| Keeping Mushroom Fresh
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Keeping mushrooms fresh in the refrigerator is a challenging prospect no matter how much you love them. Straight home from the grocer to the fridge, most mushrooms last only a few days before they go bad. >> more |
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| Potato Chips
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| When chips were first produced on a wide reaching basis they were not stored in the fancy plastic bags that are used today. No, in fact, at first chips were stored in barrels or tins and then in the 1930’s the first sealed bad was created by Laura Scudder in the U.S. when she ironed two pieces of wax paper together, which created an airtight seal that would keep chips fresh until opening. >> more |
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| Storing of Potatoes
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| When it comes to the storage of potatoes, especially on a large scale, there are certain conditions that need to be present to assure that potatoes do not rot to death. >> more |
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| French Fries
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| The name “French Fry” comes from French fried potatoes and these are also known as “Chips” in other parts of the world, such as England (the famous Fish and Chips). They are chopped up pieces of potatoes which have been deep fried. >> more |
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| Scalloped Potatoes
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| Scalloped potatoes are actually a casserole dish which contains thin slices of potatoes, milk or cream, and cheese. Sometimes the dish is also prepared with breadcrumbs and/or mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, and/or mushroom soup. >> more |
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| Baked Potato
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| Baked potatoes, also sometimes called jacket potatoes, are the edible outcome of simply baking a potato. Usually these potatoes are baked in microwave or oven. >> more |
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| Mashed Potatoes
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| Mashed potatoes; they can be chunky, they can be mashed to bits, or they can be mashed and smashed and whipped to almost a creamy existence. >> more |
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| Potato Varieties
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| All in all there are over 150 different varieties of potatoes. They have names like AC Blue Pride, Fabula, Viking, Yukon Gold, and Russet. >> more |
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| Origins of the Potato
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| The life of the potato began around 7,000 years ago in the high plateau of the Andean Mountains of South America, which is known today as the Titicaca Plateau and which stretches across the modern countries of Peru and Bolivia. >> more |
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| The Great Irish Potato Famine
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| Then in the 1840’s the worst happened and disaster finally struck this small Island off the British coast. There were three successive years of microscopic fungus infiltration of the potato crops and also three years of heavy rains which combined together to rot the Irish potato crops in the ground they grew. >> more |
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