Ingredients Method: Serves 4
Ingredients Method: Serves 4
Ingredients Method: Serves 4
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EVER WONDERED ABOUT POTATOES
You can use potatoes to make paintings. Start by cutting a large potato in
half. You will need a shaped biscuit or cookie cutter that will fit on the
potato half. Press the biscuit cutter into the flat side of the potato. Then,
using a knife, cut the potato around the outside of the cookie cutter, leaving
a shaped potato stamp. You can use different-shaped potato stamps,
different coloured paints, and paper. Dip the potatoes in the paint and press
them firmly onto the paper. If the potatoes are not cut evenly, you may get a
few strange results!
The British tuck into an enormous 38,000 tons of chips every week.
Before the Irish potato famine of 1845–50, the Irish people were eating an
average of 10 potatoes per person per day. This accounted for 80 per cent
of their diet. In addition, potatoes were fodder for their livestock which
provided milk, meat and eggs. This total dependence was a disaster when
EVER the famine struck. Over a million people died and at least a further two
WONDERED million people left Ireland in search of new lives.
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