Half boil them, and then having taken off the skins, cut the potatoes in slices, and fry them in butter, or in nice dripping. Sweet potatoes are very good stewed with fresh pork, veal, or beef. From Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery by Eliza Leslie, 1851. The pork should be nicely gashed before baking. Send them to the table hot.
Carrots require long cooking.
Parsnips and salsify may be stewed in the above manner, substituting a little chopped celery for the parsley. Recipe from 1860. As soon as possible, the next morning, cut it from the cobs, and spread it thinly in the sun to dry. If, on the contrary, it has dried but little and there is no danger of rain, it will be less likely to sour if left spread in the air all night, than if spread in a close room. It will take three hot, sunny days to dry perfectly, when it must be put in a dry, tin pan, and heated very hot over steam, to destroy any insects' eggs which may have been laid in it.