Traveling through ancient times: Savages are hungry for food

It only took half a day for everyone to reach the territory of the Black Soil Tribe.

Jie, Sen, and Zhen.

They were all very excited. After all, this was the place where they had lived since childhood, so naturally they had deep feelings for it.

After they tied up the carriage, they quickly finished their lunch.

Carrying a backpack and a basket, I went to the two soybean fields.

Now the soybean plants have turned dry and yellow, the pods are bulging, and many of the pods have cracks on the tops.

When the wind blows, the leaves make a rustling sound, which is very crisp.

All these soybean plants need to be pulled out according to their varieties, then carried back to the Black Soil Tribe Square and spread out to dry.

After the bean pods are extremely dry, you can beat the beans with a flail.

Finally, the plants can be collected and bundled up and transported back for firewood.

A total of six hundred tribesmen came.

Adopt a division of labor system.

Some of the tribesmen picked, dried and threshed soybeans.

Some of the tribesmen were breaking corn.

Some of the tribesmen went to harvest sorghum.

After the corn is broken, the husk is removed and sent to the threshing ground, where it is finally threshed manually.

When the sorghum is ripe, the branches are covered with dark red sorghum, which is then cut, bundled and transported to the threshing ground to dry. Finally, it still needs to be threshed.

Corn stalks and sorghum stalks must also be cut, dried, and transported back for burning.

Some of the tribesmen went to dig cassava.

Some females also need to pick cotton.

These are all quite close, right around the Black Soil Tribe.

But there are potatoes.

The potato field is a little further away.

Some of the males drove their wagons to dig, since the road had been built in the spring and they could reach the site quickly.

Sang Tian brought some females and waited by the ditch in the black soil square.

The cassava that is dug up needs to undergo strict processing to remove its toxins.

Cassava contains cyanogenic toxins.

That's its toxin.

The males have already brought back the first batch of cassava.

Today we cooked this batch of cassava and gave it to the tribesmen.

Of course, it will take two or three days for the toxins to be completely removed.

Each one is big and full, very pleasing to the eye.

First, you need to peel and cut into pieces.

The toxins in cassava are mainly concentrated in the epidermis, cortex and the junction of the potato flesh.

The skin needs to be peeled thoroughly, and then the potato flesh is cut into small pieces or thin slices to increase the area for toxin release during subsequent processing.

Then soak it to detoxify.

After all, there are six hundred people.

Moreover, these millets need to be dried well, and they will probably need to stay here for about ten days.

Everyone directly peeled 1500 kilograms of cassava.

It took a lot of time.

Then soak all the cut cassava in a clear running water ditch.

After all, it is running water, so just turn it over occasionally.

If you soak it in a basin, you need to change the water several times in the middle, 3 to 5 times a day.

The soaking time should be more than 48 hours.

Allow the cyanogenic glycoside to fully dissolve in the water.

Then when cooking, just cook on high heat.

High temperatures can further destroy remaining toxins and must be heated thoroughly.

no matter when.

Cassava must be cleaned before cooking and eating.

If cassava toxins are not completely removed, it may also lead to poisoning, symptoms such as nausea and vomiting.

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Baskets of soybeans and corn were picked and spread out in the square to dry.

There were also bundles of sorghum.

A few hours later, the first batch of potatoes was also delivered back by carriage.

The smallest potatoes were as big as the mouth of a small basin, still covered in wet black soil, looking incredibly juicy.

The top layer is dug out, which is unavoidable.

Need to eat soon.

I'll make a potato feast tonight!

Just thinking about it made Sang Tian laugh out loud.

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Bags of cotton were also delivered back one after another.

Freshly picked cotton contains seeds and is called "seed cotton".

It needs to go through a series of processes to get usable cotton fiber.

After Sang Tian and the others soaked the cassava in water, they began to process the cotton.

Freshly picked seed cotton may be mixed with impurities such as leaves, straw, and soil, and needs to be manually screened to remove obvious impurities.

Like millet, it also needs to be dried in the sun.

When the moisture content of seed cotton is high, it needs to be aired first, otherwise it will easily become moldy and deteriorate, which will also affect the subsequent ginning efficiency.

Then comes the deseeding.

Just use cotton as filling, such as in cotton-padded clothes and quilts. Keep it simple.

Manually separate the cotton fibers and cotton seeds, and then comb the resulting cotton fibers to make them fluffy.

But there is a disadvantage that manual separation of cotton seeds is less efficient.

It's very time-consuming and labor-intensive.

But there is no way. In ancient times, there were no small machines to remove the seeds.

Sang Tian is not a know-it-all, so how could she possibly know the steps for everything?

Sang Tian also understood the principles behind things like grinding wheels.

After that, you can make the core and grind it into flour.

But a cotton deseeding machine like this is really unpopular.

It can only be completed by hand by the hard work of the tribesmen.