Chapter 1375 [1374] Tofu (4100)

Ding Wei was so angry that she was talking about her life every day. Everyone had the initial discomfort and changed their attitude. However, only the sisters brushed their teeth in the morning and evening. Ding Xiang was forced to brush her with her sister so she couldn't do anything about it. The other family members got up in the morning and brushed it once. They thought that this was enough and they didn't waste toothpaste.

Ding Wei also felt that it was a bit difficult to change this concept, so she simply let them go.

After the autumn harvest, the weather became colder, and their days became sweet potatoes every meal. There was no way. The yield of sweet potatoes was high and they were the main crops here. Compared with it, corn was more expensive. At this time, sweet potatoes were like they didn’t have money. They ate sweet potatoes three meals a day. She farted every day, but she felt uncomfortable in stomach acid. But what could I do? Everyone lived like this.

When the sweet potatoes were not coming down, they ate sweet potato leaves every day. Now the sweet potato leaves were not coming down, so they ate radish and cabbage. Ding Wei looked at her figure of stir-fried green beans and was still crying.

There is less work for autumn harvest, and my father can ride a bike back every day, and my mother doesn’t let her go to the fields to work. Her main responsibility every day is to take good care of her family, prepare three meals a day, wash the clothes of the family, and when they are free, they can pick up firewood, dig the last batch of wild vegetables before the frost, and eat wild vegetables to get the small shepherd’s purse in the first month and the white artemisia on the river beach.

Since my father officially settled down in the tractor factory, he has become more confident. Of course, he has not given up reading progress because of this. He often goes to the bookstore to buy some books about machinery and read them. If he doesn't understand, he will ask Grandpa Ma, if he has such a capable expert and professor by his side, he will not mention how happy he is.

The Chinese New Year is coming and when the team is not alive, my mother takes the two sisters to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town for a walk.

Although the things on the shelves of this supply and marketing cooperative may not be as complete as those in the community convenience store, after traveling through so long and seeing so many dazzling arrays of products, it still shows the excitement of being the only child.

Compared to the mother who could only see the display of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the two sisters looked at the orchid roots, cat ears, cakes, snowflake crisps, canned food, candies, melon seeds and other foods. In front of the glass counter, they held the table and looked inside. Sister Dingxiang pointed at this from time to time and asked, "Sister, what is that?" Every time Ding Wei would patiently explain.

At this time, my mother also bought 150 pounds of salt, 50 cents of soy sauce and vinegar, 20 cents of matches, 50 cents of soybeans per dollar, and 100 pounds of loose wine. Then look at the rice there, the most expensive 30 cents of salt, and the cheapest 100 cents of rice, because this is not a grain station, so the grain is only placed a little bit.

In addition, there were a lot of vegetables and soy products on the counter that looked not very fresh. Perhaps it was because of the afternoon that I felt that it was not very fresh.

On the way home, my mother asked Ding Wei with confusion: "Can the gypsum braised I bought really bean curd?"

I haven't eaten tofu for a long time. Ding Wei happened to see a braised mandarin at the stall selling tofu in the supply and marketing cooperative, so she asked her mother to buy a pack of gypsum braised powder for one cent. The key is that there are quite a lot of braised powder and can be made many times. She thought it was very cost-effective, so she asked her mother to buy it.

And after making tofu once, you can keep the brine yourself and you don’t need to buy it anymore. You can buy tofu that you can eat all winter for a cent. Why not?

"Mom, I've really eaten enough sweet potatoes. Don't we have soybeans in our family? Can we try to make tofu?"

Zhao Qingqing looked at the brine in her hand helplessly, "How can we know the ratio? I'm spoiling you, letting you do whatever you want."

"What's the point? If you can't make it well, it's just tofu brain. If you have too much, it's hard tofu. If you compress it, it's just tofu. If you want to squeeze it, it's just to dry tofu. Mom, practice is the only proof of the truth. What if it succeeds? If you can't eat this thing, it's okay to try it. It doesn't cost much. It's better than queuing up here to buy tofu every day. It's more consumed in winter, so you may not be able to buy it early, so it's better to make it yourself."

The Ding family didn't know that Ding Wei was a master of tofu, so Zhao Qingqing only thought she was talking and playing. She didn't expect that her eldest daughter soaked two pounds of beans after she returned home. She instinctively wanted to stop her: "One pound is fine, why do you still soak two pounds? What if it fails?"

