Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.
- Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![r <io ] which coils them 20 francs a pound : the expence of mine will be very trifling; and I may furely be allowed to call it the falep of the poor. Of Sago of Potatoes. Sago is well known to be a feculency, feparated by fearces, and walked from the farinaceous pith contained in certain palms, very common in the Molucca if- lands. This feculency, which is not fo- luble in water unlefs it boils, which then increafes confiderably in bulk, and changes into a tranfparent jelly, is nothing but real ftarch. Now, as I think I have proved that this fubftance is identical, like fugar, in whatever body it may happen to be contained, the ftarch of Potatoes may fup- ply its place entirely. The form of fmall grains, in which fa- go is imported, and the reddilh colour, are occafioned by the degree of heat em- ployed by the Indians for drying it. The way](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24926565_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
