Chapter 392: White Potato Delicacies
Such a cart of sweet potatoes drove into the village without covering it, and came to the door of Wang Yong's house, and I didn't have to think about it to know that many people along the way had seen it.
In the past, when I used to grow sweet potatoes at home, everyone thought it was a good thing. But I haven't planted sweet potatoes in the past few years, and I haven't eaten white potatoes anymore, and at first glance, I really want to try them.
There is that thick-skinned person, or who thinks he is close to Wang Yong, and when he thinks of this, he is ready to go to Wang Yong to rob him. Anyway, Wang Yong is a rich man, and he definitely doesn't care about a few white potatoes.
At this time, Wang Yong didn't know that the villagers were secretly thinking about the pile of white potatoes he had brought to his daughter-in-law, and he was carefully checking the varieties of these baskets of white potatoes.
It looks like two varieties, one is yellow on the outside and the same color on the inside. The other is red in appearance, and the flesh is also red.
This kind of red-skinned and red-soiled white potatoes were planted by Wang Yong when he was a child, when the village was still mainly planting white potatoes. It's just that at that time, everyone planted sweet potatoes mainly to obtain starch, so this kind of specially edible variety was pitiful.
No family will take out a large piece of land to grow this kind of sweet potato specially for eating, and they are reluctant to do so! What's more, at that time, no one came to the countryside to buy this kind of sweet potato specially used for food!
As for those white potatoes with high starch content, if they are eaten in a boiled manner, to be honest, they are not delicious at all. Although it also has a little sweetness, it tastes very dry and noodles due to its high starch content.
If you leave it for a while, or let it dry in the sun for a while and then put it in a pot to steam, it's good.
It is not known whether there was a chemical or physical reaction.
Anyway, it's so simple to put it away, and then put it in the pot and steam, it's completely different from fresh white potatoes. Not only is it easier to cook, but it doesn't feel so dry and hard to swallow when cooked.
What's even more surprising is that the white potatoes boiled in this way are very soft and rotten, and they are even sweeter. That's all there is to it!
Of course, the sweetness of sweet potatoes should be starch transformed, and no matter how sweet they are, they can't sweeten their teeth!
It is precisely because the common people discovered this characteristic of white potatoes that the good-looking edible sweet potatoes soon became useless in rural areas. You can't sell it for money, why plant it?
It's just that there are a few people who will take out a small amount of land to plant a little bit, and keep it at home when the harvest is fresh.
Now it's different, sweet potato starch is said to be not expensive and can't be sold for a price. Therefore, many farmers have started to grow this edible variety of sweet potato.
Because now that the living conditions are better, the big guys' horizons are much broader than before. Knowing that this kind of white potato comes out and is sent to the big city or sold to those second-class dealers, it can always be sold at a good price, not to mention that it is more profitable than selling starch yourself, and it also saves a lot of things.
Wang Yong kept recalling the white potato method he had seen or eaten, thinking that in the end it was the most distinctive and delicious, so he would try it first, and try it for his greedy daughter-in-law and goddaughter.
White potato porridge?
This should be a kind of thing, right?
Bring the water to a boil. After that, put the washed rice in the pot, cover the pot and start cooking. This is generally the process of cooking white rice porridge. What about sweet potato porridge?
It's as simple as peeling the washed sweet potatoes beforehand and then slicing them first. Then cut into small pieces. After the rice is in the pot, put the white potato kernels into the pot as well.
When the porridge is cooked, it will naturally exude a special sweet flavor brought by white potatoes.
When you take a bite into your mouth, the sweetness of the sweet potato and the smoothness of the white rice slide down your throat and into your stomach. People with a sweet tooth and a fear of gaining weight will definitely fall in love with this delicious and healthy sweet potato porridge in no time.
In addition to sweet potato porridge, the most common way for Wang Yong to eat white potatoes when he was a child was boiled white potatoes and roasted white potatoes.
The method of boiling sweet potatoes is actually steaming. This one is simple. And what about roasted sweet potatoes? As the name suggests, it is put in the fire and burned directly.
It tastes the same as baked white potatoes, but when I was a child, I couldn't wait to roast it slowly, and it was probably the nature of all children to be anxious.
Anyway, when Wang Yong was a child, he couldn't wait to roast the white potatoes slowly, even if he roasted them once in a while, most of them were not baked yet, so he couldn't wait to eat them.
Carefully roll the white potatoes that you think are roasted on the ground a few times, or even bury them in the soil for a while.
The purpose of this is to allow it to cool down quickly, so that you can eat delicious sweet potatoes right away.
However, under normal circumstances, when children open the skin of the roasted white potato that is no longer piping hot, but warm, open their mouths and take a bite, ready to eat beautifully, they will always find that the original cooked is only a layer of appearance, and the heart of the white potato is still hard, and a bite is still crispy?
Therefore, in order to quickly eat the delicious white potatoes that are ripe and thorough, children generally buy the white potatoes directly and burn them in the fire, instead of roasting them.
Roasted sweet potatoes not only ripen raw sweet potatoes quickly, but also taste almost the same as roasted white potatoes. The only difference is that the roasted sweet potato will have a black carbonization layer on the outside.
This requires peeling off the thick layer of charcoal-fired skin before eating it, before you can enjoy the delicious taste of white potatoes.
However, to peel off this carbonized layer, children are often covered with black ash on their hands, which makes them look wolf-bรจi. But in order to be able to eat delicious food, this small disadvantage can definitely be ignored.
Of course, if you get on your clothes, I'm afraid that a beating and scolding is indispensable when you go home!
