't really burn it, because if you burn it too much, it will turn into bamboo charcoal. If you burn it completely, it will naturally turn into ashes.
He was in a high mood when he didn't expect the witch to suddenly say: "Wang, witch, I don't know how, call me Mei!"
Zhang Heng was stunned, but immediately nodded to express his understanding. Although witches are more intelligent, they are not omnipotent. Women should be more talented in weaving these things, but this is exactly the opposite of modern villages. In the village, basically only men can do it.
Woven bamboo products.
Without thinking much, he called out: "Mei, come here."
Soon, Mei ran over, but Wu did not leave, still watching carefully from the side. This made Zhang Heng guess that Wu might be worried that he would not be able to learn, so he asked Mei to come and study with him.
"Well, let's start now. We need to choose this kind of straight bamboo, and the largest one will be used to burn the main frame..." Zhang Heng explained and started working on it.
First, I took the largest ones and broke them in half, and then started to put them on the fire to burn the outer skin. I guessed that the temperature was about the same, and I was about to put them under my feet, but then I realized that I was barefoot, so I hurriedly took them out.
As soon as the animal skin is broken, step on the "U" shaped bamboo into a "I" shape. This is because the bamboo is small, so you can omit this step by replacing it with a large green bamboo.
Then it is bent into a V shape, with two intersections. This is the main frame of the funnel, which is also used to support the subsequent weaving. Inverted, it looks like an umbrella.
"Now we need to break the bamboo strips, only the outer layer is needed." Zhang Heng said and broke the small bamboo into very thin strips, about two to three millimeters wide. This took some effort. It was difficult to break the areas with bamboo knots, so it was still big green bamboo.
It’s more convenient, but unfortunately it has just been planted, and now I can’t catch up with the time. I don’t want to go back to reality now. If I go to chop other people’s bamboo in the middle of the night, it will be tragic if I am discovered.
The process of weaving a funnel is basically the same as that of making a bird cage. You can also weave a net bag like a bird's nest, but you have to use softer big green bamboo.
Weaving the funnel now was Zhang Heng's choice after thinking. The main reason for weaving it was to filter the residue and extract fine starch for human consumption, and the filtered residue was used to feed livestock.
After the thin strips are broken, use a knife to break them in half again on the joint head. The inner layer of white is relatively brittle and easy to rot, and the service life is not long enough. However, if you do not want fineness, you can weave the inner and outer layers together, and use cyan as the outer layer.
layer, assisted by a large white layer.
At this time, Zhang Heng only chose the cyan outer layer, which can not only be woven, but also wound into a rope, and can withstand a weight of several hundred kilograms without interruption. The edges of bamboo products are circled in this way to prevent friction damage during use.
"Okay, now start knitting from the bottom of the V, go down here, cross over here, and knit up in circles..."
It's easier said than done. In the afternoon, Zhang Heng did weave the funnel, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like a simple L funnel like those used for hot-making "maocai" and "vermicelli" on the market, only enlarged many times.
This has nothing to do with the sharp V bottom leak in his mind
The funnel is really far different. The "L" funnel only needs one main bamboo frame, and the weaving is half as simple as the V-shaped funnel. He originally wanted to be more precise, but in the end it only reached the level of an ordinary L. He wiped his forehead
I was in a cold sweat, but luckily neither Wu nor Mei understood.
"Well, this is a failed product. It was deliberately made like this for you to demonstrate. You see, the pattern I drew on the ground is the ideal funnel effect. Well, you will definitely be able to make it up if you practice more in the future.
"Zhang Heng said shamelessly.
But fortunately, no matter how it looks, the efficacy is still intact. When the slurry is poured into the funnel, the slag can be filtered out. The slurry that can flow out along the water is the starch, and what remains in the funnel is the scum, although it is still not enough.
It's fine, but it's better this way. If all the starch is refined, chickens and ducks probably won't like to eat the residue left behind.
In the village, gauze is used to wrap the slurry. The four corners of the gauze are tied to a quadrilateral frame and hung in the air while shaking continuously, so that the powder and residue can be filtered out more thoroughly.
I looked at my masterpiece with satisfaction. The funnel was about one meter high and had a round top that required one person to hold it. It took more than half a day to complete the weaving. Looking at the sky, the men must have returned.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard a roar, "King!" It was Cuckoo's voice...
PS: The third update is here.
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