Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1915 — SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES [ARTICLE]

SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES

Throughout the South a new vegetable is rapidly appearing in the market to take the place, to some extent at least, of the potato. This is Hie dasheen, a tuber introduced by the department of agriculture from the tropics. It resembles the potato in many respects and in many tropical and ‘ - - SA*- "~jntries displaces it en- _ or ha&, -tagged-that housekeeping; easily grown in

the South and Southw* > promises to respond t even better than the pota able for a peculiar nutting, ~uuthe young leaves, when properly cooked, make an excellent substitute for spinach. Neither tuber nor leaves, Jiowever, should ever be tasted when., raw. The acrid principle, characterix4ng the plant can ba. neutralised only . by cooking a while. In preparing the . '• *’ . frsi '

sub-tropical c °, ti ~'9Bful C f sal soda to tirely- Expsritne. sL ntß the hands dasheen can irritant Vkh. Themselves tired at sitting "still, wandered forth the otherj evening, and returned a short time later to their commanding officer. “Sahib,” they said gravely, “we found a man with a rifle; here is the Ah to what became of the man, we left !a unpleasant suspense, hat doubtless the man la not.