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Potatoes—General Remarks.
Although less than one-tenth of the potato is really nourishing (the rest being water), yet with us Americans, Irish-like, there are but few meals eaten in which potatoes do not form a part. Baking them, it is pretty generally known, is the most healthful way of cooking them, as it drives off much of the water and leaves them more nourishing than by steaming or boiling; steaming is next best, boiling the poorest way of all, as it so often leaves them watery and bad; yet, no one would always like them
cooked In the same manner; hence, I shall give a kind of "bill of fare, " for a week, differently cooked for dinner, after which I will also give some very choice ways of cooking and serving them. Remember this, however; that the most nutritious part of the potato
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