【Chapter 016】 Product Processing (Ask for Subscription!)
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The family worked hard for a morning, and finally dug up more than two acres of purple potatoes and pushed them back with a board cart. This kind of heavy body of carrying, pulling carts, and unloading is not shirkable, but the amazing power he displayed still amazed his family, onlookers, villagers, and tourists.
No one thought that Xiao Feng, who didn't look like the kind of muscles and tendons, would be able to carry a bag of purple potatoes with a hundred catties in one hand and walk like flying, without blushing or panting.
Some tourists posted photos of his talents on the Internet, calling him the 'Popeye' hidden among the people!
When a mountain of sweet potatoes appeared on the dam, the onlookers were a little surprised, and no one expected that so many sweet potatoes would be harvested in such a small place. According to Xiao Jinxu's estimate, the purple potatoes of these two acres have been harvested at least 1oooo catties, and the yield per mu has exceeded 2ooo kilograms!
"Second brother, this sweet potato is a little better than what we grew with the silt at the bottom of the lake that year!" Xiao Liuye broke off a sweet potato, took a bite of the pink and purple flesh, and nodded and said.
The sixth master, Xiao Duxin, ranks sixth among the Xiao family's houses, he is a lifelong crop master, and has rich experience in judging the quality of each crop. He thinks that the quality of these sweet potatoes is good, which means that these sweet potatoes are not only big, but also delicious.
This kind of Lingzi originated from Japan is the best purple potato variety on the market, with the characteristics of drought tolerance and barrenness, disease resistance and strong storage resistance, it is a good variety for deep processing such as fresh food health care and pigment extraction, and the yield per mu of summer potatoes reaches 2ooo kilograms. Since the introduction of Lingzi by the Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Yunxi County, most of the mountainous areas have been planted with this purple potato variety with high yield and price.
"It seems that the little soil fertilizer soaked in the spring is still very effective!" The old lady looked at Xiao Feng, who was casual on the side, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to see such a bumper harvest when I was old, it's very good!"
In fact, the old lady knows that these two acres of sweet potatoes have not been managed much, and at most they can reach a yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu, but now the yield per mu has exceeded 2ooo kilograms, and the reason is self-evident.
Although the old lady didn't know what the real situation was like for Xiao Feng to carry out the various practices in the vegetable garden, one thing was for sure that Xiao Feng had mastered some techniques. It can greatly improve the yield and quality of crops.
Thinking that these sweet potato harvests are inseparable from Xiao Feng, but the old lady will not be stupid enough to expose this secret.
Thinking of this, the old lady understood that the reason why Xiao Feng invested heavily in the Xiao family farm and Jinghu Ranch must have relied on something, and these abundant purple potatoes are proof of this.
"Second brother, it's a pity that these purple potatoes are sold like this, it's best to use them to make vermicelli!" Xiao Liuye twisted the flesh of the sweet potatoes with his hands. Show it to the old lady.
In the past, most of the common sweet potato varieties planted by the villagers were used to feed pigs, and a few were used as coarse grains to be eaten together, after all, Ginkgo Village is not a barren mountainous area with a shortage of food. After Ling Zi was introduced to Ginkgo Village, the villagers had another income item, and the price that the vendors bought in Yuji Town was generally not less than one yuan.
But in Xiao Liuye's opinion. It is a waste to simply sell these extremely high-quality purple potatoes.
"So many purple potatoes, it's not a small project!" the old lady looked at the pile of hills, a little worried.
In the past, the main way to make zuò sweet potato vermicelli in Ginkgo Village was to use a stone mill to grind the flour, which was not a problem to deal with one or two hundred catties of sweet potatoes, and when the number of sweet potatoes was raised to a level, it was a joke to be processed by stone grinding.
"I heard that the second son of the Li family bought back an electric mill. The powder produced by grinding is finer and much faster than stone grinding!" Xiao Liuye smiled and said, "Second brother, you practice calligraphy at home all day long, but you know too little about the changes in the village!"
For his second brother, Xiao Duxin has always admired him tightly, he has the means, can tolerate people, and manages the entire Xiao family in an orderly manner, brothers, friends and brothers. Children and grandchildren are virtuous and filial. However, after Xiao Erge indulged in calligraphy and antiques in his later years, the distance between him and ordinary villagers became farther and farther away. Especially recently, he and the two old men from Haizhou have been nesting in the old house all day, and they rarely go to the village to play mahjong and chat.
"It seems that I really have to go out for a walk, lest I not even recognize the greatly changed Ginkgo Village!" the old lady nodded after hearing this.
After the idea of making zuò vermicelli from sweet potatoes was decided, the specific work did not need to be bothered by the old lady. He just needs to pass on his meaning to Xiao Jinhao.
In addition to being the chef of folk banquets, Xiao Jinhao is also a master of many non-staple foods, although more than 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes is a bit much, but it should not be difficult for him.
The old man moved his mouth. Xiao Feng and his gang have to be busy!
