Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

"The children are all in school, so they definitely don't have that much energy to farm. We can't take care of the scale of last year."

Uncle Niu smoked cheap economy cigarettes and spoke of his decision with a sad heart.

Uncle Qian had the same idea, "The key is that the valley is too close to the foot of the mountain. All the trees were cut down before the New Year, and if so many people go into the valley to work, they will be easily exposed.

Otherwise, let's stop for a year and see how things turn out this year."

The old lady was also thinking that farming in the mountains would not be of much benefit to her family, as her granddaughter was exhausted from working in the mountains every day.

Their family has a vegetable garden, and the crops they grow are enough to feed the grandparents and grandchildren. If it weren't for the need to bring the two families together as an alliance, she wouldn't have supported her granddaughter to endure that hardship last year.

Zhao Zhao was hardworking and could make a lot of money just by catching scorpions and digging herbs. She also nodded in agreement that she would not go to the mountains to farm this year.

Han Zhaozhao was in her room, listening attentively. When she heard that they would not be planting the land in the mountains this year, she felt relieved but also a little reluctant.

She knew that this year was the first year of drought, and even if she planted the seeds, there would be no harvest.

The valley had one major flaw—no water!

In a good year, you can still plant crops according to the weather and get a harvest. But in a year of severe drought, what you plant will be wasted.

Even if she has the space river water to cheat, but there is no rain all year round, your fields are wet and the crops are growing vigorously, that doesn't make sense!

Just leave the land to be abandoned. Anyway, the grain harvested last year was divided among three families. Combined with the supply of grain and dried wild vegetables, no one should starve to death in the next two to three years.

At worst, she could wait for the weather to warm up, then go to the valley to secretly sow some pumpkin seeds and plant some sweet potato vines. Whether they grow or bear fruit, she could just leave it to fate!

If it rains and the seedlings sprout, it will be an unexpected harvest for everyone.

After thinking it through, Han Zhaozhao let the matter go. After the people left, he heard the old lady lock the door.

Han Zhaozhao closed the door, turned on the light, got on the bed, and entered the space.

She still has unfinished work in her space!

Last night she roasted the sesame seeds and ground them into sesame paste, and tonight she will start refining sesame oil.

She first went into the house and changed into some light work clothes. Hehe, they were all clothes that her grandchildren in her previous life had outgrown and they were reluctant to throw away.

She packed the money and prepared to donate it to the mountainous areas, but the children thought it was too troublesome and just transferred the money directly.

Every piece of clothing worn by the children had fond memories. She simply threw them into the space warehouse, and even thought about traveling to remote mountainous areas to give them to children who liked her.

I never expected that the child I was most attracted to was actually me! Isn't this amazing?

Han Zhaozhao boiled a large pot of water and poured it into a large bucket of sesame paste in four batches.

The amount of water is calculated based on the ground sesame paste, 80% of the sesame paste, 60% of the total amount of water added for the first time, 20% of the water added for the second time, 15% for the third time, and 5% for the fourth time.

Each time you add boiling water, stir vigorously with a clean wooden stick to mix it evenly.

Add boiling water four times and stir four times. The more evenly you stir, the more oil will be produced.

Finally, Han Zhaozhao moved the bucket to the shaking fat-shaking machine that the children in their previous life had bought for exercise, turned on the switch and left it alone.

She had to chop sugar cane, wash it, squeeze the juice and boil brown sugar. The sugar cane in the space was already the second crop. This year, they planted a lot and harvested more than 13,000 kilograms of sugar cane. Using traditional methods, she didn't know how much brown sugar she could get.

Making brown sugar is much more troublesome than making sesame oil, but no matter how troublesome it is, you have to do it. You know, brown sugar is a good thing in this era. Just a small piece may save your life.

She remembered that in her previous life, a TikTok video said that during the three difficult years, our country even imported brown sugar from Africa or Cuba!

Han Zhaozhao had never made brown sugar before. She had only watched the video on Douyin and remembered the general process.

She decided to get one or two hundred kilograms of sugarcane to do an experiment. If it succeeded, that would be great. If not, she would continue the experiment.

It is better to rely on yourself than on others! After planting so many sugarcanes, she did not dare to take the risk of asking others to help her make sugar. She took her time and did not rush. She still preferred to seek stability.

Use a knife to remove the leaves from the sugarcane, pull it to the river, wash it clean, load it onto a truck and bring it back.

After the electric saw was connected to the power supply, she began to saw the bundles of sugarcane into small pieces, and then put them on the electric grinder to grind them into paste.

The electric grinder was roaring as Han Zhaozhao kneaded the sugarcane slurry with his fingers, thinking: Is it too fine? How can I filter out the residue like this?

After thinking about it, I went to the warehouse to find the tofu bags. If soy milk can be filtered, sugarcane milk should be no problem.

The shaking fat-shaking machine over there was shaking vigorously and rhythmically. Han Zhaozhao went over to take a look. Hmm, the clever method was really useful. It had started to produce fragrant oil.

In the stainless steel barrel, the top layer is as thick as a finger and is filled with orange-red sesame oil.

The space is filled with the rich smell of fragrant oil. I take a deep sniff, it smells so good!

If this is mixed with cold dishes or made into soup, everyone will drool with greed.

It should be time to extract the sesame oil. Han Zhaozhao turned off the shaking fat-shaking machine first.

She moved another large barrel over and went to the warehouse to find a siphon, which she had bought when she was making wine in her previous life.

Now, a food-grade siphoning device with a filter is available online for only 20 yuan. It is convenient, practical and easy to use, and it is also great for sucking sesame oil!

Han Zhaozhao slightly tilted the stainless steel bucket and stared at it carefully. The siphon made a hissing sound. She moved her position from time to time and quickly sucked up the sesame oil that was visibly floating up.

A total of 100 kilograms of sesame seeds were roasted and ground in this pot. It is said that good sesame seeds can produce 30% sesame oil.

Of course, this oil yield is also directly related to the quality of sesame seeds, the heat of frying, and the final stirring and extraction technique.

The traditional method of extracting sesame oil may seem simple, but each step is actually crucial. There is a lot of knowledge involved in how much oil is extracted and what the quality of the oil is.

Fortunately, Han Zhaozhao was a master of handicrafts in his previous life, and he had been cooking around the stove all his life.

She controlled the heat very well. I haven't weighed it, so I don't know how much sesame oil will be produced the first time, but just looking at the color, the quality of the sesame oil this time is quite good.

It is neither old nor undercooked, and has a rich and authentic flavor. It is much better than the "X brand" bought from the supermarket in my previous life.

She turned on the switch again, and the shaking fat-shaking machine started shaking again. It was not easy to do it once, she wanted to squeeze out every drop of oil!

Anyway, solar power is free, so just use it! Others buy it to lose fat, but she buys it to lose oil, but they achieve the same goal!

The ground sugarcane needs to be squeezed through a juicer. The function of the juicer is to separate the juice from the sugarcane to facilitate subsequent work.

There is no juicer in Han Zhaozhao's space, so he can only use a grinder to crush the juice, and then squeeze and filter the juice manually.

She put the sugarcane residue in the bucket into a nylon bag and used the jack used to remove tires from a car to modify a simple juice press.