On another board were drying light yellow round slices that looked like potato chips!
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, and someone asked, "Is that wood ear mushroom? And potato chips?"
The personnel coordinator said, "That's right. These are dried in the heating duct to extend their shelf life—so you don't have to worry about running out of food. Our base is the one with the least food shortage! If you have time, you can also visit our teaching area to read books. There are books specifically introducing the base..."
Qiao Xuejun went straight to the cafeteria. It was lunch time, so she would go back to work after lunch.
After arriving at the kitchen, she received her expert nutritional meal. Uncle Zhang was particularly free today and came out to chat with her. He asked about the greenhouse, especially about rye.
"Mr. Qiao, when will the rye be ripe next season?"
There was a hint of excitement in Uncle Zhang's eyes. More than 30 acres of rye!
Qiao Xuejun looked at his expression and said, "It'll take another four months. What happened? Have you used up all the rye you gave to the kitchen?"
Almost all of the 700 kilograms of rye harvested were kept for seeds, and only 10 kilograms were given to Uncle Zhang.
Uncle Zhang said, "I used four pounds to make malt sugar, and ground the rest into flour."
Uncle Zhang said as he took out a bag from his pocket and placed it in front of Qiao Xuejun: "This is corn stalk maltose made from maltose. This is the first batch. I'll give it to you to try."
Qiao Xuejun's eyes lit up as she reached out to take the bag. "Made of corn stalks? The same corn stalks you asked me for before?"
Uncle Zhang had asked Qiao Xuejun for corn stalks before, specifically the green kind.
Qiao Xuejun opened the bag and looked inside. There were more than a dozen pieces of light yellow malt sugar cut into fingernail-sized pieces.
Uncle Zhang smiled and nodded. "Yes. We use corn stalks to steam them... and then ferment them with crushed malt. 25 kilograms of green stalks and 4 kilograms of wheat, for a total of 6 kilograms of malt sugar."
When there is more wheat next year, we can produce more sugar, and we can use the flour to make some pasta. However, the taste and flavor of rye flour are not as good as barley, but it tastes good when used to make sugar.
Qiao Xuejun said, "This is easy to carry. We can give it to the patrol team to replenish their energy while they're out, or give it to the teaching department so they can give it to the children as a reward."
In fact, in addition to this malt sugar, during the previous rapeseed flower blooming period, that box of bees was very productive and produced a total of 120 kilograms of honey.
However, honey is not easy to carry. This kind of solid small sugar can be taken with you.
It is very suitable for patrol teams to replenish their energy while outside.
Summer is short and will be over soon.
Qiao Xuejun asked, "Uncle Zhang, can you make sugar from beets? My Ministry of Agriculture is planning to grow beets on a large scale. We can use beets to make sugar in the future, and rye to make pasta."
Refined pasta can be used as a staple food.
Uncle Zhang: "The process of making sugar from beets is more complicated than that of making maltose. If we want to scale up this, I'll have to ask the engineering department to get some sugar-making equipment!"
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