But if you want to say that Wang Yong is most impressed by the way to eat white potatoes, it is to say that it is a white potato.
Put the white potato chips coated with starch or egg wash in the oil pan and fry them until they turn into a beautiful golden brown. Then another pot is used to boil sugar, which tests the chef's skills.
If the fire is too big, it will definitely be pasted into the pot. No one likes something with a mushy taste, even though it's sweet. What about the heat? No, it doesn't. Because the heat is small, the sugar will not melt well, and the sugar will not boil well, and the effect of this silk pulling will not be any better.
Wang Yong thought that he should have no problem with this kind of silk pulling vegetables, but when he really wanted to do it himself, he felt a flustered for no reason.
Later, I thought about it, simply, this kind of dish that requires skill and experience should be left to the second uncle, the chef, to cook.
Wang Yong was pondering here when he was thinking about how to make sweet potatoes. Suddenly, I heard a commotion outside the door. There are men and women, old people and children in the voice, and the mess of you and me is very lively.
"Wang Yong, where do you put the sweet potatoes you bought? Give me a little even! โ
Before he saw the figure, Boss Wang had already carried a pocket and pulled his voice in first.
At this time, a hula at the gate poured into a bunch of villagers. The second grandmother, Grandma Liu, godmother, aunt and daughter-in-law who led Wenwen were also in the crowd.
When I saw that Wang Yong could have six large baskets of white potatoes of more than 100 catties in front of him. After most of the gang exclaimed, they rushed up as if no one was around, and filled the sweet potatoes with the guys they had brought.
Tote bags, woven bags, baskets, cartons, foam boxes...... All kinds of equipment are enough to open an exhibition!
"Oops! Or is it red? Good stuff, I like it! โ
"My basket is yellow!"
"Really? Let me tell you, this white potato is still delicious with yellow husk! I think back then, when we were still growing sweet potatoes in our village. I plant the seedlings of this yellow sweet potato every year. โ
"Well, Dali's words are good, if you want to say that it is delicious, it is really this kind of yellow flesh, and the red flesh is a little worse."
"This sweet potato. Be sure to dry it before cooking! โ
"Who doesn't know this? You still need to say it! โ
"That's it, that's it!"
"It's you! You kid take it easy, you don't spend any money, right? Can you be more shameless? โ
"Isn't that right? I said Lianhai? You're going too far, aren't you? It's not worth a lot of money, but you can't take a hemp bag, can you? โ
"You want to wrap all these sweet potatoes in balls!"
"Have you forgotten Lianhai's nickname?"
"Nickname?"
"Sweet potato head!"
This gang of uncles and uncles in the village. Aunts and aunts, brothers and sisters, while vigorously filling the guy in their hands with sweet potatoes. There was a war of words.
Wang Yong didn't like to eat this thing very much, and he just wanted to please his daughter-in-law when he got such a bunch of white potatoes.
Although I got a little more sweet potatoes, between lovers and husband and wife, who hasn't done something stupid!
Wang Yong stood aside and watched with a smile as to the village's big man, which made him feel a little bit when he was a child, when everyone was working in the field.
The whole village was full of people, both women and children, who were in the fields, and young men were digging white potatoes out of the ground with pickaxes and pickaxes. The elderly and children followed behind to wipe the soil on the shaved sweet potatoes and put them in bags or large baskets.
Everyone is either not far apart, or far away, talking and laughing loudly, parents are short, looking forward to the coming year, the past, and the major events of the family and country, there is nothing that cannot be said.
Wang Yong has not experienced this kind of scene for a long time. After going to university, I left my hometown alone to study in other places, and then stayed alone in the provincial capital to work hard, and I have experienced such a scene there.
I haven't experienced this kind of scene of the whole village going out to work in the fields for so many years, and seeing the scene of everyone grabbing sweet potatoes together today made Wang Yong immediately think of the beautiful or painful memories of his childhood autumn harvest holiday.
Children in rural areas are both happy and afraid of the autumn harvest holiday or the farm holiday. Because this holiday is almost the busiest time of the year in the countryside, it is common to start working at dawn every day and stay busy until 12 o'clock at midnight.
Wang Yong was still stunned, and Wenwen, who followed into the house, saw that the godmother said that she wanted to give herself a lot of delicious white potatoes was being robbed by everyone. Seeing that the baskets were soon empty, the little girl was reluctant.
She let go of the hand holding her godmother, ran over with a "puff", leaned her little body on top of a basket of yellow white potatoes, and occupied it first.
The little girl is also very attentive, she just heard several grandfathers say that this yellow sweet potato is the most delicious. Wenwen just needs this basket!
After everyone in the village carried the guy full of sweet potatoes and scattered in a hurry, Wang Yong came back to his senses. Turning her head, I just saw Wenwen, who was still lying on top of a basket of sweet potatoes with two little arms stretched, no matter how much her daughter-in-law and godmother persuaded her.
"Grandma kept it for you, no one gave it, it's all Wenwen's, can you get up first?"
"Wenwen, you see that your beautiful clothes are dirty, hurry up and go with your godmother to change your clothes, okay?"
"No, no, Wenwen is gone, and they snatched all Wenwen's white potatoes! Mrs. also said that she wanted Wenwen to send her a few, as well as grandpa, grandma, second uncle, third grandfather, fifth grandfather, uncle, second uncle, ......"
The little girl said a lot of names with a small mouth, and it seemed that she wanted to go on, and she couldn't finish it in half an hour. Wang Yong hurriedly walked over and asked:
"Wenwen, what are you doing here?"
The little girl looked up at Wang Yong and said crisply: "Mine, mine, this basket is Wenwen's!" (To be continued......)
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