Sweet potatoes and sweet potato noodles

Every year, my father would plant many sweet potato seedlings, and when the frost fell, he would cut the ripe sweet potatoes out of the ground and put them all over the house. Good looks will be put in the cellar, slowly take out steaming to eat, when I came home from school, I would always eat steaming sweet potatoes. Eating sweet potatoes and listening to Shan Tianfang's commentaries, now those days are gone.

Now my father still grows a lot of sweet potatoes every year, he can't bear to idle the field, but also because sweet potatoes are easier to manage, so this time of year is more difficult, although it is busy farming, he will grow sweet potatoes as a regulator to stagger the busy season, so his income has also increased. I haven't seen him rest all year round, and the magic weapon to increase income is nothing more than the deep processing of crops, and the sweet potato "transformation" - vermicelli, this process is really hard! However, their own things are really genuine, so they are often ordered before they start making them.

How do you turn sweet potatoes into vermicelli? First of all, the sweet potatoes are washed, peeled, crushed by machine, put into a bag made of gauze, washed in a bucket filled with water, and washed out the white sweet potato juice, called starch. Then let the starch sit for a period of time, wait for the starch to precipitate, remove the water on it, if the starch is fished out and dried at this time, it can be used later when cooking, if the starch is fished out and steamed in the steamer, and then cut it into thin strips, that is the vermicelli. When the vermicelli is ready, it is also dried. I remember when I was a child, I put down the noodles at home, stayed next to the pot, picked up the noodles that had just come out of the pot, sucked them into my mouth, and the smooth feeling was still unforgettable, no seasoning, original taste, and bouncy.

This feeling may be fresh in the 60s and 70s!