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It is important that we learn about the various ways we can preserve our harvested food to keep it in storage and in perfect condition for a good length of time. The importance of proper storage cannot be overemphasized. The farming seasons often come with some harvest that we cannot all eat at that time, while in the non-farming seasons there is usually no farming or food to harvest, and by this time we all rely on the foods we have stored.
It will only be fair if we know how to store foods properly so that we can have them available all year round. It is very easy to store staples or grains. The most difficult food items to store are often the tubers.
Since ancient times, people have created barns for storing yams. I can't really say if yams stored in this manner can stay preserved for up to 6 months, but it is likely to work as we often get a year's supply of yam tubers, even though it gets expensive and scarce as we move further away from it's season of harvest. My daddy hasn't grown large quantities of yams at this time that will require such preservation; living in the city and away from our home village doesn't give people the privilege to grow certain crops in large quantities here.
We have grown some potatoes here too, although we are eating the bulk of it fresh. How to preserve the rest has been the reason I haven't dig up the remaining potatoes.
Some more potatoes to be harvested.
I have recently learned about these local preservation methods, and it is really amazing. I have never known that we can process our potatoes into local flowers for preparing local meals.
I believe that a lot of us eat semovita made from wheat flour.
Others eat the corn flour we grind here and different kinds of flour prepared from various staples used in making our turning foods.
Do you know that you can also process your potatoes into flour to make a turning meal like semovita? This is how we do it.
Once you get the sweet potatoes from the farm
We first clean it of dirt and sand.
Lightly peel off the bark.
Then soak it in warm water for 3-4 days.
After that, we then spread it on sacks to dry in the sun.
The natural sugar in the potatoes is fermented after soaking them so that it won't taste too sweet when we eventually make our meals.
In the end I found a good preservation method for potatoes, and for the very first time I will be having to eat some meals prepared from potato flour.
I know that most people love potatoes chips , puddings and all of that but here is how to process potatoes flours for making our local "Amala" meals.
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That's actually new valuable knowledge to me and would like to try it when I get the chance. 🤔
So Monica is that a sweet potato and will this work on any type of potatoes?
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