Simple boiled pork slices, just because of a little more of this plant starch, the taste has undergone earth-shaking changes, which also made Zhang Heng's mood better, and he shouted excitedly: "Wu, this is called starch." ”

Without waiting for Wu to respond, he hurriedly cut out a piece of cold powder from another clay pot, this time it was directly in his mouth, well, the taste is as good as he imagined, although there is a lack of salt and taste, but the original taste of the cold powder alone is enough to make him eat a pound.

When the witch had tasted it, he exclaimed, "Delicious, king!" ”

"Well, call Shangmei and them to eat together." Zhang Heng thought about it and said, and concocted some starch out in the same way, this time it was more straightforward, no need to wait until the water vapor was evaporated, and it could be directly put into the pot, which is the same as making glutinous rice flour, and it will only be dried into powder when it needs to be stored for a long time to avoid mold.

Starch is also commonly used starch, biologically it contains a large amount of glucose, and glucose also has carbohydrates, which is very helpful for supplementing nutrition, the first choice for infusion drips is glucose, Zhang Heng recalled high school biology knowledge, he was not good at biology, he could only recall a rough, or there were discrepancies, but the difference should not be big.

Even if the nutritional value is not considered, the taste alone is worth his attempt to make starch, because starch is widely used in cooking, even if every household in the village will always have starch, but it is usually sweet potato starch.

Starch can also be made into vermicelli, but the process is a little troublesome, Zhang Heng doesn't consider it for the time being, and it is quite good to be able to refine starch.

It's summer in reality, if you come to a bowl of cold powder, the taste, my sister will definitely like to eat it, and the price of starch alone is relatively high, he has seen that bulk ordinary starch costs six or seven yuan a pound in the grocery store where he buys salt, and the supermarket is more expensive, this is pure starch. The kind with packaging is a lot cheaper, but looking at the parameters on the packaging, it is no longer pure starch, and a bargain is added to it.

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Not to mention the excitement of everyone to eat rough cold powder and powdered meat slices, Zhang Heng took a few sweet potatoes and experimented, the final result surprised him a little, the starch color of sweet potatoes is more gray, this alone is not as good as the color he named "white potato", and then compared the taste of the cold powder, well, each has its own merits, but if you choose it from the perspective of a real person, you will still choose white potato jelly.

Cook the soup with sliced meat, but it is better to use sweet potato flour to make the soup thicker. Then try to wrap the flour and fry the meat with fat, the sweet potato flour is a little more cotton, both old and spicy, and the white potato flour fried meat, it looks very tender, if he chooses, it is naturally sweet potato powder, but if you change the older or picky taste, you should choose white and red powder.

In comparison, sweet potatoes are stronger, because sweet potato starch is just an incidental product, and sweet potatoes themselves have a wider range of uses. White potatoes can't be eaten raw at all, Zhang Heng tried it just now, his mouth was full of slag, and although the fresh taste was strong, it was difficult to swallow.

Thinking about how to use the white potato, although it overlaps with the role of the sweet potato, it is a pity to give up the sweet potato like this, because the white potato is the original product of the original space after all.

After a while, Zhang Heng shouted: "Yes, the biggest advantage of sweet potatoes is actually that they are easier to plant, no need to water, no need to weed, no need to fertilize, just plant into the soil, you can have a harvest, and it is perennial, there is no need to cultivate seedlings separately every year...... this thought, the idea was opened.

Psychology has a plan, the mood is naturally very good, it is now autumn, the matter of transplanting white potatoes is not in a hurry, the top priority is to consider how to deal with these sweet potatoes, only the tribal population can not eat them all, and some of them will rot.

"Wu, you come with me." Zhang Heng shouted.

Soon he began to do something that would be done with half the effort, that is, to weave a funnel with a small arrow bamboo, which was definitely a challenge for him, but if it was woven out, with the quality of the arrow bamboo, it could be used for many years.

You can also open the witch's mind in the process, teach the concept of weaving to the witch, and immediately take the bamboo stored in the tribe, which is basically the size of the thumb, which should be a little bigger and can't be left behind by the arrow, but it is just right for him, and the bigger the weaving and choosing bamboo, the better.

Now with his strength and the roughness of his palms, it is no longer difficult to weave bamboo products, because his hands are too tender when he was a child, he will be cut and bleeding when he weaves bamboo strips. Method, of course, he remembers, is only proficiency that is missing.

