Potatos are unknown, but my Sepoys often brought me large coarse radishes and legumes.
The potatos are first washed in a cylindrical cage formed of wooden spars, made to revolve upon a horizontal axis, in a trough filled with water to the level of the axis.
Illustration: 362] As in the above mode of trituration, the potatos are apt to cool to such a degree as to obstruct their ready admixture with water, it is better to make them into a paste in the vessel in which they are steamed.
If so, the steam is immediately stopped off, the lower lid is removed, and the potatos pulled out with a hook into a tub.
From the following table of analyses, it appears that potatos contain from 24 to 30 per cent.
In the lower valve there are two small holes closed with pins, for inserting a wire to feel whether the potatos be sufficiently boiled.
In the top there is an opening, D, for putting in the potatos which may be shut in the same way.
With this apparatus the potatos are prepared as follows: when the screw rod is so fixed that the cross touches the disc, the cylinder is to be filled with washed potatos to within one foot of the top, leaving them some space to expand.
As potatos readily pass into the acetous fermentation, the admixture of the malt, the mashing, and the cooling should be rapidly performed, while the utmost cleanliness must be observed.
It has been observed that after the month of December potatosbegin to yield a smaller product of fermented spirits; and when they have once sprouted or germinated, they afford very little indeed.
The top has an opening with a cover fitted tightly to it; through that the potatos are introduced; and immediately above the false bottom there is a similar aperture through which the boiled potatos are taken out.
Illustration: 361] Previously to mashing, potatos must be first well washed in a horizontal cylindrical cage revolving partially in a trough of water, as will be described in treating of the manufacture of sugar from beet root.
A few wagon loads of roasting ears and sweet potatos would have banished every trace of scurvy from the camp, healed up the wasting dysentery, and saved thousands of lives.
After potatos once become cold, no cooking can restore them.
Small sweet potatos should be boiled; as, when small, they are not worth cooking in any other way; and when roasted there is scarcely any thing of them, but tough shriveled skin.
Potatos for roasting should always be large and fine.
Let it simmer gently for two hours or more, till the meat andpotatos are thoroughly done.
To have boiled potatos in perfection they should all be of a good sort and as nearly as possible of the same size.
On no account spoil the potatos by putting any water to them, when mashing.
The sweet potatos should be all about the same size, or else so large as to require splitting.
Till it is time to cook them, let the slight mould or earth that has adhered to the potatos in digging, be carefully washed off, even scrubbing them with a hard brush.
Upon this another layer of meat--then somepotatos again, then meat, and so on till all is in, finishing with potatos at the top.
Send to table with the baked fish, a dish of potatos mashed with milk and butter, and browned on the surface with a salamander, or a red hot shovel.
Mix mashedpotatos with the yelk of an egg, roll them into balls, flour them, or cover them with egg and bread crumbs, fry them in clean dripping, or brown them in a Dutch oven.
The food of the slaves was three pecks of potatos a week during the potato season, and one peck of corn, during the remainder of the year.
In the Pennsylvania Eastern Penitentiary, one pound of bread and one pint of coffee for breakfast, one pint of meat soup, with potatos without limit, for dinner, and mush and molasses for supper.
In the New York City Prison, one pound of beef, one pound of flour; and three pecks of potatos to every hundred rations, with other small articles.
I therfore urged her to eat potatosand so on, because of evening dress and showing her coller bones, but she was quite nasty.
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