Potato Flakes

Dehydrated Vegetables
	Potato Flakes Name in Spanish: Papas escamas Name in latin: Solanum tuberosum zoom

ASPECT AND DESCRIPCION The potato is a herbaceous plant, annual that multiplies naturally for its tubercles. The ripe plant is able to reach 1 M high. Its holy thistle is cylindrical and angular, the leaves are composites with 3 to 4 foliose placentas and two stipules in the base of the petiole. It has colored flowers white to the purple. The penetrate colour that goes from the white to the yellow. The solamine is a toxic substance that is present in the holy thistles, leaves and fruits of the potato and has not yet been profoundly studied. This abridges is also present in the skin of the tubercle but disappears during the cooking process or heated (making bread).
HISTORY The name is applied also to the plants and is due to the confusion that is created in Spain between the American shout potato and sweet potato. The plant, native of the Andes Peruvian, introduced in Europe in the Century XVI for the Spanish explorers. The cultivation is spread rapidly above all in the template regions and, at the beginning of the century XVIII was introduced in the north of America (United States and Canada). Gerard in his publication of 1597 mentions to the potato with the name of "potato of Virginia" to differ those of the sweet potato. In Irish linen was introduced for Lancashire but the potato was used like a gastronomic delicatessen and not as a humanize food. The puritans initially were opposed to the cultivation of this vegetable for be not mentioned in the Bible and is for it that recently in the 1800 was massively used. Gerard also mention that the potato was forbidden in the city of Burgundy (France) since it is divulged without any lay the foundations of that this plant produced the leprosy. However after a lot of time was discovered that in this places where it was cultivated and wasted potato were not produced scurvy cases. The potato at present occupies the fifth place between the principal domestics cultivation's of the whole world being surpassed for the wheat, rice, and soy.
CULINARY USE The potato is a basic food in almost all the template countries of the whole world. The dices, slices, draw, etc, dehydrated are able to be added in dip, stews and rehydrating them during the process of cooking the potato in flakes can be a precooked product because after its rehydration with heat water can be used as ingredient for the gnocchi manufacture. Potato purees and dip. It is able to waste away directly preparing the pure with the water addition and milks, or also combining it with pumpkin or carrot or tomato or spinach or powdered beet and of this way have a sketches of varied purees. The powdered potato fundamentally is used as crackers and snacks ingredient.