Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-28

the late prsis. worthy proe ceilings Of the bossd
OF health, 10 that end, will be attended with
fuccels. Yesterday oae Solomon Star,eyant, 9
laboger, who calls himfelf phydcian, was ap-
pretended upon warrant from ju9ice Raggies,
of Roxbury, upon the complaint OF ouI board of
h.alth OF this town. that iaid S,urvetant ta!ley
publihed and declared, a, Quincy, that the y:i-
low fever was very prevalent at Bottom that he
had feen a pes(ons buried on Friday night, who
had died with it; and that the fnlai pox was al
70 prevalent; and that IT was dangerous TO Witt
the town. The evidence was difea againtt him
and he being unable 20 End bail in 1909 dollars,
was committed TO take his trial at the iuPreme
court, in Dedham, in October next.
Bsqox faper.l
The Mllowing Recipe, from the reports
of the British Board of Agriculture, for
preparing potatoes to eat as bread, may
prove useful to the public.
There is nothing that wsuld tend more
to promote the consumption of potatoes
than 20 have the proper method of prepa.
ring them as food generally known. In
Loudon this is little attended to, whereas,
in Lancashire and in Ireland, tho boiling
of potatoes is brought, to very great perfec-
sion indeed. When prepared In the fol-
lowing manner, if the quality OF the root
is good, they may be eat as bread, prac-
sice not unusual in Ireland.
The pota.oes should be as much as pos
aible of the same size, and the large and
small onss boiled separately, they must be
washed clean, and without pairing or scrap
ing, put ia pot with cold water, not suffi-
cient TO cover chem, as they will produce
themselves, before they boil, a censidera-
BILE quantity of fluid. They do not admit
being put into vessel Of boiling water,
like greens, and whenever they are boiled,
should be taken out of the water and kept
dry. IF the potatoes are tolerably large,
it will be necessary, as soon as they begin
to boil TO throw in some cold water, and
occasionally to repeat it till the potatoes are
boiled to she heat (Which will take from
half an hour to an hour and quarter, &C
cording to their sizs) they will Otherwise
crack and burst to pieces OF the outside,
whilst the inside will be nearly in crude
state, consequently very unpalatabls and
I'm wholesome.
During the boiling, throwing in little salt
occasionally, is found great improvement
and it is certain the slower they are boiled
the better they eat. When boiled, pour
off the water, and evapora.e the remainder
by replacing, the vessel ID which they
were boiled, once more over the fire this
makes them remarkably dry and mealy,
more especially, if they are kept for some
time in potatoe rooster, a most excellent
machine, which may be had at Lonsdale's,
Taylor street, Carnaby Markct--They
should be brought to the table with their
skins on, and eat with little salt as bread:
nothing but experience can satisfy any one
how superior the potatoe is thus prepared
to the common method of preparing and
boiling it.
Streaming potatoes will never answer, SIS
the immersion in water causes them to dis.
charge certain substance, which the steam
alone is incapable of doing, & by retaining
Of which, the favour Of he root is injured.