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table. Boiled and cut into slices, then fried brown, 

 the Sweet Potato forms a nice breakfast dish, and is also 

 admirable as an accompaniment for roast poultry, especially 

 duck. A rich baked pudding is made from Sweet 

 Potatoes ; and the same vegetable in the Southern States 

 takes the place of pumpkin in making pies. They are 

 also made into biscuits (I mean buns according to the 

 speech of the home country), and are slowly baked with 

 butter and sugar until glazed with a rich caramel sauce. 

 I am sure that English people who once acquire a 

 taste for Sweet Potatoes would welcome this addition 

 to their tables ; though, unlike green Corn, which every 

 foreigner loves upon first introduction, a taste for 

 them must be cultivated." Any of the ways in which 

 ordinary Potatoes can be cooked are applicable to Sweet 

 Potatoes. See " The Book of Vegetables." 



