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Show USE POTATOES TO SAVE WHEAT The potato has a place in our food list which no other vegetable occupies. .U appears, on. the tables of countless lamilles at least once a day and often I at all three meals, and is so much a j part of our daily food that we miss it I almo.A as much as we would bread if I we have to go without it. Its popularity popu-larity is based on more than accident tr curtom. It is palatable and wholesome, whole-some, supplies . much food material, and has some special food qualities to its credit. Though we prepare it in almost al-most endless ways as tf vegetable served with meat and other foods, we also use it for soups and salad making, mak-ing, sometimes for desserts, and with flour in baking.' That we can use potato po-tato with flour is not surprising, for the food substance' potato supplies most abundantly is starch, and it ix largely because of the starch they con.-tain con.-tain that the world usea cereal grains as breadstuffs. It will very often be found, with a little experimenting, that 13 to 12 of the flour ETAOIN that one-third to one-half of the flour tn some favorite recipe can be replaced re-placed with mashed potato.1 |