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.

Harold Walker

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 21:26:55 GMT, "Anne Middleton/Harold Walker"
wrote:

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.

Immature ones apparently

http://gardening.about.com/c/ht/03/0...1044462826.htm
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martin

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martin wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 21:26:55 GMT, "Anne Middleton/Harold Walker"
wrote:

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.

Immature ones apparently

http://gardening.about.com/c/ht/03/0...1044462826.htm

That is correct. In general, "first earlies" are bred to be eaten as
new potatoes and "maincrop" aren't. "Second earlies" are compromises.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:152788

The message yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04
from "Anne Middleton/Harold Walker"
contains these words:

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.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:53:39 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04
from "Anne Middleton/Harold Walker"
contains these words:

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.

Was that in the days when milk was delivered by a horse drawn cart?
--
martin

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O \ o.O|
\\ =(_)=
__))____ooO U Ooo
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:53:39 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04
from "Anne Middleton/Harold Walker"
contains these words:

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.

Was that in the days when milk was delivered by a horse drawn cart?
--
martin

____/|
O \ o.O|
\\ =(_)=
__))____ooO U Ooo
``` '''

Thank y'all for your responses..."food for the Gods"......me thinks the
tender little beauties come under that category whichever way they are
cooked......from a guy that remembers collecting horse manure when ever the
fishmonger or milkman or grocery guy came by with their weekly
supplies.... along with the first 'spuds' of the year grown in the Channel
Islands.

HW.

"Anne Middleton/Harold Walker" wrote in
message news:yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04...
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.

Harold Walker

Thank y'all for your responses..."food for the Gods"......me thinks the
tender little beauties come under that category whichever way they are
cooked......from a guy that remembers collecting horse manure when ever the
fishmonger or milkman or grocery guy came by with their weekly
supplies.... along with the first 'spuds' of the year grown in the Channel
Islands.

HW.

"Anne Middleton/Harold Walker" wrote in
message news:yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04...
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.

Harold Walker

Thank y'all for your responses..."food for the Gods"......me thinks the
tender little beauties come under that category whichever way they are
cooked......from a guy that remembers collecting horse manure when ever the
fishmonger or milkman or grocery guy came by with their weekly
supplies.... along with the first 'spuds' of the year grown in the Channel
Islands.

HW.

"Anne Middleton/Harold Walker" wrote in
message news:yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04...
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.

Harold Walker

Thank y'all for your responses..."food for the Gods"......me thinks the
tender little beauties come under that category whichever way they are
cooked......from a guy that remembers collecting horse manure when ever the
fishmonger or milkman or grocery guy came by with their weekly
supplies.... along with the first 'spuds' of the year grown in the Channel
Islands.

HW.

"Anne Middleton/Harold Walker" wrote in
message news:yoHNa.112546$R73.12902@sccrnsc04...
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.

Harold Walker

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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.

Um you don,t sound that old here Janet! ;-)
John T

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from martin contains these words:

Was that in the days when milk was delivered by a horse drawn cart?

Yes, but at least the milk came in bottles :-). In the 50's horse drawn
carts were still often used by milkmen, coalmen, rag and bone men and
brewers.

Janet.

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from martin contains these words:

Was that in the days when milk was delivered by a horse drawn cart?

Yes, but at least the milk came in bottles :-). In the 50's horse drawn
carts were still often used by milkmen, coalmen, rag and bone men and
brewers.

Janet.