Although Song Tanglan really wanted to say that the potato scraps could be fed to chickens, in this day and age, people were still hungry, and if he used such good food to feed chickens, he would definitely be reported if others found out.
Wasting food is shameful, but she only dared to think about it in her heart and didn't dare to say it out loud.
And even if they used it to feed the chickens, they only have two chickens at home, and it would take forever to eat them all.
Song Tangcheng suddenly remembered something when he heard this and asked curiously, "Is it the powder you made last year?"
"Yes, but it might take a lot of effort to do so much."
Song Tanglan felt a bit of a headache looking at the huge pile of potatoes, but he also had to sigh that sometimes too much food can make people worry.
"Since there's a way, then let's do as you say! Anyway, when the food is distributed, some potatoes will be given out as well. As for the leftover scraps, we can eat them slowly. Otherwise, we can dry them out and take them out when the time comes. From time to time, we can mix them with batter and fry them. That should be delicious too."
After saying that, he looked again and saw several bags of grain hanging not far away. Each bag contained 100 kilograms. These grains alone were enough for them to eat for half a year.
"Second sister, since you agree, let's do it. We have nothing to do anyway."
"Then after we get out, have your second brother-in-law come and get these potatoes. Oh, and can we do the same with the sweet potatoes? In the past few years, most of the sweet potatoes were turned into dried sweet potatoes, but there are still quite a few left!"
After Song Tangcheng finished speaking, he pointed to a small sack hanging not far away. Although it didn't look heavy, only they knew that there were nearly 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes there, which were used to make dried sweet potatoes.
They get a lot of sweet potatoes every year, but sweet potatoes are particularly filling, and eating too much will make your stomach uncomfortable. Plus, they don’t like to eat them much, so there are quite a few left over every year. In order to avoid waste, they always wash them and make dried sweet potatoes for storage.
I also send some to the city from time to time.
But even if the sweet potatoes are made into dried ones, they cannot be stored for very long and need to be taken out and dried in the sun from time to time to prevent them from getting moldy.
Occasionally, when they want to eat some sweet potato porridge but there are no fresh sweet potatoes, they will soak the dried sweet potatoes for half a day, then cut them into small pieces and cook them into porridge. It tastes pretty good, at least it is sweet.
"Sweet potatoes can also be made into sweet potato flour. As long as it is dried, it can be stored for one or two years without any problems."
"But there's no sun now, how can we dry it?"
Song Tanglan pondered this question, then suddenly remembered that they had to heat the kang every day, so he said, "We can dry it out, freeze some, and cook it when we want to eat it."
Speaking of this, I remembered that they did the same thing in the past few years, so I said it indifferently.
"Okay." Song Tangcheng thought about it and nodded, and then the two continued to look at other things. This year was too busy, and the crops in the fields were harvested quite late.
This also resulted in them not having time to deal with the cabbages and radishes in their private plots. Although they didn't plant much, the harvest from that small ridge of land was enough for them to eat, not to mention that the potatoes could be harvested in three months.
As soon as the potatoes were harvested, they immediately planted cabbage and radishes. With good care, they finally harvested all of them after the autumn harvest.
"When did your second brother-in-law go into the cellar and actually cleaned up the cabbages." Song Tangcheng was a little surprised when he saw the cabbages that had been cleaned and stacked up.
"I don't know either. These radishes have been cleaned up." Song Tanglan looked at the cleaned radishes and was a little curious.
Generally, the food stored for winter consumption would be kept with the skin intact and stored in the cellar. Those with damaged skin would be eaten on the same day or for several consecutive days, or they would be dried and stored.
"Since your second brother-in-law is done, let's go upstairs! It's really cold in the cellar. Oh, and you've been leaving the peach gum there untouched these past few times! After I finish with the sweet potatoes and potatoes, I'll make you some peach gum and white fungus soup, how about that?"
Song Tangcheng looked at the things in the basket and planned what to do next.
"Okay." Song Tanglan had no objection to this. If she hadn't been so busy this year, she would have taken action on the peach gum a long time ago.
Every time she thought of them, she didn't have much time, so she kept putting it off. Now that it's finally time to hibernate, she deserves to make some time to catch up.
What's more, the little cub has grown teeth now and can eat these things.
After they finished packing up their things, they came out of the cellar and came to the living room where the fireplace was burning. They saw the father and son warming themselves by the fire. The way they stretched out their hands and two little feet to warm themselves by the fire was very adorable.
"Ayuan, we plan to pick up the sweet potatoes and potatoes and make them into vermicelli for easy storage. Help me get them up here later. I'll go boil some hot water so we can wash them later."
"Okay." Cheng Fangyuan nodded when he heard this, and came to the entrance of the cellar with the tools for loading things. It took him several trips to finally move all the things inside to the ground.
Then he joined the two people washing potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Fortunately, it is snowing outside now, so there is no shortage of water. Otherwise, it would take a lot of effort to fetch water to wash these potatoes and sweet potatoes.
In this era, there is no saying of peeling sweet potatoes and potatoes. After all, they are also food in their eyes. Song Tanglan was a little uncomfortable when she first started eating them this way, and she subconsciously peeled the skin. However, Song Tangcheng and Cheng Fangyuan did not blame her for this.
Instead, they just let her do it. As for the skin that Song Tanglan peeled off, it was used to feed the chickens. Later, due to his influence, the three of them gradually did the same.
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