[Sca-cooks] Potatoes Revisited - Longish

[Stefan li Rous]

Alys Katharine said:
> Greetings.  While working on another project I found three potato
> recipes in John Murrell's 1621 _A Delightful Daily Exercise for
> Ladies and Gentlewomen_.  They are for candies, not as used in stews
> or as a plain vegetable.  The second seems quite easy to do...
>
> #61. To make past of Potatoes.

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> #62. To preserve Potatoes.

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> #63. To dry Potatoes.
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But are these for white potatos or sweet potatos. I think these actually
might be better using sweet potatos. I think it might be a mistake to
quickly assume that 'potato' in this recipe means a white potato.

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