Moving the bag grain is a body work, tearing the bud grain is a fine job, and in a morning's work, a few people almost filled the dojo.

Seeing that the sun is getting higher and higher, Mu Zhen is also going to cook. When the sun gets bigger, the people on the slope will come back, but they don't worry about piling up so much. When the time comes, so many people will be able to tear it up by working at night.

Although these two days are not as hot as the dog days of June, the day at noon is not small.

The weather is hot, and everyone has no extra strength, so you can't be sloppy in cooking.

Let's steam dry rice, it's noon, I guess I can't swallow it. Cook rice soup, and if you have no oil or salt, you won't be hungry.

After thinking about it, Mu Zhen had an idea, and suddenly remembered a delicacy called sweet pulp made by her grandmother when she was a child.

Although this dish is also porridge, it is very nutritious, and it is forbidden to go hungry, which is suitable for working on a hot day.

After thinking about the ingredients needed, Mu Zhen waited for Hongmei to come back, and then planned to start after asking clearly.

Hongmei looked at Mu Zhen's posture of looking for things and washing the mill, and quipped: "Look at Zhen Niang's posture, it seems that we have a good mouth again at noon, and we will go to the slope to say it later, if we don't do a good job, let him watch us eat at noon, Zhen Niang is giving that person a white water noodle alone." ”

Mu Zhen smiled and said: "This is easy to say, as long as my sister-in-law doesn't think I spoil your food, I guarantee that everyone will eat happily." ”

"Now that you're in charge, you can use whatever you want, and I don't care what you do?"

If it had been before, if Mu Zhen had been so tinkering, Hongmei would have been distressed.

But since listening to Mu Zhen's words and selling the dried green beans for money, Hongmei gradually discovered the difference between Mu Zhen and began to trust Mu Zhen's words.

Besides, it's not my own family who is doing the work today, except for a few from the third family, and a few other workers.

In the morning, Mu Zhen made a good meal, and while everyone praised Mu Zhen's skills, they also said that they were generous, didn't they see that everyone was more energetic in the morning?

In this way, the family has left a good reputation in the mouths of these workers, and if they ask for work again, others will definitely be willing to come to their homes.

If you want to say that Mu Zhen tinkered with those foods, it didn't cost much food, and everyone ate happily.

Hongmei is now looking at it, so she doesn't bother to care about this.

Moreover, Zhenniang is now an assertive person, and she can't be wrong to listen to her by herself.

Others trust themselves so much, of course Mu Zhen is also happy, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, you can get busy, I promise to let you eat a strange thing at noon." ”

After Hongmei left, Mu Zhen scooped the rough budding grits found out of Hongmei, washed them with water, and then soaked them slightly with cold water.

After soaking the bud grits, boil the fire in the pot, add half a pot of water to boil, and after the water boils, pour the slightly swollen bud grits into the pot.

Don't soak the water in the bud grits, at this time, burn the fire in the stove hole a little smaller, and simmer slowly.

The pot was boiling grain grits, and Mu Zhen's hands were not idle.

Wash the mill, then scoop a liter of soybeans, wash the ashes with cold water, and then use a sieve to water the soybeans.

Speaking of this grinder, the one Mu Zhen uses is still different from what she sees on TV.

The mill that you often see on TV is made up of two short cylindrical stones of the same size and a grinding disc. It is usually erected on a platform made of stone or adobe.

On the stone or wooden grinding disc used for flour picking, the lower fan (immovable disc) and the upper fan (rotating disc) of the mill are stacked. The contact surface of the two mills has neatly arranged grinding teeth (zan) to grind the grain.

There are two (small grinding and one) grinding eyes on the upper fan, which are used for leaking grain. There is a grinding umbilicus (iron shaft) between the two mills to prevent the upper fan from falling off the lower fan when it is turning.

There is a large mill with a diameter of more than three feet and six inches, which must be pulled by three horses at the same time. A bucket of grain can be pulled in more than ten minutes.

Generally, the diameter of the mill is about 80 cm, and one person or a donkey can pull it. The small mill is less than 40 cm in diameter, and can be placed in a basket and shaken by hand, and is used for pulling peppercorn noodles, as well as water mills for pulling tofu juice and pancake paste.

This is a stone grinding structure that often appears on TV, but what Mu Zhen uses now is slightly different from this kind of stone grinding.

On the upper plate of the stone mill, there is a rectangular wooden plug about 20 cm long. It's common to see people on TV pushing this wooden bolt or donkey or other livestock, wearing this wooden bolt, and circling around the mill.

As for the mill used by Mu Zhen, a round hole was carved on top of this bolt, and then a wooden stick about fifty or sixty long and about 3 cm thick was used to drive the rotation of this mill.

The appearance of this wooden stick is like a T-shaped, the horizontal side of Ding is the handle held by a person, and the mention of Ding is hung in the round hole of the wooden bolt.

Then, at the place where the vertical of Ding is close to the horizontal, tie a rope and hang it on the beam of the house to maintain the balance of the grinding crutch.

To be honest, the grinding mill used at home is still this kind of comparison. First of all, if people keep circling around the mill, they will faint after a long time.

