103 Words to use with potatoes

And so, after surveying Deacon QUIRK'S spiritual potato fields, or perhaps some fresh (spiritual) manifestation of Miss PHELPS'S piety and intelligence, we may have the pleasure of seeing the sun and moon hung with tidies, and a lamp-mat under each star.

The slave-colony, garbage-laws, magistrates, and murderers are mixed in motley, and there are whirling vacant-lot schemes abroad, potato-patches, wood-yards, organized charity, Wayfarers' Lodges, resounding cries of municipal reform, and various other interests of the wisdom-scale.

The potato-crop of this yearbarring accidentswill be enormous; and the whole life of our country villages has been quickened by the effort that has been made to increase the produce of the cottage gardens and allotments.

Besides the above, sauces may be thickened with potato flour, ground rice, baked flour, arrowroot, &c.: the latter will be found far preferable to the ordinary flour for white sauces.

The plants afflicted with the malady are found to be infested by a mould, consisting of fine tubular filaments, termed hyphoe, which burrow through the substance of the potato plant, and appropriate to themselves the substance of their host; while, at the same time, directly or indirectly, they set up chemical changes by which even its woody framework becomes blackened, sodden, and withered.

Mrs. Corbett was more at home with the potato-masher or the rolling-pin, but when duty called her she followed, even though it involved the using of unfamiliar tools.

For it is this Fungus which is the cause of the potato disease; and, therefore, Peronospora infestans (doubtless of exclusively Saxon origin, though not accurately known to be so) brought about the Irish famine.

SIR,A great deal of fuss is being made over Irish potato-cakes.

Great care should be taken with such soups as lentil, split-pea, potato soup, &c., to avoid a coarse "mushy" consistency.

Now, I'm going to tell you in the story after this one about Brighteyes, Buddy and the turnipthat is, in case I hear a potato bug sing a song that puts the rag doll to sleep, so she won't cry and wake up the pussy cat.

Well might the Mexicans gaze upon his face! (1847) FAMINE IN IRELAND, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy From the fact that its immediate cause was the almost complete failure of the potato crop, due to the rot, the great Irish famine is known as the "potato famine."

Grandpa Parlin says if you put apples in a potato bin, they won't taste like applesthey'll taste like potatoes.

The best is obtained from the West Indies, but a large quantity of what is sold in London is adulterated with potato-starch.

It must be confessed that they are handsome and if it happens to be your potato peelings and discarded fish that they eat, they warm into friendliness.

Serve with potato dumplings.

We could have games like potato-sack races and a big parade and a band or two, and...." "It sounds great!" said Scraps, leaping up, grabbing a chandelier and swinging from it while bursting into song: "A party is the thing to do whenever something pleases you!

"I won't eat any pig weed just yet," thought Squinty, as he went softly on between the rows of potato vines.

"Haven't I been telling you" "Yes, about the way Debbie makes potato salad," cried Laura disgustedly.

They had potato chips, coffee and toasted Holland rusks, as well, and all thoroughly enjoyed the improvised meal.

"One Jones whipped a woman to death for 'grabbling' a potato hill.

Serve with a border of boiled pasties, potato balls, or chips.

Thicken the sauce with flour and serve hot with potato pancakes.

I feel's if I wasn't half so good as tea-grounds, or coffee-grounds, or potato-skins," continued she, with a pang of despair.

Then place round the potatoes slices of cold roast beef, nicely broiled, over a clear fire.

Now this gave a new turn to the affair; for the time being one of general scarcity, when even Christians were reduced to the use of potato-bread, rice-bread, and all sorts of things, it was downright treason in a tom-cat to be wasting good wheaten-bread in the way he was doing.

103 Words to use with  potatoes