Clearwater Bay's sweet potato chips are made in a unique way and have a unique taste.

Sweet potatoes are best used to make sweet potato chips from the previous year's cellar varieties, and are made during the winter frost season.

The so-called cellaring is the ripe sweet potatoes that are dug up and hidden in the cellar along with the mud.

In addition to more than a dozen large sweet potato cellars in the village, each household has its own sweet potato cellar, with more than five or six pits and fewer three or four pits.

Most of these sweet potato cellars are dug halfway up the hill behind the village, away from water sources, in case the sweet potatoes rot due to too much humidity. However, it should not be too dry, because too dry will easily affect the time of sweet potato cellaring and produce empty shells. The so-called empty shell phenomenon means that the skin of sweet potatoes is still fresh, but all the starch in it has been lost.

The people of Clear Water Bay do not simply cut sweet potatoes into slices, but require at least five procedures.

【First Procedure】

Dig up the sweet potatoes and wash them, peel them, and cut them into small pieces.

【Second Procedure】

Cut into small pieces of sweet potatoes and boil in a pot until they become a paste.

Other foods such as kumquats, dates, hawthorn, orange peel, peach gum, etc., are added to this process.

[Third procedure]

Put the pasty sweet potatoes into a large wooden basin and stir for more than ten minutes to dissipate heat.

Particular people will sprinkle some sesame seeds into it from time to time during the stirring process to increase the flavor.

【Fourth Procedure】

Scoop the pasty sweet potatoes onto the mold, spread them into thin slices, and then remove them on the bamboo plaque to dry naturally.

The mold for making sweet potato chips in Qingshuiwan Village is made of a wooden block and four bamboo strips, the wooden block is about the size of an eight-carat paper, four bamboo strips are inlaid on the four sides, and a piece of linen is spread, and the pasty sweet potato is scooped onto the mold and flattened with a bamboo knife, and the linen cloth is lifted to be a large sweet potato chip.

【Fifth Procedure】

After drying, the large sweet potato chips are cut into dozens of small sweet potato chips two fingers wide and one finger long, and then stir-fried in the pot.

Stir-fry sweet potato chips in the pot, and the people of Qingshuiwan are particular. Instead of simply pouring the sweet potato chips into the pot and stir-frying, you should first use a firewood fire to heat the iron pot until it is slightly hot, and then pour in a certain proportion of river sand and stir-fry until it is boiling hot.

Stir-fried sweet potato chips must be made in a pig iron pot, and it must also be Daming Mountain, and it is necessary to add the river sand of the Qingshui River to taste right.

Why?

The explanation of the people of Qingshuiwan is that the pig iron pot belongs to this iron, that is, it is still in the most primitive stage of iron products, and it can be more integrated with food.

Daming Mountain Dachai He, that is, the old pine on Daming Mountain, naturally old and dead, split into sections as firewood. Daming Mountain Dachaihe is flame-resistant, and it is normal to fry an iron pot of sweet potato chips, generally only three large firewood.

The river sand of the Qingshui River, as the name suggests, is the sand in the Qingshui River. The Qingshui River is clear, and the sand in the Qingshui River is naturally round and smooth. The main purpose of stir-frying sweet potato chips and adding some sand from Qingshui River is to prevent the sweet potato chips from sticking together during the stir-frying process and thus scorching.

The villagers of Qingshuiwan said that the sweet potato chips stir-fried with a pig iron pot, Dachaihe of Daming Mountain and the river sand of Qingshui River have a taste of Qingshuiwan in it.

"That's right, the taste of this fried sweet potato chip is really different."

"In addition to the pure sweet potato taste, there is also the fragrance of pine wood and the earthy atmosphere of Clear Water Bay."

Yu Qing and Huang Fan, who were in full swing, ate Lin Xi's freshly fried sweet potato chips, and immediately calmed down and smiled like flowers.

"Earthy? Sister Fan, when we made sweet potato chips, we washed them very cleanly, and I brushed the iron pot several times before frying, how could there be earthy smell? ”

"Lin Xi, don't worry, your sister Fan has really become a native of Qingshuiwan."

"Brother, I don't understand what you're saying."

"Lin Xi, your brother Yan is praising me for being able to eat the earthiness of Qingshui Bay from your fried sweet potato chips, which means that I am already familiar with this land and fall in love with this land. As for whether I can become a real Clearwater Bay person, it depends on the faces of some people. ”

"Sister Fan, do you want Brother Yan to marry you?"

