Twenty catties of sifted corn flour finally yielded almost ten catties of corn flour, which is already very good to be able to do this.

Because the remaining ten catties of small corn kernels can not only cook porridge, but also grind again much faster than corn kernels, and it will take one or two hours at most to grind.

The work of grinding dough is boring and tedious, and it requires constant hard pushing, which is not as simple as imagined.

After experiencing primitive means, we can realize the goodness of modern machines, which are countless times stronger than they are now in every aspect!

After more than half a month of hardship, the blood blisters on my hands have been ground out more than a dozen, and the emperor has lived up to his wishes, and I finally ate corn tortillas and polenta that I have not seen for many years in the evening.

Although the tortillas are not sweet, and the polenta is not as sticky as the rice, it is still fascinating!

In many cases, the most important thing about eating is feelings and moods, eating and buying things and things that you grow and cook by yourself, that feeling is different, because every bite you taste has your own sweat and feelings!

I only plan to grind twenty or thirty pounds of cornmeal each time, and then grind it again after eating it all, which is more shelf-stable than cornmeal or sun-dried corn kernels.

Looking at the dense trees in the woods and the occasional seabird, I came home and weaved a straw curtain out of relatively long hay and pressed it with a stone on top of the stone mill.

The purpose of this is not to have nothing to do when you are full, but to prevent every time you go to grind the dough, it is covered with a layer of guano leaves, and the unknown wild fruits on the tree fall on it to rot and stink, and some color will be dyed on it.

Not only does it take a lot of time to clean them up, but it can also seriously affect your appetite!

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After wasting a lot of time on the stone mill, and after spending four or five days at sea to catch fish and seafood, it is now mid-to-late September, and all the green vegetable seedlings that were cultivated more than a month ago have been transplanted into the ground at this time.

The corn is nearing maturity at this time, and three or four days before the corn is ripe, I want to make a few more bottles of oyster sauce and boil two catties of table salt.

The supply of oyster sauce has been cut off for a long time, but I haven't paid attention to it, and subconsciously I want to take a break for a while to change the taste, and there is not much salt left!

Sometimes a thing feels like that, but after it is missing, it feels like it is inseparable.

A total of six or seven catties of oysters were dug up in half a day, and after being shelled and cleaned, three bottles of oyster sauce were boiled out, and three catties of salt were boiled in two days.

Harvesting corn is not a good thing, walking through the dense corn stalks is not only extremely hot inside, but the skin on the body will be cut by corn leaves from time to time, and even more importantly, the corn whiskers will be itchy after falling into the clothes.

It took only one day for all the corn to be recovered, and although I haven't counted it carefully, it is estimated that there should be seven or eight hundred, and if it were not for the impact of the two typhoons, there would be two or three hundred more.

The open space in front of the house, which is trampled on every day, is full of corn cobs again, and the difference from last time is that this time it is really piled up, and last time it was only two or three hundred sparse ones.

Although seven or eight hundred doesn't look like a lot, the number calculated after threshing is still good, at least to ensure that four hundred catties of corn kernels are not a big problem, you must know that four hundred catties of corn can almost be used as my staple food for half a year.

Its greater effect is that it can free up more time, and you no longer have to interrupt your work several times to find food when you used to do something, and even your emotions are incoherent!

Relatively speaking, corn is a relatively friendly crop, it can be stored after threshing and drying, and the yield is good and it is not troublesome, if it is wheat or rice, it is much more troublesome.

Just a fatal drawback is not windproof, if it is inland this disadvantage can be almost negligible.

However, in the environment of this island, from the height of the corn to more than 50 centimeters, it can be said that the heart is carried every time the wind blows!

It has been proven that farming is always much better than hunting, and the most important thing is stability, the harvested food can be stored safely at home, and hunting can only depend on luck.

It's a huge step forward for the times, and it's a step forward for me, and it's finally possible to stop living mainly from fishing!

In the summer, it is also very unfriendly to dry things, not only do you have to move out of the room in the morning, but you have to put it inside before dark to prevent rain, and even during the day, you have to guard against thunderstorms that come at any time.

On the afternoon of the third day of drying corn, I was taking a nap in the house at this time in the hot weather, this habit has been maintained for a long time, and it is a great enjoyment of life to take an hour to take a beautiful nap after eating and drinking.

But when I was sleeping soundly, a thunderclap disturbed my good dreams, and the moment I opened my eyes, I knew that it was not good, it was going to rain.

The dark clouds in the sky had reached the level of black and purple, and from time to time a thunderclap exploded in my ears, and I saw that a heavy rain was about to hit......

