sweet-potatoes

We got home and dug up some sweet-potatoes from the farm, and cooked them up along with sweet-potato leaf sauce.

An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras Gail 2008

We got home and dug up some sweet-potatoes from the farm, and cooked them up along with sweet-potato leaf sauce.

Archive 2008-05-01 Gail 2008

One of the settlers was growing sweet-potatoes on a fairly large scale for pig food, the plough being used for the harvesting of the crop.

Tropic Days 2003

Next to sweet-potatoes, the premier abomination to walk through, give me kokos for good all-round tryingness, particularly when they are wet, as is very much the case now.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Effects of length of growing season and NPK fertilizers on the yield of five varieties of sweet-potatoes (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) on peat.

Chapter 30 1987

Take six cold boiled sweet-potatoes, slice them and lay in hot dripping in the frying-pan till brown.

A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl Caroline French Benton

The main columns gathered, by the roads traveled, much forage and food, chiefly meat, corn, and sweet-potatoes, and it was the duty of each division and brigade quartermaster to fill his wagons as fast as the contents were issued to the troops.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Of this we started from Atlanta, with from eight to twenty days 'supply per corps and some of the troops only had one day's issue of bread during the trip of thirty days; yet they did not want, for sweet-potatoes were very abundant, as well as corn-meal, and our soldiers took to them naturally.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

"And celery, and sweet-potatoes, and all the other goodies?"

Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

To the right was a long range of negro huts and stabling; and, beyond these again the kitchen-garden or "provision ground," prolific of sweet-potatoes, yams, and tanias, with plantain and banana trees laden with pendent bunches of their sausage-shaped fruit and hedged round with pine-apples.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg