Chapter 258: Corn Grits and Cornmeal
The arrival of autumn heralded that they were going to get busy again, and the three men collected the ripe sorghum from the field, and put it in the storeroom, where the harvested sorghum was of no use for the time being, and they had to write down the corn that had dried up on the trees. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"I'm down there!" The phantom had already taken out the rope in the storage room early, looking like he was afraid that Lin Xiaoran would regret it.
Mo Yang looked at the phantom in surprise, he didn't understand why he was holding a rope to unload the corn from the tree, they just climbed the tree!
"Mo Yang, you climb up the tree with the end of the rope and tie your body to the branch where the corn is hung." Lin Xiaoran took out one of the heads of the rope in the phantom's hand, in fact, she also wanted to go up the tree, but she didn't have enough strength.
Although he had many doubts in his heart, he did not hesitate to climb the big tree full of corn and tie the rope to a thick-looking branch.
What to do next, Mo Yang didn't know. Lin Xiaoran, on the other hand, had already moved the ladder out of the storage room and leaned against the big tree, climbed to the tree in three and two times, and sat down on the branch beside Mo Yang.
"Next, we just need to put the corn that has been tied up on the rope like this." made an OK gesture at the phantom who was pulling the rope under the tree, and Lin Xiaoran demonstrated it to Mo Yang.
After the rope is straightened, the corn placed on the rope will slide down quickly on the rope, but every time he is about to hit the phantom, he only needs to raise his head slightly, and the large bundle of corn will automatically stop, to be honest, it is indeed much faster and safer to unload the corn on the tree in this way than to climb up and down and carry it back and forth.
"I'm coming! I got it! Excited, Mo Yang hurriedly took a large bundle of corn from his side and put it on a simple zipline formed by the rope, watching the corn slide quickly and then be received by the phantom under the tree.
Lin Xiaoran nodded, this was originally an easy task, so she didn't have to worry about unloading the corn, so she stepped on the ladder and returned to the ground.
The corn that had just been unloaded from the tree was placed at the Phantom's feet, Lin Xiaoran brought a small bench and a large basin from the yard to the Phantom's side, and then pulled down the corn cob that had been completely dried, and began to frustrate the corn with a corn cob in one hand, which was a very important step.
The three of them have a clear division of labor, and they are carrying out the work in their hands in an orderly manner, but after a while, Mo Yang and the phantom have changed with each other, and the phantom has successfully experienced the feeling of being below, no wonder the phantom must be below when he was excited before, for them who often climb trees, it is obviously more accomplished to be responsible for such a "technical content" work below!
The two corn cobs rub each other, and the corn kernels that have been dried fall into the large basin below with the rubbing, and the dried corn is very simple to rub, especially after there is a gap, and soon the corn kernels on the two corn cobs will all fall off.
Throw the corn cob next to it, which has no kernels at all, this thing is a good material for starting a fire, although you don't burn firewood here, but it is easier to burn the corn cob and the smoke will be relatively small......
The yield of the whole field of corn is still quite impressive, and after Mo Yang and Phantom alternately unloaded all the corn on the tree, the big pot in front of Lin Xiaoran was only half a pot of corn kernels.
The two of them each moved a stool and sat down around the big basin, and then began to rub the corn, Mo Yang learned this knowledge very quickly, and even after only a few times, he had already mastered the skills.
The speed of the three men was obviously much happier than that of only two people, and by the time the sun went down in the afternoon, the three of them had already filled half of the wheat rings that had been used to hold the wheat, and of course there were still a lot of corn cobs piled up in the yard, and they would continue this work tomorrow.
"Master, what are we going to eat for the night?" Mo Yang watched with some expectation as Lin Xiaoran put a small bowl of corn kernels in the bowl and came to the stone mill, could it be that the dinner at night had something to do with this corn kernel?
"Let's make corn grits soup!" Lin Xiaoran put a small part of the corn kernels into the small hole in the middle of the stone mill, and then gently turned the stone mill with his own strength.
With the sound of corn kernels being crushed, corn grits appeared for the first time in this primitive society!
"Isn't it all flour that comes out of the stone mill?" Seeing the corn grits that Lin Xiaoran had placed in a small bowl, Mo Yang and Phantom felt extremely incredible.
"What you look like depends on how hard you push the stone mill." Using a sorghum broom to sweep all the remaining corn grits on the stone grind into the bowl, Lin Xiaoran came to the water tank and asked for some water to pour into the bowl, ready to wash the corn grits.
Phantom and Mo Yang gathered in front of the stone mill, holding the corn kernels that had just been scooped up from the wheat ring for experiments, and they really came up with two processed products, corn grits and corn flour, but the corn grits they grinded were more fine than Lin Xiaoran's.
After having flour, Lin Xiaoran's demand for cornmeal was much less, so Phantom and Mo Yang helped grind a lot of corn grits while Lin Xiaoran was cooking, because they didn't need much effort, and the two of them didn't look tired at all!
Fill all the corn grits piled up on the stone mill in a leather bag, and the remaining corn kernels are still in the wheat ring, after all, all corn cannot be made into corn grits......
Lure. The fragrance of people wafted in the small courtyard, and the corn grits were put into boiling water to make porridge, and the fragrance was greater than that of several other porridges, which made Phantom and Mo Yang look forward to it.
The two of them also grinded some cornmeal, although these cornmeal will not be used to make steamed buns and other things, but the flour used for rolling noodles is the best, more effective than white noodles.
Gently stirring the corn grits porridge in the pot, Lin Xiaoran took out some soybeans from the space and put them in, corn grits and soybeans are a perfect match, these soybeans still found some wild bean seedlings in the mountains last year, and then collected the mature beans into the space, and only planted some this spring, only a small piece.
And now the soybeans in Lin Xiaoran's hands are harvested after harvesting wheat this year, and a small piece of soybeans will be sorted out in the morning, but next year you can grow some soybeans, and maybe there will be soy milk or tofu to eat at that time.