In my hometown in the countryside, I finished digging sweet potatoes in September, and in October, my folks had basically nothing important to do. At this time, I started making handmade sweet potato powder!

handmade sweet potato powder has many processes and is quite complicated, so not every household will make it, but every year, my family will make some for their own family.

to make handmade sweet potato powder, we need to take starch first, and there are the following steps to take starch. Every step is very important and must not be wrong!

the first step is to choose sweet potatoes. There are many rotten sweet potatoes that are dug home, and the rotten sweet potatoes are very easy to rot. We choose these rotten sweet potatoes to get starch.

Step 2: Wash the sweet potatoes, and put the selected sweet potatoes in a big pool to clean them one by one. When washing the sweet potatoes, we will take a big bamboo brush to brush them back and forth, and we must wash them four or five times or more.

step 3, wring the sweet potato, take the washed sweet potato to the machine and grind it, then drum the ground sweet potato, and do the next step after wringing.

the fourth step is to separate starch and precipitate powder, which is very important. To prepare these tools, prepare a big bucket for killing pigs, a big white cloth, and then prepare a big bucket and a ladle.

put more than half a bucket of water in a vat, put some ground sweet potatoes in the vat filled with water, put the ground sweet potatoes on it, mix the sweet potatoes with water by hand or tools, and then prepare a king bucket and a white cloth. The role of the white cloth is to separate the sweet potato water containing starch from the sweet potato residue. The white cloth should be pulled by four people, or the four corners of the white cloth should be fixed on the king's bucket. In my hometown, white cloth is usually pulled by four people. After one person scoops sweet potato water and several scoops of sweet potato water, the sweet potato mixed with starch is dripped into the king's bucket, the sweet potato residue on the cloth is wrung out, and then the sweet potato residue is turned upside down. This is done repeatedly until the separation is completed.

Step 5: Precipitate the powder. When the sweet potato water is separated, the powder will be precipitated. It will take a day or two to really precipitate the starch. When the water in the king's bucket is clean, we can make the starch. When we make the starch, we first scoop the water in the king's bucket dry, then cut it with a knife, cut it into a lump, and put it in a washbasin.

Step 6: Sun-dry the starch. Prepare tools for sun-drying, put white cloth inside the tools for sun-drying, and put the starch just from the king's bucket on the tools for sun-drying with white cloth. Generally, it takes one week to dry. After drying, the white sweet potato powder will come.

after drying the sweet potato powder, at this time, you can make these powders into delicious food, such as sweet potato powder fern cake, which is absolutely delicious, bake a pot, put ginger, garlic and pepper on it, and it's time to taste the food. It's delicious and chewy.

If you want to make sweet potato vermicelli, this is only half the process. The real process is technical work, and a village only has one or two masters, and you need a special ladle to make it.