The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-10-07
Uac. OF the Potato.

The use TO which the potato may DC
mt beside, the obvious ones of food,
starch, sugar, and spirits, are much more
various than most people are aware OF.
In i'hurIngla and Saxony. II rs made INTO
A kind of cheese, which will last Tor years
if kent in close vessels. 10 pursue the
description given in the "Quarerly jour-
nal of Agriculture -" 1t Is prepared by
boiling the potatoes, and reducing them
when cold to pulp, Rejecting The SKINS.
Sour milk is added, or else sweet curd
with the whey pressed out, IN the proper
ton of pin, to live pounds OF pulp. 1t
is kneeded several times, drained IN small
baskets, and simply dried III the shade"
In some parts of Germany, potatoes are
put to another use. The lower classes
are accustomed to incorporate them, alter
being steamed and reduced to a paste.
with the butter to spread over bread. 1t
thus goes farther where economy Is stu
died and. that it may longer be preserved,
is often sailed. II viii surprise many to
learn that mode has been suggested by
a French chemist Tor converting potatoes
into substance like coffee. He mixes
some of the best olve-oll with certain
portion of dried potato flour, and then adds
small quantity Of coilee-powder. tic
asserts that this will produce liquor
more agreeable than coffee. Chemical
Ingenuity has likewise converted tn most
useful root into substitutes for many other
ariicIes--us chocolate, tapioca, and ver-
miceui. The use Of potato starch instead
of arrow.root have already mentioned
and much of It is at present sold under the
name of arrow-root, and in France under
that OF fecme de pOmme dc ferre. A
chemist in Copenhagen has discovered
that the flowers Of the pfant may be used
in dyeing. By this means beautiful
yellow color may be obtained, which is
solid and durable. By plungng the color
into blue, il becomes perfect green. II
| has likewise been found that the juice
contained in the potato will produce q gray
r color Of grea, beauty. The liquor drawn
r off in the process OF making potato starch
, will clean silks, woolens, or cot;ons,
without damage to the texture or color.
} |, is also good for cleaning wainscots.
Potatoes are used with excellent effect in
The boilers Of steam.engines, for proven
, ting the gathering of calcarlous incrus,a-
ton on the bottom. which is gradually de-
4 posted from the water employed. The
3 potatoes give ont a elulnous substance
! which eniangles the particles in the water,
: and prevents them from incrusting The
/ non Of the boiler. A medical use OF the
Q potato has been lately suggested IN valu-
, able French publication. namely, as
h lpreyentative Of, aud even cure Tor, the
7 scurvy. Roasted potatoes we've aisn'nis-
tered with perfect success 10 sailors asii.c-
q ted with this disorder. after other approved
/. medicines had been given IN vain. As
!. roasted potatoes are the mos, electual, i
q. seems prahable that the remedy depends
r. on some Of The substances con,siued in
d the black liquid which hollis oal u pota-
q toes. and which are retained III roasting.
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