At the beginning of February, with only a few days left before the Chinese New Year, I finally got rid of most of the miscellaneous tasks such as making paper and boiling salt, and I could slow down my life.

In addition to the need to squeeze peanut oil, you can leisurely mix it in the first few days of the year, and there is still the last bottle of peanut oil left at home, in fact, there is no problem at all to survive the New Year.

But immediately after the new year, it is relatively busy to loosen the soil and sow seeds, so it makes more sense to use the free time now to do these things!

This year is relatively a very leisurely year, because of the rain and their deliberate laziness, there are about 100 days of no work in a year, it is not easy to rest for so long under such conditions, and it is more in line with the reality that it should be busy outside on rainy days!

Most of the time, because I am relatively busy, I usually cook relatively little in a hurry, and I can use roasting and boiling methods to basically these two at most, so I don't use a lot of oil.

On average, there are about two catties of oil in a month, which is about the same level as when I didn't go to the island before, when I only poured a little oil for weight loss and stir-frying, and now I don't use much because of the small amount of cooking.

When I first planted peanuts, I felt that I could use up at least five catties of oil a month, which is like a true portrayal of many people, before doing a thing, I think I can do what I can do, but I find that I am far overestimating myself!

This year, the peanuts were harvested as they were last year, and they had to be wrapped in rainproof cloth without containers, and then an empty clay jar for corn was finally transferred back in.

I have to say that the current large-capacity pottery is still not enough, at least on the current basis to add three more to barely enough, but this year's harvest has indeed exceeded my expectations.

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This time I am ready to squeeze a little more, it is very difficult to produce only ten catties of oil at a time for half a year, so that I have to start work again in about half a year, in addition to daily affairs, I have to feed chickens and sheep every day, which is very complicated!

Therefore, I want to do a lot of work once to ensure that it can be used for about a year, so that I can save a lot of trouble, and I don't have to go back and forth between several things!

Doubling the amount is twenty catties of peanut oil, which is already a big move, and it will take at least three or four days to complete the oil.

More than 20 catties of oil according to the oil yield here is basically close to 100 catties of peanut grains, although last month when it rained at home idle boring peeled a lot of peanuts, but at that time did not expect to want to squeeze out a year's peanut oil at a time, but also only peeled out 50 catties of ready-made peanut grains.

Forty or fifty pounds of peanuts look inconspicuous, but peeling the shell is also a waste of time, under normal circumstances it may take two days to complete this arduous work, and at the same time, several fingernails will be wasted by peanut shells.

I felt fine when I peeled the first few pounds, but when I peeled a peanut, I suddenly separated the front of my fingernails from the flesh and the pain caused me to instantly hate the job.

I didn't want to peel it off one by one, it was slow and more laborious, so I lost patience and started to solve it with violence.

I first went to a nearby place and picked up a pebble and came back, and roughly smashed all the peanuts with the pebble.

Basically all the peanuts are broken in one go, and some are leaking out of the shell, and then clean the feet and step on them next to each other to make the shell more broken, and then clean up the tattered shell and it is basically all peanuts.

After picking out the husks, blow off the fine residue mixed in with the peanut kernels, and all that is left is clean peanut kernels.

This step is not very suitable for the daily preparation of peanuts for cooking, because the integrity of the peanuts is required at that time, and many of them are crushed.

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The peanuts used to extract oil do not have to worry about the integrity of the appearance, and they will be ground into peanut flour immediately afterward, so there is nothing to worry about.

Although this method is broken a lot, it is significantly faster than the previous peeling speed one by one, at least twice the speed of the previous one, it seems that this practice is worth promoting, and the peanuts that are squeezed in the future can be operated in this way.

I don't know if this year's peanuts are fuller and bigger, almost 100 catties of peanuts are pressed to produce nearly 25 catties of oil, so the oil yield is already very high, and one catty can only produce more than two taels in the past.

The only more troublesome is to keep up and down the stone when pressing, two days to squeeze the oil out of a body is almost like falling apart, at this time I still feel that the laborious degree of operation is the biggest problem step, if it is in the previous efficiency and troublesome level, I am afraid that people will scoff!

The next thing is to prepare for the New Year in earnest, and everything else is almost to stop.

The morning before the Chinese New Year, I started killing sheep again, and when I killed a sheep, I thought that I could kill two sheep to make bacon during the New Year, but now I feel a pity to kill a sheep, and I can't decide which one to choose!

The difficulty of the entanglement is mainly focused on choosing one of the several adult sheep, or this year's lamb, and finally killing a small ram produced this year after consideration!

