Located in the Golden Triangle of the Yellow River and at the foot of the Zhongtiao Mountains, the people of Hedong, who want to eat some food in their mouths, will have to grind flour, grind flour will have to pull the mill, pull the mill naturally very slow, so there is also a queue, whenever the family's noodle weng over half, the housewife will have to open up pawing the wheat and grinding flour.
When I was a kid, every time I finished eating flour, my mom and my aunt in the alley started to help each other with the grain. They first grain from the granary with a dustpan scooped out poured in the amalgamation cage, a bump, shake, sieve away the dust, pick out small stones, and then poured in the amalgamation of wheat basket with a basket back and forth basket, over and over again to clean, clean grain poured into the use of bamboo gabions, wicker and other compositions of the flat round bushel basket (diameter of four feet, about eight inches deep) inside the rinse, and repeated several times, to be all of the grain amalgamation clean, drying in the paved grass mats, waiting to dry. After all the grains are washed, they are dried on the straw mats that have been laid out and left to dry. When the sun is dry and put into a clean snakeskin bag, moved to a small flat car can be pulled to grind the noodles.
The earliest time is still using stone mill grinding, most of the donkey to pull the mill. Beforehand, the donkey should be blindfolded, on a good rope cover, the grain slowly down the mill into the mill, with the rotation of the mill fan, the grain in the stone mill under the weight of the mill, was slowly grinding, flour and bran fell on the mill, flour received in the large bushel basket, the remaining bran and then poured in the mill fan at the mill eye to continue grinding.
Generally grinding four or five times, the first time only a small amount of flour, that is, the first crop of flour, generally used to steam white bread; the second grinding is the second crop of flour, is used to roll out the noodles or dumplings; the third, the fourth time the quality of the poorer, used to steam the bread to eat, and the fifth is basically all the wheat bran.
Then the village electricity, which has a flour mill, the donkey pulled the mill into an electric mill, the efficiency has greatly improved.
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Especially before the root of the year, every family has to grind, if the power is not okay, a power outage, many people go to other villages to grind, sometimes a big power outage, panned the good grain to pull to pull to wait for the grinding, to the night of the middle of the night, a lot of people are still in the queue waiting for the biting cold winds blowing despite the grinding of the face of the people waiting for the scorching, but also can't take care of the Han cold, back and forth pacing in the wind, just looking forward to grinding back as soon as possible.
Grinding good white flour, are stored in the tile jar, covered tightly, a fear of mice spoiled, two is not willing to, steamed buns are mixed with cornmeal, or is mixed with the inside of the steamed wild vegetables inside the wild vegetable dumplings, my grandma often put the buns in the basket, with a white cloth cover, down to the cellar for storage, each time only hang up a few, so we all have a fascination with the white flour steamed buns. Only on New Year's Day will steam more than a dozen grates of white bread, because when you go out to visit relatives as a gift to bring, the number of steam is also a lot of good flour, so only on New Year's Day people can enjoy the white bread,
Now, the village inside the stone mill, the electric grinder has long since withdrawn from the history of the stage, and replaced by a large-scale flour mills, people no longer need to paw! The grain queue grinding, grain harvest also do not have to be in the barley field in the stars to dry bagging, modern machines after the harvest directly to the flour mill, people only need to take a few pages of the light pages of the book, with the arrival of the pick up, convenient and fast.
The years of stone grinding stone mill has been sealed in the long river of history, but "walk a thousand, line 10,000, turn to turn not out of the circle, bone bone pressure into the surface" of the hot riddles are still echoing in my ears for a long time.
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