Prehistoric husband and wife salted fish turn over

Sun Zhixin got up early the next morning to make pickles as planned.Although this thing is not necessary, it can improve taste and adjust life, and this reason is enough.What is life?Isn't it just to work hard for the status quo so that you can live a better life?What's more, at present, Sun Zhixin really can't find anything else to do.

There are generally two methods of pickling, dry pickling or wet pickling.

Dry pickling is made by washing the raw materials, drying them in the sun, adding salt and then marinating them in a container. The whole process is not too particular, but the final canning is more unique.

In the place where Sun Zhixin used to live, something called a creeping jar was used for pickles.In fact, it is to choose a clay pot with a long neck, first put the pickled vegetables with the ingredients into the pot, and remember to press the vegetables tightly.The mouth of the jar is made of bamboo shoot shells to prevent the pickled vegetables from falling out, and then two bamboo slices are embedded in it to form a cross to form a locking structure, and together with the bamboo shoot shells, a blocking structure is formed.Finally, wash down the mouth of the can, place it upside down, put a deep plate filled with water underneath, insert the mouth of the can into the water and seal it with water to block the air, and then remember to add the lost water regularly.

Its advantage is that the preserved vegetables pickled in this way are very long-lasting. As long as they are preserved properly, it will not be a big problem to eat them for several years.The disadvantage is that the pickled vegetables are too salty and dry, and there is almost no way to eat them directly, but they have to be used for cooking and soup.And the drying time is very long, so it is suitable to do this when you are very free.

Wet pickling is to prepare concentrated brine first, and you can add seasonings to the prepared brine according to your own preferences.Then put the raw materials in and soak them, soak them into semi-cooked vegetables, then take them out and put them in a container to continue marinating, and marinate them directly for consumption. The latter method is the same as dry marinating.The advantage of this is that the taste is better. If the taste is properly blended, it is a good product to eat with a stutter or with a meal.The disadvantage is that the shelf life is not long, it is not easy to store for a long time, and it is more troublesome to soak. It belongs to the combination of kimchi and pickled vegetables, and there are more processes.

In Lao Sun's family, Sun Zhixin's mother has been using this method to pickle vegetables before. The ingredients she uses are very special, which can be regarded as the exclusive secret technique of Lao Sun's family.When I was a child, Sun Zhixin always liked to help at this time. The two mothers and sons talked and laughed and marinated the vegetables, waiting to be stewed in winter.The time of pickling has become one of the best memories in Sun Zhixin's memory, so he always remembers this complicated method of pickling, and even misses the strong mother's taste in this method of pickling.

Sun Zhixin estimated that he did not have much time to wait for them to dry for a long time, so he chose the wet pickling method.Moreover, there seems to be a lot of dishes in hand, so once you start eating, you may not eat them very well, and you will definitely eat them all before the shelf life expires. The wet pickling method tastes better, so wet pickling is naturally the first choice.

As for the container for soaking vegetables, Sun Zhixin temporarily made a large wooden basin to solve this problem.This is not difficult, but I encountered a little problem when making the bottom of the basin, because Sun Zhixin himself is not a skilled craftsman, he takes the method of making wooden basins for granted, and the resulting wooden basin is inevitable Just a little leak.

Sun Zhixin just didn't bother to deal with this slight leaking problem even if he tried to solve it, he just leaked it if he wanted to. Anyway, the amount of leakage is not very serious for the whole wooden basin, and it is within the tolerable range .

In the end, it took three days to soak the vegetables, and after three days, three jars of pickles were filled.Looking at the three jars of pickled vegetables, Sun Zhixin felt a sense of accomplishment.Now he finally understands why those old ladies in modern times, even his own mother, would feel so sorry for his kimchi jar when they moved, for fear that it would be broken during the move-it was something that a novice made with a lot of hard work. The owner is distressed.This has nothing to do with its value, but the amount of emotion invested.Now when Sun Zhixin went to see the three jars of pickled vegetables contentedly, he felt as if he was looking at his own daughter...

After finishing the work, Sun Zhixin couldn't find anything else to do, and vaguely felt that the big wooden basin he made should have other more important uses, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

At this time, the season is about the end of late autumn, and the weather turns even colder. Not only the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, but also there will be fog in the morning and night.Thick fog shrouded the camp, the humidity increased, and the temperature seemed a little low.

Buku is still the same as other children in the clan. The first thing he does when he wakes up in the morning is to collect firewood.Sun Zhixin watched his little body being engulfed by the dense fog, and then walked out of the dense fog after collecting firewood, feeling very distressed for some reason.He could even imagine how that little boy was shivering slightly from the cold morning air, rubbing his little body with his hands vigorously, while bending down to pick up firewood——his heart was even more tolerable. Can't stop the pain.

Prehistoric children are really sensible and pitiful.Sun Zhixin even wanted to replace Buku to help him collect firewood, but he knew that Buku would definitely not want to, because the child regarded this matter as a responsibility and a task that must be completed.Knowing this, I feel more love and pity for that little guy.

Sun Zhixin himself was allocated animal skins. Seeing that Buku was frozen like that, he wanted to make him a leather jacket and a pair of leather pants to keep out the cold, so that the child would not be frozen when he went to collect firewood every morning. Blue lips and purple.

After choosing the animal skin, I roughly sketched Buku’s body shape, cut and divided the animal skin according to this size to make leather splicing materials, and then used a needle to thread linen thread to sew them together, trying to make the first prehistoric a leather jacket.

The whole project is easy to say, but in fact it is extremely huge.Fortunately, Sun Zhixin got his own backpack back from Tiger, and there are a lot of miscellaneous tools in it, especially the multi-purpose Swiss military force, which is very powerful here, otherwise the leather-making business is simply too much. Insufficient things.

