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The message yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04
from "Anne Middleton/Harold Walker"
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This may sound like a dumb question...but, here goes.........what exactly
is that which y'all call a "new potato"?. Have grown potatoes for many a
year but have never before pondered "what is and what is not a new
potato"...... have seen a number of references to them lately on this site
as tho they were some special form/variety/breed of spud or what have you.

New potatoes are just the first of the crop, picked immature and very
small (about 4 or 5 cm long), tender skinned and tasty. When I was a
child in Lancashire, people used to boil them for a few minutes in their
skins over a brazier on street corners and sell them as street food,
well salted in a paper bag...food of the gods.

Janet.