Lavender Potatoes are round, with purple skin that is rough in some areas, and white flesh inside. These are floury potatoes. Early harvest. Cooking Tips Won’t stand up to being served as a boiled potato or being used in salads.
Floury Potatoes
Lenape Potatoes
Lenape Potatoes are round, slightly-flattened potatoes with light-buff skin. They were meant for processing into potato chips (aka crisps in the UK.) History Notes Lenape Potatoes were developed jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Pennsylvania State University from a cross between Delta Gold potatoes and a potato referred to as…
Maori Chief Potatoes
Maori Chief are oval potatoes. They have yellow skin with red blotches, and shallow eyes. Inside, they have white flesh with some purple dots in it. These are floury potatoes. History Notes Maori Chief Potatoes originated in New Zealand. Sources Harris, Niha, “Nga – Riwai Ma-ori — Ma-ori Potatoes”, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand,…
Maris Piper Potatoes
Maris Piper Potatoes © Denzil Green Maris Piper is a light yellow skinned, floury potato good for baking and making French Fries. It stays firm when cooked. Cooking Tips The potato is less good for salads and steaming. History Notes Maris Piper Potatoes were developed in England in 1964; released 1966.
Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower and Cheddar Recipe
You can make this up to a day ahead, and re-heat in oven. If you’re reheating, scatter a bit more grated cheese on top.
Navan Potatoes
Navan Potatoes are oval to round with smooth, light-buff skin and white or pale-yellow flesh. They are medium-sized, floury potatoes. The plant yields an early harvest. The potatoes are marketed for direct to consumer sales and for processing into potato chips (aka crisps in the UK and in Ireland.) History Notes Navan Potatoes were developed…
Nga-Oti Oti Potatoes
Nga-Oti Oti Potatoes have yellow skin marbled with pink. The flesh is white, with red dots under the skin. These are floury potatoes, so much so that they won’t work as a boiled potato at all. History Notes Nga-Oti Oti Potatoes originated in New Zealand. Language Notes Sometimes referred to as “Nga Outi Outi.” Sources…
Norgold Russet Potatoes
Norgold Russet Potatoes are oblong, with russetted skin and white flesh. These are floury potatoes, even though they are promoted as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales. Early harvest. History Notes Norgold Russet Potatoes were developed in 1955 by Robert H. Johansen at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota from a cross between…
Noroton Beauty Potatoes
Noroton Beauty are uniformly-sized potatoes, with light-buff, russetted skin, pink eyes, and white flesh. These are floury potatoes. Early harvest. History Notes Noroton Beauty Potatoes were mentioned in a 1908 seed catalogue published by McKenzie’s Seeds of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
Orion Potatoes
Orion are knobbly potatoes with light-buff skin. These are floury potatoes, with good flavour. History Notes Orion Potatoes were developed by a Dr T.P. MacIntosh in the UK in the late 1940s.
Osprey Potatoes
Osprey Potatoes are round to oval, with light-buff skin and pale yellow flesh. These are floury potatoes. History Notes Osprey Potatoes were developed in 1999 by a Jack Dunnett of Caithness Potatoes Ltd, Scotland.
Panda Potatoes
Panda are round to oval potatoes with yellow skin and flesh. The plant tolerates hot weather while growing. The potato flesh is low sugar and high starch. The potato is promoted for processing into potato chips (aka crisps in the UK.) Storage Hints Stores well.
Parareka Potatoes
Parareka are small, long potatoes with shallow eyes, pink skin with yellow flushes and white flesh. These are floury potatoes. History Notes Parareka Potatoes originated in New Zealand. Sources Harris, Niha, “Nga – Riwai Ma-ori — Ma-ori Potatoes”, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Working Paper, August 1999.
Parnassia Potatoes
Parnassia are medium-sized potatoes with light yellow skin and white flesh. These are floury potatoes. Storage Hints Doesn’t store well. History Notes Parnassia Potatoes were bred in Germany in 1913 by a R. von Kameke from a cross between Deutsches Reich and Jubel potatoes. Introduced into Canada in the late 1930s.
Pentland Crown Potatoes
Pentland Crown are medium to large-sized potatoes, oval shaped, with white flesh. These are floury potatoes. High yields. Storage Hints Don’t store well.
Pentland Squire Potatoes
Pentland Squire are large-sized potatoes with light-buff skin and white flesh. These are floury potatoes. The plant delivers high yields in an early harvest. Storage Hints Stores well. History Notes Pentland Squire Potatoes were developed in 1970.
Peruperu Potatoes
Peruperu Potatoes are a Maori potato. They are oblong, and have pale yellow skin with purple flushes, and inside, pale yellow flesh with darker yellow flushes. These are floury potatoes. History Notes Peruperu Potatoes originated in New Zealand. Sources Harris, Niha, “Nga – Riwai Ma-ori — Ma-ori Potatoes”, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Working…
Picasso Potatoes
Picasso Potatoes are medium-sized, oval potatoes with white skin, red eyes, and pale yellow flesh. These are floury potatoes, increasingly so in storage. They are promoted as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales. They have mild flavour. Storage Hints Stores well. History Notes Picasso Potatoes were released in 1992.
Pink Wink Potatoes
Pink Wink Potatoes have pink around the eyes. These are floury potatoes. History Notes Pink Wink Potatoes were developed in Ireland.
Pomeroy Potatoes
Pomeroy are medium-sized, oval potatoes with light buff skin and light yellow flesh. They are promoted as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales but actually are better used as a floury potato for mashing, etc. High yields. History Notes Pomeroy Potatoes were developed in 2001.
Pungo Potatoes
Pungo are oval, buff-skinned potatoes with some skin flaking, and white flesh inside. They are promoted as all-purpose for direct to consumer sales, but if anything they are slightly on the floury side. History Notes Pungo Potatoes were developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1940 at its Experimental Stations in Norfolk,…
Rapi Potatoes
Rapi Potatoes have red skin and yellow flesh. These are floury potatoes. Popular in New Zealand.
Record Potatoes
Record Potatoes are oval, with light-yellowish and buff skin with a small amount of russetting, and white flesh. They used to be the standard potato used commercially in the UK to make crisps (aka potato chips.) Early harvest, but bruises easily. Cooking Tips These are floury potatoes, that make good mash and roast potatoes. History…
Red Duke of York Potatoes
Red Duke of York Potatoes are oval with deep red skin and pale yellow flesh. These are floury potatoes, with good flavour, Cooking Tips A good all-purpose potato, but don’t overcook when boiling. History Notes Red Duke of York Potatoes were developed 1942. The potato was found as a sport in a crop of Duke…