"I don't dare to hope for this, if you don't want to say it, some people can't marry me."

"Hey, hey, we're down to business. Huang Fan, before you go to the provincial capital, can you go with my grandfather to survey the Chinese herbal medicine in Clear Water Bay? ”

"Solemn, do you still need me to assist Grandpa Zhuang in surveying the Chinese herbal medicines in Clear Water Bay? Mr. Xiaomei is your eldest cousin. ”

"Huang Fan, just because Mr. Xiaomei is my eldest cousin, my grandfather needs your assistance even more."

"What do you mean?"

"Yes, Majestic, can you make that clearer? Of course, if I need to avoid it, I'll leave now. ”

"Brother, do I need to avoid it?"

"Hey, hey, Sister Qing, Lin Xi, what are you two talking about? It is precisely because you are all here that I want to talk to Huang Fan about this. Of course, I have a few other important things to discuss with you. ”

"Then tell me, it's already half the morning."

"Like, you have to go and receive the cast and crew of the Water Theatre when they arrive, right?"

"In the afternoon, people from the county are coming over to connect with tomorrow's commemoration, you have to meet."

"I've already arranged these routine matters, don't worry. Come, let's talk about big things while eating fried sweet potato chips. ”

Solemnly picked up a piece of sweet potato chips, put it in his mouth and chewed it.

Yu Qing, Huang Fan, and Lin Xi sat on the other three sides of the dining table, they didn't eat sweet potato chips anymore, and even swallowed the sweet potato chips in their mouths quickly, waiting for solemn things to say.

"Sister Qing, Huang Fan, Lin Xi, and the development path of Qingshui Bay, I decided to change my path."

"Change the way?"

"What's the way?"

"There won't be an accident, right?"

As soon as they heard solemnly saying that they were going to change lanes, Yu Qing, Lin Xi, and Huang Fan all showed surprised looks.

"Plans are not as fast as change, and tomorrow is not as early as the unexpected. I didn't expect so many things to happen in Clear Water Bay Village after I resigned. At first, I just wanted to go back to the village to grow sweet potatoes, and then I wanted to develop the 'Lucky Eight Treasures'. But I didn't expect Grandma Xi to return to the village, my little grandfather returned to the village, and I didn't expect my grandmother to be the eldest lady of the Mei family. ”

"Solemnly, aren't these surprises more conducive to your development ideas to take root and blossom?"

"yes, why did you suddenly think of changing lanes?"

"Brother, is it because Grandma Xi and Grandma Zhuang's attitudes towards me have changed, and you want to change your lane?"

"Sister Qing, Huang Fan, you two highly educated LDs are not as good as Lin Xi, a girl in the mountains. Although she did not reveal the essence, she saw the phenomenon to some extent. ”

"Brother, are you complimenting me or laughing at me?"

"Lin Xi, of course your brother Yan is complimenting you, I really want to be a mountain girl like you, that is the love of your brother Yan's heart."

"Sister Fan, you're joking again. You didn't listen to Grandma Zhuang and Grandma Xi say that only girls with high education and big cities can be worthy of Brother Yan, and girls in Qingshuiwan and Shuizhou are not worthy of Brother Yan at all. I thought about it carefully when I fried sweet potato chips just now, in addition to me, you, Sister Hui, Sister Qing, and Sister Shui are all worthy of Brother Yan. ”

"Lin Xi, really find a harem for your brother Yan according to the requirements of the two old women, Yu Hui and I are not qualified, only Sister Qing and Sister Shui are eligible."

"Sister Fan, why are you and Sister Hui not qualified?"

"Lin Xi, Yu Hui and I are both from Shuizhou, and this one was excluded from the selection of concubines by the two old women."

"Hey, hey, Huang Fan, Lin Xi, why are you two off topic again? When I say lane change, I need to change lanes next in my development thinking, not our topic change lanes. ”

"Solemnly, you don't think about the problem of changing lanes in your development ideas first, but do a good job in front of you first. With commemorations, red tourism and the start of a stone house homestay imminent, how can you have the leisure to change lanes? Don't you want to back down? ”

"Sister Qing, how can I retreat? After you listen to me, you will definitely support me to change lanes. ”