Secondly, use livestock to pull and grind, except for the landlord's family, ordinary people cannot afford to raise this kind of livestock.

And this kind of grinder, not only is it laborious, but also standing in one place all the time, it can drive the rotation of the grinder, which can save people a lot of force.

After the mill is washed, the water of the soybeans is almost gone, and it is time to start grinding the soybeans.

Because the soybeans are dry, the soybeans in the mill should be added with water while grinding.

Of course, this water addition also requires skill.

There is too much water added, not to mention whether the pot is filled or not, and the sweet syrup simmered is not sweet and not delicious.

If it's too dry, the grinder can't push it, not to mention, the grinding is coarse, and it's all noodles, which is easy to turn into gnocchi, can't be cooked, and the sugar in it can't be boiled out.

Although Mu Zhen said that after coming here, she has been paying attention to taking care of her body, but it is more difficult to say that the deity has been in deficit for so many years, and she can't raise it back all of a sudden.

Although the work of pushing the mill is not heavy, it is not easy for Mu Zhen. After a while, I was panting and shushing, and my head was still dizzy.

"Although this grinder is not heavy, it still takes strength to push it, why don't you know how to call me?" With the warm voice remembering, the grinding shelf in Mu Zhen's hand was touched and taken away by He Laosan.

Mu Zhen didn't have the strength at this time, so she didn't show this ability, "I started to push weird and easy, who knows how to push harder and heavier." You push, I'll feed the mill. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the soybeans on the grinding rack and poured a handful of beans with a few drops of water.

Compared with Mu Zhen's effort, He Laosan was very relaxed, "You still eat less usually, your body is not good, you still have to eat more at every meal, and even Yiqing's meal is larger than yours." ”

"The body is slowly raised, and deliberately eating more is not good for the body. Besides, Ban Zhuangzi, Fan Cangzi, and Yiqing are growing their bodies now, so they naturally have to eat more. ”

The two chatted and lengthened like this, and after a while, they finished pushing this liter of soybeans.

At this time, the bud rice boiling in the pot was also boiling, and Mu Zhen made a tofu bag of raw soybean milk and poured the pulp into her pocket.

After you can't figure out the soy milk, continue to boil the contents of the pot over low heat.

One liter of soybeans is pushed out, and there is still a lot of tofu residue.

Although soybeans are not the main grain, because the yield is not high, and the demand is not small, the price is naturally not low.

If she loses all these tofu dregs, I don't know if Hongmei and her family will say anything, even if she herself feels uneasy.

Moreover, the cooking in the pot is all refined grains, and this tofu residue is a highly nutritious coarse grain, which naturally cannot be wasted.

After thinking about it, Mu Zhen decided to steam these tofu dregs, and then dig up a bowl or two of gray noodles, mix the gray noodles and tofu dregs together, and knead them into a ball.

Of course, the steamed tofu dregs need to be cooled before they can be mixed with the noodles, otherwise the temperature is too high, and the noodles will be scalded to death, and they will not be able to come out.

Then knead the kneaded okara noodles and cover them with a damp rag, the temperature is high at this time, and it will be almost enough to wake up for about ten minutes.

There is a lot of sweet syrup, put it in the pot and boil, and put it on the fire.

When she woke up, Mu Zhen went out and pulled a lot of wild vegetables and came back.

Choose first, then wash it with water, chop it with a kitchen knife, sprinkle it with a little salt and castrate, and squeeze out the excess water.

Put the peppercorns, chili peppers, ginger, garlic and mash them with spicy nests.

Then cut a knuckle length of bacon and chop it, the outer pot is red, put the minced bacon in the pot and fry the oil, put in the condiments and stir-fry the fragrant, and then put the chopped wild vegetables in the pot and stir-fry a few times, add the appropriate amount of salt to get out of the pot.

The wild vegetables have already been salted at first, so now they can be cooked with a few stir-fries.

At this time, the noodles have already woken up, and the bean dregs and bread are turned into buns, and the sweet syrup is added, and it is the lunch at noon.

When everyone began to eat, they were puzzled by the food in the bowl. This is dried bud rice, and it tastes like soybean milk when it is thin, and it tastes sweet, but this sweetness is not like sugar, what's the matter?

In the end, it was Hongmei who was interested and asked everyone's doubts.

"This food is called sweet syrup, and cooking is very simple, that is, put the bud rice and soybean milk in the pot and simmer slowly. That is, the soybeans should be ground dry, otherwise the sweet pulp boiled out will not be sweet, and then the fire should be small, otherwise the sweetness will not be boiled. ”

When everyone heard it, this method is really simple, and it doesn't take much effort, bud rice and soybeans, which one doesn't get it? Go back and let your mother-in-law try it.

"Sister-in-law, why is this bun eating different?" Jin Lian picked up an open-ended bun and bit it down.

"When grinding soybean milk, I saw that there was a lot of okara, so I made the bean dregs and gray noodles together into buns, so that there was no waste and the taste was okay, but because the okara was more and less gray, the buns were fried."

Listening to Mu Zhen's explanation, everyone praised Mu Zhen's ability. Because the buns are not only big, but also full of stuffing in one bite, everyone praises Jinshan for being a real family, anyway, a meal is a meal for the guests and hosts