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Friday, January 13, 2012

Caramelized Potatoes!

~Today we ate the same treat that Janina provided for Misha in Milkweed..... over ripened potatoes.  A potato seed planted in a dirt ball surrounded by wax paper, and left in the ground after harvest will caramelize and the starch will turn to sugar, and the potato skin will destarchify (new word) and turn into a substance that tastes similar to chocolate.  Even Alex's grandmother got to taste one.  They were delicious!  Mr. G removed the wax paper, cleaned off the dirt, and wrapped them in tin foil.  There was one potato that did not caramelize and the potato became petrified and turned into a granite like substance.  I wonder if we could try this hypothesis in Science?
CD got the petrified potato
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