He sent £1,000 of it home for distribution among his tenants, and there was soon sore need of the money, for that year saw the second and disastrous failure of the potato crop.
The sweet potato differs from the white or common, in containing more water and a small proportion of sugar.
The common or Irish potato is the vegetable most extensively used in this country and Great Britain.
Near by the pond, in the edge of a potato field, we found the geese, seven of them and a gander, which latter extended an aquatic, pink beak and hissed his displeasure at our approach.
We had also a half acre of weeds to pull, in a part of the potatofield which had thus far been hoed but once; and an acre of stubble to clear of stones, preparatory to ploughing.
The boys returned with a bushel basket and an old potato sack, to tie over the top of it.
A roll of potato bread, and a cup of tea, coffee, or milk.
What a sordid thing is a boiled potato in comparison with "des pommes frites"!
Choose large potatoes, as much of a size as possible; wash them in lukewarm water, and scrub them well, for the browned skin of a baked potato is by many persons considered the better part of it.
Then I told him that the potato was one of the same sort that I had last night at dinner--floury, sweet and mealy.
The potato planter is a simple machine, though it does a variety of work.
The common hoe or the specially shaped potato hoe were the only tools.
Gerarde, in his herbal, published in 1597, figures the potato, under the name of the potato of Virginia, whence he says he received the roots.
The great dependence for nourishment placed in the potato by so many of the poor, has been lately exhibited in the great distress caused by the disease of the crops.
There is scarcely a doubt of the potato being a native of South America, and its existing in a wild state in elevated places in the tropical regions and in the more temperate districts of the western coast of that country.
In addition to its use as a direct article of food, the potatois applied to furnish starch, which is not unfrequently substituted for arrow-root and sugar.
The potato was first cultivated in Ireland by the grandfather of Sir Robert Southwell, from tubers given him by Sir W.
They visited the level portion of the peninsula in the hope of finding more potatoes there, but the artillerymen had obtained a plow and turned up the ground, and not a single potato had escaped their sharp eyes.
After doing a lot of thinking, he made a sort of balloon of oiled silk, with the mouth fastened to a hollow reed and a piece of potato to put over the end of the reed, instead of a cork.
Then he puts the potato on the end to keep the air from leaking out.
An acre of potato land rents for from L5 to L10 per annum.
Take two thirds of potato and one of ground rice, as much butter rubbed in as will moisten it sufficiently to roll, which must be done with a little flour.
Half of a green pepper and a slice of onion may be chopped and cooked in the butter, and added to the potato and fish.
If potatoballs are used, cover unused potato with water and save for soup.
A kind of fortification built of potato sacks filled with sand was erected in front of it.
I ricollec' it was sweet-potato pie, an' it was scorched on one side.
When done add an even tablespoonful of Groult's potato flour, mixed with a very little water, then stir in one beaten egg, and remove from the fire.
Boil for five minutes, put in melted butter in a saucepan until each potato is well covered with the butter, turn them into a pan, and brown in the oven.
Stiffen with potato flour as in other fruit puddings--a tablespoonful to a quart of the purée--and mould and serve in the same way.
If any is left over remove the thin brown skin, make the potato into small, flat cakes and brown on both sides in a little butter in a spider.
Mix five ounces of arrowroot or the same quantity of potato flour with the cold fruit juices, stir it into the boiling water and let it boil about five minutes, turn it into a wet mould, and when cold set on the ice.
Four egg yolks, four ounces of sugar, a quarter of a cup of sherry, one teaspoonful of potato flour, half a cup of water, the rind of half and the juice of one lemon.
Pick from the stems and mash them, a few at a time, in a bowl or granite saucepan with a potato masher, then put them in a stone jar and let them stand for two days, stirring well each day.
To one quart of liquid take two ounces of Groult's potato flour.
In a few hours many of them will perhaps be lying dead amidst the half-rotted potato stems on the wet soil with their pallid faces upturned to the cold heavens, the very ones which now weep also over their dear, distant country.
At dawn the regiment was brought to a halt and was stretched along the edge of a widepotato field, which the soldiers had never seen before.
Boil the potatoes in their skins; when tender peel and pass them through a potato masher.
Put in a colander to drain, then mash through colander with woodenpotato masher.
In the early part of September Mary's Aunt suggested she try to win the prize offered at the Farmers' Picnic in a near-by town for the best "Raised Potato Cake.
She usually made potato chips when frying doughnuts, and always fried potato chips first; after frying doughnuts in the fat fry several large slices of potato in it, as the potato clarifies it.
She used home-made potato yeast or "cornmeal yeast cakes," under different names, always with good results.
Good bread may be made by using milk, potato water or whey (drained from thick sour milk), and good bread may be made by simply using lukewarm water.
From the above quantity of potatoes was made five potato balls.
These Potato Biscuits are particularly nice when freshly baked, and resemble somewhat biscuits made from baking powder.
Mash fine with a potato masher, adding a tablespoonful of butter and a couple tablespoonfuls of milk.
One of the things in which she particularly excelled was potato cakes raised with yeast.
He preferred them to fried oysters, and always called them "potato boofers.
Then add browned flour (same as prepared for Potato Chowder) and the water in which the beans were cooked.
On a miserable bed of dried leaves, covered with potato sacks on the one side, was the emaciated form of a man dying of starvation and consumption.
On stringers were laid a few rough boards; on these boards were dried leaves and heather, covered by a few old potato sacks.
The landlord has raised the rent regularly, keeping the tenant and his family down to the potato and stirabout point, until it is impossible for him to pay.
A few potato sacks, or gunny bags, or anything else that contributes anything of warmth, makes up that item.
And so she eats her meal of potato or stirabout--she never has both at once--and goes into sleep and dreams.
Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters.
I shall go to him to-morrow, and ask him to let me have twenty roods more of potato land next spring; mine will not last through the winter.
Yes, Herr Pomuchelskopp, I would sell, for if they don't tear your house down they might get at the barns, and the potato middens.
With goose, serve potato or hominy croquettes and sauer kraut or carefully boiled cabbage or stewed turnips.
With boiled steak for dinner, stuffed potatoes or potato croquettes, and peas or string beans, asparagus, mushrooms or baked tomatoes.
One cup of flour scalded with generous pint of hot potato water.
While boiling potatoes I save the potato water, about one pint.
Pumpkin, squash and sweet potato pies are made by adding a quart of the cooked and mashed vegetable to each quart of custard and adding spices and salt to suit individual taste.
Parboil a nice fat piece of fresh pork and place in same kettle with kraut; let it boil together for some hours; about one hour before taking it up grate half a small rawpotato into the kraut, let it simmer away.
With a baked fillet of beef always serve mushroom sauce and potato croquettes and peas.
Serve with turkey, rice either plain, boiled or in croquettes, or sweet potato or chestnut croquettes and boiled onions or stewed celery and cranberry sauce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potato" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bean; cabbage; greens; potato; produce; rhubarb; tater; tomato; vegetable