I didn't have time to think, so I quickly put the threshed corn kernels on the rainproof cloth into the house first, and at this time I tried my best to grab time.

Then I began to throw the corn cobs that were drying on the ground into the house one by one, and the sweat soaked my clothes again, and I was too busy to care about it so much.

God didn't give me much time, and when I was less than a third of the way into the house, the rain came down and my heart was broken!

A heavy rain made me very angry, and in a fit of anger simply let the drenched corn be drenched, I don't plan to save it, it's a big deal to dry it for two more days, even if it will have a slight impact on the taste in the future, but it is also within the acceptable range!

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Corn threshing also has a certain emphasis, generally from the ground to remove the husk after two days of threshing will be easier, if it is recovered from the ground directly threshing is very troublesome.

This reminds me of the experience of sitting on the ground with the old man when I was a child and rubbing corn, and now I think about it very nostalgic, but unfortunately I can't go back!

Threshing can only be done manually without a machine, and in the past, a rubber shoe was tied to the leg of the bench and rubbed directly on the rubber sole, but now it can only be slowly buckled off by hand.

Fortunately, the threshing of corn after drying is quite easy, almost one can be done in two minutes, so under the rapid action, it took less than three days for all the seven or eight hundred to be separated.

It's not without a price to be fast, both of my palms are hot now!

After threshing, it can no longer be dried directly on the soil, so the rainproof cloth can only be spread on the ground and divided into two batches to dry, that is, taking advantage of the recent good weather, it will be all put into the house in less than a week, and it will be much more troublesome if it encounters rainy weather.

The joy of the harvest accompanied my every move, and the whole person was filled with satisfaction from the inside out, but then came the troubles of happiness, too much corn was not only not convenient to dry, but even the storage container was not enough!

At this time, I thought of a sentence that adults said before: "There are many things at home, what does it matter if you put one here and one there, it affects the beauty, only when you need to use it is the last word" This sentence is a wise saying.

The capacity of a large clay jar can only hold about 200 catties, and the remaining 200 catties are mostly filled with three clay pots, and the rest dozens of catties are directly ground into corn flour for daily consumption for a period of time in the future.

Recently, the staple food has abandoned fish and chose corn, and I have to say that although fish tastes better than corn, even if I eat all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, I have long been tired of eating them, and in a short time I feel that corn tastes better.

Originally, I wanted to hang some of the corn on the wall without threshing and drying it, and learn how to preserve corn in the north.

Later, when I thought of the humid climate on the island, I gave up this practice and sailed the ship carefully!

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Peanuts also ripen a few days ago, and if they are planted at the same time, they may be about half a month late.

This year's peanuts were planted in the ground shortly after the New Year, but the corn was harvested more than a month later because it waited for the harvest, and the corn was harvested first because of the short growth cycle.

Now the situation is more embarrassing, the storage of corn alone will occupy several large containers, what container to store them after the peanut harvest is a relatively large problem, its volume is more than corn.

Now it seems that the number of large-capacity pottery at home is still small, and when you have time, you should make two more large pottery jars in case of emergency.

When I used to make pottery, I didn't think that I would need so many containers to store food, which was a miscalculation!

Peanuts seized the place just after the corn was harvested, and the trouble of harvesting the humble peanuts was almost twice as much as that of corn.

After digging back from the ground, it is necessary to pick the vines one by one, and then wash off the soil on the surface with water before drying.

It seems that only sweet potatoes are the most worry-free among the current several crops, in addition to the need for a line of soil before planting is more physically demanding, planting in the ground almost does not have to care, and the recovered sweet potatoes only need to be piled up in the corner, which can be said to be extremely worry-free!

The peanuts and corn had almost the same experience during the drying process, if not more miserable, and I was delayed by my nap when it was about to rain, and this time I was all wet in the heavy rain because of the confiscation of one of them.

When I woke up and looked at the pouring rain outside, I didn't worry much, my last experience told me that it was the most violent time of the year, and it was just a matter of two more days, and the peanuts were protected by shells, which was more secure!

After five days, all the peanuts are dried, and after drying, according to my estimate, there are still 200 catties of shells, and the peanuts after peeling should be able to guarantee 130 catties.

It seems that it will not be long before you can eat the peanut oil pressed from the peanuts planted by yourself, so I am looking forward to it.

It's just that there is no better way to store it for the time being, so it is directly wrapped with a rainproof cloth and sealed with a rope.

I think there should be no problem with three or five months, and the corn flour grinding and peanut oil extraction will not take long for the stock to decline rapidly, and soon new clay pots will be vacated.