GBP Chapter 454: The Many Uses of Persimmon Peels
Chapter 454: The Many Uses of Persimmon Peels
In the middle, Shen Youyou picked a very soft persimmon. There are not many soft persimmons in this season, but if you are lucky, you might come across one.
However, she did not eat the persimmon directly. Instead, she looked around to find which tree Erya's sister was on. She saw that there were still two trees between hers.
She leaped up onto a tree in the west, and jumped down the three strong men on the tree:
"Hey, you haven't finished picking the fruits yet, why are you jumping onto my tree?"
Shen Youyou smiled and said, "It's okay, I borrowed it."
San Zhuang's forehead was full of black lines: "Borrow from the tree, I was almost scared to death. If it weren't for your brother's good skills, I would probably fall down."
After hearing this, Shen Youyou would let out a warning when she jumped again: "Brother Erbao, be careful, I'm going to jump onto your tree."
But before Shen Erbao could say anything, she had already stood on Erbao's tree, which scared Erbao again.
However, when she saw that the next tree was the tree where Erya picked persimmons, she still waited carefully for her sister to notice her before jumping over.
"What are you doing jumping around?" Shen Erya asked in confusion.
Shen Youyou handed over the soft persimmon in her hand: "Here, I said before that I would give you the biggest persimmon I picked, but the biggest one is hard. Although this persimmon is not the biggest, it is the softest one among the persimmons I picked." Shen Erya, who was originally holding the tree trunk with one hand and picking persimmons with the other hand, just froze in mid-air with her hand raised to pick persimmons.
Her eyes were looking at her sister with a bright smile and the ripe red persimmon in her sister's hand.
Although she hadn't eaten the persimmon yet, she felt so sweet in her heart.
In my heart, I couldn’t help but shout, “Ah! How can there be such a caring sister!”
She was not the shy person, so she took the persimmon handed to her by her sister, stood firmly on the tree trunk, and used her other hand to gently peel off the persimmon skin.
After taking a bite, she said: "This is really the sweetest persimmon she has ever tasted."
Shen Youyou also smiled as she looked at her sister, and the scene was extremely harmonious.
The persimmons were picked very quickly. After everyone had filled a bamboo basket and some bags, they returned.
Shen Youyou was thinking about picking persimmons in the morning and peeling them and making persimmon cakes in the afternoon.
When she got home, it was time for dinner. Shen Youyou squatted next to Shen Tietou with her bowl in her arms.
But before she could ask, Shen Tietou knew what she was going to do, so he said directly: "I spent the whole morning making your peeling machine, but it's not done yet.
I have had a lot of paring knives made for you, but they are not sharpened. If you need to use them urgently, just ask your brothers to file them with a file. "
"Okay, we'll do the rest ourselves."
As long as you have a blade, making the mold is easy. My brothers are now very familiar with this. Didn’t you see that they have even made a plastic basin?
He quickly finished cooking the big pot of food in his hand, then ran to the ironworks to get a blade, and took a look at his semi-automatic peeler.
There are several thousand kilograms of persimmons to be peeled in the afternoon, which is not an easy task.
However, for the first time, they have to learn how to peel the skin together. Later, the boys and girls in Tangjia Village can do it at home.
After the persimmon cakes are dried, just send them directly to her house.
There is still a lot of preparation work to be done. In the evening, I have to ask my brothers to make some red cardboard boxes. Then I can package the persimmon cakes beautifully and sell them in Guangyuan Building.
The young men who had finished their meal also arrived. They did not stay in the Jiuzu yard. There were so many people and so many persimmons that they could not put them all together, so they found a large open space on the wasteland south of the yard.
Erzhuang and Dabao were making peeler handles in the yard, and the others were given a peeler blade each. Fortunately, the peeler blades can be directly molded and mass-produced, otherwise it would be difficult to get one for each person.
But there were not so many files, and some were brought from Tangjia Village, and only a dozen guys could take turns sharpening them.
The girls temporarily use a kitchen knife or a fruit knife to peel the fruits.
"Let's peel the ones that don't look good first. You can eat them at home later. It doesn't matter if you don't peel them well. When the peelers come out, we can peel the ones that look good."
"Also, don't throw the peeled persimmon peels on the ground. Put a bamboo basket underneath. It's best not to cut the peels. Use a bamboo pole to hang them up to dry. The dried persimmon peels have many uses."
"Persimmon peels are so astringent, what good can they do?"
When a girl asked a question, Shen Youyou smiled and answered: "The first is to cover the dried persimmons that are almost dried. Just remember not to throw them away.
Persimmon peels can actually be eaten. Keep the persimmon peels from your own home and I will teach you how to make other delicious dishes after they are frosted. "
What she didn't say was that persimmon peel can not only be eaten, but also used as a dye.
In fact, when it comes to persimmon peel dyeing, many people still focus on persimmon lacquer dyeing.
However, persimmon lacquer dyeing refers to the dyeing technique using a natural dye made from unripe persimmons.
Specifically, this dye is mainly extracted by squeezing, fermenting or directly mashing unripe green tomatoes, and then used to dye cloth or other materials.
Moreover, persimmon lacquer dyeing takes a very long time. After the green persimmons are crushed and the juice is squeezed, it needs to be fermented for a year before it can be used for dyeing.
However, it also has its own unique charm. As a natural dye, it is colored through the interaction of sunlight and air, gradually adhering to clothes, and the color is similar to reddish brown.
What’s even more special is that the color of general plant dyes will gradually fade after being exposed to the sun, but the color of persimmon lacquer dyes will deepen after being exposed to the sun, which is very special.
Persimmon peel dyeing is another method, which is to boil the persimmon peel and fully dissolve the original pigment of the persimmon into water.
After filtering, a relatively pure persimmon peel dye juice is obtained.
However, the color obtained in this way is very plain, with a tone between brown and gray-black.
Shen Youyou doesn't allow the peeled persimmons to be hung up to dry. Whoever peels the persimmons can take them home and dry them at home, either in a bamboo basket or on a bamboo rack.
"After three days, you should gently pinch the persimmons you take home to dry until they become cake-shaped. You will come back to pick persimmons in the future.
You can also take a look at how we make it at home. Also, the newly made persimmons should be distinguished from the ones made before, and the dates should be remembered to avoid affecting the taste and appearance. "
Everyone listened to Shen Youyou's explanation while working. Now they also understood why persimmon cakes were sold at two cents each. It was indeed not that simple.
However, for these farm children, they are happy to take the trouble. If they make 100 persimmons a day, they can earn 200 coins.
Only six taels of silver a month, where can I find such a good job?
However, it would take them more than a month to pick all the persimmons. Shen Youyou estimated that they could finish picking all the persimmons in half a month.
But each person can earn three or two taels, and can also dry some persimmon cakes of poor quality at home to eat, which is already pretty good.