GBP Chapter 459 New Formula Compressed Biscuits
Chapter 459 New Formula Compressed Biscuits
The Jiu Zu Canteen next door was also occupied by Shen Youyou, and Li Jingshu brought more than twenty women to make compressed biscuits.
Although she listened to the advice and planned to make compressed biscuits, she did not intend to use the high-cost ingredients of later generations.
If she used ingredients from later times, she would need a lot of cows. How could she find so many cows in such a short time?
What's more, even if you have cows, you still have to make milk powder or dairy products such as milk tofu before making biscuits, which is too troublesome.
Therefore, the ingredients she gave were corn flour, soybean flour, corn flour, sweet potato flour, flour, cooking oil, sugar, and salt.
These flours mixed together can provide rich carbohydrates, protein and other nutrients.
Corn flour is rich in dietary fiber, but the main reason for using it is that it is cheap and filling, which can reduce costs.
Don’t even mention soybean flour, it contains so many nutrients that it’s hard to count them all!
Such as protein, dietary fiber, B vitamins, vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, calcium and many other minerals.
Moreover, soybeans are one of the cheapest coarse grains in this era!
As for adding corn flour, it is because it is similar to soybean flour. First of all, it is cheaper.
其次它还含有好多维生素，像维生素 A、维生素 B 群（比如维生素 B1、B2、B3、B6 和 B12）、维生素 C、维生素 E 和维生素 K 等等。
These vitamins are important for protecting vision, strengthening the immune system, providing energy, and maintaining a healthy nervous system!
However, the main reason why Shen Youyou added it is because corn contains minerals such as potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, and copper.
These minerals play an important role in maintaining bone health, promoting heart and muscle function, and regulating fluid balance!
Bones, hearts, and muscles are all important to soldiers.
But what Shen Youyou cares about most is: "Regulating the balance of body fluids!"
Simply put, it is to adjust the balance of the fluid in the human body through some methods.
This can correct the body's dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, acid-base imbalance, and hypovolemic shock caused by blood loss!
It can also promote the normal life activities of cells and prevent diseases! .
What kind of place is the north? I've said it's dry, with a big temperature difference between day and night. It's normal to be dehydrated under normal circumstances. Moreover, there is always bleeding in a war. Bleeding means blood loss, which will lead to hypovolemic shock.
Although the effect of diet therapy may be minimal, it is better than nothing.
Sweet potato flour is added because of its flexibility. Flour can also make it more sticky, which is more conducive to the shaping of compressed biscuits.
Sweet potato flour also has high nutritional value.
Contains carbohydrates, carotene, folic acid, vitamin C,
It is particularly easy for the human body to absorb, can maintain normal metabolism, and can also strengthen the functions of various organs.
It also contains a lot of vitamin A, which can improve the function of the optic nerve and prevent retinal dysfunction. Eating sweet potato flour regularly can prevent vision loss and relieve eyes fatigue.
Most importantly, it can help soldiers eat compressed dry food for a long time, promote digestion, and will not burden the soldiers' bodies.
Of course, using these whole grain powders is also to use less flour, after all, flour is too expensive at this time.
Soybean oil is added to moisturize and add flavor, making the taste better and helping to better blend the various powders together.
When compressing biscuits, it can prevent them from drying out.
As for sugar and salt, there is no need to say much. They are used for seasoning and improving texture, and also to provide soldiers with some sugar and salt.
Her mother, Li Jingshu, led everyone to make compressed biscuits according to the several proportion plans given by Shen Youyou.
For example, one pound of corn flour, eight ounces of soybean flour, eight ounces of corn flour, six ounces of sweet potato flour, one pound of flour, three ounces of soybean oil, half a ounce of sugar, and even less salt, only one sixth of the sugar is needed.
This is just one of the ratios, there are other ratios.
You have to make some compressed dry food with each ratio, and you have to try them to know which ratio of dry food tastes better and is more effective in resisting hunger.
Also, whether you will have bloating after eating, whether it will cause indigestion, etc., to decide which formula to use.
This stuff must be taken seriously, as it is to be fed to soldiers on the march to war. Without strict testing, how can we safely send it to the front lines?
At least we can't let the soldiers eat it and cause diarrhea. Even if they don't have diarrhea, it won't do if they can't defecate.
Moreover, the food they have to make is not just compressed biscuits.
In Shen Youyou's plan, since she was going to fry soybeans to make soybean powder, she might as well make some individually packaged soybean milk powder, which she could drink directly by just mixing it with hot water.
If it weren't for the fact that corn and yam paste powder is prone to forming small lumps when brewing, she would probably have someone make it.
But Shen Youyou was not satisfied with just these proteins and carbohydrates.
She also contacted Tang Guangshen, a large pig farmer, and she and Guangshen were also going to cooperate.
She came up with the recipe, Guangshen Ye paid for the labor, she took 40% of the profits, and they shared the cost of the ingredients.
Make luncheon meat and stewed meat.
Although the soldiers in this era did not actually eat well, except for the delicious fish and meat as rewards for the troops after a victory, the rest of the time they were happy as long as they could fill their stomachs.
Shen Youyou made luncheon meat and braised meat to supplement this. You know, luncheon meat may cost a little more, but the cost of braised meat is actually not high.
The meat stew she wants to make is also a small amount of minced meat, stewed with vermicelli, and of course seasoning. After the vermicelli absorbs the soup, add corn starch and steam it.
The highest cost of this kind of meat stew is on vermicelli and starch. In fact, not much meat is added, so ordinary soldiers can afford it.
Of course, she not only has to check the new military rations, but also the vacuum hand pump made by Dahu and his brothers, which is the key to all the food.
The so-called vacuum hand pump she gave me was actually just a plastic cupping handle! It was nothing special, it just relied on manual operation to change the air pressure in the cup to negative pressure.
When you manually operate the piston of the vacuum handle or pump air, the air in the tank is sucked out and the air pressure becomes lower, but the atmospheric pressure outside remains unchanged.
In this way, there will be a pressure difference between the inside and outside of the jar, and air will be inhaled due to the pressure difference.
The internal structure is nothing more than an operating handle, piston cylinder, piston plate, spring, exhaust pipe, and one-way valve.
The operating handle and the piston plate are connected together by a sliding rod, and the spring is placed between the top of the piston cylinder and the operating handle.
The exhaust pipe connects the tank body and the piston cylinder, and an exhaust check valve is installed on the exhaust pipe. There is also an exhaust pipe and an exhaust check valve at the bottom of the piston cylinder. For reference only. In fact, Shen Youyou made this style of vacuum handle and also planned to make some small heads similar to small cans. This small head does not need to be like a real can head to lock the exhaust of air.
As long as it can be installed on this handle, it can be used to extract the poisonous blood from the wound.
The main purpose is because there are a lot of poisonous insects on the battlefield in the north. When soldiers are bitten by those creatures, this can be used to extract the poisonous blood. In TV dramas, people also smear poison on arrows during wars, just in case.
As time is tight, the things she chooses to make are all multifunctional, small and convenient, and have multiple uses.