"Mom, if you fail, let's drink soy milk and tofu brain, okay?"

Zhao Qingqing looked at her silently, sighed for a moment: "Okay, okay, you make a fool, I see what you can do!"

Their family has a millstone. Now every household needs to grind grain. There is a super large millstone under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village. The millstone at home are relatively small. Ding Wei didn't want to go to the entrance of the village to show off, so she asked her brothers to help at home.

It is not too difficult to soak the beans that have been boiled all night, but it is tiring to turn the grinder. The four of them siblings circled the turntable for more than two hours, and finally grind the soy milk into fine grinding. The addition of water in this process also requires the ratio to be mastered. If there is too much, it will not be too thin, and if there is less, it will not be too thick. She usually depends on the feel of the hand and rarely pays attention to the specific proportion.

Then, filter it with gauze. Because there is too much foam, when cooking in the pot, you should also use a spoon to skim the surface foam out. The next time is the time to witness the miracle.

When replacing the slurry, filter it with gauze again, so that it will naturally cool down to 80-85 degrees and then decoct the brine.

Add water to dilute the brine in advance, and make brine at a ratio of 1:1.5, add an appropriate amount of salt, (it is appropriate to precipitate a little salt) the temperature of the slurry.

Then use a spoon to slowly turn it up and down in the bucket at 80-85 degrees, and slowly add brine. When there is floc, the halogen is discharged small. When there is 80% floc, the halogen stops the halogen and the liquid surface is sprinkled on the liquid surface to press the surface.

When squatting in the tank, stand still for about 10 minutes to allow the protein to solidify fully.

Their home does not have a special tofu molding box, so she just found a few wooden boards and nailed them with nails. She took out the gauze. When the family held funerals for their grandparents in the early years, they left a lot of white cloth. The cloth was thinner and could be used as gauze temporarily. The gauze had been cleaned. She first spread the gauze into each made wooden board molding box, and then started to put the bean brain. She did not stir before putting the bean brain. After pouring the tofu into the box, she folded the four corners of the cloth exposed on it in half, put a layer of washed wooden boards on it, and then put two large stones with similar weights to press it. On it, this is the method of rapid molding.

Taking advantage of the existing conditions and struggling for a whole morning, she finally made the tofu before cooking at 11 o'clock. Two pounds of beans and five or six pounds of tofu. Although it was not as thick as the tofu I bought, it was as thick as the little finger. Then she broke it off and put it in her mother's mouth, which was already shocked: "How about it, is it the same as the one I bought?"

Zhao Qingqing looked at Ding Wei in shock: "Tell me, where did you learn it?"

"There are methods for making the newspapers. I remembered it and wanted to try it. I didn't expect it to be successful. Mom, do you think I am a genius?"

Zhao Qingqing didn't know what to say for a moment. The tofu that she ate in her mouth was really no different from what she bought. She even thought it was made by her daughter, which was better and sweeter.

She looked at the tofu in front of her with a sigh: "So, our family won't have to buy tofu in the future?"

Ding Wei nodded and smiled and said, "Yes, mom, I will make it whenever you want to eat it, staying at home, it's very convenient."

Zhao Qingqing waved his hand, "Since there are so many tofu, can I make tofu buns for you today? I happened to have noodles last night. I originally wanted to steam buns, but now with tofu, we eat buns."

The two brothers were also excited, and Zhao Qingqing generously cut out two pieces and handed them to the third and fourth brothers.

"Go and give them a piece to your uncle and aunt's house. I said it was made by you. If they want to eat it in the future, they will make reservations in advance, but they have to hand over the beans. Give them two pounds of tofu per pound!"

Ding Wei pursed her lips and laughed: "So is the remaining pound our hard work?"

"Of course, I've seen you struggle all morning. It's so hard, we can't help but make money! So Vivi, you will teach your mother how to do it. I have to learn it. When I learn it, I will also give your grandparents a few kilograms. If you are not at home, your mother can also do it yourself."

Ding Wei nodded: "What's the difficulty? We will soak three kilograms of beans tonight and we will teach you how to do it tomorrow."

In fact, Ding Wei knew that she said it was easy, but it was not that easy to learn. After all, making tofu requires mastering the heat and feel. She succeeded in one go because she did too much, and others might not be able to do it.

