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Old 31-01-2006, 01:37 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren
 
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In article ,
Janet Baraclough writes:
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| Summat's wrong with your potato peeling technique for a start :-) I
| bet you're one of the male heathen who ever so slowly hack off wedges
| of outer potato, and all the vitamins, and bits of knuckle, with a
| knife. Try a hand-held potato peeling tool, preferably from Lancashire,
| and your fast, even, paper- thin potato peels will never have enough
| substance to sprout again.

MALE? I introduced my wife to those, because she had been taught
to use a knife by her mother.

It took YEARS to convince her that potatoes were better unpeeled
in almost all recipes. Yes, I agree that I am unusual in demanding
that mashed potatoes are better made with unpeeled potatoes :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.