Chapter 156

Chung rice is a very old and practical agricultural production activity, its history can even be traced back to the early history of human civilization.

It was born in the early sprouting period of human civilization, when slash and burn farming had the earliest farming. It spread for thousands of years in Yan country, and it was not until the emergence of modern mechanical processing that it gradually replaced this ancient agricultural production activity.

But even so, in the vast rural areas of Yan country, we can still see this ancient art.

Chung, with the sound of Chong, means to put things in the mortar or bowl, with the pestle to smash the meaning.

This is an ancient hieroglyph with a mortar character at the bottom and two people holding a pestle at the top in the inscriptions on bronze and Xiaozhuan, which vividly and vividly expresses the meaning of this character.

And understand the meaning of this word, then want to restore this ancient agricultural production activities is very simple.

Find a strong enough container, put rice in it, and then use a heavy object to pound in continuously, until all the rice husks are broken, exposing the rice grains, even if the process of pounding rice is completed.

This container in the vast rural areas is usually made of stone mortar, more primitive and ancient is to burn a pit with stumps.

As for the tools used for ramming, wood, stone and metal are OK, as long as they are heavy enough to pound rice husks.

Chen Xin's method is to use metal materials to make a big bowl and a metal rod, and then put the rice into the bowl and pound it with a metal rod.

Because the rice was not dried, and he didn't pound all the rice, he just processed a little to cook. It was enough to pound the rice in a big bowl.

Put the golden rice into the bowl, pound it with a metal rod, and watch the rice husk gradually break, revealing the light brown rice grains inside. It is a very happy thing to feel the labor.

In particular, the rice has not been dried, so it still has a faint fragrance, which makes people feel more happy and makes Chen Xin look forward to tasting the rice he planted himself.

Because Chen Xin only pounded a bowl of rice, he didn't spend much time pounding it.

But at this time, the rice and bran have not been separated. Obviously, they can not be directly cooked when mixed together. We need to screen again to separate the rice and bran.

Chen Xin knows that the most traditional method is to sieve the rice bran mixture together with a flat basket. The rice grains are heavier and fall back to the basket under the action of gravitational potential energy after sieving, while the chaff or chaff will be blown away by the wind in the process of sieving because they are lighter.

And the dust mixed in the rice grains will fall down the gap of the flat basket, leaving only clean rice grains.

However, at this time, there was no bamboo basket on Chen's hands, and he could not make one himself, because the bamboo basket was made of bamboo strips. Where could he find bamboo in the end?

If you use metal materials, it's just a sin for yourself. How hard does it take to screen an iron flat basket?

So at this time, we need to use a little more modern means.

Sieve rice itself is a very classical and simple application of physics knowledge. Although the ancestors who did this may not be able to understand the physics principles contained in it, it does not prevent them from doing so.

And know that the principle of screening rice is to use the weight difference between the grain and the husk, and use the wind to take away the chaff and chaff, then things will be easy to do.

Chen Xin just needs to make a blower to blow the mixture of rice and bran once and blow the bran out.

Blower is not difficult to do, especially the separation of bran and rice does not need too much wind, even the electric fan or hand blower can be competent for this work.

With the help of the system, a hand-operated blower is made on the workbench, and a funnel is installed at the air outlet of the blower, and an opening is opened on one side of the funnel to facilitate the separation of bran, so that Chen Xin can easily get clean rice grains.

The bran was carefully collected by him in a small bag. The light brown rice grains were put in the bowl. Chen Xin couldn't wait to taste it.

Clean the rice grains with water, put them into the iron pot, add proper amount of water and cook them together. The rest is just waiting for the rice to be cooked.

While waiting for the meal to be cooked, Chen Xin went to the food storeroom to cut some Jinhua ham and Iberian ham, and took a cabbage, as well as canned pork and tuna to celebrate today's harvest.

Iberian ham is raw ham. The best way to eat it is to cut it and eat it raw.

Although it can also be used to make salads, bread and fruit, or soup and other hot dishes, the former has no conditions, while the latter is too wasteful.

So Chen Xin just cut a few pieces and planned to match them with rice.

Jinhua ham can be used in a wide range of applications. It can be used to stir fry cabbage, stew soup, or even spread on rice and stewed together. It's an excellent delicacy.

So for Jinhua ham, Chen Xin cut half of his ham into thin slices and planned to put it on the rice, while the remaining half was cut into pieces and planned to fry cabbage.As for canned pork and tuna, this is just a side dish after heating.

Humming a happy tune and cutting cabbage, Chen Xin feels that he has found the joy of cooking.

Being able to test his cook certificate as a non professional chef is enough to prove that Chen Xin really likes cooking, but after the end of the world, he lacks food materials, which makes him unable to play his cooking skills and can only eat ready-made food, which makes him want to cook for too long.

Now, although there are still only a few simple ingredients, we can have one or two dishes.

Compared with the shelter food with simple seasoning, the food he was preparing was just as simple, but the taste and happiness and satisfaction he brought were totally different.

The former is just to fill the stomach, while the latter is to really enjoy the delicious food.

In this extremely cold and dark end, it is a very luxurious behavior to be able to enjoy the happiness brought by real food.

But it has to be said that in many construction games, rich food can improve people's happiness and the morale of the warriors. This is really reasonable and reasonable.

Eating enough and eating well can really make people get a great sense of happiness and satisfaction.

When Chen Xin added Jinhua ham to the rice and the rice gradually ripened, it gave off a strong fragrance. While swallowing, Chen Xin had the deepest experience.

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