But now there is such a large pile of sweet potatoes and potatoes. If they peel them, it will take them forever, so they decided to just clean the surface skin and cut off the rotten ones.
The rest can be directly ground into pulp using a stone mill, and then rubbed into pulp later.
It took the three of them a whole day to wash the potatoes and sweet potatoes. With the help of each other, they finally finished grinding the potatoes after two days and started to make pulp.
When it’s almost done, put it in the kitchen to settle.
It is placed in the kitchen because the temperature of the stove will not cause the water to freeze, otherwise it will be difficult to get the powder.
It then took another four days to grind all the sweet potatoes into powder.
After taking out the powder, put it in gauze to dry the moisture, and then put it in the kitchen to dry.
In order to prevent Mumu from causing damage, the three of them deliberately placed these things in a high place where he could not reach.
Otherwise, he would definitely kill you in a blink of an eye.
In half a month, they made more than 150 kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli from 500 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Nearly 1,000 kilograms of potatoes and more than 120 kilograms of vermicelli were made. In order to make these, they consumed a lot of firewood. Fortunately, Xiao Cheng's family went up the mountain to chop a lot of firewood this year, so they didn't need to search for firewood like others.
During this period, Su Tao and the other two knew that they were making vermicelli, so they came to help. Finally, they found out that the vermicelli they made could be preserved for a long time, so they borrowed the stone mill back.
Song Tanglan started working on the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted on his two mu of land. When he had nothing to do, he taught them how to make them, and chatted with them while helping them.
Since the sweet potatoes and potatoes were harvested at home, various winnowing baskets were hung around the house to dry, and a lot of vermicelli was also hung on bamboo poles.
Now, every time she looks up, she can see the food hanging out to dry. The first thing she does when she wakes up is to wonder if she slept in the kitchen.
After harvesting all the potatoes and sweet potatoes at home, Song Tangcheng now watches the residue and vermicelli drying every day. He turns them over from time to time. Even after they are dry, he wants to leave them for a few more days to dry more thoroughly.
When the sweet potato flour and potato flour were made that day, they cooked them and tasted them, and found that they tasted really good. Sweet potatoes and potatoes are high-yield coarse grains.
Unexpectedly, the vermicelli they made had such a chewy texture. They all liked it very much. Even the two sisters who didn’t like noodles very much ate it for several days in a row.
Song Tangcheng also asked Cheng Fangyuan to send more than ten pounds of each to Captain Cheng's family to try first. If they like it, they can exchange it for more sweet potatoes and potatoes when the food is distributed, and make more at that time.
However, with this experience, they know that sweet potatoes can produce more vermicelli, and they have already decided to replace them with more sweet potatoes.
Captain Cheng and his family tried sweet potato flour and potato flour and thought they tasted good. In addition, they tasted like fine grains and were much cheaper than fine grains. They thought of the sweet potatoes and potatoes in their cellar and decided to make some vermicelli themselves.
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This year, Song Tangcheng still didn't have time to take her husband and children back to the city to visit relatives. Her family asked them not to go back. The situation was unclear now, and it was too dangerous for them to take the children on the train, so they asked them to wait.
However, many old educated youth in the brigade went home to visit their families, and of course a small number did not go back.
Those were all because of conflicts with my family for various reasons, so I didn’t go back.
However, Xiao Cheng's family had already agreed that when Song Tangqing got married, they would take leave and go back to visit together. At that time, it was May and the farm work was not busy, so they wanted to take leave and no one had any objection.
Time passed slowly in their lives, and soon the first heavy snow stopped. The first thing they did when the snow stopped was to go out and sweep the snow off the road to make it easier for people to walk.
But when the snow stopped, they were both happy and started to get busy. After receiving the notice from above, Captain Cheng immediately ordered people to separate the public grain to be paid and prepared to let his youngest son drive a tractor to pay the grain.
If they could get this matter done quickly, they wouldn't have to worry all day long and could also start preparing for the next distribution of food.
In the past few days, many people have come to the team leader's house to borrow food. Team leader Cheng cannot let them starve to death, so he can only lend them the food first. However, all the food is recorded in the book and will be deducted when it is distributed.
Song Tanglan watched her second brother-in-law go out early with a big package. After seeing him off, the two sisters had nothing to do and cleaned the cellar.
"Lanlan, there are so many sweet potatoes and potato scraps, we don't know how long it will take us to finish them all."
Song Tangcheng felt a headache when she saw the big bag of leftovers, but there was nothing she could do. She couldn't bear to waste it, and even if two chickens died of stuffing, they wouldn't be able to finish it.
Now we can only dry it thoroughly, hang it in the cellar, and occasionally take it out and add some batter to make pancakes.
"It's true that you get sick of this if you eat too much, but there's no other way to preserve it."
Song Tanglan was also very troubled by this. She had been eating sweet potatoes these past few days. She was afraid that she would fart every day soon. Would she still have the dignity to live with then? This was also one of the reasons why she didn't like eating sweet potatoes very much.
"Forget it, let's put it aside for now. It won't go bad for a while anyway. Do you think our parents will scold us for being unfilial if they see us send these dregs back to them?"
Whenever Song Tangcheng thought about the big package her husband had, half of which was filled with sweet potatoes and potato scraps, she could already imagine how strange her sister-in-law and mother's faces would look when they saw these things.
In fact, she didn't want to do this, but there was no other way. There were too many of these things. She felt that they were taking up space if they were kept at home. It would be better to let her family share the burden.
Originally, she wanted to send some to her mother-in-law and her family, but her mother-in-law and her family also had a lot, so there was no need for her to send any. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh.
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