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Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Great Depression Era Money Saving Tips with Potatoes

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Education, How To, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to use potatoes to stretch your food budget and increase your food storage. Recipes from the 1920's including using potato water in place of milk in your baking.

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0:47.8

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1:02.1

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1:27.0

Hello, pioneering today, podcast listeners. So I am so excited to continue the trend today on talking about Great Depression era

1:37.0

tips and recipes and ways of frugal living that were gleaned from that era. And so we're going to continue

1:45.2

that topic today and actually what we're going to be focusing on today is potatoes.

1:51.1

In episodes past we've talked a lot about using cornmeal and flour

1:55.2

vegetables wild game you guys have shared some awesome recipes with me as well and I just love reading all the comments and the stories and I can't

2:04.7

wait to try out some of the recipes myself that you guys have shared back with me and

2:08.2

so I really wanted to go in today on to using potatoes. You know it's funny potatoes kind of gotten this

2:16.2

bad rap you know people think potatoes aren't healthy or they're just full of starch

2:21.3

that kind of a thing and while potatoes are considered a starchy vegetable,

2:25.7

it's not like they're bad for us.

2:28.2

You know, they have a lot of vitamin C and potassium in them,

2:31.6

and if you eat them with the skins on then there's quite a bit of

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