A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 88 [088] Cooking dried plums

There are six people in their family, and now there are about 750 catties of wheat left.

The average person can consume a total of 1700 kcal of calories a day, which is equivalent to about 5 taels of rice, about half a catty of meat, and about a catty of vegetables and fruits.

But their family has no meat, only vegetables and wheat, and the wheat needs to be ground into flour on a millstone before they can be eaten. If it is calculated at five taels per person per day, there are six people in their family, Zhuo Jian and Zhuo Lin count as one, and half of them will starve to death I have to be counted as one, and there are only five people.

Then every day is two and a half catties of wheat, and the meat can be replaced by sweet potatoes or potatoes. Vegetables are available at home, but enough. Zhuo Dajun does not eat at home, but eats three meals at work. He usually works overtime, so he does not go home at night and weekends. He will only come back when he is on break, and his food will be deducted from his salary, so he will not care about it for the time being.

The two elder brothers had to go home to eat even if they were going to school. Because of the delay for several months, there was no summer vacation this semester. After the summer harvest, they went back to class, but it was a very difficult day to go to class.

Calculated in this way, their family needs two catties of food every day, and vegetables, sweet potatoes, and potatoes add up to three or four catties.

For the time being, it seems that this food can be eaten until the autumn harvest, but this is the minimum standard. It is calculated according to the living standards of future generations. Future generations will not lack oily smell, and there will be eggs and milk to supplement nutrition. In terms of age, that is the minimum standard, the minimum standard line to ensure food and clothing. If you want to eat well and have enough food, you can divide it into four catties. Therefore, the life of their family still needs to be improved. .

After the summer harvest, Aniang and Auntie went to the town to buy salt in addition to working in the field, planning to cook winter vegetables.

There are a lot of green vegetables in this season. Zhuo Lin thinks that the most suitable winter vegetables are dried plum vegetables. At first, she thought that the two of them would not be able to cook them, because it is not a specialty here. Who would have thought that she would just mention dried plum vegetables and braised pork. The uncle heard it and made fun of her.

"You girl, where did you hear that? Are you hungry for meat? When Auntie and your mother are ready to cook this prunes, I will buy meat for you!"

"Auntie can do it?"

"Yes, my grandma is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their special dish is dried plums, so my mother learned from my mother, and my mother also learned from my grandma. These days, your mother and I will cook this dish. Make it for you."

Dried plum vegetables can be chosen at will, you can be cabbage, or various green vegetables grown at home, such as Jinda cabbage, kohlrabi, potherb mustard, rapeseed, mustard greens, etc., put them in the sun to dry, and then Rinse with water for more than 3 times and drain.

Remove the old roots and cut them short, then hang them in the sun for a day.After chopping, one layer of vegetables and one layer of salt are poured into the pickling tank in an orderly manner, and heavy objects are pressed to help dehydration, and then pickled and dried.

After reading it, Zhuo Lin felt that this method seemed to be different from what she remembered. In her memory, she chopped it first, added salt, kneaded the water, squeezed out the water after marinating, the more dry the better, shake it and let it dry for three days. Dry until 10% dry, put it in a container and steam it for three to 10 minutes, spread it out and then dry it for two days, then steam it for six to 10 minutes the second time, the more steamed, the darker it will be and the more fragrant it will be, spread it out and then dry it in the sun Two days, three times steamed in a pot, this time steamed for nine to [-] minutes, and finally this time dried for five days, the drier the better.

She always felt that it was better to make this kind of dried plum vegetables than the method of the auntie and the others, but because of her young age and lack of knowledge, she worried about how to say it properly.

　The old article has [-] words coded, and the new article has only written [-] words and it is time to pick up the child. The remaining three chapters will be written after I have settled the child. Wait a little for two hours.

　　
　
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