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School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 31_034

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    How to make starch out of potatoes. You must get the bigst potatoes you can and you must wash and peel them. Then you must get a clean scraper and scrap and strain them. You will then have the starch in whatever vessel you scraped the potatoes into. You must let the water that is around it go and then to lift the starch into another vessel and then you can put hot water through it and then you can starch any thing you like.
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