Farmer’s Stepmother’s Skillful Farming

Chapter 16 Dried Sweet Potatoes

 Slice the sweet potatoes and dry them in the sun. When they are dry and can be easily broken into pieces, grind them into powder in a stone mill to make sweet potato noodles.

Every farmer who grows sweet potatoes eats them this way.

Unless they are too small and don’t like the trouble of grinding flour, they steam them directly and eat them. But if they eat them like that, even if the sweet potatoes are sweet, they will feel sour in the mouth and empty in the stomach after eating too much.

"It's about drying sweet potatoes, but it's not dried sweet potatoes ground into powder, but dried sweet potatoes that are eaten as snacks after being dried." Su Mulan explained, "I want to dry some dried sweet potatoes and take them to the town. Sell ​​it and get some money back.”

“But that kind of dried sweet potato is sweet and delicious, but it’s too hard and makes your cheeks hurt when you chew it, so it’s probably not easy to sell...”

When Bai Shitang was still there, Bai Shuiliu could always eat a lot of various snacks, and dried sweet potatoes were one of them, but those dried sweet potatoes were too tooth-consuming and her cheeks hurt when she chewed them, and she never wanted to eat them again. , Baishitang never bought it again.

 Anyone who has bought dried sweet potatoes like this once knows that people who go to the market in the town often come here. Knowing this, they will definitely not buy it.

 Bai Shuiliu thought so, but as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that he had said too much. He even felt annoyed that he could think that Su Mulan was a normal person just because he had eaten enough for two days.

Su Mulan smiled faintly, "I know the kind of dried sweet potatoes you are talking about, but the ones I make are different from theirs. Mine is soft, glutinous and sweet, and it will never hurt your cheeks from chewing."

Seeing that Bai Shuiliu was still silent, Su Mulan picked up the basin of washed sweet potatoes and walked into the kitchen. "If you don't believe it, wait until the time comes to make it and you can try it."

 Are you not angry?

But it’s okay…

Bai Shuiliu breathed a sigh of relief and followed Su Mulan into the kitchen to see how she would make what she called soft, glutinous and sweet dried sweet potatoes.

Sumulan wiped off the water on the sweet potatoes, carefully placed them one by one in the basket, added two ladles of water to the large iron pot, placed the basket on top of the iron pot, and then started the fire.

Baishui Liu was very discerning when he went to get the fire stick.

"It's hot, go outside and wash the sweet potatoes. Once washed, let them dry in a cool place, and then steam them when the pot is ready." Su Mulan said.

Baishui Liu responded and went to the yard to wash the sweet potatoes again, washing them over and over again according to Su Mulan's instructions, washing away the sediment on them and removing the bad ones.

 Sweet potatoes are small in size and will be cooked quickly in the pot.

　　Take the basket of sweet potatoes outside to dry in a cool place, then put a pot full on the basket and steam them.

This was repeated, and it took four pots of steaming to finish steaming all the sweet potatoes.

By the time the last pot of sweet potatoes was brought out, the first pot to dry was almost cool enough to touch.

Su Mulan asked Bai Shuiliu to peel the sweet potatoes, and she put the peeled sweet potatoes on the chopping board and cut them into thick slices. Then she put the thick slices on the flat bamboo basket and placed them on the sun floor. Let it dry inside.

The two of them were so busy that when Bai Lixia came back with a bamboo basket of sweet potato stalks and leaves, a lot of dried sweet potatoes were already drying in the yard.

“Lixia is back, come and help peel the sweet potatoes.” Bai Shuiliu greeted.

"Here we come." Bai Lixia put the sweet potato leaves aside, took a wooden stake as a stool and sat next to Bai Shuiliu, while peeling the sweet potato skin.

 (End of this chapter)