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Potatoes for roasting.
My wife does roast potatoes superbly, light golden colour, crisp and soft
inside. However, this year because all ours got Blight early we had no "old" potatoes they all act as if they are new potatoes which don't roast well at all. So we bought some roasting potatoes in Sainsbury's and they went very dark brown and didn't crisp, we then tried various supermarkets and farm shops and they all went a very dark colour and were not up to standard at all. By this time Sue is beginning to think she has lost the plot. So in desperation I asked a fellow allotment grower (he has 6 plots) if he had any spare main crop potatoes (he sprays against blight) and he gave us a few Kilos of Rooster from his shed. They roasted superbly just like our own ones usually do. So, my question is what do the big commercial growers do to their spuds to make them go dark on roasting, it must be they contain more sugar or the starch is turned to sugar. Is it they keep them too cold, do they heat treat them, is it something they wash them with, why the marked difference to those grown oneself. Sue thinks it's a conspiracy to get everyone to buy frozen roast potatoes. -- Regards Bob Hobden Posting to this Newsgroup from the W.of London. UK |
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