The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Shen Erya exclaimed in surprise: "It smells so good. Look, the broken edge of the fruit I baked is still oozing oil."

As she said this, she took her string of beads and showed it to Shen Youyou.

"Mine is leaking oil too,"

"mine too."

As the palm tree was cut, the golden palm oil sizzled in the burning flames.

The girls chattered and became excited. You know, in previous years, they were reluctant to use oil when cooking at home. At most, every family would use some fat meat to make some meat oil.

When cooking, just apply a little bit in the pot, really just a little bit, with a slight smell of oil. If you cook a lot of dishes, you probably won’t be able to taste the oil.

You should know that the price of a pound of pork now ranges from fourteen to twenty cents. The fatter the pork, the more oil it produces, and of course the more expensive it is. The most expensive time was twenty-three or twenty-four cents a pound.

Farmers working as laborers in the city only earned ten cents a day, and their village was far away, so they couldn't go to the county town and come back the same day.

Every household was reluctant to buy more meat, and the living standards of farmers in ancient times were relatively low.

So it would be strange if girls were not excited when they saw fruits that could produce oil.

Even Daya, who knows how to live, suggested: "Hey, if we cook this fruit for a little longer, will it produce oil?"

Shen Youyou's eyes lit up and she looked at Daya with surprise. Normally, Daya was the type of big sister who was hardworking and took good care of her younger siblings.

But compared to Arya, he is not very talkative. He talks mostly to his own family, and his words are a bit like his grandfather's, which are to the point.

She didn't expect that Sister Daya could think of this. There were so many girls from Shenjia Village present, and perhaps others had thought of it but didn't mention it, but Sister Daya was the only one who brought it up.

You have to know that no matter what you do, you will only have a chance of success if you dare to think and dare to try. My elder sister did a great job in this regard.

However, Shen Youyou did not give a direct answer, but asked: "Sister, why do you have such an idea?"

"I'm just wondering, when we make lard, we wash the pork, cut it into pieces, rinse it with water, and then put it into the pot with water to continue making the oil. When the water is boiled away, what's left in the pot is lard."

When her grandmother was making lard at home, she helped to light the fire, so she was quite familiar with the whole process.

Shen Youyou was very happy that her elder sister dared to put forward her own ideas about new things, so she must encourage her. Besides, cooking directly would definitely produce oil, but the oil yield would be very low.

"Sister, your idea is very good. It is indeed possible to boil out oil. But think about it, when boiling lard residue, why do we cut it into pieces instead of boiling it directly with a large piece of pork?"

Shen Youyou tried to guide Shen Daya to think more, but at this time several voices asked at the same time: "Do you mean that we should smash the fruit and then boil it? Will it produce oil faster?"

She was really surprised. She could think of Shen Daya, Wang Taohua, Shen Cuiya, and several others, but why was Shen Erya not there? Because Sister Erya had already started eating.

Shen Erya breathed out while eating: It's too hot, but it's so delicious. The roasted palm fruit is not hard at all. The whole flesh becomes very soft and sweet, and it tastes delicious.

After eating one, I took the second one and continued eating. It was so hot that I didn’t want to wait for it to cool down.

Shen Youyou nodded in satisfaction: "That's right, the palm fruit needs to be steamed first, then smashed, and then boiled in a pot with water to produce oil. Of course, this is the simplest way. There are other ways to extract oil, which require tools. When we settle down in the north, let my father teach us how to make it. Even soybeans can be used to make oil."

This time, Shen Erya stopped chewing and suddenly asked, "Soybeans can also be used to make oil?"

Shen Youyou nodded in agreement.

Shen Daya suddenly asked: "Why didn't Third Uncle tell you before?"

Shen Youyou was stunned. Now she was talking nonsense. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly: "I don't know either. Well, I just heard what he said before we set off. You can ask him."

"Oh, that might be a method that Uncle San has read in a book recently. Isn't it said that books contain everything? There is even gold!"

Shen Daya found an excuse for herself.

Shen Youyou cursed inwardly, thinking that she should think about things like this that needed to be popularized to everyone in the future. If she really couldn't figure it out, she would ask her father to do it. Her little heart couldn't bear it.

But she still habitually corrected Daya: "There is a golden house in the book!"

Daya nodded to indicate that this was the correct statement. Since they already had a golden house, it was not surprising that they had a way to extract oil.

Shen Youyou blew on the palm fruit and said, "Let's start eating. Sister Erya and Brother Erhu are almost done eating."

At this time, everyone started to eat. Shen Yaya took one and blew on it. It was still a little hot when she put it in her mouth, but it was much better than when Shen Erya ate it.

She chewed it twice, and before she had time to swallow, she couldn't wait to give her praise: "It's delicious, sweet and sticky."

Shen Xingya then added: "It smells good!"

Shen Youyou smiled, picked up one and blew it, then put the whole thing into her mouth. It tasted like this, a bit like the texture of Beibei pumpkin and sweet potato, with a chestnut fragrance. It was simply amazing.

Shen Youyou pinched the second one with her fingers and showed it to the sisters. A lot of oil came out and there were thick fibers in the flesh. These were not to be eaten. They just had to spit out along with the black core inside.

She didn't throw away the core at all. Instead, she raised her knife and cut it in half, revealing the white flesh inside, which was very similar to coconut meat.

Use a palm needle to pick it out. It is chewy and bouncy. It is delicious, but it is too small and not very tasty.

I guess kids like Shen Luming would like to eat it.

After finishing the palm fruit feast, Shen Youyou stood up and patted the dirt off her butt: "Come on! Sisters, these palm fruits have been cut down. Tomorrow we will peel the bark and cut the core. This tree is full of treasures."

The cool breeze blew the large leaves of the palm tree, as if waving to Shen Youyou and the others, saying, "You bad guys, don't come over here!"

Suddenly Erhu said, "Hey, why did this tree die?"

Shen Youyou looked in the direction Erhu pointed. That was the tallest palm tree here, and now the whole tree was withered.

She sighed, "Because no one peeled the bark for it, it died."

Everyone was surprised: "This tree has a habit of letting people peel its bark. How can it die without anyone peeling its bark?"

Although they used to peel the bark of palm trees to make raincoats, they didn't know that the palm trees would die if they didn't cut the bark. And basically, no palm trees died in the hills behind their village, because the villagers would cut the bark and never waste any of it.

"If you don't cut the bark for too long, it could be crushed to death by the bark like this one."

After understanding what was going on, they started to work, holding machetes and chopping down bunches of huge palm fruits. As they moved, the large leaves like cattail leaf fans made rustling sounds, as if accusing them of not being gentle with women!

These fruits are all ripe, so there is no need to pick them, just cut them one by one.