The reason why he thought of ham, Xu Yi was not without his own ideas.

The village has always had a tradition of making their own ham and bacon when killing pigs, and if you really need to take bacon or really want to make safe and delicious corn and ham stuffed dumplings, the source of this ham can be obtained from your own village.

And this is also the best of both worlds: on the one hand, the production and processing of ham can increase the income of the villagers, and on the other hand, it can also allow themselves to effectively monitor the process of making this product, so that the problem ham does not enter the kitchen of their dumpling restaurant.

The villagers' homemade ham will definitely not put any pesticides such as dichlorvos, and they will also pay attention to hygiene to prevent insects and other situations.

But even if it is such a thing that kills two birds with one stone, Xu Yi is not without scruples. If you only want to eat a small amount by yourself, you don't think it will be too much of a problem.

However, when it comes to commercialization, development and utilization, it is naturally not so simple to think about.

If you want to sell ham dumplings in large quantities, there are also many constraints in them.

The ingredients for the production of ham are simple: pork leg and table salt.

But seemingly simple things, some people make delicious, some people make unpalatable, even if they do delicious things on weekdays, they may make ham and bacon at one time and taste very bad.

The reason for this is simple: self-made things must lack precise quantification.

The people in the village raise their own local pigs and kill pigs before processing and manufacturing ham and bacon, and the production capacity is naturally limited by pig raising.

The main purpose of raising pigs for the villagers is to eat them for their own purposes, which will inevitably make the production of ham and bacon even smaller. There is basically no possibility of liquidity, and they are all self-produced and sold.

You don't have to choose what to do. In addition, it is restricted by the natural environment, which will inevitably lead to the high and low quality of the ham produced. Unable to stabilize dìng.

When paired with such a ham in the dumplings, it will inevitably make the taste of the dumplings full of variables, which will inevitably affect repeat customers, and even cause customer loss.

Just as the raw materials of Jinhua ham are all selected from the hind legs of the local two-headed black or Lanxi flower pigs, and the Iberian ham that sells at sky-high prices is also made from the pork legs of Iberian pigs, it can be said that a more important factor in ham production in addition to technology is the quality of pork.

However, there are no particularly commendable local pig breeds, and there are not even many pig breeders in recent years.

Industrialization is a good thing at the level of society as a whole, which makes mass production and processing possible.

However, the industrialization of the aquaculture industry is not necessarily a good thing for farmers engaged in individual economy.

The two years have been affected by feed processing and biofuels. Corn prices continue to rise, and the cost of raising pigs has also been greatly raised.

The state controls antibiotics to avoid the emergence and spread of drug-resistant strains such as "methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus", and the extreme result of this situation is that there will be no drug available for clinical anti-infection.

However, the use of antibiotics in medical care accounts for only a small fraction.

Last year's exposure of the instant chicken also exposed the abuse of veterinary antibiotics to the public eye for the first time.

A chicken has only more than 40 days in its life, but it has to eat eighteen antibiotics.

In order to promote growth, the addition of antibiotics to various feeds is already an undisclosed secret in the aquaculture industry.

In fact, in addition to some of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, most of them are inseparable from livestock farming, except for some iatrogenic acquisitions.

It's different from what ordinary people understand. Antibiotics are added to the feed, basically not to avoid livestock infection disease, the most basic purpose is to improve the weight gain rate of livestock.

And this, together with the choice of breeds to be raised, has led to the production of instant chickens.

However, it is different from large-scale farming. Rural pigs basically do not use any feed, even in the past two years have begun to feed pigs, but most of them are after the pigs grow to more than 100 catties. The feed was stopped and the feed was changed to traditional corn or rice bran feeding. This will inevitably make the growth rate of pigs slower.

Anyone in the city who eats meat, even if it is a few dollars. Even a dozen dollars have to buy a local pig.

However, the countryside is different from the city, even if it is a home-raised pig, the price of pork has to follow the price of pork on the farm.

It only takes four or five months for a pig farm to produce a batch of pigs, but it takes at least seven or eight months for the pigs raised by farmers to grow to the same size.

The elongation of time, coupled with the unreasonable construction of the enclosure, or the problem of feeding the pigs, etc., will naturally increase the occurrence of pig diseases, and a serious illness will often delay the time of pig slaughter.

Often, farmers work hard to raise pigs and sell them after slaughter, and they can't even earn back the money they feed the corn.

In addition, it costs six or seven hundred yuan to buy a thirty or forty pound piglet, and if you get sick and die, you will even have to fold the capital into it.

The combination of various reasons leads to one result: now there is no one in the village who is willing to go to the trouble of raising pigs anymore.

