Their food was three pecks of potatoes per week, in the potatoe season, and one peck of corn the remainder of the year.
Potatoe time," as it is called, begins about the middle of July.
All the grease spots and stains should be taken out of the shawls, before they are washed with the potatoe water.
Dip a clean sponge into the potatoe water and rub the shawl with it till clean, then rinse the shawl in clear water.
Let it stand for five hours, then strain the water and rub through as much of the potatoe as possible; let it remain until perfectly clear, then turn off the water carefully.
If there are any grease or oil spots on the carpet, they should be extracted before the potatoe is rubbed on.
Put the pan on a quick fire; as soon as the lard boils, and is still, put in the potatoe slices, and keep moving them till they are crisp.
Fill it with horse dung, or long litter, about three inches thick, and plant a whole potatoe upon it; shake a little more dung over it, and mould up the earth.
When mutton dripping is made into soup, wheat flour is better than oatmeal; but the mucilage of potatoe is better still, requiring only one ounce to the gallon.
The soup should then be thickened with flour, potatoe starch, and barley.
Put a layer of meat at the bottom of the dish, and then a layer of potatoe till the dish is full.
A paste made of dry mustard, potatoe meal, and two spoonfuls of the spirits of turpentine, applied to the spot and rubbed off dry, will also be found to answer the purpose.
If the frost affects them, the life of the vegetable is destroyed, and the potatoe speedily rots.
These dumplins are very nice when done in a potatoe steamer, and require about thirty-five minutes, if of a good size.
Grain should however be given occasionally, or the constant use of potatoe food will make their flesh soft and insipid.
And I find, from the same evidence, that it is the custom to allot to labourers "a potatoe ground" in part payment of their wages!
In the choice of seed for this crop, a middle sized potatoe should be preferred, without any objection to their being cut, as is the customary mode of planting.
Nick or crimp the border of potatoethat goes round the edge; or scollop it with a tin cutter.
Spread the mashed potatoe thickly over the bottom, sides, and edges of a deep dish.
I remember one little Shrike of this species which used to come down every day to pick up crumbs of bread and pieces of potatoe put out for the Sparrows.
But the grievance is, that the same price is taken for a potatoe loaf, as for a loaf of genuine bread, though it must cost the baker less.
Most of the arrow-root, the fecula of the Maranta arudinacea, sold by druggists, is a mixture of potatoe starch and arrow-root.
The summer heat of last year was very oppressive; the drought was extreme, and in some respects proved rather injurious, especially to the potatoe crop.
The potatoe is indeed a great blessing here; new settlers would otherwise be often greatly distressed, and the poor man and his family who are without resources, without the potatoe must starve.
The potatoe instead of being sown in drills is planted in hills, which are raised over the sets; this crop requires hoeing.
The potatoe is not a root, as commonly supposed, but an underground collection of buds, having a quantity of starch accumulated around them, for their nourishment when they begin to grow.
The quantity of starch varies greatly with the kind of potatoe cultivated, the mode of cultivation, the time of setting, and above all, with the season of the year when the analysis is made.
In the mountains of the Caraccas the potatoe grows wild, and in great abundance; but as they are left unnoted, they are usually not much larger than the ordinary gooseberry.
A potatoe or a cubic inch of bread was a considerable portion of a meal; and where all were ravenous, who could afford to lose even a potatoe or a crumb?
My father and mother kept a coal and potatoe shed in Great Suffolk Street, Borough.
It is not unlike a very large potatoe or yam, and good when in its growing state; but when old, is full of hard stringy fibres.
As the Prince Regent returned from opening the Session of Parliament, some gravel or a potatoewas thrown at his carriage, the window of which was cracked.
Serve up with them a dish of mashed potatos or potatoe cake, browned on the surface with a salamander.
Make a stuffing of fat bacon finely minced, and boiled chestnuts or grated sweet potatoe boiled, mashed, and seasoned with pepper only.
Nick or crimp the border of potatoe that goes round the edge, or scollop it with a tin cutter.
I Saw & eat Pemitigon the Dog, Groud potatoe made into a Kind of homney, which I thought but little inferior- I also Saw a Spoon made of a horn of an animile of the Sheep kind the spoon will hold 2 quarts.
I've seen the people at play for weeks together, and so clammed that I never tasted nothing but a potatoe and a little salt for more than a fortnight.
Take care of the potatoe furrows, that's all, and follow me straight.
My boy Brian found it after you in the potatoe furrow, where you dropped it.
Attached to their houses most of them have large potatoe gardens.
The Wapato, a bulbous root, compared by some to the potatoe and turnip, was the aboriginal staple, and was gathered by women wading in shallow ponds, and separating the root with their toes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potatoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
