Chapter 122 is a complete successor to the vermicelli.
Making tapioca starch is not difficult. After peeling, slicing, and soaking the tapioca starch, use a soymilk maker to make tapioca milk. Let it stand for a while to allow the starch to settle at the bottom naturally. Pour off the excess water to get wet starch.
You get tapioca flour by laying it flat to dry, and the drying process only takes a few hours.
Cassava has a high starch loss rate, but Zuo Shan only managed to keep 300 kilograms of fresh cassava. It was steamed, roasted, or made into cassava cakes. Even so, it was all thanks to the space for preservation, otherwise it would have spoiled in just a few days.
The remaining 1800 kg produced 600 kg of starch, which is easier to store.
300 kilograms of the starch was made into vermicelli, which was intended to be eaten as a vegetable during extremely cold weather. The remaining 300 kilograms of starch was reserved as an additive when cooking wild vegetable porridge.
Pandora fell in love with pressing cassava noodles.
She exclaimed excitedly when she saw the long, round, and translucent rice noodles emerging from the noodle machine's outlet.
Every time a batch of vermicelli came out, she would exclaim, "It's amazing! It's so beautiful! It must taste incredibly delicious!"
Zuo Shan felt that this girl's aesthetic sense was probably warped and couldn't be corrected at all.
When she put on the heat-insulating suit she had bought from the supermarket, which looked much prettier than her old tattered nettle clothes, she was only slightly excited.
But ever since the first batch of vermicelli was successfully pressed out, she has been staring intently at the left fan operation, exclaiming in surprise every time a batch of vermicelli came out, and she never tires of it.
Given that she loved vermicelli even more than wild boar meat, Zuo Shan made pork stew with vermicelli that very night to reward her. After eating it, she was so happy that she cried.
"Sister, I've never eaten anything so delicious in my life! Seriously, these glass noodles are so good! Waaah!"
Left Fan looked up at the sky speechlessly, wondering how the vermicelli could taste good without pork.
Furthermore, there are no chili peppers or vinegar here, so she can't taste the amazing hot and sour noodles or spicy noodles. She has no idea what the ultimate deliciousness of rice noodles is like.
The source of the pork was hard to explain, so the next day Zuo Shan made steamed cassava cakes and bamboo rat meat stewed with wild vegetables and vermicelli, and sent a plate of each to Uncle Wu's family next door.
The sweet and soft steamed cassava cakes were enough to make any wastelander fall in love, but now there's also braised pork with vermicelli. The aroma brought tears to Uncle Wu's eyes, and he exclaimed that the vermicelli was the most delicious ingredient he had ever eaten. This was more than just falling in love; it was downright prostration.
This reaction is exactly the same as Pandora's.
This dish only contains salt and sesame powder as seasonings, but for the people of District 48 who rarely have the chance to taste gourmet food, it is the ultimate in deliciousness.
Zuo Shan didn't hide anything from Aunt Zhou and explained in detail how vermicelli was made. When they heard that it was actually made from poisonous potatoes, Uncle Wu and his wife were shocked.
When Aunt Zhou was young, she also went to the wild to scavenge. She had encountered poisonous potatoes before, but the knife she used warned that they were poisonous and could not be eaten. Which scavenger would dare to risk their life to try it?
I never expected that Zuo Shan would dare to do that, and the vermicelli she made smelled amazing, and it didn't cause any problems at all.
After consulting with Zuo Shan, Uncle Wu shared his method for dealing with the poisoned potatoes with several of his close friends, all of whom were from outside District 48.
He didn't want the people in District 48 to find out and start digging for poisonous potatoes, otherwise Zuo Shan and the others might not be able to find any next year.
Zuo Shan was very satisfied with this. Uncle Wu may look rough, but he is actually very considerate to his friends and family.
He and Aunt Zhou were never able to have children in their lives, and Aunt Zhou always expressed her regret when she brought it up, but Uncle Wu would always comfort her by saying:
"Raising children is so expensive! Our little shop is just enough to support the two of us old folks. If we had another child, they would eat us out of house and home!"
The way the two families are getting along now goes far beyond the friendship between ordinary wastelanders, because they have exchanged the most precious food.
Every time Aunt Zhou saw Zuo Shan going out to collect recyclables, she would advise her not to go to collection points that were too far away, for fear that she would get too tired and it would affect her children.
Zuo Shan could tell that she was especially looking forward to the safe arrival of her baby, Achen.
For an expectant mother, the kindness of others towards her unborn baby is more precious than anything else, so without realizing it, she began to regard Uncle Wu and Aunt Zhou as her elders.
Although she couldn't trust him completely, he was still the closest person to her besides her family; otherwise, she would never have shared information about the poisoned potatoes without reservation.
The sausages, once stuffed, were tied with hemp rope on the left side and tossed into Xiaobai's spatial storage, where the constant temperature of 2°C was perfect for storing them.
It's extremely hot now. If you leave the sausages outside to dry, they'll definitely spoil before they're completely dry.
She only left a small amount of the cooked pork sauce outside, storing most of it in her spatial storage.
She only stir-fried one tenderloin from the whole pig; the rest was stewed into a sauce and used to make sausages.
Pork bones are naturally meant to be kept for soup. Of course, after gnawing the bones clean, they shouldn't be wasted. They should be chopped up with a small axe and then ground into bone meal in a grinder. Adding some bone meal when cooking wild vegetable porridge makes it taste better and more nutritious.
The pig's head and offal are repeatedly cleaned, cooked, and stored in the space. Occasionally, they are taken out, chopped, and used in cold dishes or as a side dish.
Life was so good that Zuo Shan and Pan Duole felt like they were dreaming, but the sense of crisis ingrained in the wasteland people constantly reminded them to be prepared for danger even in times of peace!
So, after a week of tiring but joyful food preparation, Zuo Shan and her friends once again embarked on their scavenging journey.
After settling down in District 48, Zuo Shan checked three collection points at different distances and decided to give up on the closest one.
Furthermore, each collection point is visited only once, and a new collection point is visited next time, so that it is possible to harvest new varieties.
She was able to successfully pick up bargains and reap considerable profits, especially when she came across things like toon sprouts or poisonous potatoes that locals wouldn't eat.
A horse won't get fat without night grass, and a person won't get rich without unexpected wealth. Just by diligently picking those well-known wild vegetables every day, one can only struggle to make ends meet forever.
Zuo Shan's goal is not just to have enough to eat; she also wants to achieve true food and clothing security as soon as possible.
Today she chose collection point number 53, which is 18 kilometers away from the residential area, making it a medium-distance collection point.
Thanks to Xiaobai's friendly suggestion, she decided to avoid the unsafe river and also temporarily refrain from going to the furthest collection point.
After all, she is already six and a half months pregnant, and even with her speed ability, she is still not suitable for long-distance travel.
Having not gone out for a week, Zuo Shan got up very early today and set off with his whole family at 7:00 AM sharp.
Pan Duole was panting heavily as she ran: "Huff! Sister, you can't be lazy. I've only been idle for seven days, and I'm already a little tired. I didn't have to run this hard last time I came out!"
"Life is like rowing against the current; if you slack off even once, you'll be swept back a thousand miles. Do you understand?" Zuo Shan took the opportunity to pass on the "poisonous chicken soup" that their teacher had given them during their college entrance exams to the little girl.
"Sister, what is a boat?" Pan Duole asked, her big, innocent eyes blinking as she looked at her.
Zuo Fan: Death!
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