. Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families. erthem, and serve them in their skins. Salt maybe put into the water at the beginning. Awatery potato will require quick boiling, and,sometimes, to be put into boiling water.(Soyer.) To retain the highest amount of nourishmentin potatoes they should be dressed
. Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families. erthem, and serve them in their skins. Salt maybe put into the water at the beginning. Awatery potato will require quick boiling, and,sometimes, to be put into boiling water.(Soyer.) To retain the highest amount of nourishmentin potatoes they should be dressed with theirskins on them. The bruised or damaged parts,worm-holes, &c., being removed with a knife,the dirt should be carefully cleaned out of the eyes, and from the rough parts of the skins,by means of a brush and water, after whichthey should be well rinsed in clean water, anddrained in a colander. If they are at all dryor shrivelled, they may be advantageously leftto soak for 3 or 4 hours in clean cold waterbefore cooking them. Potatoes dressed inthe skins have been found to be nearly twiceas rich in potassa salts as those which havebeen first peeled. The skins are easily removedbefore sending them to table. New potatoes should have their loose outerskin rubbed off with a cloth or stiff brushbefore being dressed or Potato starch granules. Potato starch granules swollen by liquor potassae. Mashed potatoes are prepared by crushing,with the back of a spoon, or with a rolling-pin, the hot dressed tubers, placed in a bowl or dish, or on a pie-board. A little milk, 1 Voelcker Roy. Agric. Societys Journal, quoted ia Jouinal of Chemical Society, vol. xxv. POT POURRI—POTTERY 1367: butter, and salt may be added to them at will,and they may be either at once served up,*or pressed into forms, and first browned offin the oven. Potatoes, if not soft and mealy,and well masticated, frequently escape thesolvent action of the stomach, and pass offundigested, often to the serious de
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