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Potatoes Irish how to Cook
put them into a pot with not more watter than will bearly cover them. directly the skins begin to breake lift them from the fire, and as quick as possible pour off every drop of the Watter, then cover the pot & return them to the fire again until they are thoroughly done and quite dry. A little salt should have been put in the watter before boiling them. Potatoes cooked in this way are never braught to the table Watery

[hand doodle pointing] The Scurvy priva bark (wild) will cure the Scurvy, chaw it occasionally through ^{the day} it never fails let the disease be ever so bad L. J. Polks remedy

4 quarts 1 gallon 8 gallons 1 bushel
A box 4 Inch Sqr & 4 2/10 Inch deep 1 quart of 67 2/10 Cubit Inches
A box 7 by 8 Sqr & 4 8/10 Inch deep 1 Gallon or 268 8/10 Cubit Inches
A box 9 1/2 by 9 7/16 Inch Sqr 6 Inch deep 1 peck or 537 6/10 Cubit Inches
A box 16 by 16 8/10 Inch Squr. 8 Inch deep 1 bushel or 2150 6/10 Cubit Inches
A box 24 by 16 Inch Sqr 28 Inch deep 1 barrel or 10752 6/10 Cubit Inches

1 foot sqr is 1728 Cubit Inches
1 bushel is 2150 4/10 Cubit Inches

To tell what a box will hold you multiply the lenth by the