Chapter 550 The louder the chest beats, the more pain the face will be beaten
Making tofu is not that difficult, of course, that will be in later generations.
For the current Qingque tribe, it is not easy to get out the tofu.
Even if there is Han Cheng, who comes from later generations and has participated in the entire process of making tofu, it still takes a lot of effort to make tofu at this time.
It's not that his skill level has dropped or he's rusty, it's that he lacks the tools to make tofu.
It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, let alone Han Cheng, who is only half-skilled.
In addition to soybeans, grinding tofu also requires stone mills, slings, brine or gypsum, as well as molds for pressing tofu and pots and pans.
There is linen in the tribe, and there is also well-made linen woven by Bai Xuemei herself. There is no shortage of materials for making slings, and there is also a shortage of cloth spread inside the mold to hold the tofu.
The stone grinding was done, and with the few pieces of granite brought back by the trade leader and the caravan, as well as the wood of the masons with hammers and drills, they could slowly be made.
The only thing that is a bit difficult is the brine or gypsum used to cook the tofu.
Without these two things, the ground beans can only be soy milk. No matter how hot they are burned, no matter how much soy milk is ground, it will not cause qualitative change.
Han Cheng did not find any trace of gypsum among the many stones brought back by the trade team, which meant that now he could only focus on brine.
Brine also has a name, called salt brine. Just from this name, you can see its origin with salt.
Bittern is a companion of salt and can be obtained from the process of boiling salt.
This is all Han Cheng knows about the origin of brine.
There is still a big gap between knowing this and getting the brine out.
At least the Qingque tribe has been boiling salt for several years, and they still haven't produced a salt brine.
Although most of them are due to not deliberately making them, salt brine is not easy to make, so you can get some from here.
After telling these things to Wu, Senior Brother and others, everyone was a little discouraged. How could it be so troublesome to eat tofu?
But then I became happy again because the tribe now has professional masons and carpenters.
Many people are also good at textiles and needlework.
Although the salt brine that Shenzi mentioned has never been seen, Shenzi knows where to get it from. According to Shenzi's wisdom, he will be able to get it out sooner or later.
This food called tofu is so troublesome to make, but the taste is probably even more delicious than what the Son of God said...
The loss of several people only lasted for a short period of time, and they were immediately resurrected with full health, and they were even more energetic and expectant than before.
Han Cheng couldn't help but twitch his nose when he saw this scene. He was indeed a group of absolute foodies.
Although there are many tools required to make tofu, you still need to use the same tools when making them.
After several people happily made a plan to eat tofu, the first thing Han Cheng found was the stonemason wood from the Qingque tribe.
Chiseling hard stone into regular and useful stone mills is an extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive task.
Even if you have a hammer and an iron drill in hand, it is not easy to carve it out, not to mention that the wood has never been chiseled with stone before.
Han Cheng found a branch, drew a few circles on the ground, and told the wood what a stone mill was and what its general structure was.
Compared with the carpenter, the stonemason's ability to understand wood is much inferior. Han Cheng talked to him for a long time about a not too complicated stone mill.
The carpenter on the side had been struggling to understand it for a while, and then Mu Mu finally understood what was going on.
The two stones brought back by the caravan were chiseled into two identical circles.
Then carve a groove on each of the two rounded sides.
These grooves are used to increase friction so that beans and other grains that leak in can be better rubbed.
At the same time, it also allows the ground materials to flow out better and faster along these grooves.
A hole must be drilled in the middle of the two mills to allow them to be better connected together.
The difference is that the hole in the middle of the lower fan is square, while the hole in the upper fan is a smooth circle.
When the time comes, use hard wood to make a wooden wedge of suitable size with a rounded bottom. Nail it firmly on the lower fan, then push the upper fan upwards, and the upper fan will be fine.
You can keep turning in circles.
Of course, the two holes in the middle for installing wooden wedges do not need to be drilled through.
On the one hand, it is completely unnecessary, because it is enough without grinding the stone.
On the other hand, not only is it troublesome to open it up, it will also expose the wooden wedges to the outside, which can easily accelerate weathering and wear.
After doing this, you still need to grind the upper fan and make two holes.
A place that is open between the center and the edge of a circle and is close to the center of the circle.
This hole needs to be drilled with a stone grinder, because when the time comes, soybeans and other things that need to be ground will be poured through this hole.
The other one is opened on the side of the stone mill, basically facing the hole for filling beans across the center of the circle.
It is best to open this hole in a long or square shape, because the wood that is smashed in is not easy to loosen.
When the time comes, an 'L'-shaped piece of wood will be smashed into this hole. However, you only need to hold the upper part of the wooden handle with your hand and turn it hard, and the stone grinder on it will rotate in circles, and it can be used for grinding.
Something.
Of course, this is just a small mill. If it were a large and heavy stone mill, you would have to wedge a "1"-shaped tree stick more than half a meter long into it.
This is because the large stone mill is too heavy for a person to stand still and cannot turn around with only one arm.
It needs to be pushed by hand, and people will follow it in circles.
It's more troublesome to express it in words, but actually it's not really too troublesome.
The only place that is more demanding is the stone ditch on the two sides where the stone mill faces each other.
Their depth, thickness, and density have a greater impact on the things being ground, but the rest don't need to be too precise.
Mu Mu looked at him with a grimace. Isn't this complicated enough?
But even though I thought this way, I didn't give in. After understanding the great significance of this thing, I promised with confidence that I would definitely make it.
What Han Cheng likes most is the chest-thumping energy of the people in the tribe, which makes people feel reassured.
However, sometimes things cannot be done with passion alone, and some things will not be based on human will.
Just like today's wood, the loudest slap on the chest is the same as the hard slap on the face.
He had just made a promise and started working non-stop, when he encountered a problem that troubled him but had no way to solve it.
