Growing Spuds

I just wanted to share this with every one. This is a cool way to grow potatoes. I would do this a little different though. I think I am going to do this with 4 boxes. I want to have some red and brown potatoes and then I have room for 2 of each kind.The cool thing about this is that you get 100 lb per box. Thats a lot of potatoes :) I also like that you can use a little at a time and still let more grow.

With all these extra potatoes I want to try this...

Mock Maple Syrup Made From Potatoes

Peel 6 medium sized potatoes. Boil these uncovered in 2 cups of water until but one cup of fluid remains. Remove the vegetables for use any way you want. Stirring the liquid until it reaches the boiling point again, slowly add one cup of white sugar and one cup of brown sugar. Once this has entirely dissolved, take the pan off the heat to cool slowly.

… But bottle the syrup and tuck it away in a cabinet for several days to mature. Taste it again at the end of that time and see if you are not pleasantly amazed.

We were still amazed that morning. The flavor was almost beyond comparison, a phantom bouquet that haunted our taste buds; something to be savored very deliberately and lingeringly. It tasted to us now exactly like prime maple syrup, and we’d both been reared in maple syrup country.

–from the book Wilderness Wife, by Bradford and Vena Angier

If you come up with some other cool uses of potatoes let me know.