"Wu, look at it, choose the trunk first, and burn out the main frame of the funnel." Weaving hard bamboo, indispensable is to fire with fire, the temperature increases after the bamboo will become soft, and after cooling, it will become hard, and the outer ring of the bamboo steamer is burned out in this way.

But you can't really burn it, because if you burn it too much, it will become bamboo charcoal, and if you burn it completely, it will naturally turn into ashes.

He was in high spirits, but he didn't expect Wu to suddenly say: "Wang, Wu, no, it's called Mei!" ”

Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, but immediately nodded to show understanding, although Wu is more intelligent, but not omnipotent, weaving these should make women more talented, but this is just the opposite of modern villages, in the village basically only male surnames will weave bamboo products.

didn't think much about it, and called, "Mei, come over for a moment." ”

Soon, Mei ran over, and Wu didn't leave, still watching carefully, which made Zhang Heng guess that it was possible that Wu was worried that he wouldn't be able to learn, so he asked Mei to come over and learn together.

"Well, then let's start now, we want to choose this kind of straight bamboo, the largest one is used to burn the main frame......" Zhang Heng explained while starting work.

First took the largest few from which to break in half, and then began to burn the outer skin back and forth on the fire, estimated that the temperature was about the same, was about to be placed under the foot, but then I thought that I was barefoot, and quickly took a quick break animal skin insulation, and stepped on the "U" shaped bamboo into a "one" shape, this is because the bamboo is small, and this step can be omitted by replacing the big green bamboo.

Then it is bent into a V-shape, two crosses, this is the main frame of the funnel, which is also used to support the next weaving, and the shape of the umbrella is reversed.

"Now you have to break the bamboo strips, just the outer layer." Zhang Heng said that the small bamboo was broken into very thin strips, about two or three millimeters wide, which took a little effort, there are bamboo knots where it is not easy to break, or the big green bamboo is more convenient, but unfortunately it has just been planted, and now it is not in time, and I don't want to go back to reality now, and it will be tragic to cut other people's bamboo in the middle of the night in case it is found.

Weaving a funnel is basically not much different from the process of making a bird's cage, and it can also be woven into a net pocket like a bird's nest, but it also needs to use softer green bamboo.

Now weaving a funnel is also a choice made by Zhang Heng after thinking, and the main reason for weaving it is to filter the powder slag and refine the fine starch for human consumption, and the filtered powder slag is used to feed the livestock.

After the thin strip is broken, it is broken in half with a knife on the knot head, and the inner layer of white is relatively brittle, easy to decay, and the service life is not long enough, but if you do not seek fineness, you can weave the inner and outer layers, and use the cyan outer layer for the main trunk, and use a large white layer for assistance.

Zhang Heng only chose the cyan outer layer at this time, which can not only be weaved, but also wound to make rope, which can bear the weight of hundreds of catties continuously, and the trim of bamboo products is wound out in this way to prevent friction damage during use.

"Okay, now start weaving from the bottom of V, go down here, pass through this side from above, ......and weave it up in circles."

Easier said than done, in the afternoon, Zhang Heng did weave the funnel, but no matter how you look at it, it feels like the simple L funnel of the hot "steamed vegetables" and "vermicelli" in the market, but it is magnified many times, which is far from the sharp V bottom funnel in his mind. The "L" funnel only needs a main bamboo frame, and the weaving is half as simple as the V-shape, he originally wanted to be fine, but the result only reached the level of ordinary L, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, fortunately, Wu and Mei didn't understand.

"Well, this is a failure, it was deliberately made up like this for you to demonstrate, you see that the pattern I drew on the ground is the ideal funnel effect, well, you will definitely be able to make it up if you practice more in the future." Zhang Heng said cheekily.

But fortunately, no matter what the appearance is, the efficacy is still not discounted, the slurry is poured into the funnel, you can filter out the slag, the slurry that can flow out of the water is the starch, and the slag left in the funnel is the slag, although it is still not fine enough, but this is better, if the starch is all refined, it is estimated that chickens and ducks do not like to eat the slag left.

In the village, the slurry is wrapped in gauze, and the four corners of the gauze are tied to a quadrangular frame, hanging in the air and shaking constantly, so that the powder and slag can be filtered out more thoroughly.

I was quite satisfied with looking at my masterpiece, this funnel is about one meter high, and the upper round mouth needs to be hugged by one person, and it took most of the day to complete the weaving, and I looked at the sky, and the men should be back.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard a roaring voice, "King! "It's the voice of the cuckoo......

PS: The third update arrives.