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Homemade Potato Flour. 
S EEING so much in the paper in re¬ 
gard to utilizing potatoes I recall tho 
method used in Sweden, as told by a 
Swedish woman some years ago. The po¬ 
tatoes were cooked and pressed through a 
colander press, similar to a lard press, 
then dried. She said several families 
would own a press and take turns using 
it. helping each other. By using an evap¬ 
orator and pressing the potatoes directly 
on to the trays so they would lie up 
loosely and allow the circulation through 
the mass, it should make a very nice 
product. She said it was usually 
cooked with milk (goat’s milk) and was 
delicious. It seems to he a good way 
to have a “ready to use” article easily 
put up in packages as cereals are. I 
don’t remember that she told how they 
were prepared for the press, peeled be¬ 
fore cooking or after. Peeled before cook¬ 
ing I suppose; there would be more use 
for the waste than otherwise. 
Virginia. MRS. c. o. BARNARD. 
Use of Potato Flour. 
People are waking up to this idea of 
using the potato to offset the high price 
of wheat. 'Pile Department of Agricul¬ 
ture reports an experiment in mixing po¬ 
tato meal with wheat flour in bread- 
making. The Austrian bakers are now 
compelled by law to use at least .’!() per 
cent, of this potato meal in bread. The 
bread made by the Department has been 
baked with till the way from 25 to 50 
per cent, of the potato meal, the rest be¬ 
ing wheat flour. The loaves with more 
than .‘{0 per cent, potato meal were not 
satisfactory. They were heavier than 
wheat bread, and less attractive in form. 
The bread is of dark color anti coarse 
texture. In making this bread, the im¬ 
ported potato “flakes" were used, and also 
a meal made by slicing and drying pota¬ 
toes and then grinding them into a fine 
meal. 
It appears that in some cases housewives 
throughout the country are adding cooked 
potato to the wheat flour in bread baking. 
When just enough of this is used, it 
makes a good bread, moist, and one that 
will keep well; better in fact than whole 
wheat. Everywhere the increased use of 
potato is being taken up. There are so 
many ways in which it can be used as 
food that it is quite easy to find from it 
a partial substitute for wheat (lour. In 
addition to this potato bread, experiments 
are being made with drying and grinding 
bananas and also chestnuts. Some of 
these mixtures are fairly good, nutritious 
and wholesome. They are cheaper than 
pure wheat Hour. 
Then* was a law passed some IT years 
ago which imposes a tax on every barrel 
of mixed flour, that is wheat flour which 
contains any other ingredient, and of 
course an attempt to put these substi¬ 
tutes on the market, would run up 
against this law and tax. For that rea¬ 
son there would be some trouble, and de¬ 
lay in organizing a service of mixed flour, 
but it is hoped that this will be overcome. 
The main point now is to interest the 
public in the increased use of potatoes 
in some form. There is a double purpose 
in this, to reduce the cost of living by 
using this substitute flour at tin* present 
high prices, and also to create a needed 
demand for the large quantities of pota¬ 
toes now left in storage. 
Potatoes for South America. 
The It. N.-Y. has pointed out the pos¬ 
sibility of a South American market for 
potatoes. Before tin* war, the South 
American trade was supplied in a large 
measure from Europe, and now orders 
if properly tilled will command the trade 
in the southern hemisphere for growers in 
the United States. The product must 
reach the southern market and the con¬ 
sumer in good condition to establish a 
reputation for our product and to hold the 
business for our growers. In crossing 
the tropics certain New York shipments 
have been attacked by a fungus causing 
dry rot, and the following points should 
he observed in sorting potatoes for a long 
southern sen voyage: All badly bruised <>r 
cut potatoes should lx* thrown out. No 
potatoes having small spots of dry rot 
or evidence of the sunken discolored spots 
from late blight should lie included. Barrels 
should he well ventilated by cutting a lih- 
fv.it number of holes in their sides. The 
shipper should insist that the potatoes 
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