Farmers are not stupid, the food wasted by raising pigs, they almost buy the meat of two pigs, and it is too much of a loss to raise pigs by themselves.

And you can only eat one winter when you raise pigs, so you can buy meat all year round, so why bother raising it yourself?

If you don't raise pigs, you still have to eat this meat.

Although the price of pork at home is not like the usual thirteen or fourteen yuan a catty in the provincial capital, it is ten yuan a catty at the cheapest time.

This self-raised pig, corn or anything did not sell for money, so naturally he was not distressed.

But if you buy meat, you will spend real money.

This inevitably leads to buying meat to make ham or bacon, which must be less than the previous home-owned pigs, and it is not surprising that no one even makes it anymore.

If no one does it, where can I buy it?

Not to mention, homemade ham also requires a fairly long process. From production to finished products, it takes almost half a year before and after, and what if you add the process of pig breeding?

The longer the production cycle, the more deviations that may occur in the intermediate process, which add up to more than a year of production cycle, and a small error may bring great risks.

Not only that, but the cost of pig farming is also staggeringly high, at least from the villagers' point of view.

Not to mention that the investment is in the millions, even if you remove a zero from the back, this money is not a small amount of money no matter which farmer's family it puts in.

But this money is thrown on the pigs, but I am afraid that I will not even be able to splash a little water.

The investment in large-scale pig farming, even if it is a small pig farm that breeds 100 pigs, if all kinds of expenses are counted, it will be at least four or five hundred thousand.

Such a high cost, not to mention that the villagers are reluctant to invest money. If you don't even know how to manage scientifically and how to improve the ratio of feed to meat, how can you do a good job in breeding if you invest lightly?

If the epidemic is not well controlled, I am afraid that after an epidemic, this pig farmer will go bankrupt, but I am afraid that the consequences will be much stricter than when the fruit trees were planted, and the family is afraid that it will be difficult to turn over in a few lifetimes.

It seems that if you really want to increase such a financial route for the villagers, you have to help solve the risk, technical and financial problems of pig raising.

Of course, if these problems are solved, then the pork from your own dumpling restaurant can also be bought from the village in the future.

Similarly, when the problem of raising pigs is solved, you can also develop dumplings with bacon fillings accordingly.

It's just that this pig breeding is not a chicken breeding after all.

The benefits of small-scale chicken farming will not be very high, but the advantage is that the investment is small, and the feed of this free-range chicken in the later stage basically does not cost much, and the relative risk is also very low.

If the business of your own shop is still passable, you can let the villagers try it as soon as possible.

If you can succeed in raising chickens, everyone will be happy, and even if you fail, you will have time to find other ways to remedy it.

With such a high risk of raising pigs and such a long production cycle, this matter naturally needs to be considered more carefully and can only be put on hold for the time being.

But when he thought of bacon, Xu Yi thought of dried bamboo shoots again.

There are a large number of bamboo shoots in the village every year, but the bamboo shoots in the county town cannot be sold at a price, so basically the village has not organized a collective digging of bamboo shoots to sell in recent years.

Whoever wants to eat, just go to the mountains and dig it yourself.

However, most of the villagers just dig up some fresh food, and the most extra is to dry some dried bamboo shoots and keep the bacon.

Xu Yi thought that he could develop another dumpling with dried bamboo shoots.

Naturally, there is no need to use the bamboo shoots in the space, after all, digging the bamboo shoots and then drying them, which itself will take up too much of their own time, and it is okay to eat them by themselves or less, if this is a large-scale production, I am afraid that I will not be able to supply the consumption in the store if I am tired and vomit blood.

Anyway, if you take dried bamboo shoots with pork and other ingredients to make dumplings, the taste will not be much worse.

This is naturally a good thing for hatchback income!

Xu Yi decided that after he came back from Yanjiang, he would go to the market to buy some dried bamboo shoots and try to try it with the filling.

After thinking about this, Xu Yi was ready to put these aside for the time being, and then ponder the next material.

However, as soon as Xu Yi looked up, he happened to see the pine trees behind the tent, and reached out and patted his head.

Isn't this riding a donkey looking for a donkey, how can I forget the very traditional combination of pine nut corn?

With carrot seeds in them, these pine-nut-filled dumplings are sure to be popular with female customers.

Although Xu Yi does not advocate vegan food from his personal point of view, the filling of pine nut corn must also be loved by some vegetarians.

Of course, if you add minced meat to it, this pine nut corn can still satisfy the love of carnivores, so that it can be made into two kinds of dumplings, one meat and one vegetable! (To be continued......