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There are few articles in families more subject to waste, both in paring, boiling, and being actually thrown away, than potatoes; and chere are few cooks but what boil twice as many potatoes every day as are wanted, and fewer still that do not throw the residue away as totally unfit in any shape for the next day's meal; yet if they would take the trouble to heat up the despised cold potatoes with an equal quantity of flour they would find them produce a much lighter dumpling or pudding than they can make with flour alone; and by the aid of a few spoonfuls of good gravy. they will provide a cheap and agreeable appendage to the dinner table. (See 122.)
 
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