People often say that they are homesick, missing the mountains of their hometown and the water of their hometown, but no one knows that missing the food of their hometown is a deep homesickness.

The unique delicacies of my hometown may not be available in other cities. Even if they are available, they are not authentic hometown flavors.

Missing the food of my hometown is an unforgettable thought and feeling.

In fact, I also miss the delicacies of my hometown, which is roasted sweet potatoes. The taste will be unforgettable in my life.

In my childhood memories, sweet potatoes are an essential meal every day.

In rural areas in the 1970s, almost every household had sweet potatoes in every meal, especially breakfast. When you opened the pot, you could see the steaming sweet potatoes. It was already mouth-watering. The sweet potatoes that had just come out of the pot were still a little hot in your hands.

, it tastes sweet in your mouth.

A plate of steamed buns and sweet potatoes, three times five divided by two, was settled by the family.

The sweet potatoes in my hometown are usually planted after harvesting wheat and are called wheat stubble sweet potatoes.

To plant sweet potatoes, you must first cultivate the seedlings. One or two months before planting, cultivate the seedlings. This means making a rectangular pattern on the vacant land, taking the sweet potatoes out of the cellar, picking out the moldy ones, and then picking out the smooth-looking sweet potatoes one by one.

Place it flatly in the border pond, fill the border with it, cover it with a layer of fine soil, then insert a row of bamboo bows on the border pond, and finally cover it with a piece of plastic sheet and seal it tightly with soil.

After about 15-20 days, the sweet potatoes will sprout, and then gradually grow leaves. When the leaves cover the border, the plastic sheet will be lifted and air-dried.

When waiting for planting, pull out the sweet potato seedlings one by one from the sweet potato pond. The pulled out sweet potato seedlings will be as long and thin as leeks.

When pulling up sweet potato seedlings, pull out the lush ones first, leaving the small ones to continue growing until the next time you plant them.

When we were pulling out sweet potato seedlings, a group of us children often came to join in the fun, crowding around the adults, grabbing a few with our little hands and pulling them out vigorously. Sometimes even the sweet potatoes were brought out, but we were always scolded loudly by the adults and ran aside obediently.

Went to play.

After the sweet potato seedlings are planted, there is basically no need to manage them.

When the sweet potato seedlings grow all over the ground, you need to turn them over several times, because after the sweet potato seedlings fill the ground, the branches will grow a lot of fibrous roots, which affects the growth of underground sweet potatoes. At this time, gently separate these sweet potato seedlings with fibrous roots by hand.

Ground, turn over to the other side and grow.

Wheat stubble sweet potatoes are generally harvested after frost.

After the frost, the sweet potatoes basically stopped growing, and the leaves turned black after the frost. Some farmers harvested the frost-beaten sweet potato leaves, dried them, and stored them in bags to be eaten in the noodle pot in winter.

Don't have a taste.

Sweet potatoes are not very tasty just after being harvested. They need to be dried in the sun for a period of time before they taste soft and sweet.

However, after the sweet potatoes are harvested, some of them are scraped into dried sweet potatoes while they are still fresh.

Dried sweet potatoes are easy to store and can be ground into flour to make nests.

Sweet potatoes and dried sweet potatoes almost became the staple food in rural areas at that time, supporting the whole family.

At that time, sweet potatoes were grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. At most, a few carts of farmyard manure were used.

Therefore, in retrospect, the sweet potatoes at that time tasted particularly sweet, but today’s sweet potatoes can no longer taste that taste.

Although there are many varieties of sweet potatoes now, including banana sweet potatoes, high-starch sweet potatoes, red flesh sweet potatoes, etc., you can’t taste them like they were back then.

Although life as a child was difficult, the memories left by Sweet Potato will be unforgettable for a lifetime.

Dried sweet potatoes are processed into flour and can be used to make steamed buns.

At that time, every household ate sweet potato flour steamed buns, and those with better economic conditions would mix some bean flour or sorghum flour into the sweet potato flour.

Sweet potato noodles can only be made into steamed buns. The black steamed buns are a little sticky in your mouth and taste a little sweet.

The child played for a long time and got hungry, so he ran home, took out the steamed buns from the steamed bun basket, grabbed a small handful of salt from the salt shaker, put it in the steamed buns, poured a few drops of sesame oil on it, and broke it into pieces with his hands.

Wowo, eaten with salt and sesame oil, is really a delicious meal.

Sweet potatoes can also be crushed and filtered with a fine basket to filter out the sweet potato powder. After the sweet potato powder is dried, it is filtered into the same fine powder as flour. Then, add hot water and alum to process the vermicelli. After the vermicelli is dried,

It can be stored for a long time. It can be stir-fried with cabbage, radish, etc. on weekdays, or cooked into mutton soup. It is particularly delicious.

Sweet potatoes have been with me throughout my childhood.

I grew up eating sweet potatoes and sweet potato steamed buns, and I have an indissoluble bond with sweet potatoes.

Nowadays, people are living a better life, and sweet potatoes are no longer the staple food of rural people, and fewer and fewer people are planting sweet potatoes. However, I still like to eat sweet potatoes, and I miss the taste of sweet potatoes in my childhood. This is my love for sweet potatoes.

It has been many years since I left my hometown, but the smell is still unforgettable.

That smell has the flavor of hometown in it.