Elven settlers

Chapter 245 Toast

"Gamma?"

Geranium sensed Roque's strangeness, and turned to look at him suspiciously.

"It's okay, let's eat first."

Rock patted Geranium's neck and said to it and the other three elves.

The problem that Rock suddenly realized just now was that when he was considering logistics, he subconsciously ignored his own cooking time and the energy it would take.

Rock is not a very diligent person, and he even gets lazy occasionally, but he will never get tired of cooking for the elves.

Although he usually spends some time and energy on cooking, it is nothing to him at all, and he has long been used to it.

However, when a lot of physical strength is lost, the strength required for cooking becomes a problem that has to be considered.

Obviously, digging a lake must not be an easy job.

At that time, if Rock doesn't have the strength to cook because of being too tired, so that the elves can't eat in time, or if they don't eat well, all kinds of troubles will inevitably arise.

The problem of eating is a big problem, and now Rock is a little thankful that he realized it in advance.

He picked up the bowl and took a sip of the warm noodle soup, and began to think about the solution.

Because meat is caught fresh every day, handling and cooking meat must not be omitted.

If those proud pheasant eggs hatch successfully and are successfully domesticated by Rock, it will save some effort, but it will take time, and it will be too late now.

Fortunately, Rock is already very proficient in these tasks, so it won't take much time and effort.

In fact, the most time-consuming part of cooking now is the cooking of various staple foods. He has to do a lot of preparation work, but he has to do it for nutritional balance.

If this link can be omitted, it will be very convenient for Rock to do it every day.

"Huh? By the way, I can make some staple foods that can be preserved for a long time in advance, which will save a lot of effort."

After breakfast, Rock happened to come up with a solution to the problem.

What he intends to make is a kind of Russian bread before the crossing. This kind of bread is famous for its shelf life, and it tastes good. The difficulty of making it is not very high, which just meets his needs.

After arranging the grazing and patrolling tasks of the Delubis, Rock began to prepare for making bread.

"Boom~"

Chenglong bit Rock's trouser leg, and wanted Rock to accompany him to play by the river, but he refused.

"You and the geraniums go, I still have things to do."

As Chenglong grew up, now it no longer needed Dai Ruby as a nanny, and Rock no longer worried that the hot summer sun would burn it.

So Chenglong joyfully ran towards the Jingkong River with Geranium and Heluga, leaving only Arbo still staying in the camp, coiled near the incubator to accompany Rock.

Rock first took out ten kilograms of flour, and then divided the flour into two equal portions.

One of the flours is put aside for later use, and the other flour is mixed with water, yeast liquid and a little sugar to start kneading.

Because he wanted to make bread, Rock mixed the flour and water with his hands instead of kneading.

After the dough is reconciled, cover it with plastic wrap and start to ferment.

"Abbe, call me when this dough doubles in size."

Rock put the basin of dough next to Arbor, and then walked towards the toolbox. He wanted to start making trailers while the dough was fermenting.

In addition to being used as planting boxes, the earliest worm boxes were transformed into tool boxes, and they were basically used up.

So this time Rock has no ready-made boxes to use, so he can only build them again.

He took out the tools from the box, and then walked towards the Jingkong River.

"Gamma?"

Geranium, who was playing in the river, saw Rock from a distance and swam towards him. Chenglong and Hei Lujia also followed when they saw this.

"Oh, you are here, just in time to help me."

Rock picked a few tall pool fir trees in a pool fir forest by the river, then patted the trunks of the geraniums, picked up the chainsaw and started cutting.

After the geranium understood, it tacitly walked to another pool fir, waving the tentacles of the stamen above its head and chopping.

Soon the ten pool firs selected by Rock were all cut down with the cooperation of him and Geranium.

"No need to drag it, just break these logs into planks here."

After the felling was completed, Geranium and Heluga would drag the wood back to the camp as usual, but they were stopped by Rock.

He and Geranium directly started clearing the wood in this pond fir forest. After clearing, they sawed the logs into planks with a thickness of five centimeters.

As soon as Rock sawed two pieces of wood, Arbor came to find it, and it seemed that the dough had fermented.

"Then I'll be counting on you first, Geranium, I'll come back later."

Leaving Geranium here to process the wood, Rock followed Arbo back to the camp.

Sure enough, the dough has fermented to twice its previous size. Rock poured in the other half of the flour left over from the beginning, added water, and a little salt and oil, and continued to mix with the dough to become a bigger one. dough.

After the big dough was reconciled, Rock put it next to the Arbo monster as usual, let him watch the dough ferment, then whistled and walked out of the camp.

Before starting to bake bread, Rock needs to build a simple bread oven, or bread kiln, to ensure that his cooking can be completed smoothly.

The location he chose was the small soil slope where Hei Lujia burned charcoal before.

"Hey~"

Hei Lujia heard Rock's whistle and rushed to meet him.

Rock patted Hei Lujia's head, stood in front of the small slope, looked left and right, and chose a place with a suitable slope.

He first cut a branch as thick as a calf, about one meter long.

One end of the branch was sharpened by Rock, and then it was heavily inserted into the soil slope.

After inserting the branch, he twisted it down vigorously from side to side until half of the length of the branch was underground.

"It's here. Excavate from here, dig a hemispherical chamber after a depth of [-] centimeters."

Rock pointed to the direction where he planted branches on the slope and said.

Hei Lujia immediately dug up the soil quickly after hearing the words, while Rock held a shovel, and while shoveling away the soil dug out by Hei Lujia, he patted the walls of the pit tightly.

After Hei Lujia had almost dug, Rock pulled out the branches that had been inserted just now, mixed a little yellow mud, and spread it evenly on the inner wall of the pit. At this point, the bread kiln is almost complete.

In fact, the structure of the bread kiln dug by Rock is very simple, and the principle is also very simple. It is a discharge port, a baking chamber and a chimney.

The hole he inserted with a branch just now acts as a chimney. When in use, firewood is put in from the discharge port to make it fully burnt.

After the temperature in the chamber rises, take out the fuel or move the fuel to a deeper place inside the chamber, and then put the dough to block the discharge port, and then you can bake bread at the temperature in the kiln.

(End of this chapter)