But even with the help of advanced tools, Sun Zhixin still worked very hard.The skin is tough, thick, and very stiff. It is extremely laborious to cut it, and it is not as convenient as scratching it with a knife.

Sun Zhixin drew a pattern, forced the animal skins to the ground and fought them with a knife, and finally cut them into formal shapes that could be used for sewing.

Then there is sewing, and the whole process is even more troublesome.In the past, Sun Zhixin never understood why those women in TV shows put iron rings on their fingers when they sewed quilts or heavy things, such as shoe soles.Now he understands that it is very difficult to pierce a needle through something like prehistoric rough animal skin. There must be a metal ring like that on the finger to hold the nose of the needle against it. The whole needle goes forward and pierces through the animal skin to sew, so this metal ring is called a thimble.

There was no thimble. Sun Zhixin didn't do these mending jobs before, so he didn't need it.In the modern age where he lived, even many families living on subsistence allowances would no longer wear mended clothes.So Sun Zhixin had to rummage through his belongings, and finally found a fairly large metal ring to wear on his finger and use it as a thimble.

With thimbles and stainless steel needles, coupled with extremely strong perseverance and the painful effort of scratching all the hair on his head, it took Sun Zhibiao eight days to sew a vest-like thing for Buku. .No way, he only has this skill, he is a big man and he has never sewed clothes before, so it is already amazing for him to cut, cut and sew such a thing for the first time.As for the sleeves, he doesn't have the technology to make them out yet, so it can only be a vest.

But the vest alone was the first in prehistoric times, and Buku was overjoyed when he put it on.It is really warm, as soon as you put it on, you can already feel the warmth in your body, and it doesn't feel so cold when you go to collect firewood in the morning.

After Sun Zhixin put on the leather vest and fastened the laces for him, the little guy couldn't wait to rush out to discover the treasures, showing others the new things that his family Jima had made for him.

Once I went out to show off, I showed off for a whole morning before coming back.Sun Zhixin gestured to ask how he felt, and Buku replied: "The front and back are warm, which is great. Gemma, I like it very much! It's just that my arms are cold."

Of course, it's just a vest, with all the arms exposed, of course it's cold...

Buku said again: "It's still a little hard, and it's quite comfortable. But it's okay, it's really warm, and no one else wears it. I heard that women in the clan want to learn how to do this from you."

Sun Zhixin gestured to Buku, and said in sign language: "It can be less hard, and the leather has been tanned..."

A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, yes, after tanning the leather, not only can it make the leather durable, it will also become soft and warm. This is a necessary step, how could he forget it!

He finally understood why he always felt that the big wooden tub had other important uses, that is, it could also be used for tanning leather!

Tanning is the most important process in tanning. It can be said that the key step in the whole series of tanning steps that determines whether the final leather is good or bad is determined by this step.

For the entire series of complex tanning processes, the hunter tribe's tanning process has only achieved the roughest two steps, which is to first peel off the leather from the animal, simply scrape off the grease on the stripped surface, and then the obtained This leather is dried to obtain the original leather.

After such two simple steps, the leather is dry and hard, thick and heavy, and at the same time emits an unpleasant smell.This kind of leather is not only of extremely low quality, but also prone to mildew and rot. In summer, if the quality is not properly guaranteed, it will be extremely perishable and cannot be used again.In winter, its dryness makes it less effective in keeping warm, and it is stretched and stretched, which can neither fit the skin nor wrap the body well.

We all know that something like clothing or leather keeps you warm, and the physics behind it is that its structure creates an insulating layer that blocks the flow of air, thereby maintaining the temperature.As for the clothes to be worn, there are only a few points that can make the human body feel comfortable: light, soft, soft, smooth, and warm.The products obtained by the tanning process of prehistoric tribes cannot meet these requirements at all. It can be said that the only thing it can do is its thickness, which can play some physical protection functions. It does not do the functions of real clothing. arrive.

In order to keep it warm and comfortable like modern clothing, it had to be tanned.

Tanned leather is also called tanned leather, or tanned leather. The general idea is to use alkaline agents to remove excess oil contained in leather, and use the principle similar to the fertilizer reaction to change the molecules in leather, and finally get soft, light and non-perishable leather. Deterioration, and not easy to mildew leather.After this step of leather, if the workmanship is very good, the obtained leather is very similar to the one worn on the body in modern times.It only needs to be reprocessed, such as acid softening, refining, coloring, etc., and finally the leather used to make various leather clothes and leather goods will be obtained.

The most important thing in the tanning process is the tanning agent. There are many kinds of tanning agents in modern times, from industrialized strong alkali tanning agents to vegetable tanning agents.Preparations are drawn from minerals to plants, and they are also as numerous as stars.In the modern age brought by Sun Zhixin, the leather tanning process has become very mature, and the application of leather products has spread to every corner of life.

Therefore, Sun Zhixin’s PDA contains a wealth of relevant tanning information. He only needs to find out a tanning method that needs to meet the poor physical conditions of the prehistoric era and learn to use it.

Vegetable tanning agents are widely used, and the resulting leather is dense and soft, which is very suitable for wearing. It seems good to use this method to prepare tanning agents.But in this prehistoric era, vegetable tanning agents were difficult to produce and more difficult to purify. In theory, this method was not very suitable.

Mineral tanned leather is an excellent choice because it is easy to prepare and obtain materials.The disadvantage is that the leather tanned by this method has a peculiar smell, and the quality is not as good as that produced by vegetable tanning agents.Only limited to the current conditions, using this method to tan leather seems to be the only choice.