A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 89 [089] Tomato Sauce

In addition to making prunes, the sister-in-law will also go to places where wild vegetables are flooded to dig wild vegetables. No matter what kind of wild vegetables they dig, they will be collected and dried in the sun for storage.

Among them, purslane, mau oleracea, noodle vegetables, shepherd's purse, dandelion, bitter herbs, plantain, betelwort, thorn vegetables, gray vegetables, etc. are mostly collected. After they are collected home, they are first pickled like prunes. Then dry it in the sun, but not so much.

After one-time completion, put it in a jar for preservation, and take it out to dry in the sun at intervals to ensure that it will not become moldy or deteriorate.

Because the days of eating grass roots and bark in the first half of the year were too bitter, so in the season when wild vegetables are densely packed and growing endlessly, no matter how hot the weather is, the sister-in-law and sister-in-law have never been idle.

Every day, Zhuo Lin took the two children to dig wild vegetables, and Zhuo Lin also contributed a lot to this. In the view of the two sisters-in-law, if more wild vegetables were dug, there would be more room for choice in winter. If they encounter another disaster, they won't be as unprepared as they were last year.

As long as they were edible wild vegetables, they picked them all home and put them away in different categories. For this purpose, they bought some porcelain pots and earthen pots. There are everything from a dime to a dime, and you can choose according to your own situation.

After the children got home from school and finished their homework, they had one more job at night, which was to touch the cicadas. The cicadas in early July were very annoying. At night, they broke out of the ground and climbed on the trees. , The shelling work is completed the next day, and then you can spread your wings and fly high to the branches.

The cicada monkeys brought back by the children can be fried or roasted. It is a special delicacy unique to this season. Because there are many trees in the countryside, it is no problem to touch a dozen or twenty every night. If it rains , after the rain, it is easier to find the cicada monkey. It is specially looking for the thin layer of soil in the ground, a small hole, and you can see if there is a cicada monkey hiding in it with your finger. This is the fun of childhood. .

There is a lot of rain in summer. After the rain, the children are either busy picking mushrooms or picking cicada monkeys. They even run around with Zhuo Lin and become mud monkeys.

In the era when there was no meat to eat, cicada monkeys could be regarded as a prey for the children, so catching cicada monkeys after eating has become something they always do in summer.

Tomatoes are also foreign persimmons, which can be boiled into tomato sauce and preserved, especially they grow a lot at home and have a lot of knots, but there is no glass bottle that can be sealed and stored at home. If you want a glass bottle, you have to buy canned food, or this The glass bottle used for drips in the [-]s is also acceptable, and the bottle after eating cans can be used to make ketchup, but the drip bottle is irrelevant and cannot be obtained.

Except for this airtight glass jar, other jars are perishable and difficult to preserve.

They can't buy cans or ask someone to order glass bottles just to eat ketchup?
Seeing that there are so many tomatoes, but they can't be preserved, so that I eat them every day in summer, and I get tired of eating. To be honest, this feeling is quite aggrieved.

Finally, Zhuo Lin couldn't help asking Wang: "Mother, why can't our family go to the health center to find someone to order that kind of glass bottle for IV drip? Use that bottle to store tomato sauce, which can be stored for a long time, and can be used to cook soup and eat vegetables in winter." When you add a little, it tastes great!"

Because the bottle is hard to find, everyone knows that ketchup can be made, but not everyone can afford this ketchup at home.

(End of this chapter)