Chapter 889: Ancient Farming by Internet Celebrities (24)
However, the ancient method of pressing oil requires a lot of wooden tools. There is no time now. Late autumn is approaching, the trade fair is coming, and then comes the snowy winter, so there are many things to prepare for.
Therefore, she planned to tinker with the oil-pressing tools when she had nothing to do in the winter. She just had to stock up on wood in advance and put away the rest first.
In the end, of these nuts, acorns are the most versatile.
Sift out the unwanted thin acorns and leave them for the cubs to shoot with slingshots. The full-sized acorns are spread out in the sun to dry, then shelled, impurities removed, pounded into powder in a stone mortar, rinsed with water, filtered and precipitated until rinsed.
Remove the bitterness and dry it in the sun to become the best acorn powder.
Acorn powder makes for a great meal.
Xu Yin taught the women who worked quickly to make pancakes with acorn powder and flour.
It just so happened that the pheasants raised in captivity laid a lot of eggs, so the cubs carried baskets to pick them up, beat a few eggs into the batter, and then sprinkled a handful of chopped wild onions and a pinch of salt, and the aroma was spread out.
Rich chive and egg pancakes.
"smell good!"
"So beautiful!"
“I can’t bear to eat it!”
Everyone held the small triangular pancakes they were given, swallowed their saliva, and exchanged various words.
When the pancakes entered their mouths, who had time to talk? Their taste buds were fully satisfied and enjoyed by the delicious food.
After eating it, I smashed it in my mouth and savored it for a long time before letting out a sigh of satisfaction: "It's so delicious!"
"This is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten in my life."
Xu Yin smiled and said nothing.
Later, he took the women with him to make acorn tofu using acorn powder.
Acorn noodles without any bitterness are poured into boiling water, stirred continuously, and then cooled until cooked, condensing into delicious and chewy acorn tofu.
Xu Yin used fried minced meat and chopped wild onions as condiments, sprinkled with salt, poured a little butter refined from butter, and with a "sizzling" sound, the aroma spread.
Mix the condiments and enjoy.
"What is this? It's delicious!"
"Mom, I want more!"
"Father, I still want to eat!"
Compared to pancakes, the kids seem to prefer acorn tofu.
Xu Yin also likes this dish because it is very refreshing. It would be better if some vinegar could be added and the butter could be replaced with plain oil.
Others didn't care at first, but after taking a bite, a new world of taste buds opened up:
"really tasty!"
"It's the best thing I've ever eaten in my life."
"You said this yesterday."
"Ha ha ha ha--"
A few more days passed...
As soon as Xu Yin picked up a bag of unground acorns from the cave, women and boys gathered around: "Witch, what are you making delicious food today?"
"Just leave it alone, Great Witch. You tell us what needs to be done and we will do it."
"right!"
Just have something delicious!
Xu Yin couldn't help but laugh: "I'm not making food today, I'm making wine today."
Acorns have high starch content and can be fermented to make wine, with a higher wine yield than grains.
She plans to try it.
When I dug Panax notoginseng tubers, I found Polygonum spp. along the way, which can be used to make distiller's yeast. With it, I can make homemade distiller's yeast and make wine. Speaking of wine, I don't know if the yellow-pipe fruit wine I made earlier has been made.
Calculating the time, it has been more than three months.
"Ah Chun, help me take out the jar in the corner of the storage cave."
"Okay, great wizard."
While Xu Yin was pounding acorns and drying the hard shells, Ah Chun brought the wine jar.
Xu Yin finished her work, washed her hands, and opened the wine jar. Before she could take a closer look, she smelled a faint aroma of wine.
Although the wine aroma is not strong, it is brewed at least.
She couldn't help but laugh.
The women gathered around and said, "Great witch, you made this when you first came here. Did you order some wine?"
"Yes! Wine, this is fruit wine made from Huangpi fruit."
Unfortunately, I wasn't too sure at the time, so I tried it a little, but I didn't make much wine.
But there is still plenty at the bottom of a bowl for each person.
Therefore, that night, the Xu tribe drank together, sang and danced to celebrate the brewing of the wine.
Although it was only a small amount of wine, I didn’t enjoy it completely, but I’m glad! Being able to brew one jar means that you can brew many jars.
No, the next day, Achun led the women in the collection team, carrying self-defense bows and arrows, to pick all kinds of wild fruits. As long as they were ripe, they picked all the fruits, regardless of type.
The great witch said that it is okay to be sour. On the contrary, the more sour the wine, the better it will taste.
So everyone picked them diligently. Bags of wild fruits, whether sour or sweet, as long as they were fresh, were picked back to the tribe. If you can't finish them all, you can pick them into candied fruit like olives and make fruit wine. It's better than rotting on the branches.
Xu Yin didn't go with them this time because she was thinking about the winter for the farmed animals.
Years ago, I had to kill a few chickens and sheep, and I also planned to have a New Year's Eve dinner, but the population was only so small, and I couldn't eat them all if I killed them all.
So she was thinking about building a bamboo shed and covering the roof with dead branches and hay to keep them warm. When it snowed, she would drive them into the shed.
Daying came to her: "Dawu, the trade fair will be in less than a month. What should we bring to trade this year?"
After hard work in the summer and autumn, the tribe has stocked up on a lot of supplies, including the necessary salt.
In previous years, they went to the trade fair mainly to exchange salt, but this year there was no such pressure.
But the people wanted to exchange some high-quality long-haired animal skins for their great witch, so they urged the big eagle to ask.
Xu Yin didn't care. If you wanted to participate, just go. Anyway, there were a lot of bargains to be had.
Salt, pottery, dried meat, straw sandals... Oh, by the way, there is also the hemostatic powder she prepared by grinding Panax notoginseng tubers, and packed them into mini pottery bottles made by the kids. Each bottle weighs about 30 grams.
Ying and the others watched as they came back in exchange for something valuable.
"Great witch, the magic medicine is too valuable." Daying looked at the bottles of hemostatic powder and was reluctant to part with them.
Anyway, the tribe is not short of food and salt this year. Bring salt and pottery with you, enough to give the big witch a piece of long-haired animal skin when he comes back.
As for them, they have rough skin and thick flesh, so there is no need for them.
I have come here to a cave that was so small before. I moved this year. The cave here is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is so big that everyone can gather together and build a bonfire in the cave to keep warm. It will not be more difficult than before.
Xu Yin looked at his expression a little funny: "We have better ones. These are the most common hemostatic powders. Take a few bottles to the trade fair and bring back something you are interested in."
She also has a high-grade hemostatic powder mixed with deer antler, angelica root, black grass root, angelica dahurica and other rooting and hemostatic herbs. It is the Jinshuang hemostatic powder that is highly sought after by martial arts masters.
But this is for your tribe to use. Use it for trade, ordinary hemostatic powder is enough.
After hearing what she said, Daying stopped feeling entangled and started arranging the transaction.
Xu Yin thought for a while and said: "Daying, I will lead the team to this trade fair. You stay behind. Don't go out hunting recently. Let's set up the breeding shed with everyone. We will come back as soon as possible."