Of course, their family will not sell tofu. At least 1983 years ago, there was no way to achieve a real currency equivalent exchange. If someone really exchanged beans for tofu and my mother just happened to have time, this should be allowed in the policy.

My uncle and aunt followed them to their house because of surprise. They saw that the tofu was really made by themselves. The expression at that time was really wonderful.

"These children are so amazing. They can even make trouble. Does this mean that we will all be happy in the future?"

Mom joked, "That's fine, but you have to hand over the beans,"

The aunts immediately laughed and said, "It's all right. You have worked hard to do it. How could we not know that this is at least. Don't worry, if we really make tofu in the future, we will come to help, so we will definitely not let you suffer."

Ding Wei was not worried that they would learn secretly. After all, she did not intend to let her mother do this hard work. Making tofu was too tiring and earned little. If her aunt and the others were interested, what would you do to teach them?

After almost 1980, the land reform was divided into households. At that time, she planned to let her mother open a restaurant, so she would plant the land for her uncle and aunt, and give them some food every year. Compared to farming, business was easier to do in the 1980s and 1990s. She had ways to make money. As long as her uncle and aunt did not do too much, she would not mind sharing a few ways to go out and help them get rich.

She felt that her brother had the potential to do business because he didn't like to study very much, but he was smarter and could settle accounts. If he really couldn't get into high school in the future, letting him do business with his mother, would be a good direction for development.

Compared to the fourth brother, the third brother can sit and read books very seriously, but he can't tell whether it is a material for studying. When he reaches junior high school, the difficulty of his studies will increase. If he learns easily, he will develop in the direction of college students in the future.

At noon, my mother wrapped two kinds of fillings, one spicy spicy tofu stuffing and the other non-spicy cabbage tofu stuffing. These were all the ideas Ding Wei came up with.

The skin of the mixed grain bread was a little black, but this did not affect the fragrance of the filling. After biting it, Ding Wei almost cried.

"Mom, after eating sweet potatoes for half a month, I feel like I'm about to become sweet potatoes. This tofu is so delicious, so delicious."

"When the sweet potatoes were not coming down, you thought about roasting sweet potatoes every day. The sweet potatoes were coming down and eating them every day, but you didn't want to. Fortunately, your father still had a salary, otherwise we would have to eat sweet potatoes every day if there were so many children in our family."

There are many sweet potatoes released this year and there is less food. Who doesn’t eat sweet potatoes first and then put them in? Otherwise, how can you wait until the summer harvest comes down?

Even if you eat sweet potatoes every day, there is a reasonable plan. You can't eat as many as you want.

Now the way to eat sweet potatoes has been tried by local people. Dried sweet potatoes are mixed with grain and eaten with steamed buns. Sweet potatoes and grain are cooked together. Stewed them directly into slices and put them on the scallion to eat. Some of them are steamed and cooked into cakes and fryed. The best way is to leak into vermicelli and stew cabbage and stewed tofu and vermicelli.

Since she knew how to make tofu, her mother and aunt discussed soaking beans and learning to make tofu whenever she had time. She also taught her all the best. She also studied some proportions of making dried tofu, tofu skin, and tofu brain. Her mother learned it seriously. Her aunt once again lamented that she was smart and despised her children.

"Why are all children? Your family is smarter than mine. This girl is so powerful. Just take a look and remember it. The key is really done. Tell me, how powerful she has grown up. Sister-in-law, you are so lucky. This old fifth brother is not simple!"

Mom also felt honored, but she was low-key, "It's enough for our family to know about this, don't say it when you're outside,"

The aunts naturally knew this: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, we have taken a big advantage after learning, so how could we go out to talk? But this tofu has been very exciting these days. I didn't even say anything about my parents' home. I just said it was the tofu I bought. I used to think that eating tofu was a luxury and I had to spend money to queue up to buy it. Now it's ready, I can make it as much as cooking. This is something I never dreamed of in my dreams before!"

The mystery of bean products is that they can become different varieties if they have more water. If you are tired of eating tofu, they also have tofu skin, dried tofu tofu brain, and even bean curd can be easily completed. They are all first-class foods with pure natural pollution-free and strong bean flavor. They are delicious and are no less inferior to meat at all.

I will write another chapter when I have time in the evening! It is the last day of the end of the month, and we are all working hard for life. I wish you all good health and worry-free every day and every month.
Chapter completed!