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Major agricultural products of Ireland include milk, barley, beef, wheat, potatoes, pork, oats, poultry, mushrooms/truffles, and mutton. [23] According to a September 2020 report by the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, 164,400 Irish citizens are employed in the agricultural industry, comprising 7.1% of Ireland's workforce. [24]
White potatoes are also considered a cool weather vegetable. Potatoes were introduced to early America but were not widely grown until Irish immigrants brought potatoes to New Hampshire in 1719.
The potatoes known as "for consumption", i.e. which were harvested with complete maturity, can be preserved several weeks, provided that they are stored in a room that is ventilated, fresh (between 8 and 9 °C) but sheltered from the frost, and obscure because the light makes them green. Early potatoes, harvested before maturity, cannot be stored.
Desiccated potato plants prior to harvest. Pre-harvest crop desiccation is the application of an agent to a crop just before harvest to kill the leaves and/or plants so that the crop dries out from environmental conditions, or "dry-down", more quickly and evenly.
To freeze potatoes, cut them the way you intend to use them — sliced for scalloped potatoes, grated for hash browns, cubed for home fries — and partially cook them in boiling water.
Potatoes with meat, usually lamb or mutton, in a stew-like gravy. Aloo pie: Trinidad and Tobago: A soft, calzone-shaped pie filled with boiled, spiced and mashed potatoes and other vegetables like green peas or chana dal, and fried. Aloo posto: West Bengal, India: Poppy seed paste and potato pieces cooked together with mustard oil and dry black ...
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