Tian An spent three days arranging the household affairs. After greeting Gu Jinyan and the others and letting them take turns to look after the decoration of the hot pot restaurant, he once again took Granny Qin and Madam Xiao to the farm to study the cultivation of artificial fungi and the preparation of other ingredients.
Tian An asked the people in the Wounded Soldier Village and learned that some people had already started artificially growing mushrooms. However, the method they used was labor-intensive and required a lot of consumable materials.
They grow mushrooms by using rotten wood, which requires a large number of trees, and not all trees can produce mushrooms.
Tian An, who came from the modern era, is well aware of the harm of excessive logging. Although considering the area of jungle in this era, cutting down some trees will not affect the overall environment, she does not want to take the lead in starting this trend.
Growing mushrooms this way was too expensive, and she had a better and cheaper way to grow them.
The matrix can be prepared by mixing peanut shells, sorghum shells, corn cobs, sawdust, gypsum powder and other materials. After preparation, you also need to sprinkle in an appropriate amount of white sugar and water.
There are plenty of these things on the farm, but you have to buy the mushroom strains from other people who grow mushrooms.
At that time, we can secretly take out enoki mushrooms, artificial mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, etc. from the space and mix them in. We can then take advantage of the situation and grow fungi that are not available in this era. They will definitely be very popular.
Artificial mushrooms like to grow in a warm environment. When planting, you need to choose a flat, sunny and sheltered place to build a mushroom house, and you must also ensure that the mushroom house is well ventilated.
It was definitely not possible to build a mushroom house now, so as soon as Tian An arrived at the farm, he had no time to rest and was busy choosing a suitable room to use as a mushroom house.
After making the selection, he took out the prepared potassium permanganate solution from the space to disinfect the mushroom room. Then he ordered people to prepare materials such as peanut shells.
The people of the village were no longer surprised by Tian An's occasional ideas. Since she'd always succeeded, no one was skeptical when they heard she was planning to grow mushrooms. Everyone, young and old, eagerly came to help.
More people means faster work, and they finished the artificial mushroom substrate in just five days. After spending a day placing the mushroom bags in the mushroom house, only one person was left to observe and water the mushrooms daily.
After processing the artificial bacteria, Tian An had people grow bean sprouts, including mung beans and soybeans.
Both artificial bacteria and bean sprouts require time to wait, so in their spare time, Tian An led everyone to study how to make vermicelli.
The raw material for making potato flour is potato starch. Several snack shops sell a lot of French fries, potato towers, wolf tooth potatoes and the like every day, and they have a lot of them in stock. She brought some with her when she came.
Let’s experiment first. If it succeeds, we can make it fresh every day in the hot pot restaurant’s kitchen.
You can add a little tapioca flour to potato flour to make the flour smoother and chewier.
After preparing the flour, Tian An first poured some cold water into the wooden basin containing the flour, stirred it evenly with chopsticks, and then poured in an appropriate amount of boiling water, stirring evenly until the flour in the wooden basin became cooked.
Then add new dried potato starch in batches and start kneading the dough until it becomes a smooth, delicate and soft dough.
While Tian An was processing the dough, he asked Deng Xue to boil a large pot of hot water.
When the water is almost boiled, Tian An takes the kneaded dough to the chopping board, divides it into small portions and puts them into the vermicelli machine.
The vermicelli machine was specially made by Tian An before he came. It is a round wooden barrel with some small holes drilled in the bottom and a handle on the top that can be pressed down.
After putting the dough in, press the handle hard and the vermicelli will come out from the small hole below. It is of uniform thickness and does not require any technical skills. It can also be used to make noodles. With it, even a novice can make beautiful noodles.
Heat water in a pot, not boiling, just until it simmers and starts to steam. When Tian An saw that it was almost done, he directly took the vermicelli machine filled with dough to the pot, and then with a force of both hands, the vermicelli pressed out of the vermicelli machine went directly into the pot and started to cook.
Madam Xiao was dumbfounded. "You are such a clever girl. With such a little thing in your hand, the ramen chef who has practiced for decades in the imperial kitchen would be useless."
Tian An blinked playfully: "That's still different. On the surface, they look similar, but you can still find the difference."
Granny Qin said unhappily, "You are quite modest, girl."
Tian An pressed the potato flour and nodded, "That's right, humility makes people progress!"
Tian An pressed both small balls of flour into the large pot at once, cooked them over medium-low heat until the vermicelli was shaped, then brought them to a boil over high heat. After they all floated up, Deng Xue quickly fished them out and put them into the cold water that had been prepared earlier to cool them down.
With the right tools, Tian An and Deng Xue soon worked together to turn the kneaded dough into potato flour.
After the potato flour was ready, Tian An set up a casserole on the red stove, scooped two spoonfuls of the old hen soup that Madam Xiao had been cooking over low heat at noon, added a large spoonful of chicken, and then scooped in two handfuls of potato flour.
When the chicken soup starts to bubble, add a few green vegetables and seasonings, stir with chopsticks, and a pot of fragrant casserole potato noodles is ready.
The casserole doesn't look big, but the noodles poured out with a bowl are enough for three people to eat.
Madam Xiao, Granny Qin and she each had a bowl, and after they had divided it all, there was still plenty of ingredients left, so Deng Xue and the other maids could just cook another pot for themselves.
Seeing that Madam Xiao and Granny Qin were eating politely, Tian An picked up three potato noodles and slurped them into his mouth. The sound instantly attracted the attention of the two old people.
Tian An swallowed it and took a deep breath before saying, "Mammy, mother-in-law, noodles should be eaten with a slurry! If you eat it the way you do, the noodles won't taste good anymore."
Madam Xiao didn't believe her. "Whether it tastes good or not depends on the food itself. How can it be more delicious if you eat it in a different way?"
Fearing to dampen Tian An's enthusiasm, Madam Xiao added, "The noodles you made are already delicious. You don't need to add too much. They are already fragrant."
Seeing that they didn't believe him, Tian An spared no effort to encourage them, "If you don't believe me, you can try it! It will definitely taste better than the way you just ate it."
Granny Qin couldn't really learn how to "slurp" the noodles as Tian An said, so she could only evade him by saying, "You're such a clever girl, I don't believe you."
Seeing that they didn't believe her, Tian An sighed. The two old people had been elegant all their lives, and she couldn't shake them with just a few words.
Unable to persuade them to eat noodles with him, Tian An could only restrain himself a little.
Oh! If you don’t slurp noodles, the flavor will be half gone! I finally get to eat noodles, what a shame!
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