by Té Rowan » Sat Dec 06, 2025 5:35 pm
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77397 — "How to Make Sweet Potato Flour, Starch, Sugar, Bread and Mock Cocoanut" by G.W. Carver. Pub. 1918.
Should you some time have an excess of sweet potatos, you could try to make flour, starch and sugar from them, and then try out the recipes.
It was junk, but as it stood in the flickering glow, it had a dark, organic quality – not exactly life, but something dynamic and disquieting and coiled and potent that was making the Dean vibrate on his feet. It radiated something that suggested that, just by existing and looking like it did, it was breaking at least nine laws and twenty-three guidelines.
(From "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett)