After Xu Chen rested, a group of men began to learn again. Xu Chen wiped his sweat and continued to guide. After another half an hour of noisy work, someone was finally able to push the stone mill and turn it continuously.
So the crowd cheered, and Xu Chen let out a long breath, while the guy who had learned to grind was also covered in sweat, and howled with excitement.
This method of manual grinding using a T-shaped grinding rod is the same as a wheelbarrow. It is a unique artifact of China. Although stone grinding was produced and applied earlier in the West, they all use the horizontal pushing method.
Although this is a simple connecting rod transmission technology, before the real concept of mechanical transmission was formed, the Chinese did not use scientific theories, but the Yin Yang and Five Elements theories and the idea of the unity of nature and man as guidance.
Chinese people pay attention to skills in doing things, and generally do not use brute force to solve problems. For example, they take advantage of the situation, use their own strength, and make every effort to make the best use of these theories in actual operations, so as to achieve the goal of saving effort, time, and efficiency.
For example, a master of horse riding emphasizes the unity of man and horse, and a master of martial arts emphasizes the unity of man and sword.
This is not an exaggeration, but a state. If you practice to the extreme, whether it is a horse or a sword, it will become as familiar as a part of the body, reaching a natural and harmonious state.
The same is naturally true for grinding. You cannot simply regard the grinding as a tool, but as a part of your body. Your hands, eyes, mind, body, and whole body's strength are fully integrated with the operation of the stone grinding process.
A delicate and natural balance, reaching the point where people are in harmony, using force to take advantage of the situation, and using the rotation speed of the mill, only need to apply a continuous and not too large force to maintain the continuous and uniform rotation of the mill.
Of course, these are easy to say, but difficult to do. It takes a long time of practice and exploration to master the use of force, exert force and accumulate force to achieve the most energy-saving exercise state.
Xu Chen could only push this stone mill for more than ten minutes.
But when he was a child, he saw that his father could push continuously for more than an hour, and even had the strength to hum while pushing with his eyes closed.
He believes that it means that grinding has reached the legendary state of unity between heaven and man.
Although the current group of powerful barbarians don't quite understand what Xu Chen said about borrowing force and rhythm, they are basically very skilled in pushing a unicycle. Therefore, after Xu Chen used his unicycle experience to remind them, some people gradually understood.
The key to this kind of borrowing force is not to compete with the stone grinder, but to follow the rotation speed, exert force when the grinding arm turns through the straight line point, and use the body to swing back and forth to change the push force into pull force, so that the stone grinder
It can rotate smoothly without getting stuck.
Therefore, after one guy finally successfully learned how to grind, more people soon began to understand the simple skills, and then nothing happened to Xu Chen.
A large group of young and strong barbarians began to fight for the right to grind the grinding mill, and Xu Chen began to instruct the little witch how to feed the grinding mill faster and safer. After the little witch learned how to feed the grinding mill, Xu Chen arranged for several women who handle food daily.
Before studying, the mill became more lively.
After more than half an hour, when the men and women worked together to push and feed the mill without any major problems, Xu Chen stopped staying at the mill and asked him to make a meal of pasta with a basin of flour to reward himself.
After traveling through time for more than four years, he finally came up with flour.
Although this is not wheat flour, and it also contains a lot of bran, it is definitely not suitable for making delicate pastries, but it will definitely not be a big problem for making simple bread noodles, steamed buns, and steamed buns. It is just not as fluffy and soft as wheat flour.
That’s all.
But no matter what, it tastes much better than scones and multigrain porridge made by grinding and kneading it with a stone mortar.
Xu Chen wanted to use flour to make pasta. Naturally, Ye and the little witch would not let go of the opportunity to learn. Even their mother and mother discussed it. One person would take care of the flour grinding in the mill, and the other would take a group of women who cook every day to the kitchen.
Help and learn.
Ever since Xu Chen returned with the great wizard of the Pi tribe and prepared a sumptuous pig-killing feast last fall, he has not taught the tribesmen how to make new delicacies for a long time.
Pork is fat and delicious, but it cannot be eaten often. You can only eat it two or three times a year. But pasta is different. With the magical stone mill, you can eat pasta every day in the future, so you must learn how to make it as soon as possible.
OK.
In the kitchen, Xu Chen asked Ye to find a clean pottery basin, took most of the basin of flour, added water and started kneading the noodles. While he was busy explaining, the little witch, Ye, Muba and a group of women gathered around to watch carefully.
Although real flour appeared for the first time today, women used to do it this way when making multigrain cakes or meat cakes, so everyone can understand it.
But the next step of kneading the dough is the most important. In the process of adding more water and adding more dough, there was a ball of yellow-brown dough in the pottery pot. Xu Chen kneaded it repeatedly and put it on the chopping board.
Beat it until the surface becomes smooth, then place it in a pottery basin and cover it with wet linen cloth to let it rest.
The wild wheat collected and sown by the Ba people now should be oats, but it may also be a type of barley. After all, they are all prehistoric species and are in a purely wild state. Apart from the fact that the plant style is familiar to Xu Chen, he cannot accurately identify the specific variety.
It was certain that it was not the wheat he was familiar with.
This kind of wheat has small grains, a thick seed coat, not a high starch content, and its taste is naturally far inferior to that of wheat. However, at present, it is the most suitable for growing in the environment here. It can thrive as long as it is sown in the ground, and it can grow in
The river beach is flat and easy to collect, so it has always been an important source of food for the Ba people and other tribes.
Originally, the starch content was low, and it also contained a lot of rough bran. Therefore, Xu Chen could not guarantee that he would be able to make familiar pasta, but in any case, he believed that the food made from flour would be better than multigrain porridge.
Delicious with multigrain pancakes.
Moreover, Xu Chen remembered a lot of pasta. He only needed to slowly study and experiment, and he would eventually be able to make more delicious pasta.
In addition, there is currently a lot of whole wheat flour with a lot of bran. If the bran is removed and the flour is left, he believes that both the texture and taste will be greatly improved.
But today is definitely too late, because there is no sifting yet, and the bamboos in the tribe have only grown for a year, and recently they have grown in large quantities. It is the time when they are growing and growing. It would be a pity to cut them down for use, so now they can only eat them whole.
Wheat flour.
When the noodles were waking up, Xu Chen asked the woman in the kitchen to fetch some dried pickled vegetables and a piece of bacon, wash them and cut them into small pieces and cubes, add some green onions, ginger and a small amount of pepper and stir them into the stuffing.
In addition, someone went to the river beach to cut some lemongrass, and added water to the clay pot to start a fire.
The group of women naturally obeyed Xu Chen's arrangements, and they all quickly got busy. After a while of busy work, when the filling was ready, Xu Chen took out the dough that had woken up, rolled it out into a long strip and pinched it into an egg-sized dough.
, began to teach a group of women how to make buns.
In fact, during the process of kneading the dough, Xu Chen had already discovered that the adhesive force of wild wheat flour with a low starch content was not strong. After the dough was rested, it improved slightly, but it still felt rigid.
He had a hunch that the buns would not be very soft when steamed.
But he didn't care, he just wanted it in the form of food.
Because from now on, pasta will definitely become the staple food of the tribe.
He wanted to take the opportunity of Mother's Day to introduce and promote this kind of pasta, and conquer a group of shamans and tribal chiefs with the deliciousness of the pasta. This would continue to promote the enthusiasm of all tribes for farming, and they could not start spoiling it out of satisfaction.
Wrapping the pickled meat stuffing into the dough is a brand new food preparation method.
Not only were the little witch and Ye interested, but Muba and a group of women also followed and studied very seriously.
Soon, there were many large and small crooked buns of various styles on the chopping board, or lumps of dough with no discernible shape, and some even looked like pickled vegetables because the dough couldn't be pinched.
The meat filling felt like it was fried, and I wanted to spit it out.
Although Xu Chen doesn't often make food, it is obvious that the buns he makes are the most beautiful on the entire chopping board, and he still maintains the top spot in tribal food production.
After the buns were wrapped, the water in the pottery pot soon began to boil.
Xu Chen asked people to put the wooden lattice used for steaming vegetables inside, spread lemongrass on top, and then place the buns one by one on the lemongrass. After filling them, he added a pottery ring on top of the pot and placed a wooden lattice.
, spread the lemongrass and continue to place the buns. After the two layers are filled, cover the pot and steam over high heat.
Steamed vegetables are no longer uncommon among the Ba people. Now that spring has begun, dozens of duck eggs can be picked up every day. Therefore, steamed eggs have become a must-eat food for infants and young children of the tribe after they are weaned.
In addition, Xu Chen also taught women to make various simple foods such as steamed fish, steamed meat, steamed yam, steamed multigrain wheat rice, etc.
Before the invention of stir-fry, boiling and steaming have always been the two major cooking methods in China, and each has strong vitality, and each has developed a variety of strange recipes and dishes in various places.
Steamed buns and steamed buns are the most representative foods among them. They are eaten by all people, young and old, regardless of whether they are north or south.
However, this kind of pasta has never appeared in the Ba people. Today is the first time Xu Chen shows it, so Muba and a group of women observed it carefully from start to finish.
Because everyone knows that although Xu Chen can invent all kinds of weird delicacies, he is actually very lazy. After teaching everyone, he is no longer too lazy to do it himself.