Baked: Rosin cooked potatos? How?

Subject: Rosin cooked potatos? How?
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: lathetime at aol.com (Lathetime)
Date: 28 Jul 2001 20:21:06 GMT
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Years ago i enjoyed the taste of Rosin cooked potatos. Can't find them anymore. I believe that the process was abandoned because of the danger from exploding potatoes. I also understand that the kits that were once sold to cook them with rosin was declared illegal.

Does anyone know how it was done? Where does one obtain the rosin? Surely in this modern age one could figure out how to avoid the old problems and bring back this delicious treat.
From: Margaret Suran (msuran at rcn.com)
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:32:46 -0400
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Rosin is sold in music stores, for the bows of string instruments. I never heard of it being used for cooking.
From: greykits at aol.com (karlie)
Date: 28 Jul 2001 20:46:24 GMT
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>Rosin is sold in music stores, for the bows of string instruments. I
>never heard of it being used for cooking.

Yes, it's almost like amber. Joy of Cooking used to have a recipe for resin-baked potatoes.
From: Margaret Suran (msuran at rcn.com)
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:10:19 -0400
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Greykits wrote:
> Yes, it's almost like amber. Joy of Cooking used to have a recipe for
> resin-baked potatoes.

You are right, of course. Here is a link from Yahoo

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Rosin+Baked+Potates