Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 376 Making Sweet Potato Wine

After breakfast that morning, Lu Chuan and his friends went to plant fruit trees together. Xu Han took this opportunity to wash the sweet potatoes and prepare to make sweet potato wine.

However, several people had just gotten drunk two days ago, so Xu Han did not make a fuss about making sweet potato wine. She just did it quietly.

First, baskets of sweet potatoes were moved to the pool in the backyard, and then Xu Han brought a small stool and began to prepare to wash the sweet potatoes.

When washing sweet potatoes, you need to peel off the rotten ones.

This is the only way to ensure that the sweet potato liquor tastes better and purer, otherwise the sweet potato liquor will have a bad smell.

Wash the sweet potatoes and cut them into small pieces so that they will be easier to cook later.

Xu Han spent the whole morning washing the sweet potatoes by herself, and washed more than thirty baskets of sweet potatoes in total. After washing all of them, she could make a lot of sweet potato wine.

After washing them, Xu Han started to cook the sweet potatoes in the big iron pot outside.

I used the pot in the kitchen to cook a large pot of rice soup. After it was cooked, I put it into a wooden barrel beside me to cool down and set aside.

Mash the cooked sweet potatoes with a tool and spread them out on a clean oilcloth to cool.

Three pots started cooking at the same time, and it took Xu Han a whole day to finish cooking them all.

When the temperature of the sweet potatoes is almost cool, add the crushed koji to water to dissolve it, and sprinkle it evenly on the sweet potatoes.

Then add an appropriate amount of rice soup, stir evenly, and add an appropriate amount of water into the jar.

The amount of water should not be too much or too little, it should be almost a thick paste. It will become thinner after fermentation.

Now that there are many empty wine jars at home, Xu Han puts the wine directly into large wine jars and seals them for storage. After about a month of fermentation, she can start distilling the wine.

Because more sweet potato wine was made this time, it was filled in five large jars in total. The rest could not be filled up, so Xu Han took out 10 small jars to barely hold it all.

Xu Han moved all the wine jars into the warehouse and left them there to ferment temporarily.

I was busy at home all day before I finished all these things.

Of course, other people must have seen such a loud commotion, but when they thought about how angry Xu Han was last time when he was drunk, they stopped talking.

But he still couldn't suppress his excitement and walked back and forth in the yard.

Finally, Xu Han couldn't stand it anymore and said directly, "Why are you standing here instead of working? You can't drink this sweet potato wine now. It's still too early. It will take at least a month."

"Ah, a month, that's longer than the time it takes for rice wine to age."

Xu Han said unhappily, "You think it takes too long? Then don't do it anymore?"

When Lu Chuan heard this, he quickly pulled the Taoist priest out and said, "Let's get to work right away."

Xu Han felt so disgusted looking at Lu Chuan, he was too attentive, like a macho man. However, the other two were not much better, they just didn't show it so obviously.

It was getting dark, and Xu Han didn't know how many fruit trees they had planted. After cleaning the house, she carried Ze'er and walked towards the back mountain.

The place where the new fruit trees were planted was the one Xu Han had mentioned to Lu Chuan before, and the orchard next to it spread to the back mountain behind the house.

When Xu Han arrived, she saw that the larger shrubs around had been cut down and left randomly, probably to dry out the moisture.

The small fruit trees planted on the ground are very inconspicuous and you can't tell where they are unless you look carefully.

Fortunately, there are not many fruit trees under high pressure this year. After all, these fruit trees have just grown stable and are not suitable for major repairs or pruning. Otherwise, they may die if not careful.

When Grandpa Zhao saw Xu Han, he asked, "It's getting dark soon, why are you here?"

Xu Han replied with a smile, "I've finished all the work at home. I'll take a walk after dinner and check if you've finished planting."

"We are almost done planting. There are only a few trees left. Take Mu'er back first. We will leave soon."

Xu Han pointed to the bushes nearby and said, "I see you have cut down all the big bushes. Do you want me to carry them back later?"

Lu Chuan looked up at his wife and said, "Don't rush to transport it back. Put it here to dry for the time being.

I was afraid that these big shrubs would block the sunlight for the saplings, so I cut them down first.

The rest will not be cleaned up for now, and we will do it slowly during the winter."

"Yes, I have finished all the chores at home. I just told Xiaochuan that I would go to the mountains tomorrow to have a look. I haven't been to the mountains for a long time, and I don't know what the situation is like there.

It is late autumn now, let's go to the mountains and see if we can catch some pheasants or rabbits."

Xu Han smiled even more happily after hearing this. "Okay, I'll go back and make some pancakes for you. We don't have much chicken or duck meat at home, so it would be nice if we could catch some pheasants."

"Hahaha, no wonder we eat less chicken and duck recently. It seems that if there's something missing on the table, there's something missing at home. Then we have to hunt more pheasants and ducks. How can we live without chicken and duck in such a long winter?"

Lu Chuan asked again, "Do you need anything else besides chickens and ducks?"

"It would be best to see if there are any cattle. If there are any, headhunting cattle would be good. They will be used to make bacon in a while. There won't be much mutton left."

Although we have hunted a lot of cattle before, there are too many people in the family. We need meat for every meal, and the dogs at home also need to eat a little, so naturally we eat faster.

Not only that, Xu Han also made a lot of beef jerky, and everyone in the family liked to chew one when they were free.

In the past five years, the most common meat eaten at home is beef, but we also eat mutton. We grill lamb skewers in the summer and eat hot pot in the winter.

Everyone in the family loves meat, even Mu'er and Ze'er like to eat meat very much. In addition, the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan have big appetites, so they eat a lot of the meat that was prepared at the beginning.

Lu Chuan thought for a while and said, "Okay, let's go into the mountain first to see what's going on. If there's any, we'll come back to pick you up. Otherwise, the two of us can only hunt one at most."

"Okay, you guys go explore the way first, and I'll follow you then."

As they were talking, Lu Chuan and his team finished planting the last few fruit trees, and finally everyone went home together.

As soon as they arrived home, the Taoist priest took Lu Chuan and Grandpa Zhao to the warehouse. Seeing so many wine jars of different sizes in the warehouse, they were immediately very happy.