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Potato
WASHINGTON, DC- Mashed
into a side dish or fried into fast
food, the potato is easy to un
derestimate
Looking for something
to do? Bake cookies!
Kids, do you often find yourself asking mom, "What can Ido'”
When swimming, baseball, television and pets begin to become a
bore, why not try your hand in the kitchen'' Summer vacation is the
perfect time to learn to cook
Not only will you be teaching yourself a new hobby and having
some fun, but you can treat your family and help mom - to which
you’re sure to gel a reward whether it be a new toy or a big hug
Below are two delicious recips so easy and fun to make Crispy
Cookies takes no baking, but you may want mom to help you the
first time you boil the syrup and sugar.
The second recipe, Brownie Thumbprint Cookies, allows you to
leave your personal mark on each cookie But be sure your hands
are clean first'
BROWNIE THUMBPRINT COOKIES
1 pkg. brownie mix
1/2 c. finely chopped pecans
1 c. powdered sugar
2 T. soft butter
IT. cream
1/41. vanilla
Make up brownie mix. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls into the
chopped nuts. Roll into balls, Place 1-inch apart on lightly greased
baking sheet. Bake in 350 degree oven for 12 minutes. Remove from
oven; quickly press thumb gently into top of each cookie. Cool.
Blend the powdered sugar, butter together. Stir in cream and
vanilla until smooth. Drop a spoonful of mixture into the thumb
print of each brownie.
1 c. light corn syrup
1 c. sugar
1% c. smooth peanut butter
4 c. crisp nee cereal
Heat syrup and sugar to boiling. Remove from heat and add
peanut butter and cereal Mix well. Drop by teaspoons onto oiled
cookie sheet. Cool.
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But potatoes are actually the
world’s bread and butter, ac
cording to the International Potato
Center in Luna, Peru Potatoes
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yield more nutritious food more
quickly on less land and in harsher
climates than any other major food
crop
This amazing vegetable is a
South American native brought
back to Europe from Peru by 16th
century conquistadors. Its own
world conquest now complete,
King Potato grows m more
countries than any crop except
corn
Robert E Rhoades of the In
ternational Potato Center writes in
the May issue of National
Geographic- “The average annual
crop (291 million tons) could cover
a four-lane superhighway circling
the world six tunes ”
Produced in 130 of the world’s
167 independent countries, one
year’s crop is worth $lO6 billion at
consumer prices, Rhoades reports
Potatoes are fourth, after wheat,
com, and nee, in world production,
but because of multiple harvests,
yield the most protein and food
energy per acre.
They are remarkably adaptable;
potatoes grow from below sea level
behind Dutch dikes to almost 14,000
feet up in the cfully Andes and
Himalayas, from the Artie Circle
to the Straight of Magellan, and in
the scorching deserts of Australia
and Africa.
Rhoades notes that tomatoes,
tobacco, and eggplants are related
to the potato, but the sweet potato
is not even though its Indian
name, batata, became the English
word potato.
The familiar brown oval spud
belongs to the species Solanum
tuberosum, one of eight cultivated
throughout the world. Most of the
world’s crop and all potatoes
grown in the United States belong
to this species.
In the Andes, however, farmers
cultivate all eight species, em
bracing as many as 3,000 of 5,000 or
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An Irish lad carries recently harvested potatoes home for
his family's dinner. Valued worldwide for nutrition and
versatility, spuds grow in more countries than any crop ex
cept corn. Although potatoes are native to South America,
the Irish and East Europeans lead the world in per capita
consumption.
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