Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 20 Making Pueraria Powder

"Sister, you asked Fanyu to let me come here. Is there any work for us to do?" Fanyue came to her uncle's house and saw her eldest sister was busy washing tree roots. She rolled up her sleeves and helped her The eldest sister washed the roots of the tree together.

"I have a lot of work to do today. Clean up the tree roots first. You three, Fanchen, Fanri, and Fanwen, don't wash them. Fanchen, go and wipe the big stone trough and the big wooden hammer at my aunt's house." It's clean, it will be used later.

Fanri and Fanwen, you go outside to pick some silkworm seeds and come back, and the eldest sister will make delicious food for you later. "Xie Fanxing saw that the three girls rolled up their sleeves and were going to help wash the kudzu root, so she quickly stopped the three of them.

The three of them were still young, so they didn't talk about whether they should be washed or not. With their small hands and arms, it was not convenient for them to wash such a thick kudzu root, and they were afraid that they would catch a cold.

"Sister, silkworm seeds are bitter and sour, can you eat them?" Xie Fanwen didn't know why his elder sister asked him to pick them?He looked suspicious.

"You can just pick it up and get it back. Later, the eldest sister will use this thing to make food, and I guarantee that you will eat even the skin."

"Fanwen, don't ask, let's just pick it up. Don't care if the things made by the elder sister with silkworm seeds are good or not. If they are delicious, let's eat more. If they are not good, we won't eat them!" Xie Fanri This little clever ghost whispered in Xie Fanwen's ear.

"That's right." Xie Fanwen also nodded, feeling that what his Brother Fanri said was reasonable.

Afterwards, the two brothers walked out of the house with their arms around each other's shoulders.

the other side.

"Yunxiang, did you find the tea tree on the mountain? You dug something from the mountain again." Holding Xiaoguai in her hands, she looked at sister Xie Fanxing who was washing things by the well, she was a little curious asked Qian.

"Mother, we found the tea tree. There is a piece of the oldest tea tree. It is estimated that there are thousands of tea trees. When the tea tree bears fruit and is picked this year, if we squeeze oil, we will have to squeeze at least several hundred catties. A thousand catties of tea seed oil come out.

As for the thing that Fanxing and I dug from the mountain today, it is called kudzu root.

Fan Xing said that this stuff can be ground into a powder that is more delicious than white flour, it can be used to satisfy hunger, and it is also delicious.

After the daughter-in-law takes out the honey from the hive, she has to help Fanxing grind the powder out. "Ms. Qian explained to Mrs. Zhang that her movements were not slow, and she took a kitchen knife and cut off the honeycomb on the hive, then took out a piece of gauze, put the honeycomb with the cut honeycomb in it, and started Squeeze the honey inside the hive to squeeze it out.

"The inside of this root can be ground into flour that is more delicious than white flour? I have to help." When Zhang heard that she was no longer taking care of the baby, she directly put Xiaoguai in the room, so that Fan Ri and The Fanwen brothers went to guard Xiaoguai.

The Xie Fanxing sisters were washing the kudzu root, and Mrs. Qian was extracting the honey. After Mrs. Qian extracted the honey, they had finished washing the kudzu root, and it was time to teach them how to make kudzu root powder.

"Fanxing, now that my aunt is free, what should we do now." Qian asked.

"The kudzu root that has been dug out is first cleaned of the silt on it. Then we put it in a large stone trough, and one person holds a wooden hammer and smashes the kudzu root hard, smashing the kudzu root, or smashing it into cotton wool.

After smashing to this extent, take out the kudzu root, put it in a wooden basin, pour water into it, rub the kudzu root in the water vigorously, and rub out the starch in the kudzu root.

Let's get gauze again and filter the water out.Do not pour out the filtered water. After settling for one night, there will be layers of white powder at the bottom, which is kudzu root powder.

After we dig it out and dry it in the sun, it will be the finished product. If we eat it, we can mix it with boiling water and eat it. "Xie Fanxing demonstrated in her hands while explaining in her mouth.

Every process of extracting kudzu root powder was demonstrated for Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Zhang, trying to make them understand as much as possible.

However, extracting Pueraria root powder is not a high-tech job, presumably Qian and Zhang will be able to understand it quickly as long as they explain and demonstrate.

However, the job of extracting kudzu root powder is just a waste of effort.

"Okay. My aunt knows it too. I just let my aunt do the rough work that needs to be done." Qian watched Xie Fanxing demonstrate it, and explained it. She quickly understood the whole process. Pick up the big wooden hammer and start to smash the kudzu root.

"Fanyue, you support the kudzu root for my aunt, so that it is convenient for my aunt to smash the kudzu root, and the eldest sister will get you some delicious food." Xie Fanxing told Xie Fanyue after seeing that Qian understood.

"Okay, big sister, you can go."

Xie Fanxing came to the kitchen and saw two Xie Fanri brothers put the silkworm seeds they picked on the kitchen stove, and there were four jars containing honey beside them.

The ingredients are all ready, Xie Fanxing plans to make honey citron tea today.Oh!No, it's honey silkworm tea.

First, Xie Fanxing cut the pomelo skin horizontally with a knife, and then used a spoon to penetrate into the flesh a little bit, separating the whole skin of the pomelo.

Cut the peeled silkworm skin into sections, and remove the excess white flesh with a knife.

If the white flesh of silkworm seeds is not removed, the bitterness will be very strong, otherwise, more bees will be put in to adjust the taste.

They managed to get so many bees, so naturally they had to use them urgently.

After that, change the prepared silkworm skin with a knife, cut it into small strips, peel the silkworm meat, remove the outer skin and inner seeds, and put it aside for later use.

The silkworm seeds in Shangou Village are not very big, only a little bigger than an adult's fist. The pulp inside is very small and very sour, but the pulp has a lot of water.

Xie Fanxing peeled several of them in a row, planning to make more honey silkworm tea for his siblings to drink.

In addition to adding some snacks to them, give them sweet mouths.

After preparing enough ingredients, Xie Fanxing poured clean water into the pot until the silkworm skin was covered. Originally, some rock sugar or white sugar should be added to boil for this step, which would be more delicious.

But neither of them had these two things, so they naturally omitted them.

Bring to a boil over high heat, and cook the silkworm skin until translucent. At this time, open the pot and add the silkworm meat, continue to cook, add the silkworm meat and boil again. After the silkworm meat is boiled, turn to low heat and cook Turn off the heat when the soup is thickened.

After that, you can wait for the soup to cool naturally, add the prepared honey, and stir well.

After it is half-cooled, it can be stored in an earthen jar. When eating in the future, just spoon some out and wash it with warm water.

However, when Xie Fanxing was boiling the honey silkworm tea, the sweet and sour taste wafted out, causing Xie Fanri and Xie Fanwen brothers, who were watching the little boy in the room, to run out and stand in the kitchen At the door, Xie Fanxing watched eagerly as he boiled honey silkworm tea, swallowing with a greedy mouth.

Xie Fanxing couldn't stop laughing.

(End of this chapter)