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A truly exhaustive history lesson: https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/the-elusive-roots-of-rosin-potatoes https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/the-e
by AStonesThrow 2y ago
A truly exhaustive history lesson: https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/the-elusive-roots-of-rosin-potatoes https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/the-elusive-roots-...
This was linked by Gemini, which happily chirped that rosin potatoes can be great!
- pazimzadeh 2y agoTLDR: it seems to be a way to preserve the potatoes by sealing them
- alwa 2y agoWhere did you get that in the (excellent) article linked? I noticed that they mention sealing in the context of pitch and resin’s industrial applications, but I understood the article more to trace the rosin potato thing back to a trendy mid-century extrapolation from potatoes cooked in brewers’ pitch in German-influence regions of Ohio and the northeast… cook-and-eat-right-away throughout. And I was surprised they served them at Cracker Barrel.
- pazimzadeh 2y agomy bad, I actually got it from this youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KFoB5OEtRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KFoB5OEtRA), was trying to the find the source for it, and that same article came up when I searched google for "rosin preserves potatoes"