Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 370: Wine Yeast 3

The sun slowly rose in the early morning. After Xu Han tidied up the house, she began to prepare to make koji.

Making koji is not difficult, and the things needed are all readily available at home.

Not only Polygonum aviculare is needed, but also glutinous rice flour. As for licorice and Poria cocos, they can be added or not.

However, because Grandpa Zhao was a doctor, there was no shortage of these things at home, so Xu Han also took an appropriate amount of licorice and poria cocos.

First, clean the Polygonum hydropiper and crush it with a mortar, then pour the crushed Polygonum hydropiper into an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour.

After doing all this, Xu Han used a medicine grinder to grind the licorice and poria cocos into powder, added them to the glutinous rice flour and mixed them evenly.

Add an appropriate amount of water and knead it into a dough of moderate hardness.

Finally, roll the kneaded dough into koji balls of the same size.

After finishing all this, Xu Han took out some of the yeast in the space. Because Xu Han had never done this before, he couldn't guarantee that he would succeed this time.

So Xu Han did not crush all the koji, but left a little bit for next use.

The crushed old koji is evenly sprinkled on the newly made koji. This is conducive to the cultivation of mycelium behind the koji, and the success rate of the koji will be higher.

In fact, it is possible to not use old wine yeast, but it may take longer to cultivate the mycelium. Since Xu Han is in the space, we will use it.

After all, we made a lot of koji this time. If we fail, not only will we waste all the materials, but it will also be a waste of time in the end.

The finished koji were placed one by one into a winnowing basket, and Xu Han placed a layer of straw on the top of the winnowing basket, which would be conducive to the subsequent cultivation of yeast.

There will be air circulation under the straw, so the koji will not come into direct contact with the back of the winnowing basket and get moldy.

After the koji is put in, cover it with another layer of straw, then cover it with gauze and set it aside to start fermenting.

After two or three days, the koji will be covered with mycelium. Then you can put it in a cool place to dry naturally.

The naturally dried koji can be kept in a jar for a long time, so Xu Han doesn't worry about not being able to use it up.

I'm afraid it won't be enough by then, after all, there is a lot of sweet potato wine to be made now.

After finishing all these, Lu Chuan and his team had returned from working outside.

Xu Han saw the two and asked, "You're back. How was your day? Is the manure fermenting well?"

Lu Chuan lifted the wooden barrel in his hand and said, "It's pretty good, black and fat, with a lot of earthworms growing in it. I caught a lot and will feed them to the chickens in the backyard later."

Xu Han took it, looked at it and said, "The chickens, ducks and geese in the backyard are getting bigger and bigger, and they can eat a lot more than before. You can separate the earthworms in the wooden box in the backyard into another box and put the earthworms you just caught in it. This way, the chickens, ducks and geese at home will never lack earthworms to eat."

"Okay, I'll do it now."

"I'll go with you this afternoon to catch some earthworms so that these livestock can have a good meal and lay eggs sooner. The eggs at home are almost gone. If we don't catch them soon, there will be no more eggs to eat."

The Taoist priest laughed and said, "Hahaha, girl, you are right. Eggs have rarely appeared on the table in our family recently. If the livestock in the backyard don't lay eggs, we will have nothing to eat."

"Thanks to the fact that we picked up a lot of wild duck eggs before, if it weren't for the wild duck eggs, we would have run out of eggs to eat."

After hearing what Xu Han said, Lu Chuan couldn't help but think, "It's already late autumn. After more than half a year of reproduction, there should be a lot of pheasants, ducks, rabbits and the like in the mountains.

We haven't hunted for many years. After we finish planting wheat, we can go look for some in the mountains."

"It's going to be cold soon, so the pheasants and ducks won't want to roost anymore. If you have time, you can go for a walk in the mountains."

"Okawa and I will go to the mountains after we are done with these few days to see what's going on."

"Okay, I'll go to the backyard first."

Upon hearing this, Xu Han stood up and went to the backyard.

In the afternoon, the family went to the composting area. Xu Han made a bamboo clip for Mu'er and asked him to pick up earthworms to take home to feed the chickens, ducks and geese.

Mu'er said as she picked up the earthworms, "Mom, these earthworms are so fat. Can a chicken eat them when they are so small?"

Xu Han smiled and explained, "They are too big to eat. When you get home, you can chop these earthworms into small pieces and feed them to the chickens, ducks, and geese. If they grow well, they will lay eggs faster. Then I will make egg custard for you, okay?"

"I'm grown up now and don't eat egg custard anymore. Mom, please make it for my brother."

Little Mu'er may have noticed that eggs are rarely seen on the table recently. Since early spring, Xu Han has intentionally or unintentionally reduced the number of times everyone eats eggs.

Mu'er used to like the egg custard made by Xu Han very much, but later on, as eggs became less available, Xu Han made it less often.

Although there are still some eggs in the space, these were also saved by Xu Han.

Xu Han said to her eldest son with a distressed look on her face that if he hadn't eaten sparingly, the food would have been gone long ago.

"Give it to your brother, and give it to you, too. When all the hens in our house have laid eggs, we will have more eggs than we can eat.

Next spring, when the chickens at home lay eggs, my mother will hatch the chickens, ducks and geese, and then we can eat eggs every day."

Hearing this, Muer laughed and said, "Okay, Daddy and Mommy will eat too, and Great Grandpa and Taoist Grandpa will eat too."

Grandpa Zhao's nose felt sore when he heard this. He never thought that he wouldn't be able to eat eggs as much as he wanted in his lifetime.

With so much money at home, we can’t even buy an egg.

A few people just thought about it for a moment. After all, this period of time was indeed special. Although there were fewer eggs, there was always enough other things.

As for boys? It's okay to be a little rough. If they can't stand this little bit of grievance, they will hardly achieve great things in the future.

Having said that, Xu Han still tried her best not to let the child suffer in terms of food, as for clothes and daily necessities, it didn't matter.

After all, only if you eat well can you grow strong and tall.

Fortunately, compared with other children from ordinary families, Mu'er and Ze'er had the best life during this disaster year.

As Lu Chuan loaded manure onto the cart, he said, "We can transport most of the manure piles here today, and we can transport all of them in the morning tomorrow."

The Taoist priest spat, rubbed his hands and said, "We can pick the peanuts tomorrow afternoon. When I was transporting the manure just now, I saw that the peanuts were almost ripe."

Xu Han continued, "Then I'll go back and dig up some fresh peanuts, and then I'll go back and braise some peanuts and edamame."