Now that the construction of the Xiao family farm has been basically completed, the remaining sweeping work can be completed in the next three months, so Xiao Qiang and the others have been quite idle recently. As for Xiao Feng, he has always been an idler, so he can't run away from the work of making zuò vermicelli.
After lunch, under the command of Xiao Jinhao, Xiao Feng and several people obediently moved a stool, sat on the dam to pick the sweet potatoes from the head to the tail, and peeled and cleaned. This job is not difficult, but purple potatoes are rich in pigments, and after a while, Xiao Feng and the others' hands turned purple, as if they were dyed.
More than a dozen members of the Xiao family worked together on the dam, and the lively scene surprised the tourists who passed by and took pictures one after another. In addition to the happy atmosphere, what makes tourists more interested is these large purple potatoes, revealing a harvest of joy.
Xiao Feng is not stingy, especially washed some purple potatoes and cut them into pieces and put them on the plate, so that tourists can taste them by themselves, and it makes tourists feel that the villagers here are generous and simple.
After some tourists have tasted the purple potatoes of the Xiao family, these purple potatoes are crispy and sweet than ordinary sweet potatoes, and there is a faint fragrance slowly growing. These tourists plan to order some purple potato products from the Xiao family, which are safer and more affordable than those bought in the city.
More than 10,000 catties of purple potatoes naturally cannot all be made into vermicelli, Xiao Jinhao is ready to take out some of the largest and best purple potatoes to make dried purple potatoes, which can be stored for a long time and can increase added value.
Although the Xiao family no longer needs this income to supplement the family, people can't stop working and create a zào just because they have money, right?
Xiao Jinhao, as the technical director, commanded more than a dozen people in the family, and the electric mill newly bought by Li Dazhu, the second son of the Li family, was also moved to the dam, and the cleaned purple potatoes were ground into starch slurry as soon as possible.
The starch slurry is filtered out of coarse particles, sediment and other impurities through gauze, and then allowed to stand and precipitate, pour out the upper layer of clear liquid, and then squeeze out the excess water from the thick starch slurry to become purple potato puree.
The water is boiled in a large iron pot, and the purple potato puree is pressed into a special container, or it is put into strips and wide flakes into the boiling water, and it is instantly condensed and formed. After condensation, the vermicelli and vermicelli are fished with bamboo poles and dried in a cool place, and they become the most authentic handmade purple potato vermicelli and vermicelli.
Compared with the machine-made vermicelli sold in the city, the handmade vermicelli is not the same in size, but it tastes better and has more chewiness.
As for the preparation method of dried purple potatoes, it is even simpler, put the purple potatoes in a pot and steam them thoroughly, peel them, cut them into strips, and dry them naturally. Of course, after the dried purple potato is made, if it can be placed in an airtight container for a period of time, a layer of frost will appear on the surface of the fries, and the taste will be better.
With the joint efforts of the Xiao family, more than 10,000 catties of purple potatoes have become vermicelli hanging in corridors, courtyards and empty rooms within a week.
The villagers were surprised that no one had ever made so many noodles and dried potatoes, and the hundreds of catties that they usually made small fights at home were really not enough compared to the Xiao family's generosity. The reason why the villagers rarely make zuò vermicelli and dried potatoes for sale is simply because of the labor, coupled with the low production and no market.
Tourists have only seen dried potatoes and vermicelli in the city before, and have never seen their zuò making scenes, but now when they see it, it has a different flavor.
Although the vermicelli and dried potatoes purchased in the city look beautiful, no one can say whether there are potential safety hazards. Although they can't wait for the day when the vermicelli and dried potatoes are made, these tourists still pay for it to order it from the Xiao family first, and then send it to the city later.
After a few days, Xiao Feng sold 1ooo jin and 2ooo jin to tourists at the price of 6 yuan for dried potatoes and 8 yuan for 8 yuan for vermicelli, respectively, so that the villagers made dried zuò potatoes far more cost-effective than selling fresh purple potatoes.
10,000 catties of purple potatoes are sold to the vendors in the town, which is only 10,000 yuan, and after being made into dried potatoes and vermicelli, the income has increased by two or three times, but it is just a little more manual work.
As a result, most of the purple potatoes harvested in Ginkgo Village this autumn were made into dried potatoes and sold to tourists, greatly increasing the income of the villagers.
Since then, the production of dried purple potatoes and purple potato vermicelli has become a landmark industry in Ginkgo Village, and many villagers have relied on purple potatoes to get rich, built purple potato houses, and bought purple potato cars!
In the past, the villagers were limited by the lack of sales and could only sell purple potatoes to second-class dealers, but now there are hundreds of tourists in Ginkgo Village every day, and it is naturally more than enough to digest this dried potatoes and vermicelli. What's more, after the official opening of the Mirror Lake Scenic Area in the future, more tourists will come, don't the people in the city like this pure green handmade product?
The rush of tourists made Xiao Feng have more ideas, how to open more sales channels and sell the gifts of the mountains to the people in the city?
In addition to purple potato products, dried mushrooms, air-dried pheasants, hares, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts and other specialties can be found everywhere in the mountains.
That's a question worth pondering!
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