There is currently an adult ram, and there is still one in the baby ram, so there is no need to worry about breeding sheep in the future, this should also be the last time to be so entangled, and when the latest batch of lambs is born next year, you don't have to think about it as much as now......

When the flock reaches the scale of more than ten sheep, there is no need to live as poor as now, and the frequency of sheep killing can be completely higher than now, at least the number of three sheep a year I think can keep up with the demand.

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The lamb was processed and salted, and the sheepskin was also exposed to the sun, and the problem of the sheep was temporarily solved, and I thought about killing another chicken in the afternoon.

I haven't eaten chicken for a long time, I miss its taste, and I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I can't get my hands on it because the quantity is too small, and I really don't want to miss this opportunity to convince myself during the New Year.

Boiling a pot of boiling water in advance, I picked a rooster in the chicken pen to kill.

Another factor that made me decide was that the eggs were hatching, and if it went well, it wouldn't take long for the chicks to break the shell, and even if fifteen eggs only produced half, there would be seven or eight chicks, so I didn't have to worry about the problem of too few eggs!

The dagger had already been sharpened to reveal its edge, and it had been tested on the sheep in the morning, and the big sheep had not escaped their fate, and I was full of confidence in killing the chicken.

Because of the excessive expansion, I still tied it with a rope when I killed the sheep, and there was no insurance at all when I killed the chicken, thinking that one hand could make it obedient.

After plucking the feathers off its neck, my knife was smoothly placed on its neck, and everything seemed to be easy, and the pheasants of two or three pounds were not taken into account at all.

It's just that there was a ridiculous scene behind it, which can also be said to be a very embarrassing scene!

At first, everything went smoothly and I cut the pheasant's neck twice, but because the pheasant was a little smaller, the grasp was not very stable, and I struggled violently and accidentally let it escape my clutches!

And so it ran away......

Ran away?!!!

At this moment, I feel that it is simply a shame for my slaughtering career, especially if the target is only a chicken, if it is an adult sheep, it is understandable, after all, its size gives it stronger vitality!

I can't tolerate this kind of smashing signs, and if I can't get them back today, I'm sorry that it took more than ten days to catch them back!

In order to save the lost face, without a moment's hesitation, I rushed to chase the pheasant with a knife!

In this way, the chicken staggered in front, rolling and crawling, and I chased eagerly behind, sweating!

I didn't expect that the plot in this kind of TV series would also be found in me, and it makes people speechless when I think about it.

There was blood from chickens all the way, and the sound of it clucking for help, it looked like a crime scene!

However, I know that the final result of massive blood loss is the same whether it is a chicken or a human, even if it can escape far away, the final fate is already doomed......

Besides, the chicken blood left along the way is the clue to find it, even if it disappears from my sight temporarily, there is no need to worry, so this chicken can't be lost.

After five minutes of fierce chase, the winter rarely made me sweat, and it finally stopped unwillingly twenty or thirty meters in front of me, and it seemed that the winner was decided!

Tomorrow's chicken is already stable, take it home and pluck it with boiling water, and then smoke it for a while with the usual home practice, so that the chicken will also have a hint of smoke on it, and the taste will be better.

At this time, it would be good to have a chicken that can be put in the pot, although the process is very ridiculous, but fortunately, there is no other person on the island, and this thing that makes people laugh off their big teeth is only known to God!

In the end, it's a pity that it's just the chicken offal in the belly, the pheasant is not big, so there is not much goods in the stomach, and I don't know how to deal with it at all, and at the same time I don't want to deal with it, so I just took it down and threw it into the fish pond to feed the fish.

Pheasants used to be hard to find when they were still at home, although there was no shortage of them all over the mountains, often the first day the crops were planted in the field, and the next day to see that some of the seeds were taken out and eaten, but there were few opportunities to catch them seriously.

Wild pheasants can be sold for hundreds of dollars in the countryside, which is more expensive than the price of a domestic chicken, and I have no luck to meet two, and the ingredients that used to be quite rare are now my captivity, and I can eat them if I want!

After finishing the chicken, it was still early after dark, so I went around and fetched all the other ingredients I needed for tomorrow's New Year.

These include a few taro, a clams, some greens, etc.

At this time, I suddenly missed the chili pepper, the kind of excitement that is so spicy that people are sweating profusely, but they can't stop it, it makes people miss it when you think about it!

It's just a pity that I haven't been able to find a pepper seedling on the island for two or three years, if there is a chili pepper to cook, the taste will definitely be two grades higher than now, even if it is on fire, it is worth it!