Select those of uniform size, wash, wipe, and roast until you can tell,
by gently pressing the largest between the finger and thumb, that it is
mellow throughout. Serve in their jackets.
Sweet, as well as Irish potatoes, are very good for pic-nic luncheon,
roasted in hot ashes. This, it will be remembered, was the dinner
General Marion set before the British officer as “quite a feast, I
assure you, sir. We don’t often fare so well as to have sweet potatoes
and salt.”
The feast was cleansed from ashes by the negro orderly’s shirt-sleeve,
and served upon a natural trencher of pine-bark.