2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
What would the Russians eat today if Peter was the first to follow the lead of peasant riots against an overseas plant? They would eat home-grown rutabagas with yellow turnips, washed down with tart kvass, and warmed tired bones on a Russian stove. Although, if we take, for example, the American Indians who grew potatoes not only for food, but also worshiped him as a living being, where can you find those Indians on the planet today?
Deceiving foreigner
Peter was the first to enter History as a person who eradicated Russian "barbarism" by barbaric methods. He brought a small bag of potatoes from Europe and ordered the uneducated peasantry to raise and groom them. No, attach instructions on what to eat and what to just admire.
Today we know that potato, cute-looking, green berries contain poisonous solanine, but the peasants were not notified of this, so they began to feast on those berries, acquiring abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and those who ate a large amount berries fell into a coma. How not to rebel after this?
Solanine is essential for plants to protect against pests. It is found in all parts of the plant, but the highest concentration is found in berries with seeds. The plant takes care of the preservation of its offspring. It is possible that the modern fashion for cutting potato flowers, so that the plant gives all its strength to growing root crops, is vicious in its essence, depriving the plant of its protective forces. Maybe this is one of the reasons for the special gluttony of the Colorado potato beetle, which does not meet a natural obstacle in its path?
Solanine is also found in root crops, but in quantities harmless to the human body. Although potatoes that have lingered in the light for a long time turn green, signaling an increase in the amount of solanine. If such potatoes are used for food, then the green parts of the root crop should be ruthlessly cut off so as not to repeat the fate of illiterate peasants.
Pioneers ideal
The words of the song, which we fervently sang in childhood, without thinking about its authors, turns out to have been written even before the October Revolution for children who lived in a scout camp. Therefore, nothing was said about the pioneers in it, but sang: "Lagernikov ideal."
After the revolution, the song was remade for a pioneer one, removing something from it, adding something, so the potatoes turned into the ideal of the pioneers.
But the fact that the pioneers ate well-cooked potatoes more willingly than “rubber” pearl barley porridge was and remains obvious.
And does not know pleasure, who did not eat potatoes
What is so attractive about potatoes, three-quarters of which are water? In the remaining one-fourth part of the water fit: starch and sugars, fiber and crude protein (nitrogenous substances), fats and many other chemical constituents necessary for a person to recharge with energy.
But in order for them to become useful for the body and easier for them to digest, a person came up with a huge number of dishes that can be prepared from potatoes.
Raw potatoes are used to make starch. Such a snow-white powder, appetizingly crunchy between the fingers, like a snow crust under the feet of a person walking along the path during a light frost. The hostesses make clester from starch, delicious berry and fruit jelly, starch collars and school festive aprons.
Potatoes for food are cooked. You can simply cook the potatoes: in "uniform", that is, only thoroughly washing the roots, or "naked", that is, carefully cutting off the top skin with a sharp knife.
Potatoes can be stewed with meat, fish, mushrooms, vegetables.
Potatoes can be fried in vegetable oil or lard until crisp, which no chips can match in flavor and appetizing.
Potatoes can be baked in the oven, microwave or in the coals of a burnt fire.
Potatoes can be stuffed with all kinds of fillings, or used as a filling for pies, dumplings …
Perhaps there is no other product with such versatility and fabulous pleasure.
Summary
Someone has already dug the harvest of the current year, someone else has this holiday ahead.
All successful work and a decent harvest!
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