thefictionvixens Chapter 393
Chapter 393
The next day, near lunch time, Su Chen came to the place where sweet potato starch was extracted yesterday.
After a whole day of sedimentation, the water in the jar became much clearer, but it was slightly yellow.
There were a total of sixteen ceramic jars that were level with the thighs, and it was unknown how much sweet potato starch could be precipitated.
"Pour out the water in the water jar slowly, and move slowly."
After all the water in the water jar was poured out, Su Chen took a kitchen knife in his hand and took a look.
"This little?"
Su Chen inserted the tip of the kitchen knife into the precipitated starch. There was only a thin layer, but fortunately there were sixteen jars.
"Put up the water jar to drain the water."
It is difficult to take out the starch if there is water in the jar. After the water is drained, the starch can be taken out piece by piece.
The servant has prepared a bamboo plate for drying the starch. Pad the gauze on the bamboo plate, take out the starch, dry it thoroughly, and put it in a glass jar.
After about ten minutes, all the starch was dug out of the water jar.
Su Chen estimated that after drying, there would be at most six catties (3000 grams) of starch, and the sweet potatoes were weighed in the Tang Dynasty's measurement of one hundred catties (one catty in the Tang Dynasty was sixteen taels, about 596 grams).
One hundred catties of sweet potatoes with low starch content can only produce six catties of starch.
Although there is not much starch, Su Chen is still very satisfied, after all, he has made starch.
These sweet potato starches will be dried for a day today, and tomorrow you can try to make mapo tofu.
If you are in a good mood, you can also try to make hot and sour noodles.
Su Chen nodded silently, hot and sour noodles are a good thing. More importantly, in the future, there will be too many sweet potatoes in the Tang Dynasty to eat, and they can be made into sweet potato noodles in addition to feeding pigs.
In this way, there is no need to worry about overcapacity of sweet potatoes.
But it is too early to talk about overcapacity now, and we must first ensure that the people can fill their stomachs.
Then, Su Chen turned and left.
I plan to think about making a porous funnel to make sweet potato vermicelli.
I also need to recall carefully the steps of making sweet potato vermicelli, which I could learn at a glance in my previous life but failed to learn once.
Li Tai and Princess Changle almost returned to the manor after school. Su Chen wanted to ask Li Tai if there were peas in the Tang Dynasty. It would be nice to put some fried peas in the hot and sour vermicelli. If there were no peas, then put peanuts.
"Wang Xi, are there peas in the Tang Dynasty?" Su Chen asked casually when he saw Wang Xi.
"Uh~, Marquis, I have never heard of peas. Can you describe the shape and appearance of peas?"
Wang Xi often encountered objects mentioned by Su Chen, which were different from what they called.
Either Su Chen drew them or gestured them before Wang Xi could understand them.
"Peas are small round ones. They are green when they are just picked, and they will turn yellow after drying."
After Su Chen finished speaking, Wang Xi first thought of mung beans, and then thought that mung beans would not turn yellow after drying.
"My Lord, there is a kind of bean called: Uighur bean, also known as Hudou. It is very similar to the peas you described, and is generally used to make cakes."
After a moment, Wang Xi remembered a kind of bean that was brought back by Zhang Qian, who was on a diplomatic mission to the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. This kind of bean can be eaten with the shell when it is tender.
"You can have someone bring those beans over some other day so that I can have a look."
Many things in the Tang Dynasty have a "Hu" character on them, which is probably similar to the imported goods in later generations, with a "Yang" character.
"Okay, my Lord!"
Not long after, Li You came back.
"Brother-in-law!"
Li You greeted Su Chen and slumped in a chair.
"Where did you go?" Su Chen saw that Li You seemed very tired.
"Hehe, cutting sweet potato vines! Those pigs love to gnaw on that stuff. If you don't feed them more now, they will be gone in a month." Li You said with a silly smile.
Su Chen quickly reminded him, "Take it easy. Sweet potatoes can only be harvested in late December. If they are cut too hard, it will be troublesome if it snows suddenly."
Li You suddenly sat up straight and waved his hand, "Brother-in-law, don't worry! There is not much snow this year."
"Tsk! How do you know?"
"Hey, how could I not know? In the past, it would have snowed in mid-November, and the weather was colder than it is now.
Look, there is no sign of snow now." Li You answered with certainty.
Su Chen felt something was wrong when he heard it.
If it is really as Li You said, there will probably be trouble next year.
"Is it mid-November now?"
Su Chen has not picked up Princess Changle these days, and he can't remember the date clearly.
"Today is the ninth day of the eleventh month, Friday."
Li You remembered very clearly that his sows were moved to the new pig house four days ago.
At this time, Li Chengqian came over and saw Su Chen thinking about something with a serious expression, and asked curiously.
"What are you talking about?"
"Do you think it will snow this year?" Su Chen asked Li Chengqian for confirmation, just in case Li You was just talking nonsense.
After thinking for a while, Li Chengqian"It will definitely snow, but it will be big or small and last for a long or short time. It will snow soon, probably at the end of November."
Su Chen felt relieved after hearing this. As the saying goes: Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest.
If it doesn't snow in Chang'an, there will definitely be natural disasters next year.
Not long after, Li Tai and Princess Changle came back, followed by Jin'er and Xiao Sizi who came to the living room to wait for dinner.
"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!"
Xiao Sizi clapped her hands and called.
They have watches and can tell the time very accurately.
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After lunch, Li Chengqian and his brother, Su Chen and Princess Changle chatted in the study room while digesting their food.
Princess Changle rarely did not knit today. She sat in the study room for a while, said she was going to take a nap and left.
"Su Chen, is your sweet potato starch ready?"
Li Tai had heard Su Chen talk about extracting sweet potato starch before.
"Well, about six kilograms of starch can be extracted from one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes. The starch content of this batch of sweet potatoes is not high. After the spring of next year, another type of potato will be planted, which is a sweet potato specifically used to extract starch." Su Chen nodded and popularized the types of sweet potatoes to Li Tai.
"Do you have sweet potato seeds?"
"Didn't I tell you? Why are you asking?" Su Chen rolled his eyes at Li Tai.
"When did you tell me about it?" Li Tai immediately retorted.
Su Chen replied casually, "Oh, then I remembered it wrong."
Li Tai snorted and continued to ask, "What kind of food can sweet potato starch be used to make?"
"Then there are many uses. The most common one is to make sweet potato vermicelli." Su Chen looked at Li Tai and then at Li Chengqian, and asked, "Have you heard of pork stewed with vermicelli?"
Li Tai and Li Chengqian shook their heads at the same time.
"What about hot and sour noodles?"
Of course, the two brothers had never heard of it.
"Tsk! You are so ignorant. I will make it for you to taste when I am in a good mood. It smells so good!"
Su Chen licked his lips with an intoxicated expression.
Li Chengqian and Li Tai looked at each other and made a decision that went against their ancestors.
They bowed and said, "Thank you, Lord!"
They have all seen the food Su Chen made, none of which is simple.
I guess the pork stewed with vermicelli and hot and sour noodles are also delicious.
"Well, wait! The starch needs to be dried for a day, and it can be tasted the day after tomorrow at the latest."
Su Chen nodded, very satisfied with the performance of the brothers.
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