Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

It was not dark yet, so the two went to the backyard together and continued watering the vegetables.

Xu Han also watered the vegetables frequently, but most of the time it was Lu Chuan who watered them. Xu Han watered them more slowly.

Not every vegetable needs to be watered every day. Water-loving vegetables like cucumbers need to be watered every day, and Xu Han can water them herself.

However, when the weather is dry and all the vegetables need to be watered, it is usually Lu Chuan who does the watering, and Xu Han will occasionally help.

After watering, bring all the clothes and quilts drying in the yard into the house, fold them up, and you can find them directly when you need them next time.

After everything was tidied up, they went to take a shower first. After the shower, they were hungry, so Xu Han took out some food from the space and started eating.

The next morning, after getting up and having breakfast, Xu Han began to prepare to dry the vegetables.

Earlier in the spring, Xu Han dried some wild amaranth and locust flowers, but these were not enough to eat, so Xu Han planned to dry more vegetables and preserve them.

There are a lot of beans harvested in the space, which can be used to dry vegetables and stew meat. There are also some cucumbers that can be picked out to dry.

Drying the vegetables in this way can also save some space.

Dried vegetables will shrink and are easier to preserve, so they don’t need to be stored in a space to stay fresh.

Just do it. First, boil a pot of hot water. After the water boils, put the beans directly into the pot and cook them. It doesn’t need to be boiled for too long. You can take them out after they become soft.

Take out the cooked beans and put them on the bamboo rack outside to dry.

They need to be placed one by one on the bamboo rack so that they can be dried faster.

After drying, continue to cook the next pot. Now the beans are in the peak growth period. Half of the beans in the space are cooked and the whole yard is dried.

If there are still a lot of beans later, you can dry them again. The taste of dried beans is different from that of fresh beans.

You can't dry all of them. You have to keep some fresh ones. If you really can't put them in the space later, you can dry some vegetables that can be dried.

After all the beans were prepared and dried, it was time for lunch. Xu Han simply ate a little and then took a rest.

After waking up, I started preparing to dry the cucumbers. I washed the cucumbers, then cut some of them into thin slices and the rest into long strips.

The two different shapes of dried cucumbers can be used to make different foods. You can put them directly into the meat and stew them, or you can dry them and use them to make cucumber pickles.

Add some salt to the cucumber, stir evenly and marinate for two hours to kill the moisture in the cucumber.

After two hours, the cucumbers have become soft and a lot of cucumber juice has been pickled out. Pour out the water and wash them with clean water.

Remove excess salt, then put the cucumbers into a gauze, place stones on top, and squeeze out excess moisture from the cucumbers, making it easier to dry later.

Wait until night, put the cucumbers into the space, and dry them directly in the sun when the sun comes out tomorrow. The sun is not very strong now, and the dried cucumbers will not be green in color.

After finishing all this, Xu Han began to prepare to wash the potatoes and dry them.

It is troublesome to dry potatoes, but they are also delicious. There are a lot of potatoes in the space. I will plant more in two days, so I'd better dry them! This way it doesn't take up space and is easier to preserve.

Wash the potatoes, then start peeling them, and put the peeled potatoes directly into a large basin filled with water to soak.

Otherwise, they will oxidize and turn black in a short while. When Lu Chuan came back, he saw Xu Han peeling potatoes, and after processing the prey, he joined in.

The two of them were busy until dark and did not even cook dinner. They ate the food in the space.

After peeling the potatoes, start slicing them. The slices should not be too thin or too thick. Lu Chuan cut them unevenly at this step, so Xu Han had to do it herself.

Lu Chuan helped to wash the starch off the surface of the cut potatoes.

It needs to be washed several times. Wash it once first, and after it is clean, put it in another wooden basin, then take it out and put it in another wooden basin.

Repeat this process several times and the potato starch will be washed away. Do not pour out the water used to wash the potatoes. Let it settle and there will be a lot of potato starch in it.

It won't be wasted if you collect it. You can save it to make potato flour or other dishes.

Fortunately, there are a lot of wooden basins and barrels at home, otherwise they would not be enough.

I was busy until the evening to finish everything. I still need to cook it tomorrow.

After finishing, Xu Han was so tired that she couldn't even straighten her back. Although the work was not tiring, it was a lot! It was still very tiring to work all day.

After taking a shower, I lay on the bed and fell asleep in a short while!

The next morning, after Xu Han got up, she took out the dried cucumbers and put them in a winnowing basket to dry.

Then start cooking the potato slices. Put the potato slices in the pot and cook them until they are 80% done. If they are too raw, the potato slices will turn black easily when dried. If they are too well cooked, they will easily become mushy. So be sure to pay attention to the heat when cooking potato slices.

After cooking, put them in cold water and wash them several times until the potato slices become cool!

Otherwise, they won’t dry well! Just spread the washed potato slices on a bamboo mat and let them dry in the sun!

Turn the cucumber and potato slices over every two hours to dry them evenly and faster.

Fortunately, when we were drying the bamboo shoots at home, we had woven a lot of bamboo mats and winnowing baskets, otherwise there wouldn’t be enough space to dry them.

The front yard is very large, and now it is all filled with dried vegetables, which looks very spectacular.

You must choose a sunny day for several consecutive days to dry vegetables. If it is cloudy and the sun is not strong, the vegetables will turn black easily. However, Xu Han has cheating space, so he doesn't have to worry about this problem.

After everything is dried, pour out the potato starch that had settled yesterday.

Then wrap the potato starch with gauze to drain the moisture, hang it up, take it down when there is no water, chop it into pieces and dry it.

There is not much potato flour precipitated, only a little bit. When there is not enough space in the back, you can also make some potato starch.

But there is potato flour in the space, so the potato starch produced should not be used in large quantities. We will see when the time comes!

If the potatoes are about to go bad, you must find a way to consume them. You can't waste them.

The sun is scorching again. Every time at this time, I can't do any work outside. I will sweat all over if I move a little. The sun makes me dizzy and uncomfortable.

I can only go back to my room to rest, or do something else in the house. I can't stay outside at all!

While she couldn't go out, Xu Han started making shoes for the two people in the house.